A COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIA'S BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES

Award-winning Craigieburn library, Hume City, Victoria by Australian architects Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp. Photograph: Danish Agency for Culture

Mortlock Chamber, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. Photograph: State Library of South Australia

State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland. Photograph: Jon Linkins/State Library of Queensland

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria. Photograph: State Library of Victoria

Surry Hills library and community centre, Sydney, New South Wales. Photograph: City of Sydney

State Library of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales. Photograph: State Library of NSW

Murray Bridge library, Murray Bridge, South Australia. Photograph: Sam Noonan/Hassell

Library at the Dock, Melbourne, Victoria. Photograph: City of Melbourne

Barr Smith library at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia. Photograph: University of Adelaide

Library at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Western Australia. Photograph: Edith Cowan University

I would love to know what your favourite library is. If you would like to share a photo and tell me why you like this particular library, I would be happy to share it.

 READER'S CHOICE...

Courtesy of  Barry York

National Library Australia, Canberra 

©Barry York

Foyer, Coffee Shop.. National Library Australia, Canberra

© Barry York

The bookshop and restaurant (Bookplate) are part of the foyer.
©Barry York


Entrance from the foyer. ©Barry York


'Bookplate' restaurant - with stained glass windows by Leonard French. ©Barry York


Looking from entrance to reading rooms across foyer to front entrance.... ©Barry York


©Barry York