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This story was an impression of the Dome by 14 year old Melbourne High School student John Miller, published in the MHS magazine Unicorn in July 1945:

"All is still and quiet, save for the rustling of pages, and the occasional...

My first library job was as a trainee library technician at the State Library.  This was in 1977.  As a trainee I was on the bottom of the totem pole, and one of my jobs was to find books in the stacks that surrounded the reading room.  This was back...

Under the majestic dome

The world stops 

As quiet strangers sit

Lost in glorious ideas

Drawn into magic stories

My grandmother tried to entice me into the State Library in the 1950's, but as a child all I wanted to see at the Museum/Library precinct was Phar Lap.

I didn't enter the magnificent domed reading room until about 1968. Awe-struck by the size of...

Construction of the great Dome commenced in 1909 and my great grandfather, John Richard Thorpe Clark, was the foreman-in-charge. At the time, it was the largest reinforced concrete dome in the world.

When I visit the city with my 5-year-old...

I’m a year 12 student at University High. I come and study at the dome as I really like quiet places and this is so much quieter than other places at the Library. A friend first brought me here as she thinks it’s a great place too. You can feel the...

I  first went to the Reading Room in 1969, when I was a first year university student. I was looking for books tangential to my studies in literature and sociology, I was looking for inspiring art histories and folios.

When I started work in...