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“Library – Bursting At The Seams”

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Description: These images were taken for the May 28th 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, the first of which was published with the caption “Space is so tight that even the men's toilet has been pressed into service as a ‘temporary’ storage area for books. Here Elizabeth Gardner breaches the male preserve - all in the course of duty.”

An excerpt from the article read: “’We’ve got to have more room – the library will die without it.’ The Palmerston North city librarian, Mr lan Malcolm, told the Tribune this on Wednesday, after last week's city council decision to allow the ground floor shops of the library building to remain. Mr Malcom had been hoping that the shops would have been removed, allowing the library to take up the whole of the ground floor. This space, together with that of the second floor which is being vacated by the Inland Revenue Department in July, would have eased the library’s present cramped conditions considerably, he said.”

The librarian in the non-published photos has been identified as former Roslyn Librarian Lorna Olsen.

These images form part of the Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection. Unfortunately, only negatives between April and December 1978 are held.