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The State Library of Victoria is in crisis. Is it time to rethink how libraries are governed?

  • Written by: Stuart Kells, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
The State Library of Victoria is in crisis. Is it time to rethink how libraries are governed?Reading Room, State Library of Victoria.John O'Neill. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The State Library of Victoria, founded in 1854, is one of the most visited libraries in the world. And right now it is in the middle of a crisis.

Leading Australian authors such as Grace Yee, Michelle de Kretser and Tony Birch have resolved to no longer work...

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