Yarra Plenty Regional Library provides library services to 3 municipalities in the northeast of Melbourne. The 8 branches and 2 state of the art mobile libraries cover an area of 983 km² including metropolitan, urban fringe and rural populations. Over half of the 306,000 people living in the region are members and it is the highest circulating library in Victoria with 3.6 million loans a year.
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