Services for adults:    * Books
   * Large print books
   * Talking books  
   * BBC RaW and Big Plus book collections
   * Books in Polish  
   * Healthy Reading books
   * Newspapers
   * DVD hire
   * Music CD hire
   * Language learning tapes and CDs  
   * Reference and enquiry service
   * Reading group
   * Author events
   * Health Information Point with PC
   * Careers Information Point with PC
   * Government and local community information
 

Learning centre: * Courses available in: Basic IT, access to 600 online   courses, e-citizen and ECDL
   * Learn Direct Scotland accredited
   * ILA accredited  
   * 14 bookable PCs
   * Free high speed internet access
   * Access to office applications e.g. e-mail, Word etc
   * All PCs with assistive technology: adjustable height table, large keyboard, tracker mouse ball, large screen and touch screen PC, height adjustable table
 

Services for young people:  * Children’s area with fiction, non-fiction and picture
books
   * Teenage section with books and graphic novels
   * Storytelling sofa
   * DVD hire
   * Talking books
   * PC with access to websites for children
   * Bookstart Rhymetimes fortnightly on Thursdays, 10am to 11am  
   * Children's activities
 

Heritage centre:    * Rich collection of books and articles on the history of Barrhead
   * Barrhead News on microfilm from 1897
   * Family History information, including the censuses, Old Parish registers, files of local history articles, copies of local photographs  
   * Introductory family history sessions can be arranged
 

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Barrhead Library is part of East Renfrewshire Libraries and Information Service: