Northfield Library

Good local Libary. Helpful staff. Staff are knowledge-​able about most book releases/​or topics.

I’m a real bookworm so was pleased when I realised my new house was so close to the excellent Northfield Library. It’s recently been refurbished and is now better than ever.
The childrens section is wonderful; really bright and cheerful and really encourages the kids’ to pick a book off the shelf and sit down for a read. There is a good choice of books for the children and plenty of board books for younger children and babies, my seventeen month old daughter loves to have a flick through the box of baby books — she makes a real mess with them all over the floor but the lovely librarians don’t care about that at all.
The adults books are well organised and the entire layout of the library ‘makes sense’, if you see what I mean. Books are arranged well in subcategory and alphabetical order as you would expect and there are little wire racks of paperbacks dotted around the floor so you can have a browse of these as you’re going round.
The library is completely accessible to everyone and there is a lift for disabled visitors and families with prams if they need to get to the upper floor.
There are loads of computers for visitors to access the internet, and you can also borrow CD-​Roms as well as music CDs and DVDs.
I think this is one of the best libraries in Birmingham. They have activities which are well publicised in the library and also in the local press, ones I have bought my children to recently were story times and a teddy bears picnic. My mum also came to a talk by a local author recently and she said it was superb.