Media Response |

From City of Ballarat Executive Manager Learning and Community Hubs Jenny Fink:

Approximately 1000 people visit the central Ballarat Library daily.

The City of Ballarat plans to expand the library’s public area into the current staff offices located upstairs.

There has been $1.9 million in capital works allocated in annual budgets for this project over two years.

The new shelving will enable a better “face out” display of library resources and allow them to be grouped together according to topic, similar to a book shop.

There are always regular outreach library services that people can use or they can alternatively use the Wendouree and Sebastopol libraries while the central library is closed.

We haven’t allocated more outreach services as Ballarat staff are needed to help with the shelving of the central library resources.

The Libraries of the Future plan is still in draft form.