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Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL) provides a public library service to the local government municipalities of the City of Banyule, Shire of Nillumbik and City of Whittlesea in the northeast of Melbourne Australia and located on the lands of the Woiworung.[1] It is an independent legal entity with an executive management team which is responsible for day-to-day operations of the organisation.[2] It is managed by the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Board made of two representatives (councillors) of the three municipalities that constitute the service. Its role is to set the policy and direction for the regional library service.[3] The library service covers an area of 988.4 km² including metropolitan, urban fringe and rural populations.[4] The organisation is administered from its Library Support Services (LSS) located at Daniher Drive, Sth Morang.
Service delivery is provided through eight branch libraries located at Greensborough, Eltham, Ivanhoe, Lalor, Mill Park, Thomastown, Watsonia and Whittlesea.and four pop-up locations. The redevelopment of Rosanna Library is scheduled to start in 2023.[5] In 2022 the City of Whittlesea committed to establish community libraries at Mernda and Wollert East which will be established in partnership with YPRL in 2023.[6][7]
Two mobile libraries provide services including a specially designed vehicle that visits institutions for those residents unable to visit a library.
In 2017 there were 115,000 members constituting 31 per cent of a population of nearly 400,000 people across the three municipalities. It had 155 staff and issued 3.6 million loans that year.[8]
- ^ Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (8 June 2021). "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ Annual Report 2016 – 2017 City of Banyule. Greensborough, Vic.: City of Banyule. 2018. p. 45.
- ^ Annual Report 2017-2018 Banyule City Council. Greensborough, Vic.: City of Banyule. 2018. p. 101.
- ^ "Directory of Public Library Services in Victoria 2021" (PDF). Local Government Victoria. 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ^ "Rosanna Library redevelopment". Shaping Banyule. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ Council, Whittlesea. "New library services get the go-ahead". www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ Council, Whittlesea. "Mernda Library". www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ Carnines, Anthony (12 December 2017). "Adjournment". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 25 April 2019.