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While I was an Arts student at Melbourne University in the late 1970s to early 80s, the Domed Reading Room was for me such a place of sanctuary and peace in the city.

I'd never seen a library like it - beginning with the wide marble stairs...

As a Design student in the 1970's, I haunted the Library doing research on Patents and drove the staff so mad they lead me up into the stacks to roam free. Heaven on Earth! Some years later, as a member of the Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir, I had...

A while back I visited the State Library during a school excursion with an excitable bunch of 11 and 12 year olds. My fellow teachers and I were a tad anxious as to whether these youngsters would exhibit appropriate behaviour in such a hallowed place....

I visited the State Library a few days ago. I remember my dad had taken me to see the library and the dome when I was only two or three. What I remember was an escher-esque maze of books, shelves and staircases that seemed to fill the whole world....

We were young, enthusiastic and so wanting to pass our matriculation. Where better to study every Saturday but the Public Library. My goodness my friend and I felt more intelligent by just walking up the steps, then by entering the reading room under...

In 1952/53 when working in the US Information Library- housed temporarily on the ground floor in the previous Newspaper Room- I, with colleagues would frequently go up to the passage surrounding the outside of the roof of the dome, to sunbake- lying on...