Lending Services
Lending Services
Blacktown City Council Library Service offers a wide range of material available for use. Visitors may read books, daily newspapers and magazines in the library. Registered members may borrow material from a range of collections including:
- Fiction - a wide selection of popular and literary novels
- Non-Fiction
- Large Print
- Community Languages
- Literacy - specialist materials aimed at developing adult literacy in native English speakers
- Language Workshop - resources for learning English as a second language, as well as books, kits and audio-visual material for learning languages other than English
- Magazines - please note: the latest issue is not available for loan but may be read in the library
- DVDs
- Videos
- CD-ROMs
- Music CDs
- Spoken word - a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles on CD and cassette
- Read Along Kits
- Toys (children under the age of 7)
The lending library includes over 292,000 titles covering a comprehensive range of subjects suitable for all age groups.
Members may borrow material from any of the four branches of the Blacktown City Libraries which are located at Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Lalor Park and Riverstone. Items available at one branch may be requested at no charge to be sent to any other branch for collection. Borrowed items, except toys, may be returned to any branch.
Material which is not held by any branches of the Blacktown City Libraries may be obtained from another library service, through inter-library loan. A nominal search fee is charged for such requests. A further fee may be payable if charged by the lending library.
The Blacktown City Libraries also offers an extensive collection of Reference Resources as well as a number of In Library Services.