Mobile library makes first of many visits to Tweed Heads
13 January 2017
More library options set to begin next Monday while upgrade is underway
The Richmond-Tweed Regional Mobile Library made its first stop in Tweed Heads on Monday, one of many fortnightly visits while the Tweed Heads Library undergoes a major transformation.
The mobile library proved popular, with around 450 people popping into its air-conditioned interior to borrow from the library collection, return items, use the internet or print, scan or copy material.
The Mobile Library service has been extended so it is available in Wharf Street, beside the Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre, every second Monday from 10am to 3.30pm. The next visit to Tweed Heads will be Monday 23 January.
From next Monday, 16 January, a temporary site will be available at the Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre, next to the auditorium, for pick-ups of reservations, returns and to browse part of the Tweed Heads Library collection.
The reservations service will continue to be available, including online and phone bookings.
In addition, the library will operate in Council’s Tweed Heads Administration Office in Brett Street to continue access to computers and newspapers, and to provide a casual reading area.
Free wi-fi services will be available in and around the pop-up library and temporary collection site.
Children’s activities will be held at the Council’s Community Centre (next to Tweed Heads South Aquatic Centre) at Tweed South, with Baby Bounce set to resume from Friday 10 February and the first Storytime for 2017 to be held on Monday 6 February. Children’s library materials will be provided from Council’s Community Centre during scheduled Storytime and Baby Bounce sessions.
Tweed Heads Library is being expanded to create a bigger, more versatile and user-friendly community facility. The project will increase the library’s floor space from 619 square metres to 1054 square metres, and improved design will allow greater flexibility in how the building is used.
The improvements will help ensure Tweed Heads Library continues to meet the needs of a growing community and to become even more of a community hub as a valuable public resource and a social space.
Visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/Library and the Richmond Tweed Regional Library website, www.rtrl.nsw.gov.au, for further information.
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Caption: Some of the approximately 450 people who visited the Richmond Tweed Mobile Library during its first visit to the Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre during the Tweed Heads Library upgrade.
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Caption: Kathleen Howard of Tweed Heads South browses the Richmond Tweed Mobile Library collection.