Download Your Free eMagazines and Enjoy Them Wherever and Whenever You Want to!

Hurstville City Library customers can now download and enjoy their favourite eMagazines on their Ipads, iPhones, Android devices, Macs and PCs. Just go to the Hurstville City Library website, click on the link for the eLibrary catalogue and then click on the link for Zinio eMagazines.

To access Zinio, you need to first create an account on our library page of Zinio. Once this is completed, you're ready to start downloading! Enjoy an unlimited borrowing period, full colour pictures and interactive elements, such as video and audio. Magazines can also be read offline once they are downloaded. eMagazines include Gardening Australia, GQ, Marie Claire, Forbes, Newsweek, Good Taste Magazine and more.

So, what are you waiting for? Enjoy your own eMagazine collection today!

National History Month - August 2013

Celebrate National Family History Month with Hurstville City Library's free family history resources. Explore Ancestry.com, the world's largest genealogy database, with over 10 billion historical records from the UK, Australia/NZ, North America and some European countries or browse numerous birth/death/marriage indexes, parish records, military records, migration records, electoral rolls and more, from the Find my Past collection (UK/Ireland/Australia), just by logging in with your library card on Hurstville City Library's computers. If you're particularly interested in records from NSW, try the Internet History Resources database, which contains over 30,000 pages of online records related to family history in NSW.

Hurstville City Library is also pleased to announce that the latest edition of the eMagazine Inside History, can be downloaded free from our new Zinio eMagazine collection. Inside History is a great resource for the family history enthusiast, with advice, articles and expert tips on genealogy.Look out for The [online]Sydney Morning Herald Archives 1955-1995 and The [online]Sydney Morning Herald 1996 onwards databases, which are coming soon to Hurstville Library.