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Our catalogue of books can be supplemented by resources available from our online partners. In most cases, our members can simply login with their GV Libraries membership number to access these resources.

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Books and Reading
Streaming Video
Family History and Genealogy
Kids
Learning and Education
Learning Other Languages

Books and Reading

Downloadable eBooks, digital AudioBooks (eAudios), and eMagazines are available with your GV Libraries membership. Go to eBooks & eAudios

Libraries Victoria App

Your library in your pocket!

The Libraries Victoria App provides access to public library services for many libraries in Victoria, Australia.

Search the combined catalogue of all participating libraries, or login with your library membership to access the collections, services and resources offered by your local library. Manage your membership, renew your loans, place holds/reservations, and access ebooks and eaudiobooks and other online resources. Discover events and activities at your local library.

Sign into your App and use it as your library card. You can even add other family members to the App and manage their accounts in the one place!

App Store Links

Streaming Video

Kanopy

If you're interested in independent, foreign language, classic, or documentary films, you're in luck! Sign up for Kanopy, our on-demand video-streaming service.

Now including Kanopy Kids: thoughtful entertainment for children aged preschool and up. Parents can trust in a curated selection of educational and enriching videos with developmentally appropriate, age-based ratings from Common Sense Media, as well as additional parental controls to keep kids safe.

You can stream over 26,000 carefully selected films from hundreds of popular producers such as The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, and PBS, as well as thousands of independent filmmakers.

You can also use the Kanopy app on your Telstra TV - follow the instructions on the Kanopy website.

App Store Links

Kanopy Kids

The new streaming offering features educational, enriching, and entertaining content with age-based ratings from Common Sense Media.

Kanopy Kids highlights films and TV series that inspire and inform, helping children develop empathy, mindfulness, and self-esteem through entertaining and educational videos, with 100 new films added every month.

App Store Links

StoryBox Library

Story Box Library is an educational website, created for Australian children to view stories by Australian authors and illustrators, being read aloud by fantastic storytellers. It was born out of a need for Australian children to experience and make personal connections with Australian stories and voices.

App Store Links

Family History and Genealogy

Ancestry.com - Library Edition

Discover your family history and start researching your family tree.

AncestryLibrary is no longer be available from home from December 31st 2021. It will continue to be available from any of our libraries.

Please note: AncestryLibrary is only accessible from the computers at your local GV Libraries branch.

PictureVictoria

Looking for images of local history in Victoria? PictureVictoria is a great place to begin! PictureVictoria aims to increase the accessibility of the local history collections held by Victorian public libraries.

Trove

Provided by the National Library of Australia, Trove helps you to find and get over 540,699,577 Australian and online resources including books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

Kids

BusyCode

Busy Code introduces very young children (6-11) to coding and teaches them the fundamentals of how to create, run and debug simple programs.

Tutorials – simple and fun - introducing new programming concepts step by step.
Challenges – children are given problems to solve using the concepts that have been introduced in the tutorials.
Projects – open-ended tasks that let children experiment with the concepts they have learnt. Allowing them to be creative and see how the changes they make can alter the program.

Kanopy Kids

The new streaming offering features educational, enriching, and entertaining content with age-based ratings from Common Sense Media.

Kanopy Kids highlights films and TV series that inspire and inform, helping children develop empathy, mindfulness, and self-esteem through entertaining and educational videos, with 100 new films added every month.

App Store Links

LOTE For Kids

LOTE Online allows kids to enjoy the magic of books in various languages from the comfort of home, alongside English translations to help develop reading and listening skills. Kids can also watch a selection of English books with Australian accents.

Login using your library card barcode number, select a language and enjoy a story!

StoryBox Library

Story Box Library is an educational website, created for Australian children to view stories by Australian authors and illustrators, being read aloud by fantastic storytellers. It was born out of a need for Australian children to experience and make personal connections with Australian stories and voices.

App Store Links

World Book Kids

Easy-to-use encyclopedia for young readers. Articles, multimedia, games, science projects and interactive tools for homework and fun.

Learning and Education

Gale Health and Wellness Database

The Gale Health and Wellness database has been known and trusted in ANZ libraries for decades.

Gale Health and Wellness is automatically updated with the latest daily content from News Articles, Academic Journals, Reference, Magazines, Videos & Audio and the Coronavirus topic page features a link at the top of the homepage.

LOTE For Kids

LOTE Online allows kids to enjoy the magic of books in various languages from the comfort of home, alongside English translations to help develop reading and listening skills. Kids can also watch a selection of English books with Australian accents.

Login using your library card barcode number, select a language and enjoy a story!

The Computer School

The "world's largest online technology training website with more than 10,000 lessons and tutorials available.

Simply log in with your GV Libraries barcode number.

Road to IELTS

Road to IELTS is your best possible online preparation and practice resource for IELTS. It includes not just downloadable practice tests, but also interactive activities, hints and tips on question types, and advice videos from British Council experts.

World Book Online

World Book Encyclopedia Online is an interactive reference resource. Platform includes multiple graded platforms for all ages. Access content on a variety of topics including videos, images, maps, educational games, online books and so much more.

World Book Kids

Easy-to-use encyclopedia for young readers. Articles, multimedia, games, science projects and interactive tools for homework and fun.

Work Book Student

Great reference resource for upper primary/early secondary students. Has over 40,000 articles, rich multimedia, a My Research account to save research.

World Book Advanced

Contains detailed content written for secondary level students. Includes integrated research of articles, media, primary resources, eBooks, dictionary, atlas and more.

World Book Timelines

Over 425 unique Timelines on a variety of topics, perfect for all ages. Build Timelines for any purpose, from school research projects to family histories and just for fun.

Learning Other Languages

Living In Australia

Improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills - gain the confidence to use English in everyday situations, for work and study. Learn about Australian society and culture.

LOTE For Kids

LOTE Online allows kids to enjoy the magic of books in various languages from the comfort of home, alongside English translations to help develop reading and listening skills. Kids can also watch a selection of English books with Australian accents.

Login using your library card barcode number, select a language and enjoy a story!

Road to IELTS

Road to IELTS is your best possible online preparation and practice resource for IELTS. It includes not just downloadable practice tests, but also interactive activities, hints and tips on question types, and advice videos from British Council experts.

Learn a Language

Transparent Language Online offers language-learning courses and materials for over 100 languages, as well as beginner-level English courses localised for speakers of over 25 languages.

The system is fully functional on tablet web browsers and the companion mobile apps for iOS and Android devices make it easy to continue learning at any time.

Register

Sign up with barcode or user ID
Enter your library card number and your PIN then click 'Log In'.
Enter your details (Username must not contain spaces or special symbols)
Click on the 'Create Account' button which will take you to the main page.

Already registered?

Log in to access the service and start learning a new language today!

The Road to Solo Driving

The VicRoads Road to Solo Driving Handbook is available for free download in many languages.

The Road to Solo Driving Handbook provides an overview of the rules and regulations and outlines many of the legal requirements for drivers in Victoria. It provides an overview of the rules and regulations for driving on the road in Victoria. It is the responsibility of all drivers to know and adhere to the requirements for driving safely on the road.

Download the Handbook in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Turkish or Vietnamese via the link below.

Visit the VicRoads website