{"id":8577,"date":"2020-10-07T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2020-10-07T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:25:10","slug":"newcastle-libraries-have-more-for-members-including-an-extended-fee-free-period-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/newcastle-libraries-have-more-for-members-including-an-extended-fee-free-period-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Libraries have more for members: including an extended fee free period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the City\u2019s response to COVID-19\u00a0overdue\u00a0fines were suspended\u00a0for an initial 6 months.\u00a0However\u00a0our community is continuing to face challenges\u00a0so\u00a0we\u2019ve extended the\u00a0fee free period to the\u00a0middle of next year.<br \/>\nSince the pandemic\u00a0we\u2019ve had more than 1,300 new library members and we\u2019re constantly looking at ways we can continue to provide them with more.\u00a0More access, more services,\u00a0and\u00a0more ways to connect.<br \/>\nExtending\u00a0our fines free\u00a0period\u00a0is another way we can offer more to\u00a0all\u00a0Library members.\u00a0Plus\u00a0we hope it will\u00a0encourage\u00a0new\u00a0people\u00a0to join\u00a0and\u00a0discover\u00a0all their local library has on offer.<br \/>\nMembership is\u00a0free and\u00a0open to anyone who\u00a0lives, works\u00a0or regularly travels\u00a0in the Newcastle region.\u00a0 Find out more about becoming a member\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nrpl.ent.sirsidynix.net.au\/client\/en_AU\/newcastle\/search\/registration\/$N\/HOSTEDWS\/true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0or contact the Library team on 4974 5300<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the City\u2019s response to COVID-19\u00a0overdue\u00a0fines were suspended\u00a0for an initial 6 months.\u00a0However\u00a0our community is continuing to face challenges\u00a0so\u00a0we\u2019ve extended the\u00a0fee free period to the\u00a0middle of next year. Since the pandemic\u00a0we\u2019ve had more than 1,300 new library members and we\u2019re constantly looking at ways we can continue to provide them with more.\u00a0More access, more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/newcastle-libraries-have-more-for-members-including-an-extended-fee-free-period-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newcastle Libraries have more for members: including an extended fee free period&#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-8577","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\/8577","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=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}