A Library Planet post by Jade Koekoe The PMI Victorian History Library Inc. is a community owned and run library specialising in the history of the Australian state of Victoria. The library collection is the only lending collection of its kind in Australia – with over 30,000 books for loan and over 40,000 items on…
Category: Australian Libraries
City of Belmont Ruth Faulkner Library, Perth, Australia
A Library Planet post from the City of Belmont Ruth Faulkner Library is in Belmont Hub in the heart of the City of Belmont in Perth, Western Australia. Belmont Hub is a landmark building within the Faulkner Park Civic Precinct. With unique architecture, the modern, multipurpose community-focused facility features the library over two floors as…
Torquay Library (SurfCoast), Torquay, Australia
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells Torquay is Australia’s (if not the world’s) surfing capital. The world-famous Bell’s Beach – home of the Rip Curl Pro – is nearby and the town is the birthplace of iconic surfing brands Rip Curl and Quicksilver. Marking the beginning of the Great Ocean Road, Torquay is a…
Werribee Library, Victoria, Australia
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells The Werribee Library (formerly known as the CBD Library) opened in its current location on Watton Street in the centre of Werribee in 2001. It had previously occupied a smaller site on Burnes Place. In 2010 the Library underwent a major renovation. ‘Boutique’-style shelving areas were installed to…
Parramatta Library at PHIVE, Sydney, Australia
A Library Planet post by Paul Jewell. Acknowledgement of Country Parramatta Library is situated on the traditional lands of the Baramadagal clan of the Dharug Nation. I pay my respect to the traditional custodians of the land, waters and sky around modern-day Parramatta, the Dharug peoples. Introduction The new Parramatta Library at PHIVE with its…
Friday essay: the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot
Stuart Kells, La Trobe University Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According to them, Library Planet is meant to inspire travellers “to open the awesome book that is our world of libraries, cities and countries”. The name of the…
BookSpaces: A personal project to document and celebrate libraries and other spaces dedicated to books
A Library Planet post by Rob Lee. When I was at school, students were not permitted inside my school’s library. It was a space for the librarian and her books. Those of us looking for information, inspiration or just a book to read would wait while an appropriate publication was brought from the shelves and…
World of the Book: State Library of Victoria permanent exhibition
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells Established in 1854, barely 20 years after the city of Melbourne was founded, the State Library of Victoria is Australia’s oldest public library and one of the world’s first free libraries. (See Jes Layton’s 2019 Library Planet post on the State Library of Victoria for more information.) A…
Carlton Library, Melbourne, Australia
A Library Planet post by Fiona Kells. The Carlton Library is on Rathdowne Street in North Carlton, a popular and populous inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. This is a well loved community library. I visited on a very rainy Wednesday afternoon, just before sitting down to dinner at Chin Chin’s at Koto Moon, just a…
Library Planet 