City of Playford Library Service
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The City of Playford Library Service is the public library service of the City of Playford which is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.
The City of Playford Library Service consists of the Elizabeth and Smithfield locations, the Mobile Library Service and Home Library Service and operates a total of 95 hours over 7 days.
As of January 2008 the Library has approximately 53,000 registered borrowers and a collection of over 127,000 items.[1]
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[edit] History
The Elizabeth South Public Library was opened on 4 December 1957 by Sir Thomas Playford, making it the first free municipal public Library to open in Adelaide.
Sir Thomas was the first to join and become Member No 1A in Library No. A1! [2]
Subsequent branches were constructed over the intervening years:
- Elizabeth North opened 4 July 1960
- Elizabeth Town Centre opened 15 September 1969
The first Munno Para Library was opened on 5 February 1966.
In 2005 the Elizabeth and Smithfield branches opened in their present premises.
In December 2007 the Playford Library Service celebrated it's 50th birthday. This included a celebration event involving past and present staff including the first chief Librarian, Warwick Dunstun and a well attended community birthday party.
[edit] Youth focus Library
The Smithfield Library, located in the Munno Para Shopping Centre, was planned and constructed with a dedicated focus on youth and innovation.
The design is not one that is found in a 'traditional' Library and features the use of vibrant colours, banks of music listening stations, Xbox game consoles, flat screen televisions displaying music and news channels and a see through staff work area.
It was awarded the South Australian Chapter Design Institute of Australia 2004 Award of Merit and short listed in the Public/Institutional Interior Design Category of the 2005 Interior Design Awards.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ City of Playford Library website
- ^ Galbreath, Margaret "Elizabeth, the Garden City", page 55 - 58, 1982
- ^ A library of the future: the Playford Library, South Australia by Kym Gravener, Harvey Publicity, inCite : August 2005, http://alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2005/08/playford.library.html
