Home Library Service

If you are a resident of the Blacktown local Government area and are in one of the following situations, we can deliver to you for free.

• Unable to visit the library due to poor health
• Constrained with a disability
• Suffering from a chronic illness
• Frail aged
• Resident in a care facility
• A carer

You will also need medical certification for these instances, unless you are a resident of a care facility in which case this certification is waived.

Our Home Library Service members can borrow items from any of the library's lending collections including:

• large print books,
• regular print books,
• audiovisual material (including audiobooks, CDs and DVDs)
• magazines
• items from the community languages collections.

We can deliver your items on a 2 week or 4 week cycle. We will arrange this with you when you join the service.

Yes.
To reserve a particular item from the collection, please contact your designated Home Library Service Branch between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm.

Alternatively you can reserve it yourself online through the library catalogue.

When you go on holidays, or go to hospital just keep us informed and we can stop and start the delivery as required.  

Yes. We can organise bulk loans for residents, or even assist in addressing the needs of individual residents.
Please contact our Home Library Service team on 0298396687 to make an appointment.