Best places: Libraries in Melbourne, Australia

State landmark opened in 1856, spanning one city block & featuring a grand reading room.

👍👍 PROS: Great Library 📚 Architecture and exterior and interior engineering design especially the Wooden 🪵 piece of decoration design … Great atmosphere inside , beautiful community theatre and a functions event area .. Right nxt to a Swimming pool 🏊‍♂️as well. CONS: No Apple Computers 🖥️ for Librar...

Upmarket property featuring lively dining & a fireside bar, plus an indoor pool, a spa & a gym.

👍 Excellent service by lady at service desk. Added technology made book borrowing and return super easy.

👍 Friendly staff and very helpful if you cannot locate item said to be in stock. Very good children sections that easily encourages children to love reading. Stickers for reading a certain number of books for kids. DVDs also available. Easy checking out and returning of borrowed items. Plenty parking....

👍👍 Perfect place to study if you’re in need of a quiet environment. The library has a good selection of books and articles to look for! In the library there is also a small art gallery which is pretty nice :) There also is a cafe with a decent selection of food.

😠 The older librarian (a male with grey longish hair, looks like the Doc from Back to the Future) who works here is the rudest, most awful person with no people-skills whatsoever. Clearly he hasn't participated in any customer service training or even the most basic human interaction training. I have...

🫤 A good library if you enjoy screaming kids and loud patrons. Seriously set up a separate room for group functions

😠 Staff, although kind, have 0 consideration for students studying. With crying babies, loud parents, loud laughing staff, it makes it incredibly hard to focus. This morning there was a baby sing along activity ??? I stormed out this morning and had to go to Caroline Springs library

😠 One of the staff members was extremely loud the entire time we were there, to the point where we had to leave. If you're planning on doing any quiet reading or study, it's near impossible. Otherwise, it's a nice, modern library. Just a shame it doesn't provide a quiet environment

🫤 Nice library it's just the horrible surroundings,homeless men sleeping near the entrance and lots of rubbish everywhere,glad I'm not bringing a child here. I guess this is a council issue.

👍👍 Great place for all my printing and scanning needs. Plenty of PCs and helpful staff. The library card makes everything so easy,

😐 I really want to like this place but there are too many loud and irritating patrons shrieking at the top of their lungs. Also, like most other libraries in this area, this one has turned into a glorified daycare centre for kids. It is so noisy. Honestly, there are playgrounds and entertainment venue...