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Online Bookstore

Lifeline Canberra earns a major part of its funding by selling hundreds of thousands of donated items at two big Bookfairs and several smaller sales each year. We offer a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages, as well as magazines and pamphlets, comic books and atlases, records and CDs, videotapes and DVDs, games and puzzles.

A limited selection of our rarer, more valuable or collectable items is available for purchase from our online bookstore catalogue.

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Donating Books and Other Items

Each year the Lifeline Canberra Bookfair recycles up to 1 million books - many to our Bookfairs, many to other charities, and to paper recycling. Your continuing donations keep our telephone-based crisis counselling service going. Thank you.

What?

We accept clean books, comics, magazines and pamphlets, encyclopaedias (pre 1940 or the last 20 years only please), sheet music, maps and atlases, calendars and postcards, records, CDs, DVDs, video tapes, audio cassettes and talking books, puzzles, board games, computer software and games for current operating systems. Materials in languages other than English are welcome. Please do not bring damaged items.

A3 boxes are also very useful.

Where?

If possible, please drop books off at our warehouse at 40 Heffernan St, Mitchell, ACT (02 6241 2901). The warehouse is at the roundabout at the intersection of Heffernan and Brookes Streets, opposite the shopping centre. Entry is via Heffernan Street; drop off is at the back of the carpark. Map

When?

The best times for leaving books at the warehouse, when volunteers will be available to help are

  • Weekdays  9:30am-1pm
  • Saturdays   10am-4pm

Other Drop-off Points (business hours only)

Please do not use these drop-off locations during the period Friday 9 March - Friday 23 March (inclusive). We will not be able to clear the drop-off areas during this period as we will be busy with the 2012 Autumn Bookfair. Donations can still be dropped off at the warehouse in Mitchell.

North

  • Belconnen - Pack and Send, 1/6 Weedon Close
  • Dickson - Blockbuster, 3/63 Woolley Street

South

  • Holder - Home Help Services, 27 Mulley Street (Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm) Maximum of 4 medium size boxes.

Queanbeyan

  • Queanbeyan Library - 257 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan
  • TAFE Illawarra Institute, Queanbeyan Campus, Macquoid Street - cnr Buttle Street (Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm)

For pick-ups, call the Lifeline Canberra office on 6247 0655. No pick-ups will be scheduled for the period Friday 9 March - Friday 23 March because of the Autumn Bookfair. We apologise for any inconvenience to our valued donors.

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