As per PPM, plus:
Main facility
The NRCF Library will have the following major services:
- A lending library;
- Non-lending audio and audio visual resources; and
- Access to external lending sources.
Tanekaha and Weka
- The Youth Units will have a mobile library service to a classroom or central meeting area on a regular weekly regime.
- Both units will be serviced by a mobile library service in their unit locations once a week.
Library Operation
Operating Days and Hours
- Access will be by unit and nominated time.
- All units (except Youth and Self Care) will have access one day per week, three times during the nominated day – morning (10:00 – 12:00), afternoon (14:00 – 16:00), and early evening (17:30 – 19:30).
- Day Four will be devoted to the Youth and Remand Units with a trolley and demand–from-a-list service.
- Three hours each Saturday morning will be set aside for the self-care areas.
- A day will be reserved for internal administration and prisoner support.
Lending Policy
- The lending period will be restricted to a maximum of two weeks for printed material and a week for other resources.
- The audio, audio-visual system and computers will be controlled by a booking system through the library station.
Additional Source Information
Service Descriptions, Prison library services
