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Peter Carey and the Jerilderie letter

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 moreA 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 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 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 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 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 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...
Read moreA steampunk lounge in Queen's Hall

A circus in the dome


On 26 April 1997 a most unusual event took place in the domed reading room: 65 women from the Women’s Circus leaped, sang, juggled and tumbled under the dome to launch their book...
Read morePainter of light in the dome


One of the works featured in the exhibition Enchanted dome: the Library and imagination is a superb watercolour...
Read moreA creative decade on display


We want to make a confession: this year is not all about the dome!
2013 also marks the tenth anniversary of the Library’s annual Creative...
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