CILIP North West's Celebration Day event, designed to celebrate all things libraries, was held in the newly opened Altrincham Public Library. The new Altrincham Library Sarah Curran, Head of Customer Service in Trafford Council, started the day with an interesting presentation about the successes and challenges she has experienced over the past five years as part of her role managing the Trafford Public Library Service. Sarah described how the service has evolved since 2014 when she was faced with the need to cut a substantial part of the libraries budget. One key development Sarah has made has been to work with developers and other organisations and co-locating new libraries alongside other services. For example, Old Trafford library is now situated in a Trafford Housing Trust building on the site of the former library and community centre. The library runs throughout the whole of the ground floor with no ‘distinct’ space other than the children’s section. The