Temporary borrowing restrictions for Library refurbishment

has been limited access to all the collections, currently on the ground floor, while they are moved. This move began on August 22.

The Adult’s fiction area will not be accessible to the public during this time, which means books from this collection can only be borrowed by request.

Libraries and Archive Manager Marianne Foster said the move began with adult fiction, followed by large print, young adult material, graphics, audio books, magazines, DVDs and multimedia, with children’s collections being the last to move.

“Our staff will be available to retrieve specific books for you during this time, however the collections may not be available for browsing,” Ms Foster said.

Adult non-fiction, biographies, newspapers, and computers will still be freely available on the first floor.

Ms Foster said clubs and programmes will continue to run during this time, however may be in a different location.

Anyone with any questions should ask help desk staff.

Meanwhile, this next stage of refurbishment will also affect hours of access to the Library building via the car parking building.

At present, the library access doors open before 8am to allow people to walk through to Dee Street, however during this stage of the refurbishment, the doors will not open until 9am.

Dee Street access will be available by exiting the orange side door on Level 2 of the car parking building, and using the lane between Speights Alehouse and Tuatara Backpackers