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- Download the apps that suit your mobile device
- Create an account (if required) using your email address and choose a password (also called a PIN)
- Select City of Swan Libraries at the ‘Choose your library’ prompt
- Sign in with your library card number (or online membership number) and your library password
Translated brochures with further information about our eResources are available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, Gujarati, Punjabi, and Vietnamese.
You can access a wide range of eBooks, comics, movies and more through our memberships to:
- BorrowBox(open in new window) - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines and eNewspapers
- CloudLibrary - for eBooks and eAudiobooks
- Hoopla(open in new window) - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eComics, movies
- Kanopy(open in new window) - for movies, TV and documentary streaming
- KanopyKids(open in new window) - for movies for kids
- Libby(open in new window) - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines
- Online Book Club - Western Australian Public Libraries has started a new free online book club! As a City of Swan library member, you'll also have access to a free ebook copy of the titles for the duration that they are discussed. Please contact your local branch for assistance.
- Overdrive(open in new window) - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines
- Public Domain eBooks - for FREE eBooks
- Untapped(open in new window) - The Australian Literary Heritage Project
These sites offer a great range of Indigenous resources:
- Indigenous non-fiction library resources(open in new window)
- Indigenous picture books(open in new window)
- Koori Mail(open in new window)
- Maya Keniny(open in new window) - Noongar performance and language resources
- Noongar language classes(open in new window)
- Indigenous Weather Knowledge: Nyoongar Calendar (open in new window)
- Kaartdijin Noongar – Noongar Knowledge(open in new window)
- Nyungar Tradition: Glimpses of Aborigines of South‑Western Australia 1829-1914(open in new window) (Lois Tillbrook)
- National Indigenous Times(open in new window)
- First Nations Telegraph(open in new window)
- AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia(open in new window)
These sites offer a great range of multicultural and language resources:
- LOTE4Kids(open in new window)
- Road to IELTS(open in new window)
- Duolingo(open in new window)
- International Children's Digital Library(open in new window)
- Online magazines in Community Languages(open in new window)
- Children's books in Community Languages(open in new window)
- eBooks and eAudiobooks in Community Languages
Some other resources that we offer:
- Ancestry.com (only accessible on Library computers due to licencing agreements)
- Choice Online (only accessible on Library computers due to licencing agreements)
- Haynes online car and motorcycle repair manuals(open in new window)
- Trove(open in new window)
- Greenfile(open in new window)
- SLWA databases(open in new window)
- State Records Office of Western Australia(open in new window)
- National Archives of Australia(open in new window)
- Heritage Council of WA(open in new window)
- FamilyHistoryWA(open in new window)