{"id":5578,"date":"2020-03-23T22:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2020-03-23T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:25:23","slug":"citys-libraries-limited-to-digital-services-only-to-combat-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/citys-libraries-limited-to-digital-services-only-to-combat-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"City\u2019s libraries limited to digital services only to combat spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle\u00a0has\u00a0made the difficult decision to\u00a0limit\u00a0its\u00a0library service to\u00a0digital\u00a0only,\u00a0as part of its continuing efforts to\u00a0limit the transmission of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0in our community.<br \/>\nAll front facing services and branch operations\u00a0have been\u00a0temporarily\u00a0suspended.<br \/>\nCity of Newcastle accepts the advice of the Federal Government\u00a0that\u00a0many non-essential services\u00a0should be\u00a0temporarily\u00a0shut down to limit the\u00a0spread of COVID-19.<br \/>\nThe City\u2019s libraries\u00a0will\u00a0continue to offer a\u00a0broad range of digital programs, content and services\u00a0online.<br \/>\nNovocastrians\u00a0are\u00a0encouraged\u00a0to download the free\u202fNewcastle\u202fLibrary App which provides\u00a0home\u00a0access to the\u00a0e-library, including adult and\u202fchildren\u2019s\u202fe-books, newspapers, magazines, music and movie streaming services\u00a0and\u00a0online learning.<br \/>\nTo access the e-library visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/Library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/Library<\/a><br \/>\nFor\u202ffurther information on City of Newcastle\u2019s response to COVID-19 please\u00a0visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/COVID-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle\u00a0has\u00a0made the difficult decision to\u00a0limit\u00a0its\u00a0library service to\u00a0digital\u00a0only,\u00a0as part of its continuing efforts to\u00a0limit the transmission of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0in our community. All front facing services and branch operations\u00a0have been\u00a0temporarily\u00a0suspended. City of Newcastle accepts the advice of the Federal Government\u00a0that\u00a0many non-essential services\u00a0should be\u00a0temporarily\u00a0shut down to limit the\u00a0spread of COVID-19. The City\u2019s libraries\u00a0will\u00a0continue to offer a\u00a0broad range of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/citys-libraries-limited-to-digital-services-only-to-combat-spread-of-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City\u2019s libraries limited to digital services only to combat spread of COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}