An exciting new teen library is set to open in Tylorstown. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Libraries Service has secured £45,000 of funding from CyMAL for improvements to the existing Tylorstown Library building, to create the facility.
Work is due to begin in December, when the former video conferencing room in the library will be converted and extended into a teenage area with special facilities, including IT equipment for young people.
The area will be redecorated and furnished as a teenage “chill out” room with reading material, a sound chair, DVD player, settee, Wii/games system and a plasma screen, as well as air conditioning.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Cabinet Member for Culture and Recreation, Cllr Robert Bevan, said: “We are delighted to have secured funding to enable us to deliver the new library for teenagers in Tylorstown.
“It will be a great space for young people to study or relax in. Our teen libraries in Treorchy and Aberdare have proved a huge hit with young people and a great asset to the community and we hope the new teen facility for Tylorstown will do just the same.”
Membership of all Rhondda Cynon Taf’s libraries is free and everyone living or working within the county borough is welcome to join. For more information on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Library Service log on to the library website at www.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/libraries.
