Home Library Services & Accessibility

Library staff select items to meet the needs or requests of each member and are delivered directly to their home on a fortnightly basis.

Lane Cove and Hunters Hill residents who are not housebound, but who may experience difficulty carrying library items can join the self-select service and have them delivered.

Members of the self-select service can visit the Library (Lane Cove, Greenwich, St Leonards or The Yarn, Hunters Hill), select items to borrow and then leave them at the desk. Library staff will deliver them to the resident on scheduled delivery days and collect any items for return.

Home Library Services are available to people living in the Lane Cove and Hunters Hill Local Government Areas who are temporarily or permanently housebound due to:

• Age
• Illness or injury
• Physical or sensory impairment
• Carer responsibilities
• Living in a care facility

Applicants may be required to provide a letter from their doctor or health care professional.

• Large Print books
• Audiobooks
• Music CDs
• Children's sensory books
• Easy to read books for adults
• High-interest/low vocabulary materials
• Descriptive and closed captioned DVDs
• eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines
• Reference material on disabilities
• Preserving Memory Collection

• Hearing loop available in Meeting & Training rooms
• Induction loop available at Loans & Information Desks
• Accessible toilets
• Free Wi-Fi and PCs
• Standing desk
• Chairs with sturdy arm rests
• Shopping trolleys and baskets

• ReadIt Air (for use in the Library) - portable camera that works with the ReadIt software and enables instant access to printed documents converting them to large print and text-to-speech output.
• Reader Pens for loan - portable scanning pens which reads printed text out loud.

• ClearView Magnifier with Speech option - a simple to use electronic magnifier. An ideal solution for people with low vision who have difficulty reading or viewing pictures. It easily magnifies text and photos in newspapers, magazines, leaflets or mail. With the press of a button, you can convert text to speech – which can also be saved onto your USB.

• Wheelchair accessible and all on one level
• Disabled parking in front of the Library