A Children's Service is offered by all Branches of Gosford City Library, with a specialist Children's and Young Adult Library located at the Gosford Central Library.

Each Branch maintains the following collections within the framework of children's services:

• Junior Fiction and Junior Paperbacks
• Picture Book collections with highlighted books for "independent" readers
• Junior Periodicals
• Junior and Young Adult non-fiction
• Junior Cassettes/CDs and Junior Fiction Cassettes/CDs
• Junior Kits and Junior Fiction Kits
• Junior Videos in both fiction and non-fiction
• Young Adult fiction, paperbacks and kits
• Toy Library

Gosford Branch also has the following resources:

• Junior Reference Collection
• Junior Reference Periodicals (Professional)

Gosford City Library conducts a regular program of weekly Storytimes, and special activities for children and young adults from time to time, e.g. reading programs, Book Week competitions, Santa storytime, puppetry workshops etc. In school holidays, storytimes continue to be scheduled and there are additional sessions of story-reading, activities and crafts for children 6-12 yrs.

Technology
Computers with the Internet are available for use in the Children's Library. It is wise to book ahead by telephone for time on the computers.

Navigating the Literature Shelves
A series of coloured card book-marks has been produced for Junior Fiction. These highlight authors of Junior Fiction books held by this library system in various theme groups, e.g. Australian authors, mystery authors, adventure authors etc. They are free, and located at each service point. The bookmarks are invaluable for locating books in the fiction collections to match the interests of the young reader.

Special activities and holiday programmes
Activity sessions, workshops, competitions and other programs for children and young adults are conducted from time to time throughout the year, and these are always advertised at the service desks of all service points. These programs normally target children and teenagers 5-18 years.

Special Activities will be advertised in the local newspapers.