{"id":1558,"date":"2023-05-25T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2023-05-25T02:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:33:46","slug":"toormina-library-celebrates-its-25th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/2023\/05\/toormina-library-celebrates-its-25th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Toormina Library celebrates its 25th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 21 April 2023, Toormina Library celebrated its first 25 years of operation. Library branches have always been important for community outreach, and the concept for a new branch at Toormina arose when the Coffs Harbour\u00a0 Shire disconnected itself from the Clarence Regional Library service to set up its own library network.<\/p>\n

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Library likely for Toormina, Coffs Coast Advocate, 25 March 1987, p.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"Full steam ahead for Toormina library, Coffs Harbour Advocate, 29 September 1994, p.2<\/span><\/p>\n

In a curious coincidence, the Council had previously purchased the timber house at 41 Gordon Street, the final home of Shire President Harry Bailey<\/a>, in anticipation of setting up a new central library there but chose to extend southwards instead.<\/p>\n

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Council approve library building, Coffs Harbour Advocate, 29 June 1995, p.8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ten years later, the branch library was moved from the Toormina Gardens Shopping Centre into its own building on Minorie Drive.<\/p>\n

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Library making a move, Coffs Harbour Advocate, 18 March 1998, p.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These newspaper articles which tell the story of Toormina Library are available on microfilm<\/a> at the Harry Bailey Memorial Library .<\/p>\n

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One of Toormina library’s earliest patrons attended the 25th birthday celebrations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 21 April 2023, Toormina Library celebrated its first 25 years of operation. Library branches have always been important for community outreach, and the concept for a new branch at Toormina arose when the Coffs Harbour  Shire disconnected itself from the Clarence Regional Library service to set up its own library network. Full steam ahead … Continue reading “Toormina Library celebrates its 25th birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffscoastheritage.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}