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COMMUNITY members and students are calling on Snowy Monaro Regional Council to support its mobile library service, in its current state, following a decision to replace the library truck with an outreach service.
Leading calls for the library truck to be funded, are students from the Adaminaby Public School, who have expressed their worry the service will no longer offer the range of the books they have come to love.
At last month's extraordinary Council meeting, Councillors resolved to allocate $50,000 to the current mobile library service (at a reduced frequency) until an outreach library service is implemented.
"Every fortnight the mobile library visits and we are so happy to in the truck and see the new books. it is also a second and important library for the school and community," student Lewis said.
"It is too far to drive to the Cooma Library from our house so it should just come to every town so everyone can read a book."
Adaminaby students wrote to Council during the exhibition period to voice their concerns about losing the mobile library truck. The students each received a written reply and a visit from Snowy Monaro mayor Chris Hanna.
Council said in a statement following its extraordinary meeting, an outreach serve would still support the region's smaller communities.
How an outreach service would work remains unclear. The students and wider school community are worried that without the mobile library truck, their access to a wide-range of books and IT equipment will be lost.





