Our Collection & Borrowing

Entertainment at your fingertips with 24/7 online access to free eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, eComicbooks and movies, check out our Digital Library for more information.

We're on a mission to ensure our collection stays relevant to our borrowers. If you would like to suggest collection items.

• All books & audio books (including digital copies), puzzles, DVD's, etc: 3 week loan period
• Magazines: 1 week loan period
• Kits and other items (guitars, robots, etc): 2 week loan period

There are many ways to borrow items:

Self-Service Kiosks

The handy self-service kiosks can be used with your membership card, or manually with your membership number and PIN. Place your items together on the shelf (no need to do them one by one) and let the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) do the rest. You’ll see all the titles pop up on the screen, and once they’re all green with a tick, you can remove them and finish your transaction. Just make sure the number of books you have matches the number issued on the screen – sometimes the thin books or magazines need a wiggle. The machine can print or email you a receipt if you want one which will tell you the return dates for your items.

See us at the desk

We still love to see you, so feel free to come to the desk to borrow your items and we can help you during staffed hours. Community Hub Libraries are busy places, so please bear with us as you may be required to wait a little bit.

Sometimes that initial loan period just isn’t quite long enough. Most items you can renew up to two times (providing no one has a hold on your item) before you really should bring it back. Kits cannot be renewed. If you’ve lost your receipt you can use the tools below to check when your items are due back.

Sometimes you know exactly what you want and would prefer to just walk in and grab it without having to go and find it, or you’d like to ensure you get it as soon as possible – especially if it’s a popular title. You can search for the item in our catalogue. The search return will let you know what format the item is in whether this be physical or digital and whether it’s available in the Library now, if it’s currently checked out or available soon. If it’s available and you’d like us to have it ready for your, or if it’s not available and you want to ensure you are able to borrow the item next in the list, you can place a hold just by logging in to your account.

When you place a hold, we will find it for you (if it’s available now, or when it’s returned) and pop it on the holds shelf for you to pick up (within 7-days of notification that your hold is ready to pick up).

There are many ways you can manage your borrowing:

• Through your online account with your membership number and pin – search, place holds, check due dates and renew items
• In the library on a self-check machine - renew items
• Through the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) - search
• Through the library app available from Google Play or Apple Store on any device that supports apps – search, place holds, check due dates, renew items and manage children’s items
• We are also here to help you, either see us in person, give us a call or send us an email during staffed hours