The Yarra-Melbourne Regional Library has a reference collection at all branches.
Material is available in both print and electronic formats on either CD-ROMs or online databases.
Richmond Library has the largest collection of Reference material and is the central reference resource for the region. Richmond also has a core collection of statistics covering population, housing, employment and health in addition to CLIB96 which is a CD-ROM of data from the 1996 census. Collingwood Library collects The Age on CD-ROM which is a collection of all the articles in The Age for each year. 1997 onwards is available. All libraries have a small collection of Reference CD-ROMs for use in the library.