Footscray Library

Very friendly staff, a big open space, some good carrel desks located away from noise, cute fun areas for kids. A very good balance of study/reading areas and kid/activity spaces. Some absolutely wonderful displays too!

Great staff and great selection of books as well as spaces to relax and do your thang! Highly recommend to any library enjoyers and purveyors

Favourite library! I've moved a few suburbs over but come back to this one. Has an excellent sci fi and fantasy section. The little courtyard is lovely to sit in too.

Sooo happy that the library is finally open again. Appreciated all the friendly staff especially during lockdown. They've done a great job!
Just waiting for Baby Rhyme Time and Story Time to be back ❤

Footscray is my favorite among all branches ❤

Cosy and beautiful space for studying and browsing new books 📚

This is one of my favorite places when I was in Melbourne.
Membership is free, just need to bring proof of your address, and if you're under 18 they need your parent or guardian's signature.
The genres of books are very diverse. Since we were able to borrow up to 70 items for three weeks, I borrowed and read a lot of books here.
This is a nice place to study and relax with a computer system and free wifi for anyone who needs it. The library has programs and events that promote learning for people of all ages.

Friendly staff always welcome us😊 Nice place to hang around with little ones.

Bianca is an excellent children's librarian - she's passionate and has excellent recommendations. I've also found the other staff really kind and helpful.
Thank you for providing such an excellent resource for the community - great to see my council rates at work 😊

Great selection, comfortable. Has computer desks with electricity access.

Great place to hang out with the family and kids. There's something for everybody. It's well maintained, modern and nice. Good selection of books, DVDs, magazines, etc.

It was my second time seeing Michael who works As a council customer service representative
Michael is amazing and very knowledgeable and experienced in how to handle the customer concerns
He guided my family through the steps of the process and put too much effort

He is one of the best

Lovely library, lots of books and other library related things. So if you're in footscray and you want to find something library specific then this is the place to be. All the cool kids hang out here too so you could become cool by association. Not saying you aren't cool, but you'll definitely feel cooler.
I'd like to spend more time here personally but I don't get enough of it. But when I do, I really enjoy myself.
The staff here are lovely and extremely helpful presuming you don't act like a fool and go in there asking them if this is the iPhone store, can you fix my charging port, etc. I'm pretty sure that's never happened but you never know. And I absolutely wouldn't want to be the first one to find out what happens. I'd probably get the cane or something.
Such interesting places, library's are. You can learn as much as you'd like. Or you could use your iPhone to google everything. But you can't. Because the charging port won't work. Too bad Freddy

Good library.
Membership also gives you access to a digital library with emags, newspapers around the word, audio books and ebooks.
Offers of other free stuff like Thai chi just tops it off.

Good assortment of books.

One of the best library access in Victoria

Michael was very friendly and helpful ☺

Very friendly staff.
Printing service available.
Wifi is free.
Ample space to sit and study.
Life size Big chess board.
I am sure they have small board games too.
Of course there are plenty of books as well, specially in many non-English languages which are hard to find otherwise.

Excellent place. Staff were very very helpful. They helped me with the information I want. Loads of appreciation. Thanks a lot for the exellent service and wonderful books. Very good maintainence. My kid enjoyed playing with blocks and reading books.

I really recommend becoming a member of this library. They have an amazing collection of books. Really nice staff.

Good library, really helpful and knowledgeable staff. Great range. Good for graphic novels too.

Nice desks and good wifi for people to come and do their studies or work or just watch endless dribble on their phones and laptops, keeping out of the winter cold. The library is haven for all sorts of characters from the Footscray community. I was able to accomplish a lot of work here. My only observation is that there is not a lot of literature books. But maybe dont have much demand.