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.
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.
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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).
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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
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