| Media release: 27 August 2009 | |
It’s ‘services as usual’ at Pakenham Library’s temporary new home at the former netball courts in John Street, Pakenham.
The facility is fully accessible and all normal services are available, including a customer service, shelving for up to 19,000 ‘high demand’ fiction and large print books, DVDs, CDs, talking books and children’s materials.
The temporary library can also provide up to 12,000 further items on request.
Public internet access is available on eight computers along with WiFi services and children’s story time sessions.
The relocation is part of preparations for construction of a new library, hall and meeting room redevelopment at PB Ronald Reserve, scheduled for completion in early 2011.
Cardinia Shire Mayor Cr Bill Pearson said Council had been keen to make sure the community’s library needs were well managed during the construction phase.
“And the new facilities that are currently being planned will be a great end result for the community,” he added.
“A bigger library with state-of-the-art facilities and resources, meeting rooms for important community groups like University of the Third Age (U3A) and others as well as a new hall.
“The new facilities are a $7.1 million investment to meet the needs of our growing and increasingly diverse community,” said Cr Pearson.
The temporary library will be open from 10am to 6pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, 10am to 8pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays and from 10am to 4pm on Saturdays.
The library move frees up the John Street site for an $80 million boost to the local economy, through a major retail development which is proposed to include a new Woolworths department store, supermarket and specialty shops.
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