About Derby Local Studies Library

Are you interested in Derby's past, present and future? Do you want to look at old newspapers or photographs or trace your family's history?  Derby Local Studies library has all kinds of information about Derby and Derbyshire.

Postal Address: 25b Irongate, Derby DE1 3GL. Interactive location map 

Phone: 01332 255393

Minicom: 01332 380712

E-mail: localstudies.library@derby.gov.uk

Manager – Local and Family History Services: Mark Young 
Support Services Manager: Mandy Henchliffe

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Investing in Derby Local Studies Library

We want to make it easier for customers to access the material held by Derby Studies Library. To do we this want to improve the catalogue. This means temporarily changing the opening hours of the library from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2011.

Opening Times 1 January 2010 to 30 June 2010

We have listened to your feedback and can now report the opening pattern for a six month period from January 2010:

• Monday 1pm – 7pm
• Tuesday closed
• Wednesday 1pm – 5pm
• Thursday 9am – 12.30pm
• Friday 9am – 12.30pm
• Saturday 9.30am – 4pm

This pattern of opening will help us to achieve a number of aims:

• We will retain evening opening, for customers who work 9am-5pm
• We will retain Saturday opening, for families, young people and customers who work during the week
• We will be open Wednesday afternoons to offer customers in the city centre Library access when the Central Library is closed
• We will be open early in the morning to meet current customer demand for internet use
• We will achieve a full day for staff to catalogue, to help efficiency

Ancestry Library Edition at Derby Local Studies Library

Ancestry Library Edition is now available FREE on computers at Derby Local Studies Library.

Ancestry is a research tool offering the most comprehensive genealogical information available online, with more than 4 billion names in over 4,000 collections.

Booking is advisable.

Cornucopia  
Cornucopia is an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries. Whether you are interested in painters or politicians, dinosaurs or space travel, the Romans or the Victorians, Cornucopia can tell you what is available and where to see it.

Access
The Library is accessible for wheelchair users and has an induction loop at the counter.

Information for visitors to the library 

Our Collection

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