Bradford Libraries is a

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service serving the City of Bradford

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in West Yorkshire, England. There are 30 libraries including City Library in

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

city centre. There is also a Local Studies and Archives Library in separate premises in the city centre. Bradford Central Library used to be in a multi-storey building opposite the

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, just off the city centre. This building was found to be a fire risk in 2011 and additionally in 2013 was found to have asbestos inside its walls. A new city centre library was opened in December 2013 opposite City Hall and the local studies and reference library was moved into an annexe of the former library building to the south. Interior of Keighley Reference Library - North Street - geograph

Interior of Keighley Reference Library - North Street - geograph

Keighley library was founded in 1902 and was the first Carnegie Library in England being paid for by Scots born industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

Bingley Bingley is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which had a population of 18,294 at the 2011 Census. Bingley railwa ...

Library move from its former premises in Bingley Precinct in 2009, to a new smaller facility slightly east in the same precinct which was rebuilt and rebranded as the 5Rise Centre. Shipley had a Carnegie library which was replaced with a building on a different site in 1985. The new library underwent a £640,000 overhaul in 2015 and re-opened in early 2016. In early 2016, budget restraints at Bradford Council led to the announcements that only the main libraries in the city centre, Bingley, Eccleshill, Ilkley, Keighley, Manningham and Shipley would carry on to have librarians and be fully funded by the council. The proposal for the remaining libraries would be that they would no longer be part of the statutory service without a staffing budget and be offered out as community hub volunteer run models. Since 2020 the Council has diverted money from health and wellbeing budget to the library budget, arguing that they share integral values in terms of wellbeing delivery. In 2023 most libraries earmarked for closure are still open but some only open one day a week.

List of libraries

Addingham Addingham (formerly Haddincham , Odingehem 1086)Mills, A.D. (2003). ', Encyclopedia.com is a village and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the A65, south-east of Skipton, west of Ilkley, ...

* Allerton * Baildon *

* Bolling Hall * Burley * City (

) * Clayton *

Denholme Denholme is a town and civil parish in the Bradford Metropolitan Borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is west of Bradford, from Keighley and roughly the same distance from Halifax. Administratively, it is part of the Bingley Rural ward of ...

* Eccleshill * Girlington * Great Horton * Holme Wood *

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* Ilkley * Keighley * Laisterdyke * Manningham *

Menston Menston is a village and civil parish in the City of Bradford in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Burley in Wharfedale, most of Menston is within Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of Bradford. The remainder of Men ...

* Queensbury * Shipley * Silsden * St Augustines *

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* Thornton * Wibsey *

Wilsden Wilsden is a village and civil parish in west Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. Wilsden is west of Bradford and is close to the Aire Valley and the nearby villages of Denholme, Cullingworth, Harden, Cottingley and Allerton. Wilsden re- ...

* Wrose * Wyke

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Bradford Libraries

Bradford Libraries catalogue

DIVA
{{Authority control Education in the City of Bradford Public libraries in West Yorkshire

List of libraries

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