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The library's Peel Street frontage.

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Great advantage of the library's many volumes is taken by scholars and university students.

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Even the very young are catered for during the school holidays with "storytime".

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Public donations of cash and kind are made frequently to the library. Library committee chairman Martin Lynch with one such cheque, and some books bought with a donation.

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Library staff replace one of the shelves which had been moved to make room for a display. Not only does the library contain thousands of books but it is a centre where works of art, such as the Rodin sculptures, Maori culture displays, coin displays and other interesting exhibits are placed on show.

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To enable whole shelves to be moved comparatively easily these jack-wheels were designed and made by the city council. They lift a whole shelf row which is then moved where required. Mr G. Korver sets one in position.

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Advice about availability of books is easily given. Librarian Susan Crosby (right) helps parent, Mrs S. Ellis, choose a book for her son's school project, from the children's section of the library.

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Miss Mary Macpherson checks new books into stock.

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Mrs Jean Hall and Miss Jess Robb repair damaged books. This job takes five half-days a week!

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Old and rare reference books are also found in the Raumoa Balneavis Memorial Library, a section at the rear of the library. Here Cynthia Foster checks geological information from a volume of Hochstetter's Early New Zealand.

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Members of the Floral Festival Committee have taken on the task of doing a flower arrangement in the library each week. However, during the winter a permanent display is set up and here Mrs Mary Laracy (first chairman of the society) and Mrs Edith Gibson (present chairman) set up the '70 winter arrangement.

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Mrs Beverly Peach and Mrs Milton catalogue new books.