A Public Health Emergency has been declared in the ACT for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See the COVID-19 website for more information.
All our branches and the ACT Heritage Library will be closed on Wednesday 21 April for the Libraries ACT Planning Day, and closed on Sunday 25 & Monday 26 April for the ANZAC Day public holidays. Return chutes will be open. Click for all anticipated closure dates.
Joining the library online just got easier
We have set up a new way to complete your online registration, so you can access all of these great services and resources quicker:
All our libraries, including the ACT Heritage Library, are open regular hours. Visits to the library can be up to 120 minutes (2 hours).
Use of the Check In CBR app is mandatory whenever you visit the library (it's now mandatory at businesses, venues and facilities across the ACT). Please ask staff if you need help, or do not have a device to check in on.
If you are visiting any of our branches, please follow the important conditions we have set.
Click through for more information on these conditions and what services are available
We're so excited to bring a new Story Walk to the Celebrate Gungahlin Festival! Starting from Gungahlin Library, follow Maura Pierlot's The Trouble in Tune Town picture book, with a page to read at each stop.
Click through to find out more and download the map, or pick up a map from the library.
Find out what's on at the ACT Heritage Library for the 38th annual Heritage Festival.
10 years of collaborating with communities to create personal stories. Bookings required
Do you use RBdigital? This digital resource will migrate to the Overdrive platform on 17 March. You will be able to access digital magazine, eBook and eAudio book titles currently available through RBdigital by using Overdrive and its Libby app instead. Click through for more information.
Construction is underway at Woden Library on a range of spaces for the community. Opening hours and services remain the same, however while work is underway, the library will be affected by noise. You are welcome to use our other branches to avoid the noise. Click through for more information.
Up for a challenge? Take our 2021 reading challenge. Read your way through the alphabet with titles, authors or subjects/genres that start with one of the letters of the alphabet. We've got some ideas to help get you started. Click through to browse them and start reading!
We’re so excited to launch a new trial Mystery Box delivery service! If your access to the library is currently impacted by COVID-19 restrictions, you can register to give this a try and tell us what you think. You pick your preferred genre and we’ll create a surprise Mystery Box just for you. Click through for all the details.
Is your child aged between 0 and 5? Register them as a library member and get a free picture book to keep and discover what the library has to offer them and you (while stocks last, until the end of May 2021). A special children's membership card is available.