Maerdy public library The Rhondda Cynon Taf Council public library is located on a triangle of land between Park Place and North Terrace, next door to the community centre. By 2009, the library had become shabby externally, and was in need of internal updating. With a £120,000 grant from CyMAL, the Welsh Assembly Government Capital Funding division, and £12,000 from the council, refurbishment and updating took place between November 2009 and January 2010. The result is an attractive exterior and modernised interior, with a new ICT suite.