From very humble beginnings in 1946, today the University Library has grown to be one of the nation's premier research and teaching collections. Through judicious acquisitions, generous benefactions and strategic partnerships, the Library has grown from the initial 40,000 volumes assembled by the...

In the ten years following the opening of the R.G. Menzies Building, which was opened with considerable pomp and ceremony by the young Queen, new technologies and inventions were introduced from around the world including the audiocassette, videodisk and halogen lamp, astroturf, ATMs and the...

The R.G. Menzies Building was the first permanent building dedicated to the library of Australia's first research-only university. The Library was considered by all, founders and early pioneers of the University, to be essential and core to research: "a laboratory" (in Vice-Chancellor Sir Leslie...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the completion of the J. B. Chifley Library, the Scholarly Information Services division has created an online exhibition featuring people who influenced the development of Chifley Library, early architectural plans and photographs of the construction, and some...

The Menzies Library official opening: 13 March 1963 The first purpose-built library building on the ANU campus was the RG Menzies Library, which was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 13 March 1963 at a grand ceremony attended by many dignitaries including HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, ANU...

The University Library had its beginnings in the borrowed temporary accommodation, Wyselaskie Hall in Ormond College, at the University of Melbourne in 1948.  The 40,000-strong collection was relocated to what were then the Old Canberra Hospital buildings on the university site in 1950. In Keith...