Children's activities start at South Tweed
01 February 2017
Community Centre hosts children's activities during Tweed Library upgrade
Richmond Tweed Regional Library’s (RTRL) children’s activities will begin at the Community Centre in Tweed Heads South next week.
The Community Centre, located next to the Tweed Heads South aquatic centre, will host Storytime on Monday 6 February from 11am and Baby Bounce on Friday 10 February at 10am.
It centre is a temporary home for RTRL children’s activities during the Tweed Heads Library upgrade, which began this month and is expected to take six to eight months to complete.
Storytime and Baby Bounce are free weekly activities bringing young children, their parents, grandparents and carers together. Storytime is a chance for pre-school aged children to sing songs, listen to story and do craft activities in a group, while Baby Bounce allows babies to enjoy singing, rhymes, music and books with their parents or grandparents.
During each session, a selection of picture books from the library’s children's collection will also be available to browse at the Community Centre.
In addition, a small selection from the Junior Fiction collection is available in the temporary library now open at the Tweed Heads auditorium building.
All categories of the Children and Youth Collection are available from the Richmond Tweed Mobile Library, which will stop in Wharf Street next to the library site every second Monday from 10am to 3.30pm. The next visit will be 6 February.
It is among several measures put in place to provide continued services during the Tweed Library expansion.
The Kingscliff and Murwillumbah libraries are providing full services throughout this period and have been particularly busy since the Tweed Library closed its door for the upgrade.
“Between 3 January and 16 January, staff at Kingscliff and Murwillumbah filled 45 boxes with 852 items for return to Tweed Heads,” the library upgrade’s Program Manager, Fiona Dunbar, said.
“Another 5302 items were returned to the after-hours chutes that have been installed at the temporary Tweed Heads library site.
“We thank the Tweed Heads community for its patience and ongoing patronage of library services during the upgrade. More than 400 people visited the mobile library during its first day at Tweed Heads and there has been a steady stream of visitors to the temporary library, as well as the temporary computer café established at the adjoining Tweed Shire Council Administration Office.”
For further information about the library upgrade and library services, visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/Library or the Richmond Tweed Regional Library website, www.rtrl.nsw.gov.au.