The Library at Palmerston was opened approx 3 years ago. It was purpose built, adjacent to a shopping centre and recreation centre and also boasts an on site cafe.
The collection at Palmerston is all divided into living rooms, not just non fiction but fiction, LP and talking books. The collections are grouped together into "themes" but within each living room are divided into the traditional NF, Fic & LP etc.Depending on the theme some have all formats, others have no fiction, some no non-fiction.
I like the idea of themed groupings as it has the potential to take people outside what they usually see/read but some of the themes were a bit obscure.
Plus personally I think that the talking book collection would be better as a stand alone because some users particularly want that format.
An absence (notable to some, un-noticed by others) is the reference collection, as all material is either for loan or online.
I was there after school and the place was jumping with youth which was great to see!
I particularly liked the AV area, which had a retail feel to it.
http://www.palmerston.nt.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=225
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I just love the Territory!Historically it was the orginal capital of the Territory. Over the last couple of years I visited Pamerston Shopping Centre & obviously overlooked the new library (signage). I witnessed a fair amount of youth violence during the day - 2 girls having a full-on cat fight. I would be interested to hear of their security measures, police kiosk? Security guards?
NIL security wise although a new POlice station was going in 100m down the road, now that's security (& the added bonus of men in uniform!)
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