Collections
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Search for books, CDs, DVDs and more in the City of Sydney library catalogue.Book collection
The library has more than 400,000 books to lend to members. You can search for titles in our online catalogue.
Every week, the network receives another 200 new books (on average) from publishers.
We automatically receive new books by all popular authors, from Alice Adams to Xianliang Zhang. Popular series titles, such as the Where's Wally? childrens books and Insight travel guides, also come direct.
New books and more
New fiction and non-fiction books are being added to our collection every week.
As well as books galore, we have the following collections.
- Community languages
- Koori
- Local government
- Local history
- Magazines
- Music, DVDs and audio books
- Newspapers
- Reference and special materials
- Toys.
You can also borrow from our Live Green Library, which features bicycle repair kits and tools to help you save power.
Stack collection
The sheer volume of our collection makes it impossible to keep all titles to hand in one of our library branches. Books (and other items) that are not in frequent demand are kept in our stacks collection. We can access the stack during business hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).
If you come across an item in our catalogue that is kept at the stack, simply contact us (details below) and ask for it to be delivered to your nearest branch (free of charge). We'll need your library card number to process the request and we'll ask for your contact details too (so we can let you know when the item will be available).
Requests for stack items can also be made at the front desk of any branch library.
Contacts
02 9242 8555library@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Last updated: Friday, 7 June 2013