Central Library will get a £50million makeover in time for 2008, including a heritage centre, archive & 10,000 more books.

The historic Picton & Hornby rooms will also be refurbished, to save them for future generations.

Across the Country councils have been closing libraries, cutting opening hours & book budgets! But in Liverpool, your Lib Dem Council keeps improving our City’s libraries gives you some of the longest opening hours.

The new Central Library will include:

• New public library space
• New children's library
• Young people's chill out zone
• 10,000 more books
• 7 miles of archives
• New public library space
• A visitor centre with café and coffee shop
• New meeting space
• Restored Picton, Hornby and Oak Rooms
• Rare books and archives on display

DID YOU KNOW?

. The Central Library archives include letters from Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Disraeli,
Gladstone, Florence Nightingale and George Stephenson

. The foundation stone for Central Library was laid in 1852 and it was one of the first in the country

People of every age use Central Library - with members as young as 7 months and as old as
101 years!

Almost half of Liverpool's libraries have been refurbished or replaced in the last 5 years