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Bournemouth Library is an extensive (3,850 sqm) library space which opened in 2002.
The entrance is on the ground floor and, as well as the stairs, there are two lifts from the ground floor foyer to the other floors.
Bournemouth Library Floor Plans
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There are special 'Zones' for Children, Teens, Lending and Reference Information (Ask Here) on the first floor, and on the second floor are the Music and local Heritage Zones.
Finding your way around Non-Fiction and Reference Books (Floor 1)*
Finding your way around the Music Zone (Floor 2)*
Finding your way around the Heritage Zone (Floor 2)*
*some items have been moved or renamed since these were printed.
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More about Facilities...
Study tables are provided on both floors as well as areas of comfortable seating for relaxing and reading.
Ballards cafe is next door to Bournemouth Library's entrance on the ground floor. It is open from 8.30 to 5.30 each day that Bournemouth Library is open. There are many other cafes, pubs and sandwich shops in the immediate area.
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Better Building Award
Bournemouth Libary won the Prime Minister's Better Public Buildings Award in 2003.
See also Library Building for the 21st Century.
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