Parkes Shire Library recently induced their new library ambassadors for the 2025 school year.
From 37 applications in Parkes, program officer Debbie Gould said it was very difficult to choose just 11 library ambassadors.
"We found it very hard to choose two from each school, if we were allowed to we would let everybody be a library ambassador," Debbie said.
"Everybody wrote very good applications this year, they were very well written."
It is a library ambassadors' job to share with their school community about what is happening in the library.
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This includes events that the library holds during school holidays or after school, workshops in the Murramurra Makerspace, exhibitions, and when the library has new books.
There are 11 Parkes Library ambassadors for 2025.
From Middleton Public School: Kiarah Edwards-Ellis and Scarlett Gosper-Chambers.
From Parkes Public School: Cooper Handcock and Matilda Baker.
From Parkes Christian School: Adelaide Watt and Avalyn Stokes.
From Parkes East Public School: Joel Turnbul and Avah McNeil.
From Holy Family School: Harvey Gray and Aava Dhakal.
From the home school community: Lucy Butler.
Trundle, Bogan Gate and Tullamore schools will also once again have library ambassadors for 2025 with seven applications across these schools.
The library ambassador program started with one school in Parkes as a trial by librarian at the time Andrea Lovell.
"From there it grew to include all of the local schools in Parkes and then the last three years we've stretched it out to our branch libraries and the little towns in our shire," Debbie said.
