Recommendations

Explore new reading ideas or lifelong learning opportunities. Learn about our community language collection and resources for kids and youth.

 

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BIG Summer Read
Looking for something BIG to do these summer holidays? Join the BIG Summer Read!
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Kids resources

Learn how we support early literacy development through a range of educational and recreational programs and resources.

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Youth resources

Find out what's on offer in our libraries for young adults including young adult books, magazines and graphic novels, and free computers and wifi.

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Darebin Deadly Reads

Check out Darebin Deadly Reads, our celebration of the excellent and important work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and illustrators.

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Climate change and action

Learn more about our current services, collections and programs supporting climate action.

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Resources in community languages

We offer a range of community language materials at all of our library branches.

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Lifelong learning

Find out about the lifelong learning opportunities available at our libraries and in the wider Darebin community.

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Darebin Heritage

Our local history website, Darebin Heritage, has over 1000 articles on Darebin's history, historic photographs, newspapers, oral histories, and more.