The County Library Service has a number of special collections housed at Morpeth Library which are available for use by individual users and by groups. They include drama, music, literature, film and poetry, as well as a large local studies collection. The music and drama collections were damaged by flooding in 2008 and are currently unavailable. It is possible to request items and we will try to obtain them from elsewhere. Part of the Local Studies, Literature and Poetry Library collections were also damaged but the main collections on the library first floor remain intact. It is hoped to reinstate the collections at Morpeth library in the future.

Film Collection

The Film Collection is an impressive collection of books covering all aspects of cinema. It comprises over 3,000 titles, ranging from film star biographies, to the history of cinema, studies of film genres, directors, cinematography and academic analysis of film. The books are available for loan as part of the library's normal stock.

Northern Poetry Library

The Northern Poetry Library is the largest collection of contemporary poetry in England outside London, with 15,000 volumes of contemporary British poetry. North Eastern poets are particularly well represented and the library holds many first editions, signed copies and runs of poetry periodicals.