ARARAT Rural City Council will receive $6,180 to add new books to its collection at the Ararat library in the lead up to next year's Premier's Reading Challenge.
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The library is one of several libraries across the region to have attracted funding.
Member for Western Victoria, Simon Ramsay, welcomed the new funding for the library from the 2014-15, $1 million Premier's Reading Challenge Book Fund.
Mr Ramsay said the popular annual Premier's Reading Challenge encouraged more children to read, to read more often and to read more widely.
"This 2014-15 allocation of $1 million from the Premier's Reading Challenge Book Fund provides a wonderful boost to library stocks, for the benefit of Victoria's young readers," he said.
"This is part of the Victorian Coalition Government's commitment to improving literacy skills for our younger Victorians.
"Readers already have rich pickings - from Asimov, Bronte, Dickens, D H Lawrence, Dr Seuss, Roald Dahl, Graeme Base and J K Rowling to name just a few of the authors to challenge and delight children of all ages.
"And there'll be even more to come thanks to this latest allocation from the Premier's Reading Challenge Book Fund."
Liberal Candidate for Ripon, Louise Staley, said Victoria has a world class public library network and the Victorian Coalition Government is intent on improving library services and facilities across the state.
"The four-year $4.5 million Premier's Reading Challenge Book Fund complements this government's $17.2 million Living Libraries Infrastructure Fund, and the $38.6 million Public Libraries Funding Program- providing record funding for the state's library network," Ms Staley said.
