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Nine locations within our City - find your local Library and Knowledge Centre here!
From 1 September, some of our CBCity Libraries will be open late to all 2025 HSC students! Find out more
Library membership is free and you can even join online. Next time you visit the library, bring your photo ID and proof of name and address to receive your library card.
Under Council's Library Services Policy, which came into effect on 1 July 2018, parents/guardians of children under 12 years of age must remain on library premises. Anyone under 16 years of age must have a parent authority to join the library. For more details, download our Library Services Policy.
Lost cards can be physically replaced at a cost of $5 with photo ID/ proof of name and address OR download our FREE Library app onto your phone/device, log-in to your member account, then you can save your library card on your phone/personal device for FREE! Download now cb.city/LibraryApp
24-hour return facilities are available at Campsie, Bankstown, Riverwood and Chester Hill Library and Knowledge Centres. An after-hours return chute is available at Lakemba Library and Knowledge Centre.
Library locations
Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre
Campsie Library and Knowledge Centre
Chester Hill Library and Knowledge Centre
Earlwood Library and Knowledge Centre
Greenacre Library and Knowledge Centre
Lakemba Library and Knowledge Centre
Padstow Library and Knowledge Centre
Panania Library and Knowledge Centre
Riverwood Library and Knowledge Centre
Little Free Libraries
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Check out what's on at the Libraries
​Health and wellbeing sessions in Mandarin
Fridays, 3-5pm (during school term)
Brick Building Club ​Padstow
Wednesdays and Fridays during school terms, 3.30-4.30pm
Book a Librarian Padstow
Mondays 4-5pm and Fridays 11am-noon
New Challengers Evening – Arcade Games
Fridays (see more for dates), 5.30-7.30pm
Family movie fun Panania
Friday 29 August, 5.30-7.30pm
Knitting group Chester Hill
Monday, 10am-noon, and Saturday, 10.30am-12.30pm (during school term)
Painting workshop Riverwood
Saturday 27 September, 10.30am-12.30pm
Knitting group Padstow
Mondays, 9.30-11.30am
Knitting group Chester Hill
Monday, 10am-noon, and Saturday, 10.30am-12.30pm (during school term)
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