Waitakere Central Library
Waitakere Central is a modern three storey library, learning centre and
Citizen's Advice Bureau, facing a five storey Unitec learning complex that wraps
around the existing campus building.
The Waitakere Central Library, is a joint venture with
Unitec Waitakere. An
additional Unitec campus building and shared car park occupy a site in Ratanui
Street. The newly created Waitakere Lane runs between the two buildings.
Over 130,000 books are housed on three levels with 60 staff from both
Waitakere Libraries and Unitec managing the 3650 square metre facility. The new
facility is more than seven times the size of the old Henderson Library, which
was 500 square metres.
A Learn IT Online learning centre with 40 computers gives the highest level
of access to information demanded by a modern city, its businesses and a rapidly
expanding tertiary sector. This centre is complemented by a dedicated Unitec
learning commons on level three.
Besides being wired to provide on-line access to the world of knowledge, it
will offer information in every medium: the printed page, audio tape,
photographic, film, video, DVD and computer programmes.
A specialised heritage suite will house the city's documentary heritage
collections. It includes a cool store for photographic negatives and a
temperature and humidity controlled storage area for documents and books
including the JT Diamond archive and the library's precious glass plate negative
collections, oral history archives and other heritage collections. There will
also be a small exhibition space. A 100 percent grant of $130,000 from the
Lotteries Grants Board has covered the cost of a special museum quality
state-of-the-art sprinkler system to protect the heritage collections.
Waitakere Central Library will enormously increase the city's information
base. It will support the revitalised network of suburban libraries and link
through to the Unitec commons via a dedicated airbridge on level three. The
library will serve the needs of 2,500 tertiary students to post graduate level
and the faculty of lecturers and researchers from Unitec.
Further information
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Building Factsheet (Size
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Timeline of Activity (Size
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Sample photographs available
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It's time - for a City Library
(Size 108K)
It's time - says UNITEC
and Enterprise Waitakere (Size 175K)
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