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Treasure 75: Official Opening Ceremony of Kincorth Youth and Community Centre Programme,1968
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Treasure 75: Official Opening Ceremony of Kincorth Youth and Community Centre Programme,1968

Historic Documents
Léa Moreau
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Treasure 75: Official Opening Ceremony of Kincorth Youth and Community Centre Programme,1968
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Treasure 75: Official Opening Ceremony of Kincorth Youth and Community Centre Programme,1968
The residents of Kincorth will have at least two reasons to celebrate in 2017 - it will be 80 years since the winner of the design competition for the layout of Kincorth Estate was announced (in August 1937) and also 50 years since the opening of Kincorth Library.

Kincorth Branch Library was opened as part of the complex including Kincorth Youth and Community Centre and Kincorth health clinic. Although it shared a common entrance with the Community Centre, it was a self-contained unit with a Lending Library, a mezzanine Reference Library, and a Children's Library, and cost approximately £21,000 to build and equip. It had a stock of 12,000 books.

By the end of the first year, 64,000 books had been borrowed and in the following year, the total was 110,722 books.

This month's treasure from the library archive is the souvenir booklet produced for the official opening ceremony of the Youth and Community Centre by Lord Birsay on 8 January 1968. The distinctive octagonal-shaped library building on Provost Watt Drive is shown on the plan featured in the booklet.


View the touchscreen next to the Information Desk to find out more about the developments of Kincorth Library over the years.
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