About & Description

WCL has over 600,000 books, 450,000 magazines, and 85,000 CDs, DVDs, videos and other items at our central library and 11 branches. We are located in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington

Wellington City Libraries and Community Spaces is 12 Libraries and five Community Centres. Our libraries, located in Miramar, Kilbirnie, Island Bay, Newtown, Brooklyn, Wellington CBD, Wadestown, Karori, Ngaio, Khandallah, Johnsonville, and Tawa provide access to hundreds of thousands of books, magazines, CDs, DVDs and other items. Our collections include New Zealand's first public Zine library collection, music scores and nearly 20000 eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines. Each of our libraries offer, children's programmes, free and paid internet facilities, WiFi, and printing services: http://www.wcl.govt.nz/about/services/ Our Central Library has a music room with keyboard available for free hire in half hourly blocks. Central also has casual office space called HQCBD available at $10 an hour: http://www.wcl.govt.nz/about/services/hqcbd.html Visit our website for comprehensive events, services, and catalogue information or to access our extensive digital collections and blogs: http://www.wcl.govt.nz/ You can also find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/wcl_library Our Community Centres are located in: Island Bay: https://www.facebook.com/islandbaycc Newlands: https://www.facebook.com/NewlandsCommunityCentre Churton Park: https://www.facebook.com/ChurtonParkCommunityCentre Tawa and Linden https://www.facebook.com/TawaAndLindenCommunityCentres They offer community building, health and welfare, kids and youth events and activities, and communications services. For more information visit: http://wellington.govt.nz/services/community-and-culture/community-centres/council