City Library users have told us they want more spaces available for community meetings, study and co-working in this location. The refreshed City Library will meet the needs of our community while continuing to be a welcome and safe space for the community.
Based on this feedback and analysis of borrowing trends for our books, the collection at City Library will be curated with city residents, workers, students and visitors in mind.
The collection will contain fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, books for children and young adults, community language collections as well as magazines, DVDs and CDs. Borrowers will still be able to access the City of Melbourne’s entire collection by reserving and picking up items from City Library – or by visiting other library branches.
Our team is working with library collection experts to re-design the collection. Books that are not retained will be dispersed across the library network, donated, or recycled (if books are unfortunately too damaged to rehome).
We regularly review and update our collections across our entire library network to ensure we have a range of much loved and new books for our community to enjoy.