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Good day all, Please find following and attached a press release concerning the new 24-hour checkout service at the Antigonish Town & County Public Library - the first in Nova Scotia, and one of only a handful of libraries in Canada to offer patrons access to pick-up their requested library materials 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For more information regarding this pilot project with the Provincial Library - Communities, Culture & Heritage, please contact Eric Stackhouse, Chief Librarian - Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library (755-6031| toll-free 1-866-779-7761) or Kristel Fleuren-Hunter, Supervising Branch Librarian - Antigonish (863-4276). With kind regards, ~ Trecia Press Release Wednesday November 16, 2011 24 hour checkout @Library . the first in Nova Scotia! As part of ongoing innovations at the new Antigonish Town & County Public Library and with the financial assistance of the Nova Scotia Provincial Library, library patrons can now pick up their books and other materials 24 hours a day. Starting this November - the new outdoor, self-service, book lockers located at the main entrance are open and ready for business. By request, patrons can pick-up their hold-requests after-hours. Individual patrons are temporarily assigned an access code, that when entered, will open a book locker that contains their requested materials. "Public Libraries are committed to literacy and reading regularly convenient for the entire community," said Eric Stackhouse, Chief Librarian (Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library). The Antigonish Town & County Library is the first in Nova Scotia to offer a 24-hour accessible book locker for patrons. The funds received to provide the infrastructure for this outdoor book locker were provided as part of a pilot project with the Provincial Library - Communities, Culture & Heritage. AntigonishLibraryBookLocker_November16,2011 Pat Cameron, Branch Assistant Manager for Antigonish Library is placing books in a book locker for a patron. The 16-drawer book locker is located in the exterior wall of the library, just to the left of the main front entrance. ******** For more information, please contact Eric Stackhouse, Chief Librarian, Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library (755-6031/toll-free1-866-779-7761), or Kristel Fleuren-Hunter, Supervising Branch Librarian - Antigonish (863-4276). ________________________________________ Trecia Schell, BSc(Hon), MSc, PhD, MLIS Community Services Librarian (Programming, Public Relations, Outreach, Books-by-Mail, Adult Services) & Branch Manager, Stellarton and River John Public Libraries Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library 182 Dalhousie Street | PO box 276 New Glasgow, NS B2H 5E3 phone: (902) 755-6031 toll-free: 1(866)779-7761 email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] www.parl.ns.ca follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/parlevents find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pictou-Antigonish-Regional-Library/ PARL colour