The public library is free for anyone who lives, works, visits, goes to school or owns land in the Bankstown area. Libraries don't just offer books. All our libraries have free Internet access, free WiFi Hotspot, DVDs, a great music collection toborrow and to download free, and a wide selection of magazines, books and newspapers.

Community Information
Community Information Directory your guide to more than 1000 local groups, agencies and organisations that provide community services, activities or support.

Justices of the Peace (JP)
The Library has volunteers scheduled for residents to access NSW Registered Justices of the Peace.  If the times we have arranged are not convenient to you please use the Attorney General's Lawlink site  to find another Justice of the Peace.

Justice of the Peace services are available at: 

• Bankstown Library - Tuesday mornings - 10am - Noon 
• Panania Library - Tuesday mornings - 10am - Noon 

Your local library has fiction and non-fiction or fact books, DVDs and videos, music CDs, graphic novels and picture books, magazines and a wide range of HSC guides, literacy kits and community language books, large print, talking books and downloadable eAudio titles.  For more information please give us a call on 9707 9708.

The Library offers free email alerts for reminders when loans are due back, overdue reminders and holds ready for pickup. Email alerts can be setup for the whole family to the email address of your choice. Just set up your account here to join the Library Elf service.

The Library offers the eAudio Bookshelf for library members who want to download digital audiobooks anytime, anywhere. Listen to your favourite books once you download to any MP3 player or your own computer. Start browsing the eAudio collection.

Children's and Youth
Each library has dedicated Children's collections and services:

Your local library also has many free programs and services for everyone including our Community Language collections in Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese.  We can obtain other collections from the State Library of New South Wales through their community language loans service.

Our collections and services for the local community includes:

• Multicultural Services
• Outreach Services 

Our friendly staff can help you find information on all subjects and areas of interest. If you require information for an assignment or project, it is useful if you can bring your questions with you. We can find information from other libraries if we don't have what you are looking for in our collections. For more information, please contact the Reference staff by email or phone on 9707 9711 or start a search in the library catalogue.

Our reference collection and services includes: