We want to be a catalyst for generating new knowledge and ideas, and a place where all Victorians can discover, learn, create and connect.
Find out more about our strategic visionJuly 2013
A roving writers’ festival arrives at the Library

If you wander up the stairs to the dome in the next few weeks, you’ll come across a collection of beautiful kangaroo-leather cases surrounded by bookshelves full of Indian literature. The books and cases are part of a travelling exhibition called...
Read moreSasha Grishin's spiritual home


Professor Sasha Grishin has been a friend of the Library for a long time. He was a Library Creative Fellow in 2010, he wrote a history of Australian art at the...
Read moreBack to the future at a Carnival of Curiosity


The Library was transformed into a hive of discovery and surprises last Sunday as more than 5,500 people attended the free Carnival of Curiosity.
Marty McFly's DeLorean couldn't have competed with the Victorian-era time machine in the Library...
Read moreJohn Gollings pays tribute to the enchanted dome


If architecture’s your thing, you’ll know the work of John Gollings.
John’s a legendary architectural photographer who specialises in photos of cities, buildings and landscapes from an aerial perspective...
Read moreAtlases as sculpture


Nicholas Jones is a Melbourne-based sculptor who uses books and printed paper to make works which question how books are ‘read’. I talked to him about his...
Read moreThe hummingbird craze


At the centre of the Free, secular and democratic exhibition is a display case of more than 200 tiny hummingbirds, whose marvellous metallic plumage has to...
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