Library users invited to provide feedback on future services
West Melbourne residents have an opportunity to provide input into the future services of libraries.
Melbourne library services are currently a major focus of Melbourne City Council, and Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has invited public feedback on their services, spaces, collections and programmes.
He said the Council is trying to assess what the public would like to see in libraries the next five years.
Visitors to the city’s six libraries during the past year have reached 1.4 million, which illustrates their popularity and the population’s love of books, said the Lord Mayor.
He said there are many things to learn about at the venues. These might include ways to trace a family tree, the use of new technology, the internet, document scanning, newsletter printing, recording a song, operating a 3D printer and learning a language.
Public feedback, the Lord Mayor said, was being invited to clearly identify if the above services or, indeed, others were what local library visitors wanted to remain accessible to them.
Themes available for public feedback include Future Focus, Capital City, Collections, Community Space, Learning and Knowledge and Events, Programmes and Activities.
The collection of physical items available in the Melbourne Library Service is extensive, according to Cr Richard Foster, with in excess of 232,000 items.
Foster said the arrival of the digital age has not threatened the future of libraries, but effectively enabled them to become vibrant community hubs.
The deadline for those people wishing to have a say is September 20.
Melbourne library services are currently a major focus of Melbourne City Council, and Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has invited public feedback on their services, spaces, collections and programmes.
He said the Council is trying to assess what the public would like to see in libraries the next five years.
Visitors to the city’s six libraries during the past year have reached 1.4 million, which illustrates their popularity and the population’s love of books, said the Lord Mayor.
He said there are many things to learn about at the venues. These might include ways to trace a family tree, the use of new technology, the internet, document scanning, newsletter printing, recording a song, operating a 3D printer and learning a language.
Public feedback, the Lord Mayor said, was being invited to clearly identify if the above services or, indeed, others were what local library visitors wanted to remain accessible to them.
Themes available for public feedback include Future Focus, Capital City, Collections, Community Space, Learning and Knowledge and Events, Programmes and Activities.
The collection of physical items available in the Melbourne Library Service is extensive, according to Cr Richard Foster, with in excess of 232,000 items.
Foster said the arrival of the digital age has not threatened the future of libraries, but effectively enabled them to become vibrant community hubs.
The deadline for those people wishing to have a say is September 20.