RE-OPENING later this month, Exeter Central Library has not only had a £4.1m face-lift it will now have more books than ever before.
According to the county council, when the library reopens, there will be approximately 4,000 more adults' fiction books than the library previously held.
There will also be more large print books, increasing from 1,360 books to 2,300; and children's books will expand from 103 shelves previously to 188 shelves in the new library, allowing for more attractive forward facing displays to tempt young readers. Teenagers too will have their own area with more books, and have been working with the library stock managers to choose teenage stock for the library.
The spokesman added: "The quantity of adults' non fiction remains broadly the same with approximately 23,000 items on the shelves. The number of items held in the stack item, 128,000, will also remain unchanged.
"We are also offering the same amount of language courses on CD, newly supplemented by Transparent Languages, which provides unlimited access to online language courses."
The temporary library will close on April 17 and there will then effectively be no Exeter Central Library until May 22, the time being needed to transfer the books into their new home.
