MFT Libraries

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Library services for Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, with Libraries at North Manchester, Oxford Road, Trafford General and Wythenshawe Hospitals

Our 'Withdrawn From Stock' stamp across the title page of a withdrawn book
Our library's copy of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, with it's front cover of a space rocket blasting into the sky. It's a nice blend of clouds and blue skies
A selection of our signed books at Trafford Hospital Library...with our fan sneaking into shot behind them...
Lining up two of our allergy books on the shelf - Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology (small and purple) and Allergy and Middleton's Allergy Principles and Practice (big heavy books with a a blue/green cover)
Our copy of 'Organising care around patients: Stories from the frontline of the NHS' heading off on loan! We've got the envelope ready and a pair of scissors has sneaked into the shot!
A picture of our returns shelf - it's a light brown shelf attached to the office wall with two books on - The Names and an exam book. Both have green spines.
Our rescued copy of the Deliciously Ella Quick and Easy cookbook! It's got a muted yellow cover with a burgundy spine.
It's a picture of our books that went out as YourBooks books - they've got a nice shelf in a staff room, complete with a gingerbread men/house ornament and a sign that says "Read.Return.Repeat." Looks like they've got a nice place to stay in for the next few months!
A sticker on the Atomic Habits Workbook telling library users 'please do not write in this book.' We've put the 'do not' part in red, which feels strict but we need to get reader's attention!
Our World Book Night 2023 bookmark - it's a nice shade of navy blue with a World Book Night moon logo and a QR code. The QR code still works too!
Our new display for International Nurses Day on our circular stand at Wythenshawe Hospital Library! It's a selection of books on nursing with a poster providing QR Codes to our nursing e-books!
Our YourBooks book mark - it's pink with our logo, text explaining how to contact us and our YourBooks logo!
Our new donation copy of The Names, ready to jump into an envelope on it's first loan! It's got our compliment slip in the pages, which is the library book equivalent of a suitcase!
Our stand at Wythenshawe Hospital Library for International Day Of The Midwife - it's a circular stand with several books on and a poster with QR code links to the relevant e-books!
Four new books on our desk waiting to be processed and join the shelves!
Our copies of Atomic Habits and The Atomic Habits Workbook together...not sure when we'll be able to do this again!
Our new fiction display outside of the Library Office!
'The Octopus Organization' by Phil Le Brun and Jana Werner...we love the cover, who doesn't love octopuses?
Some new books on display, highlighted by 'House of Earth And Blood' by Sarah J. Maas!
Our Autism Acceptance display at Wythenshawe Hospital Library! It's a carousel of books with a poster at the top.
A motley crew of returning books that have come from Oxford Road Campus Library!
Our stall at North Manchester General Hospital's event!
A little pink duck sat on a monitor base minding their own business...no idea where they came from!
Our new LCD Notepad saying hello!
Looking at the noticeboard outside the library, what's that yellow dot on top of the notice board?
A pile of books that we couldn't find in our stock take - some huge books here!
Human dressed as an alligator for world book day 2026 - large cardboard head, green outfit and brown waistcoat to resemble Mango from the book Investigators
A shot of the Post Graduate Centre, not the best shot but the sun is blaring down!
Not sure what our book stands are doing here - they're all piled up in a heap on the returns shelf. We can see they're not doing their job though!
Our Lunchtime Learn posters have been taken down now after a really successful week of events!
One of our Oxford Handbooks has gone on loan, leaving a gap in our display!
A pile of books on the returns trolley!
'Carrie Soto Is Back' by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A date label from Royal Lancaster
Step 1 - clear the previous display books and posters. Here's our empty display shelf!
A snapshot of our 'At A Glance' textbooks!
'Plan and Organize Your Life' by Beatrice Naujalyte, just the book we need today!
We're not sure what this is (possibly a car freshener or a label? It's a pink oval piece of card with a cat like creature on it) but it had been moonlighting as a bookmark!
A sign warning us it may be slippery! Spoiler - it is slippery, there is ice everywhere!
Our copy of 'Green Kids Cook' by Jenny Chandler
Charles wishes you all a Merry Christmas from his pool of Celebrations!
Two of our new possible donations - Bob Mortimer's 'The Hotel Avocardo' (yellow cover) and Mary Watson's 'The Cleaner' (pink cover) along with Charles, the green Squishmallow who lives on our desk. No idea where he came from but he seems happy!
Christmas tree #1 - a huge tree just before the main entrance of North Manchester General Hospital. Love the huge gold star on top!
Our NHS Knowledge and Library Hub banner in the library, quietly doing it's job!
Our Christmas Tree at Wythenshawe Hospital Library - Scully insisted on being in the picture!
Our anatomy model with some stylish green tinsel and a fabulous set of Christmassy antennas (we think that's what they are!)
Our anatomy section, with a book sticking out of the top!!!! Not sure who has done this, but the book in question isn't even touching the shelf!!!
Our revamped Health & Well Being section!
Our newly rearranged popular science shelf, complete with books on display on the top and bottom shelves!
The full line up of our potential new recruits!
Two red buttons and a nervous finger wondering which one to press - Buy more fiction or read fiction on library shelves?
Aaron's Heart by the Resuscitation Council UK
The view looking out of the door - a lovely autumn day!
Our two copies of Cases for Paces, valiantly awaiting to begin their loans...
Our copy of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ready to go in one of our blue internal transit bags!
A copy of Graphic Anaesthesia...that we don't remember being on the new book shelf a week ago....
A picture of just outside the library (we didn't want to go any further!) It's cold and wet, there are puddles everywhere...we miss summer already!
'A Beginner's Guide To Targeted Cancer Treatments' by Elaine Vickers complete with bright red cover. It needs a new shelf mark label...
Our coaching section at North Manchester General Hospital Library!
Our trusty laptop on the library shelves - we use it for our stocktake.