Here are some photos I took of the State Library of Victoria, the one with the excellent "Mirror of the World" book exhibit I saw a couple months ago. The library has an impressive level of collections on six floors with several reading rooms, an art gallery, a genealogy room, and a cafe. It contains over 1.5 million books and 16,000 serials. You can see photos of the outside here. Walking inside, I feel very small and a bit overwhelmed by the beauty of the building and the vast information it houses.
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What a gorgeous place! I love that the seating arrangement discourages conversation, and there isn't a single computer in sight. Ah, even halfway around the world, you cannot escape the ubiquitous café? Soon, New Humans will be born with a coffee cup-shaped bony formation built into the non-dominant hand, I swear.
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