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As adopted by Council on 28 February 2013 Strategy 19. Arts projects associated with community celebrations Council Role Provider Comments/examples For example: craft based - using existing skills of nursing home residents to create exhibitions such as The Chook Project, begun for the Black Saturday bushfires survivors in Victoria. 8.2. Literature 8.2.1 Coffs Harbour City Library There are three key contributions that a public library makes to the community: 1. Resources: The library holds and provides access to a wealth of resources, books, magazines, digital resources and the Internet, which people can use to explore differences, promote heritage, learn about solutions to problems, and extend their knowledge. Very importantly, these resources are available at little or no cost to the user. 2. Expertise: Library staff offer skills and support in finding the right information resources, both held in the library and from elsewhere. They run story times for children, author events, support book clubs, recommend a good book for relaxation or help an adult find literacy materials. 3. A safe and welcoming place: A library is a publicly-owned building which is available to all members of the community, regardless or age or background, for many hours a week, and which has potential for a wide variety of informal, social and educational activities. The Coffs Harbour City Council operates a library service with branches in Coffs Harbour, Toormina and Woolgoolga, as well as a library service for housebound people. In 2010/11, it provided: • loans: 410,720 • public internet/computer bookings: 44,910 • visits (door counts): 281,042 • programs and events attendance: 10,847 Page 34
As adopted by Council on 28 February 2013 The State Library of NSW supplies standards for the comparative assessment of 21 aspects of library management and facilities, such as size of collections, usage of holdings and size of facilities. These are considered in relation to exemplary (best practice), enhanced (good) and baseline (minimum acceptable) standards on a per head of population basis. Of the 20 standards for which information is available, the Coffs Harbour City Library is able to meet just five of the minimum standards. 17 Three measures of particular concern are: Standard Exemplary Enhanced Baseline Coffs Hbr Library expenditure per capita $ 54.93 $ 46.46 $ 41.18 $ 22.62 Expenditure on library materials per capita (i.e. books bought) $ 5.47 $ 4.66 $ 4.14 $ 2.67 Visits to library per capita 6.2 5.6 5.0 3.9 Very much less than the minimum standard is spent on the library than elsewhere in NSW and unsurprisingly people in Coffs Harbour use the library less than other people in NSW. Given the socio-economic situation of many residents, it is highly unlikely that they are buying more books than elsewhere. The Library also experiences significant restrictions with the size of its premises. 18 It presents an extensive range of children’s activities including: weekly storytime sessions for preschoolers, outreach storytime for special events and festivals, Ten Minutes a Day early literacy program for parents, regular school holiday activities for children, Youth Week activities and short story competitions and the Summer Reading Club for children. The library also offers a home library service for housebound residents, a service for Book Clubs, themed displays, and regular author talks and community information sessions. 17 Living Learning Libraries – Standards and Guidelines for NSW Public Libraries, State Library of NSW, 2011 18 The current size of the central library (including work areas) is 986 m2. State Library guidelines for a central library commensurate with the Coffs Harbour population suggest that the appropriate size would be between 2,400 and 2600 square metres. Page 35
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