Our lending collection comprises over 20,000 items for both
children
and adults.
For adults we have
contemporary
and popular
fiction in regular and large print
audio books
DVDs
magazines
specialist collections of
biography, war and Australiana
general non-fiction books on
many topics including many interesting older items
Our children's section includes
picture story books
junior fiction and
non-fiction
and audio books
Heritage collection
Our heritage collection comprises items that are not for
loan. It includes
The Casey Collection - a collection of books, magazines and other
items from
the private library of Lord and Lady Casey from their Berwick home, "Edrington". The original collection was
donated to the Berwick Mechanics' Institute and Free
Library by Mrs Jane Macgowan, their
daughter. The books
have been arranged to reflect the lives and interests of
Lord and Lady
Casey.
Photographs and other objects
relating
to the history of Berwick or of historical significance
donated to BMI
over the years.
Watercolour paintings on silk by
Ellis
Rowan, a portrait of Lord Casey by Sir William Dargie and a
portrait of
Lady Casey by Cecil Beaton.
