Accessible study room
The Library's accessible study room is a dedicated, self contained room for those with additional study needs with specialist equipment, furniture, and computers with assistive software.
Booking
The accessible study room in Manchester Met Library can be booked by one person, for personal use for up to 2 hours with or without a support tutor, between the hours of 11.00am and 5.00pm.
Outside of these hours the room is available on a drop-in basis, for one person (with or without a support tutor), whenever the library is open.
Access to the room is by swipe card access for those with prior arranged access. If you require access, please speak to a member of the Disability Service.
Book the room by contacting the Library:
Live chat
Chat to us during staffed hours.
Email us at [email protected].
Phone
Give us a call on 0161 247 6106.
Help point
Visit us on the ground floor of the Library.
Facilities
The accessible study room has three height adjustable workstations. Two PCs with specialist software, one iMac, and two A4 flatbed scanners. A range of extra kit is available in the cupboards, including high-contrast keyboards, joysticks and coloured overlays.
Desk lamps are situated next to PCs and overhead lights can be switched off or adjusted using the controls on the wall.
Air conditioning in the room can be adjusted for your comfort.
There are adjustable desktop chairs in the room.
The following applications are installed on both PCs:
- Kurzweil 1000 v.11 (text-to-speech software)
- NeoSpeech Kate and NeoSpeech Paul (text-to-speech software)
- ZoomText 9.1 (screen magnifying software)
- MindView
- Read Write (Gold)