Libraries

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[Narrator] Welcome to narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services. Discover a place where you can read, connect, learn and create. narrm ngarrgu means 'Melbourne knowledge' in Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung. The language of the Wurundjeri people. The Traditional Owners of the land when narrm ngarrgu stands.

Browse the library collection of 30,000 books curated through extensive community engagement.

Connect with a holistic range of family services, including maternal and child health, parenting services, immunisation, family support and counselling.

Explore play and have fun in the children's library, playroom and outdoor play area.

A place where libraries and family services cooperate to integrate learning and well-being.

Supporting the health, happiness and resilience of the city.

Learn make and bring your ideas to life with tools, technology, arts and crafts.

Let your story shine. Record yours in the podcasting studios.

Come to a space that seeks to showcase and honour Aboriginal art heritage, history and knowledge. Experience original artworks that celebrate Kulin Country and culture.

Share stories and be inspired.

[Text on screen: Maree Clarke. Artist.]

[Maree Clarke] In the children's library I've designed the carpet to represent the seven seasons of the Kulin Nation through plants and animals. And I've also designed the forest on the mirror glass that's down the passageway. So children again will be able to see themselves reflected in the forest on their way to the beautiful library.

We also cast my husband's coolamon in cast iron and had fabricated a six metre eel trap with a three metre flute that is also on the terrace for the children to to climb on, crawl through. The main library carpet with the beautiful watercolor with the the maps of the Kulin Nation over top, people will get to learn about the five clans of the Kulin Nation. And what better place to learn about it. We're in a library.

[Text on screen: Nicholas Hovington]

[Nicholas Hovington] It makes me so proud that how much work we put into it. But the outcome of the the whole art installation of it is unbelievable.

[Narrator] narrm ngarrgu. A place for community connection. See you soon.

[Text on screen] Thank you Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation.

[Text on screen] Supported by the Victorian State Government's Living Libraries Infrastructure Program.

[Victorian Governent and City of Melbourne logo on screen]

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