{"id":7978,"date":"2024-12-09T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:51:24","slug":"liverpool-library-committee-to-be-re-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/12\/09\/liverpool-library-committee-to-be-re-formed\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens to resurrect Liverpool library committee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The library in Liverpool will be reopening in the new year in the Liverpool Business Development Centre off White Point Road. (Rick Conrad photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

As the Liverpool library gets ready to move<\/a> to its new location by the end of the year, the Region of Queens is beginning work to restart a library committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will be chaired by Mayor Scott Christian and include District 3 Coun. Courtney Wentzell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Establishing council\u2019s various committees will be overseen by the region\u2019s new municipal clerk. Pam Lovelace was hired a week ago to do that job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian said she will be coming up with terms of reference for various committees, including the library committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think the initial work of that will be determining what the current need and purpose and mandate of a public committee associated with the library would look like and then constructing a terms of reference and populating a committee from there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Once that happens, the region would likely ask for members of the public to sit on the committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regional councillors voted in February to move<\/a> the Thomas H. Raddall Library to the Liverpool Business Development Centre off the White Point Road. Commonly known as the call centre building, it wasn\u2019t the first choice for a new library site.<\/span><\/p>\n

The previous council voted twice against the library steering committee\u2019s recommendation to build a new library near Queens Place Emera Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many residents told councillors at a meeting last December that they did not want the library at the call centre site, which is outside of town in an area with no sidewalks and very little lighting.<\/span><\/p>\n

The library\u2019s lease at its current location downtown is up at the end of this year. So with time running out, councillors decided to move the library to the call centre building.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s supposed to be a short-term home while the newly elected council works on a longer-term solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The region is spending up to $1.26 million on renovations for the new library space. They had set aside $3 million in 2022 for a new library.<\/span><\/p>\n

Library staff will close the current location on Dec. 15, and begin packing up their collections for the move.<\/span><\/p>\n

No date has been set yet for the library\u2019s reopening. But it\u2019s on track to be early in the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/librarycommitteedec924.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Liverpool library gets ready to move to its new location by the end of the year, the Region of Queens is beginning work to restart a library committee. It will be chaired by Mayor Scott Christian and include District 3 Coun. Courtney Wentzell. Establishing council\u2019s various committees will be overseen by the region\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[670,2595,792,2691,39,760,2261,2664,24,226,795,2690],"class_list":["post-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-call-centre","tag-courtney-wentzell","tag-library","tag-library-committee","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-business-development-centre","tag-liverpool-library","tag-pam-lovelace","tag-region-of-queens","tag-scott-christian","tag-thomas-h-raddall-library","tag-white-point-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}