by Lindsay Shelton Strange but true. Books are not mentioned in any of the “design and service principles” for redeveloping Wellington’s Central Library which were announced last week. The city council’s decision includes extending the top two floors of the Library (adding $8.5m to the cost), and putting three more council organisations into the building: iSite, Capital E, and the City Archive. But when the bigger, rearranged Library reopens, will it still be focused on books? There was a magnificent collection of more than 400,000 of them in the building, which attracted more than a million visitors every year before it was so hastily closed. And there’s not one word about them in any of the four design and service principles “which will shape the development of services within the Library, and influence design decisions”.