Most reviewed Public libraries in Melbourne, Australia to visit (Updated January, 2024)

Most reviewed Public libraries in Melbourne

Explore the city's most talked-about destinations, sorted by the number of reviews. The higher the position on the list, the greater the number of reviews for each place. Discover the pulse of Melbourne through these extensively reviewed and popular spots. This list contains 30 places from Public library category.

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State Library Victoria

Public library

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

4.80 (3K reviews)

Bunjil Place

Civic center

👍👍 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...

4.50 (1.3K reviews)

Mill Park Library

Public library

😠 Used to be good, now it's a children's daycare with books. Be prepared to conjure up all your mental energy to concentrate as you have a frenzy of kids screaming and running around you. Aren't there enough daycare centres in the vicinity - do we really need to make a library, which are few and far b...

4.40 (194 reviews)

Brimbank Libraries Sunshine

Public library

👍👍 This place has become ONLY BETTER! I owe it to this place to keep me out of both the streets and the house during my teens. Learned so much, had a peaceful place to just go online, read books, do homework, draw and daydream. Feeling safe and like nobody was going to assault me was a nice break betw...

4.50 (182 reviews)

Melton Library & Learning Hub

Public library

👍👍 A fantastic place to go to. Beautifully made, well lit space with lots of colour and are. Everything is well organized. Staff are ever ready to help and always with a smile. Can work off the internet, have council enquiries done, hold meetings / conferences.

4.60 (165 reviews)

Wyndham Library Service - Julia Gillard Library Tarneit

Public library

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

4.50 (161 reviews)

Carnegie Library

Public library

👍 Has good spaces for studying but be warned - it's a very loud library. At various periods throughout the day parents bring their children (the library has an indoor children's area near the study spaces) and they WILL scream at the top of their lungs.

4.50 (140 reviews)

Doncaster Library

Public library

😠 I have been coming to Doncaster Library for the last few months for studying before I go back to uni. Honestly, I have never experienced a 2-hour "loud-noise free" environment! Not even once! The facility and staff are good, but many users in the library are shockingly irresponsible and have no ide...

4.20 (139 reviews)

Eltham Library

Public library

😠 Whilst trying to take our daughter out of the library we were loudly told off by one staff member for our 2yo making too much noise. We were already dealing with the 2yo and being rudely told off did not help (other than to cause her to cry even more). We left immediately.. I work with libraries reg...

4.50 (127 reviews)

Brimbank Libraries

Public library

😠 It amazes me how the library staff allow the older men who sit in a group outside, to sit there. I have received constant harassment from these guys and they don't do anything about it. Not a pleasant place to go to if you have to walk past them to go inside the library.

4.40 (101 reviews)

Balwyn Library

Public library

👍👍 A beautiful building with great natural light and a good range of books. Also some nice places to study/work.

4.50 (95 reviews)

Hoppers Crossing (Plaza) Library

Public library

👍 Not a bad library at all, it's just ruined by people who smell really bad...

4.50 (90 reviews)

Lalor Library

Public library

😐 The library itself is fine. I used the "parents room" when I was there. They keep it locked so you need a key to access it. There is no chair or anywhere to feed your baby. It was pretty dirty, no soap to wash your hands and the microwave was filthy. Lucky I didn't need to feed my baby or I'd have t...

4.40 (84 reviews)

Wyndham Library Service - Manor Lakes Branch

Public library

😠 Library is meant to be a place for study and other educational activities. Not for playing card in several groups, chat and socialise. There are pubs, hotels or their homes. I couldn’t understand how the library authority allowed that to be happen.

4.60 (77 reviews)

Brimbank Libraries: Deer Park Library

Public library

👍👍 very friendly staffs and it is so quiet good for study thank you

4.40 (73 reviews)

Carrum Downs Library

Public library

👍👍 Quite a small library, but has easy parking outside, a few stores outside (takeaway) if you're hungry, and very quiet even on a Saturday afternoon. Perfect for studying! Also has desks, chairs and powerpoints for laptop. Huge thumbs up for friendly staff and how tidy the space is inside. Love it.

4.60 (66 reviews)

Sydenham Library

Library

😠 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

4.20 (62 reviews)

Hampton Park Library

Public library

😠 This would be a good and quiet place to do your work if there weren't so many loud obnoxious people in the library. Staff do nothing to make them quiet it's more of a party house than a library. There's people hanging out in groups being loud, playing music full blast

4.20 (62 reviews)

Malvern Library

Public library

🫤 Lazy Customer Service. My first (and last) time was 8/7 to return books and pick- up more. I walked in and couldn't find a return chute so carried them with me while i picked out books to borrow. After making my selection i walked up to the counter and told the girl (who was doing nothing) that...

4.30 (58 reviews)

Northcote Library

Public library

🫤 Staff are lovely and very helpful. However I wouldn't recommend this as a place for quiet reading or studying. It is more of a community centre than a library. In two hours I was disrupted by three people taking calls on their phones. Nobody here has an 'inside voice' and has little consideration fo...

4.10 (57 reviews)

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Most reviewed Public libraries in Melbourne, Australia