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Summer Reading Quest begins on Friday 1 December 2023 - three months of fun literary activities await!

Just a reminder to all our lovely mums, dads and carers that next week's Rhymetime (6th of Dec) and Storytime (7th of Dec) will be replaced by our Christmas Fairy event 6th December.

Join us for our November Noel Book Sale from Saturday 18 November to Saturday 25 November 2023

We are experiencing problems with our Mobile printing service. A3 size and colour printing are not available at this time.

Our Justice of the Peace is here every first, second, third and fourth Wednesday of the month. Between 10am and 11:30am.

Bassendean Memorial Library is ready to trick-or-treat! On October 31st, when all the ghosts and ghoulies roam the earth, come and visit Bassendean Memorial Library on your wild trick-or-treat journey.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, our Air Conditioning is not working to capacity. The Library is quite warm.

Come and listen to an entertaining narration from the audiobook Nightfall. Join the author/producer and the audiobook’s two narrators as they discuss the challenges of creating an audiobook over the two years of Covid battling

It’s time to get hands on with our HANDS-ON STEM resource display. Three shelves of senior, middle, and early STEM resources for all our aspiring scientists

Library and Information week is where we celebrate the work that library and information workers do all around Australia. This years theme is 'Where’s the source?'

Unfortunately our craft presenter cannot host the session due to illness....

Winter rain is here and we have had an increase in books being returned with water damage.

Do you have difficulty getting to the Library? Would you like to listen to audio books, watch DVDs or read books in the comfort of your own home?

If you are concerned about yours or a loved one’s hearing, please join us and take the first step toward rediscovering the sounds you love!

Students from Kindergarten to Year 10 are invited to uncover great mysteries through the world of books for the Premier's Reading Challenge.

Calling all SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-ENGINEERING-MATHS children or maybe children who just love to build.

The Better Beginnings team have been working with our partners at Telethon Kids Institute to create the new 'A Rhyme a Day' Growth Course on the Bright Tomorrows parenting app.

Our mobile printing service is back online!   We are also pleased to announce you can now send documents straight from your phone/device.

OverDrive is discontinuing the legacy OverDrive app on 1 May,  2023 and transitioning users to the Libby app.

We love the generosity of our community in donating books to us. Unfortunately we are over stocked right now!

He lived in West Guildford from 1910, marrying local lass May McSwain five days after returning from World War l.

Unfortunately, we need to cancel our Storytime session planned for Thursday 10:30am 30 March 2023. Our last Storytime for the term will be Thursday 6 April 2023.

It's time to do the Geri-Fit program!!!! An exercise class for the over 60's.

The Children’s Book Week Council nvites you to its Make your own storybook competition.

A story of adventure and perseverance describing a teacher's days in the outback. 

Do you long to take control of an attacking piece whilst deftly moving your king to a safe square? If stalemate is your enemy and your goal is to conquer and vanquish, then chess is for you.

Summer Reading Quest is almost over! The end of January is the end of the quest.

Bassendean Memorial Library is delighted to welcome back local author, Rachael Johns. She will be discussing her new book 'The Work Wives' as well her motivations as a writer and what keeps inspires her to keep on creating.

Dear Patrons, due to a budgetary review, we will be temporarily suspending our Reader Request book purchase service .

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