The Frank Semmens Local Studies Collection includes:
- Newspapers and clippings, 1960-
- Oral histories, providing a record of significant events, places, industries, businesses, Indigenous history and general life
- Pioneering families: information about pioneering families and historic cottages
- Photographs: extensive range
- Books, reports, journals, brochures: subjects depicted include industry, land development, wetlands and the estuary.
The website 'Our Knowledge, Our Land' provides information about the Mandurah Bindjareb Aboriginal community and includes photos, video, oral histories and significant historical and cultural sites.