Oran Park Library + Community Hub

Oran Park has been transformed from a semi rural farming area into a vibrant planned suburban township. The Oran Park town has been designed to be much more than a residential suburb. At the core of the new township will be a new town centre which is the administrative, cultural and recreational focus for the Town. The Oran Park Library and community resource centre is a significant community focus within the overall Oran Park Town Centre, it provides a range of educational, cultural and recreational facilities for the use of the local community. The Library provides study and digital access and group meeting facilities in addition to traditional Library facilities; the community resources centre will provide a range of highly flexible multipurpose group meeting and activity spaces as well as sessional offices for community support organisations. The facility is the key element of the overall Town Centre Masterplan which Camden Council and the developer Urban Growth prepared to guide the development the main town centre. The Library and Community Resource Centre is located on the main Civic Square on Central Avenue opposite the new Town Park. The Civic Square is located along Central Avenue and links the new Council Administration Building. The Library and Community Resource Centre has been designed to include for the provision of modern digital services for the surrounding community that will be easily adapted, modified and and changed over time to meet to meet the community’s growing and changing needs as well as the requirements of technological developments in the foreseeable future . The new building is a transparent, open, flexible and welcoming state-of-the- art facility and hub for the community within the new civic precinct. Entry to the library on level one from a central foyer provides access to the coffee point, returns area, children’s zone, fiction and non fiction collections, a newspapers and periodicals and general reading areas throughout.