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- Become a library member
- 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 - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines and eNewspapers
- cloudLibrary - for eBooks and eAudiobooks
- Hoopla - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eComics, movies
- Kanopy - for movies, TV and documentary streaming
- KanopyKids - for movies for kids
- Libby - 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 - for eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines
- Public Domain eBooks - for FREE eBooks
- Untapped - The Australian Literary Heritage Project
These sites offer a great range of Indigenous resources:
- Indigenous non-fiction library resources
- Indigenous picture books
- Koori Mail
- Maya Keniny - Noongar performance and language resources
- Noongar language classes
- Indigenous Weather Knowledge: Nyoongar Calendar
- Kaartdijin Noongar – Noongar Knowledge
- Nyungar Tradition: Glimpses of Aborigines of South‑Western Australia 1829-1914 (Lois Tillbrook)
- National Indigenous Times
- First Nations Telegraph
- AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia
These sites offer a great range of multicultural and language resources:
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
- Trove
- Greenfile
- SLWA databases
- State Records Office of Western Australia
- National Archives of Australia
- Heritage Council of WA
- FamilyHistoryWA