LILAC - Wellington's lesbian library

LILAC (Lesbian Information, Library and Archives Centre) is Wellington's lending library for women-oriented women - women who form their primary relationships with women. It operates from a room upstairs at 64 Cambridge Terrace (corner of Fifeshire St) - just follow the signs. LILAC is a women-only space, although small children with their mums are okay.

Come in and look around the collection, renew your membership or join up.
Note that there are no money machines nearby, so you need to bring cash or a cheque to pay the annual subscription.

New books and DVDs

Check the new titles arriving on September 1st, new DVDs for 25th August, as well as those that arrived earlier in the year.

New opening hours from 1 September

Val McDermid interview

Listen to an interview with Scottish lesbian crime writer and former journalist Val Mcdermid by Kim Hill at www.radionz.co.nz/podcasts/saturday.rss (ca. 45 min, 15500 kb)

LILAC catalogue on the web

LILAC has a new online books catalogue - with better searching, more information about books, links to book reviews, cover images and more. It is hosted on the LibraryThing website.

The simpler searchable online catalogue is still here, as are the lists of titles in our collection.

Lesbian full-text resources on the web

Our page of links to full-text titles on the internet has been updated. Some of them are comtemporary "born digital" works, and others are older, out of copyright, books that have been scanned more...

Open day for Pride Week Sat 17th September

LILAC will be open from as usual 11 am to 2 pm on Saturday 17 September as part of UniQ's Pride Week. Everybody* welcome especially students who have been ... thinking of looking in at LILAC some day.

* everybody who is eligible to join up that is - it's a woman-only space for lesbians and queer women.

LILAC welcomes donations

LILAC welcomes donations of money, and of books, DVDs etc. to add to the collection (or to sell for fund raising).