The Melbourne Athenaeum Library will be closed from 4:00pm on Tuesday December 23. We will reopen at 10:00am Tuesday January 6.
We wish all our members a very festive holiday season.
Renowned librarian Richard Overell, who for 26 years oversaw the acquisitions and conservation of the rare books collection at Monash University's Louis Matheson library, has been a longtime friend of the Melbourne Athenaeum library. He shares his expertise with us through yearly talks in the library about collecting rare books as part of Rare Book Week. His talks display his extensive knowledge of book collecting across a wide range subjects including children's books, travel guides, dust jackets, and cookbooks.
