Glen Eira Library Services
Published 7 months, 1 week ago in Uncategorized.Great Job
out of 5
As a retired local, I make a lot of use of the Carnegie branch library and I’d like to congratulate everyone concerned for the wonderful service offered. The surroundings are very pleasant, The staff so friendly and helpful and the choice of books and materials so wide. We really are very lucky. I have only one complaint - the books are too good, in that I am so tempted to go and buy my own copy of so many, which is becoming expensive!
Take a bow, librarians! You are doing a great job.
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great job the librarians are doing. pity it’s excellence can not be shared more widely by more people who cannot readily use Carnegie library. other cities provide mobile services and small borrowing shopping strip outlets so that one can do the borrowings locally. good for more retired and less mobile people. good for the environment. this is simply a civic decision, not up to librarians.
Welcome Good News - you’ll be a breath of fresh air with your cheerful good nature in the face of numerous unhappy activists.
Council will be pleased Good News with your ringing endorsement of their services regarding the Carnegie library.
Some of us though prefer to look beneath the veneer of presentable surroundings and facilities offered to how and what has been achieved for the majority of the entire Glen Eira residents in terms of library and other services.
A grand building no doubt, with friendly well paid staff for services rendered, but extremely limited for the rest of us, not able to make it to the edge of the municipality for a decent public library.
I would have preferred five smaller ones sprinkled throughout to service everyone’s needs. I am sure frail and elderly residents not able to walk great distances would appreciate the benefits offered by smaller and more frequent services.
Carnegie, Elsternwick, and Bentleigh - always the favorites of Council - but what of Glen Huntly, MacKinnon, Murrumbeena, Gardenvale. What about those who can’t travel in cars to obtain a good book?
there are two U3As, one in Glen Huntly, the other in East Bentleigh. any thoughts on having a library local service in those places Good News? do you have any suggestions for the new council to be elected this year?
A library supplied by Council housed in the U3A. It would make me less restive to have a community based library within Glen Huntly. What a good idea and a further use for the Glen Huntly residents theyoungatheart, of a centralised building within transport range. Will you put that suggestion to the Council as it was your original idea and a good one! Good News will need to know that it only happens when someone starts the ball rolling.
Telling us how happy you are Good News is not helpful unless you tick the box (I’m assuming here) to allow comments on your next entry, in case you’re wondering why we are silent! You have invited us to share goodnews with you so make it happen kid!
It’s a fact of life that you can’t please all of the people all of the time. However, the fact that Glen Huntly doesn’t yet have a branch library doesn’t detract from the excellence of Carnegie. Bentleigh has one already, and although it is not so new and shiny as Carnegie, it still offers the same very good service. Staff are always willing to bring in books from the other branches and to purchase books on request. Glen Huntly’s day will come. Let’s ‘accentuate the positive” as the song says.
What Carnegie Library has done calistemon has divided the Glen Eira Community into the have and the have nots.
In Glen Huntly I have not anything, in Bentleigh, the resources are limited and aged. Elsternwick library works part time and not within hours convenient to the working public. The Caulfield library is OK by me, but parking restriction require a walk, which is not always practical for the frail elderly. McKinnon lost their library when separated by Jeff Kennett’s Government from their previous Council. The land sold, the opportunities lost. Elsternwick may well follow suit. There are animated discussions as we speak on this point. Who will know the truth in time to take action if the Council doesn’t want us to know?.
Staff are fantastic it is all agreed within public meetings but at the end of the day residents would like a more equatable sharing of limited resources.
All residents pay rates but to put all our surplus rates into one “beautiful” library on the edge of the municipality to the residents of Glen Eira is foolish, unfair and annoying. Not to say downright inconvenience to people who live in McKinnon, Gardenvale, Elsternwick, Ormond, or Glen Huntly. Not everyone drives a car or can mange taxis or public transport if there are any. Again Carnegie station is not convenient to most residents.
Consider me your devil’s advocate. Do you see my reasoning at all?