A NEW mobile library van will allow readers at Barnawartha and Kiewa-Tangambalanga to browse 300 books, double the number previously available to them.
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Indigo Council officially received the $70,000 Ford Transit from Victorian Labor government Upper House MP Jaclyn Symes at Beechworth on Monday afternoon.
Since the shire took over from the defunct Upper Murray Regional Library in 2013, Indigo has not had its own mobile van.
Books, tallying around 150, have been taken by crates in cars and presented at community centres at Barnawartha and Kiewa-Tangambalanga on a fortnightly basis.
Mayor Jenny O’Connor hailed the van, which has solar power and disabled entry.
“It makes it really accessible, it means we’ve got better stock options and computers,” she said.
The government-funded van will have its first town stop-off next week.
Cr O’Connor said in the next six months the shire would look at other places that may have the van visit.
It supplements libraries at Beechworth, Chiltern, Rutherglen and Yackandandah.
