Hurstville City Library

Great quite area and a wide selection of books. Good customer service, decent child play area, and a good selection of movies to hire. Quick and easy sign up for library cards. Many great functions and activities held for the community on a constant basis.
5 7 years ago (13-03-2018)

Very good here ,quiet big .u can borrow many books here. Also have place charge phone
5 7 years ago (08-02-2018)

As a traditional library, I think it's very good. I love the book collection there. Don't expect fast wifi, the very latest titles, etc, but expect: - Good collection of books, including few relatively recent books (2014-2016, review written in 2017), and some recent popular titles, in English, and in other languages (Chinese and Arabic to name a few) - Very good collection of kids books, both for toddlers and older junior readers, that's good both in quantity and quality (They also have scooters and kids toys for borrowing!) - Friendly staff most of the time. They are strict, etc, but most of the time not aggressive / unfriendly, and always happy to answer questions/ provide help when asked. If your experience was different, you were probably a tiny bit unlucky. - A good borrowing system. It allows you to reserve books, and borrow unreserved books for 3 weeks which can be renewed twice for most titles. You get email notifications 2 days before due date and the day after due date. You can reserve / renew books online too. - A working search, although it's ancient and has many opportunities of improvement. It allows you to search Penshurst branch too, and reserve books from there to be picked up from Hurstville library - Plenty of seats. It does get too crowded around kids area, and noisy around common students space, but usually the noise is bearable and there're other seats in other spaces. If you really need quiet, there's a study space at the end, although I wish the study space had more power plugs like others mentioned. - A couple vending machines for snacks and drinks. There's also limited seating space right after the entrance for reading while eating / drinking. Since it's after the entrance security line, you don't need to borrow the book you want to read while snacking.
5 7 years ago (29-11-2017)

Helpful friendly staff, there are a lot of toys for children to borrow and guitars too. There are a large number of DVDs as well some quite recent, the negatives would be it can get noisy at the computer area as some students talking loudly & were swearing it felt uncomfortable I was with my 1 year old at the time I had to remove myself. I think the computers may need some upgrading, overall it's an ok library.
3 7 years ago (13-11-2017)

I feel like I already left a review about this library but whatever. There was a female library staff who was very rude and racist - why does it cost money to be in that one room for studying idk. Its messy old dark bleak stinky horrible. She said its like 50$ to be in that room per hr. I didnt even need to study I needed to prepare my documents as I was being abused so extremely and needed to sue some people lol whatever. What can u expect from Hurstville
1 7 years ago (23-10-2017)