GRAVESEND: Carnegie library to have £2.5m makeover (From News Shopper)

GRAVESEND: Carnegie library to have £2.5m makeover

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RESTORATION and renovation work on a library will start next month.

Gravesend’s Carnegie Library is to get a £2.5m makeover promising new computers and improved access to all areas of the building.

The library in Windmill Street, which will close on March 27, will also have new books, a dedicated community space, local studies area and a courtyard reading garden.

During the 14-month redevelopment, the library will be open at a temporary location in the town centre’s St Georges shopping centre from April 19.

The district manager of Gravesham and Dartford libraries, Christoph Bull, said: “This is the most significant development for the library since it opened in 1905.

“The library service has been too big for the building.”

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Irwin says...
9:15pm Sun 14 Mar 10

Let's hope this new refurbishment does not lose the current ambience and history of the library.

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SeeSomeSense says...
8:22am Mon 15 Mar 10

Why bother even calling it a library? No one is interested in dusty, stained books carrying the flu virus anymore, especially kids. Throw them all on a bonfire and perhaps we can forever rid the world of flu, moths and coffee rings. Wikipedia is all anyone needs for accurate information and the most important books like gardening and other hobby ones can be read online. Very important information can't be accessed even by the internet because it is all vetted by The Pentagon, The Kremlin and 11 Downing Street.

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