Chipping Barnet Library
- Address and contact
- Opening times
- Getting there
- Access
- Items for loan
- IT services
Children young people and families
- take a look at the current activity timetable delivered in partnership with Underhill
Children's Centre- Reference and information
- Facilities
Address and contact
3 Stapylton Road, Barnet, Herts. EN5 4QT.
- Library tel: 020 8359 4040
- Library email: chipping.barnet.library@barnet.gov.uk
- Fax: 020 8441 9727.
Opening times
- Monday: 10am – 8pm
- Tuesday: 10am – 5pm
- Wednesday: 10am – 8pm
- Thursday: 10am – 5pm
- Friday: 10am – 8pm
- Saturday: 9.30am – 5pm
- Sunday: 2pm – 5pm.
Getting there
- Buses: 234, 326, 383, 384, 389, 399, 614 (outside library), 34, 84, 107, 184, 263, 307 ( 5 minutes walk)
- Underground: High Barnet, Northern Line - 15 minutes walk.
Access
- Ground floor: all services
- Lift: wide lift for wheelchairs
- Ground floor: Action Point (first.contact@barnet.gov.uk) and reference and information services
- Public toilets: facilities for people with disabilities.
- Baby changing facilities.
- Level approach to entrance
- Small car park.
Items for loan
- Books for leisure and learning
- Books for young and old
- DVDs, CDs, playstation games
- Community languages
IT services
- PCs (Internet and Office software)
- Scanner
- Computer taster sessions
- IT self-learning software
- Public WiFi (free to library members)
Children, young people and families
- Story explorers for under 5s
- Toddler read and rhyme
- Bookstart
- Rhymetime
- Homework Centre: Help with homework for 8-14 year olds – Fridays termtime 3.30pm - 5pm.
- Health inform drop-in sessions for health information
- Stay and play sessions
- Parentcraft classes
- Young people's activities
- Information for parents
Chipping Barnet library is now working in partnership with Underhill Children's Centre and will be acting as an outreach venue for centre activties for under fives. See the table below for all library and children's centre activities for children taking place in Chipping Barnet library.
| Day | Time | Activity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesdays | 10.30am - 11.30am | Story explorers | Monthly sessions |
| Wednesdays | 4.30pm - 5.30pm | Game on club (Wii and Playstation club) | for 10 - 16 year olds - Monthly |
| Thursdays | 10.15am - 10.45am | Baby rhymetime | |
| Thursdays | 11.15am - 1.15pm | *Parentcraft classes | by referral only |
| Thursdays | 11am - 11.30am | *Stop smoking advice | |
| Thursdays | 1pm - 3pm | *Stay and play for under fives | £1 per family |
| Fridays | 10.30am - 11am | Toddler read and rhyme | |
| Fridays | 11.15am - 11.45am | *Giggles wiggles (dance and music) | £1 per family |
| Fridays | 12 noon - 12.30pm | *Movers and groovers (dance and music) | £1 per family |
| Fridays | 1pm - 4pm | *First friends (babies under one) | £1 per family |
| Fridays | 3.30pm - 5pm | Homework club | 8 years up |
* These sessions are delivered by Underhill Children's Centre. Please contact the centre for more details or to book a place. All sessions are free unless otherwis stated.
Reference and information
- Leaflets and posters,
- Newspapers and magazines,
- Local and community information
- Careers
- Action Point (first.contact@barnet).
Facilities
- Photocopier black/white and colour
- Library shop
- Room/hall for hire (capacity 25/110 persons)
- Coffee lounge
- Microfilm/fiche reader and printer
- Public toilets.
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