Expect a Warm Welcome at New Blueskin Bay Library

Dunedin (Monday, 18 November 2013) – Residents of Blueskin Bay, Waitati, Evansdale, Warrington and surrounds will celebrate on Thursday 28 November, as the new Blueskin Bay Library welcomes the community to an evening of thanks.

The evening of celebration is a chance to thank the community and the Blueskin Bay Library Redevelopment Trust for their hard work in bringing this spectacular new community space to fruition.

Speakers for the evening will include those involved with the building project, as well as local artists who have contributed works to the Library. Entertainment will be provided by home-grown musicians, and appetites satisfied with locally-produced food.

The original Blueskin Bay Library was a little wooden building in Pitt Street, built in 1903 at a cost of £111, after extensive fund-raising by the Mutual Improvement and Debating Society and a generous Government grant. The building was not permitted to house books for a full two years, because it was considered too much of a fire risk, but thenceforth the Library continued to flourish until it fell into disrepair in the early 1960s.

For some time after that, a library service was provided from the homes of various residents, until the Library reopened in 1973 in the cloakroom of the new Waitati Hall.

Despite being extended in 1992, by the mid-1990s, the Library was deemed too small, and the Blueskin community began lobbying for a new building, and the Blueskin Bay Library Redevelopment Project was commenced. The new Library complex opened in May of this year.

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