Greerton Library is set to close ahead of a demolition and rebuilding process, with services being moved to 1334 Cameron Road.
The library will close at 5pm on Thursday, May 21 and re-open in the temporary premises on Tuesday, June 2.
The current Greerton Library is closing on May 21 before moving to Cameron Road. Photo: File.
There will be no facility in Greerton to return items during the week the library is closed.
Books issued at Greerton Library before Friday May 22 will not be due back until after the temporary library opens on 2 June. Borrowed items can be returned to other libraries in the city, including the Mobile Library.
The temporary facility, close to the Cameron Road/Chadwick Road roundabout, will offer similar services to the current library.
It will operate until the new library is completed, which is currently expected to be April 2016, says Library Customer Services Team Leader Joanna Thomas.
'On behalf of the library staff, we thank our valued customers for their patience during the week we will be closed, and we'll see you soon at our new premises,” says Joanna.
The current Greerton Library was built as a one-room community library in 1975 and refurbished in 1997.
Council approved $3.45 million funding for a 900m2 building – double the size of the present library – in its Annual Plan for 2014/15.
Demolition of the old library is due to begin in mid-July, followed by construction of the new facility on the same site.
For more information, call: 577 7177 or visit: library.tauranga.govt.nz
9 comments
So it begins
Posted on 08-05-2015 17:49 | By YOGI BEAR
The waste of ratepayers money yet again, $3.4m going on to $5m completely wasted on absolute madness. Libraries are dying, would be cheaper to travel for free on the bus to the CBD (bus stops right out front) and use the central library as no one really is in there anyway.
Needed
Posted on 08-05-2015 22:06 | By Capt_Kaveman
To be done and a long time coming, id rather see $ spent here than on some water front or CBD upgrade
@YOGI BEAR
Posted on 09-05-2015 10:36 | By Conzar
Libraries are not dead and are still a great place for education and culture. This money is well spent on supporting our community not just those in the Downtown area.
@ YOGI BEAR
Posted on 09-05-2015 11:41 | By earlybird
Obviously your one eye wasn't working properly when you were in the city library and formed the opinion that there wasn't anyone in there.
Capt_Kaveman
Posted on 09-05-2015 14:05 | By YOGI BEAR
Agree on the options of Waterfront v Library, how ever you are really comparing bad and worse, so little merit in either.
Conzar and earlybird
Posted on 09-05-2015 14:08 | By YOGI BEAR
Perhaps you should take off the rose tinted glasses and see what most are really doing in the library these days, after you exclude the non-library users that include:- coffee drinkers, gossipers, free newspaper readers and freebee internet users there are few left. The "MANY" times I have been in to the CBD and the Mount in particular you are hard pressed to find a book worm, they are really rear.
Pa is the waste
Posted on 09-05-2015 17:23 | By Me again
Yogi bear I'd rather they wasted $$$ on the library than that monstrosity they have built on the round-about out Papamoa way
So YOGI BEAR
Posted on 10-05-2015 10:26 | By earlybird
in your initial post you specifically refer to the central library in the CBD & now you refer to "the Mount in particular". I don't go to the Mount library so can't comment, but I do go to the central library to get books. I make my selection and go. I don't linger so the chances are you won't see me or others like me because we don't sit around all day drinking coffee and reading the newspapers.
-leubert
Posted on 10-05-2015 11:21 | By YOGI BEAR
many things are a waste, the Roundabout thing is NZTA and Libraries are TCC, the same applies to both regardless.
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