Woodseats Library is part of Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information and is situated on the ground floor of the Woodseats Medical Centre.

As a Sheffield Libraries member you can borrow the following items from the library. All items are loaned for an initial 3-week period:

• books
• audio books
• eBooks
• eAudiobooks
• eMagazines
• eComics
• DVDs – charged at £1.
  
  

Computer facilities at the library

To use our computers free of charge you need to be a member of the library. You can use the service as a visitor but you will be charged £1.50 for up to one hour's use. Additional time (if available) will be charged at the same rate, and you will need to provide proof of your name.

On the People’s Network you can use:

• Microsoft Office 2010 – including Word (word processing)
• Excel (spreadsheets)
• PowerPoint (presentations)
• Access (databases)
• Publisher (creating publications)
• Internet Explorer or Google Chrome for browsing the web
• Web-based email accounts (library staff can help you if you want to create one)
• USB sticks, CD/DVD drive, floppy disk drives
• Sound – please bring your own headphones.

Each library has:

• a flat-bed scanner connected to a computer with Adobe Photoshop
• Elements Version 8 editing software
• a computer on a height-adjustable desk.
  
  

All access is filtered, and children’s access is filtered to a higher level.

Library staff are happy to help but they cannot give tuition.

Printing costs:

• black and white – 20 pence per side
• colour – 50 pence per side.
  
  

Special printing costs: For homework only, children and young people can have 5 x black and white and 1 x colour prints free of charge.

Activities

Babytime (for babies and toddlers up to around 2 years old)
Every Monday, 2pm-2.45pm

Storytime (for pre-schoolers)
Every Tuesday, 10.30am-11.15am

Chatterbooks (a reading group for children aged 7-11 years old)
Every 1st Monday of the month, 4pm-4.45pm

Adult Reading Groups
Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, 1.30pm-2.30pm
Every 3rd Saturday of the month, 2pm-3pm

Past Times Group (a reminiscence session)
Every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 2pm-3pm

Digital Support
Every 1st Tuesday of the month, 11am-1pm

Library Socials
Coffee Morning: Every Wednesday, 10.30am-12 noon
Silver Foxes Men's Social Group: Every Friday, 10.30am-12 noon

Health and Wellbeing Cafe
Every 3rd Monday of the month, 10.30am-12 noon

Drop in and Draw
Every last Tuesday of the month, 10.30am-11.30am