Local Govt | National News Video | Parliament Headlines | Politics Headlines | Search

 

The 'idealibrary' opens in Botany

4 October 2004

The 'idealibrary' opens in Botany

Manukau City Council's new $3.2 million flagship library opens officially tomorrow evening at 6:30pm. It opens to the public on Wednesday, 6 October at 9am, with a special family fun day to be held on Saturday, 9 October from 10am to 3pm.

While the library provides all the services traditionally expected from a library, it is also radically different and offers a number of high-tech twists. It is laid out and will operate on the principles of retail design and customer service to provide a unique lifestyle experience for users.

It is the country's first public library with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to enable librarians to use an RFID antenna to scan shelves for books that are missing or in the wrong place.

The library has the latest self-issue system which allows users to scan their library card and the books they require, and follow a series of simple prompts on a computer screen.

The 900m2-space is designed to accommodate a variety of customer needs and requirements, including the extensive collection of 35,000 items (books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs).

Other features include a cafe, a focus room with video conferencing facilities, a computer room with Internet and electronic database access, and a groovy leisure lounge where 'cool' people will love to hang out. A showplace area at the front of the library will be available to local artists and performers.

The library with operate seven days a week, with multiple late-night openings.

ENDS


© Scoop Media

 
 
 
Parliament Headlines | Politics Headlines | Regional Headlines

Werewolf: What Does Winston Peters Want His Legacy To Be?

A lot of people in New Zealand seem to resent Winston Peters and the power that he appears to have. “Appears” being the operative word. In reality, Peters will have power only up to the point that he uses it.

By next week, he’ll have become just another junior player in an MMP governing arrangement, battling to hold onto the gains he was promised. More>>

 

Rising Toll: Road Safety Needs To Be A Higher Priority

Official advice released to the Green Party under the Official Information Act shows that the previous National Government dismissed an option to make road safety its most important transport priority after being told the road toll was rising. More>>

ALSO:

Wellington.Scoop: Arrests At Blockade Of "Weapons Expo"

“We encourage people in Wellington to get down to the Westpac Stadium now for a day of awesome peace action. There will be plenty of food, music and activities to keep us sustained through the day.” More>>

ALSO:

Rorschach Restructuring: PSA Taking Inland Revenue To Court Over Psychometrics

The Public Service Association will be seeing Inland Revenue in Employment Court over its intention to psychometrically test employees reapplying for their roles at the department as part of its controversial Business Transformation restructuring plan. More>>

ALSO:

Nuclear Disarmament: Nobel Peace Prize 2017 Awarded To ICAN

Congratulations from iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand to international iCAN, the other iCAN national campaigns and partner organisations, and the countless organisations and individuals who have worked so hard for a nuclear weapons-free world since 1945. More>>

ALSO:

Expenses: Waikato DHB CEO Resigns

An independent inquiry has identified that Dr Murray had spent more than the agreed $25K allocated for relocation costs, and other unauthorized expenses involving potential financial breaches of the chief executive’s obligations. More>>

ALSO:

Wellington.Scoop: Sad About The Trolley Buses?

The Regional Council’s MetLink is today spending money to tell us that it really loves Wellington’s trolley buses, even though they’re all being taken off our roads by the end of this month. More>>

ALSO:

Post-Election: Preliminary Coalition Talks Begin

New Zealand First will hold post-election preliminary discussions in Wellington with the National Party tomorrow morning and the Labour Party tomorrow afternoon. More>>

 
 
 
 
 

LATEST HEADLINES

  • PARLIAMENT
  • POLITICS
  • REGIONAL
 
 

Featured InfoPages

Opening the Election
 
 
 
 
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0410/S00030.htm
www.scoop.co.nz
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-43
63820
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:IN3TY5MAZZACMJPR67OPMTDABJWQJF7B
<urn:uuid:48374a28-423f-4dbc-9230-22d4c2d56bd3>
2017-10-18T04:46:00Z
68.71.47.69
text/html
sha1:QYXCQOHSWVFH5NBQE7JDU76FASE3JTL4
<urn:uuid:1799e0a3-7256-4145-9058-fb6e40c99fc2>
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0410/S00030.htm
response
<urn:uuid:64c89259-693e-4d5e-81ee-c0bb2bd41056>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-145-19-82.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf