LITERARY LOAD
THE YARRA PLENTY REGIONAL LIBRARY (YPRL) is a mobile library service that covers three council areas in Victoria – Banyule, Whittlesea and Nillumbik – with stops at 14 different locations within those council boundaries.
The library service was started in 1954 by the then City of Heidelberg and was referred to as the “travelling free library”; the first of its type in Victoria. Their first vehicle was an Ansair Transett bus.
In 1976, the Shire of Whittlesea and the Heidelberg Library Service joined their services together. This meant there were now two buses servicing a wider area. In October 1985 the name was changed to the
