Home Library Services

Home Library Service is free to eligible residents in the Waverley area.  We can deliver to you a selection of items based on your reading, listening and viewing preferences.  The service is also available to residents who are unable to carry their loans to and from the library and who wish to come in and select their own material.

We also deliver to Residential Aged Care facilities and Retirement Villages.

Visits are made fortnightly or monthly on a specific delivery day.

• Home Library Service Brochure & Membership FormThis external link will open in a new window

Who can join?

Residents who live in the Waverley area who have difficulty coming to the library or carrying their books home due to age or illness or disability.  Full time carers of Home Library Service members are also eligible.

Contact our Home Library Service staff about joining
Phone: 9083 8717 Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm
Email: hls@waverley.nsw.gov.au

To join, fill in a membership form. Ask your Healthcare worker, community worker or carer to sign and return the completed form to the Library.

Home Library staff will then contact you to discuss what you like to read, watch or listen to, and the day on which the items will be delivered.  A personal profile of your likes and dislikes is compiled to help with selection of material for you. The service is started as soon as possible after the form is received and contact is made.

What’s available for loan?

Every effort is made to choose material that meets your preferences.  Staff choose items on an individual basis and from a wide range of resources available in the Library.  These include:

• Fiction
• Non fiction
• Large print books both fiction and non fiction
• DVDs
• Books on CD/ MP3
• Books downloaded to listening devices
• Music CDs
• Magazines
• Books in languages other than English

You can submit  requests for any specific titles or subjects through our catalogue, to the Home Library Service driver, or call the Service on 9083 8717.