ARMSTRONG CREEK LIBRARY

• The Library will deliver civic social infrastructure for the growing community, provide access to a library service, co-working spaces and outdoor spaces.
• The Library at 10 Main Street, Armstrong Creek adjoins the Town Square and shopping precinct and will be modern, accessible and sustainable.
• The new facility will provide exemplary state-of-the-art, five-star Green Star environmentally, sensitive, creative and technologically enhanced community spaces to enable the growing community to connect, socialise, learn and thrive.
• Construction of the Library is underway and is scheduled for completion in early 2024.

• The proposed name for the Library is Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Library.
• Be-al-a translates as ‘a place of many red gums’ referring to the overall Armstrong Creek valley-scape and its watercourse, and it also expresses that the ‘red gums speak lots of stories’.
• The City and the Geelong Regional Library Corporation engaged with the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation in the Library design development and the inclusion of language in the naming of the new building to reflect Wadawurrung cultural heritage.
• The name meets the criteria under the Geographical Places Names Act 1998, and as outlined in the guidelines, Naming rules for places in Victoria 2016.