Casey Cardinia Libraries

Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation provides a network of public library services through various service points in Melbourne’s south-eastern metropolitan growth corridor.

The City of Casey covers 395 km² and is Victoria’s largest and one of its fastest growing municipalities and Cardinia Shire spreads over 1,283 km². With a combined population of 328,977 (ABS Estimated residential June 2010) consistent population growth is a feature of our market, increasing 4.63% across the region over the year and predicted to double within the next 20 years.

Libraries are located at Cranbourne, Doveton, Emerald, Endeavour Hills, Hampton Park, Narre Warren and Pakenham, with the Cardinia Mobile Library providing weekly service to Beaconsfield, Bunyip, Cockatoo, Garfield, Gembrook, Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Maryknoll, Tynong and Upper Beaconsfield.

Casey Cardinia Library Corporation was formed on 1 October 1996. It was previously part of the Dandenong Valley Regional Library Service which was disbanded following Council amalgamations in 1995. The City of Greater Dandenong took over operations of the Dandenong and Springvale branches and CCLC continued to operate the remaining branches from its new headquarters in Cranbourne.

Cranbourne Shire Library began providing library services from the former Engineer's offices in Sladen street in 1978. The formation of CCLC in 1996 led to the establishment of 'Headquarters' and the relocation of Cranbourne branch to part of the former Ford Factory in Berwick Cranbourne Road. The library was renovated and extended in 2002.

After a couple of earlier incarnations, the Shire of Berwick rented the Presbyterian Church Hall as library premises in 1969. It moved to 148 Kidd Road where it became the 2nd branch (after Springvale) of the DVRLS in 1973. The council then purchased a Service station in Autumn Place next to the shopping centre and, after extensive renovations, opened the current Doveton library there in 1983. The library was renovated and extended in 2008.

The $2.2 million Emerald Library opened in July 2006 to become the 7th branch of CCLC.

Rapid population growth in Endeavour Hills in the early 1980s resulted in the construction of a permanent library to replace the mobile service. The building was officially opened in Raymond McMahon Boulevard on 31 May 1987. A 2007 renovation and extension has significantly increased the size of the library.

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