Best places: Public 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...

👍👍 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.

👍👍 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...

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

😠 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...

👍 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.

😠 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...

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

😠 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.

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

😠 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.

👍👍 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.

😠 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...

😐 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...

👍 Nice library, the facilities are great. However if you are seeking an instructional book on table tennis, they only have one book :( Two books on the subject would be sufficient for 5 stars.

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

😐 I find the library to be a good place to read and find new books to endulge yourself in and to just get any work you may have done. They have a good amount of resources, including computers, desks/tables, dvds, etc. The staff are really nice and willing to answer any question/request you may have. T...

👍 I haven't stepped inside a library for years. This place is orderly and clean. Staff are helpful too. I'd love to see it become more available, the hours aren't ideal, can't catch them in the mornings before work, can't catch them in the evenings after work, means a very short period of opportunity...

👍 Cute, compact, quiet area perfect to escape and study in