Manchester City Library

Are you trying to work on a vehicle and need information to keep it running? Check out the automotive repair resources available to you at our library. We have many, many volumes of Mitchell and Chilton repair guides in our reference collection as well as through our on-line database. The Auto Repair Reference Center is available here, on the library’s website. Easy to use, this site will ask you the year of your car and give you choices of carmakers and their brands / models. Depending on year and model, you can find information about repair procedures, service bulletins & recalls, diagrams of various car systems, troubleshooting and other tips about cars. Information is available on vehicles built from 1945 to the present. Lastly, if you don’t find what you need to repair your car, please call or e-mail us at the reference desk. We’re always glad to help.
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Hello everyone! This is your roving reference librarian coming to you from the reference desk. Now I consider getting information to “my public” to be my main job responsibility and so I think that a natural extension to this is to share this information electronically, too. So every week I hope to share with you a research tool that we, here at the Manchester City Library, like to use to help us answer questions.

The first research tool I’d like to mention is “The CQ Researcher“. The “CQ” is a weekly publication which reports and analyses current topics and issues that are shaping our society today. We like the “CQ” because it provides information from both sides of a given topic and also where to look for more information, if necessary. Examples of topics include: cyberbullying, the Iraq War, oil pricing, and the mortgage crisis. If you have a debate or a current event report that you need to prepare for–then this is the tool for you. You can find the “CQ” in the reference collection at the main library.

See you at the library!