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State Library of Victoria

The State Library of Victoria is Mecca to readers and researchers. From the outside it looks like yet another public neo-classic building. Once inside past the guards and electronic security the visitor walks up the marble steps and through the archway into booklover nirvana.

State Library Victoria, Melbourne, photograph (c) Ali Kayn 2005

State Library of Victoria, photograph (c) Ali Kayn 2005

Main public areas of the library :
Trescowthick Information Centre; La Trobe Information Centre (Australiana); Arts Library; Temporary Reading Room; The Herald & Weekly Times Ltd Newspaper Reading Room; Genealogy Centre; Copy Centre; Secure Reading Room
State Library Victoria, photograph (c) Ali Kayn 2005
Library Dome, State Library of Victoria Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Book retrievals and the Copy Centre close half an hour before these times. Secure Reading Room losed between 12.00 and 1.30pm Saturdays & Sundays.
The Library is closed on all public holidays.
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Box 1510, Melbourne GPO VIC 3001 Australia

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