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Macquarie University Library
Building C7A
Balaclava Road, North Ryde
NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 9850 7500

What's the Latest?

We're getting ready for the new Library Moving the Library to a new building is a huge challenge. The new Library offers a fresh envrionment with great potential to re-shape the way we do things to better serve YOU. Read on ...[pdf 831kb]

Trees, Shrubs & Wildlife: What's happening?
Ecological assessment of the biodiversity, flora and fauna of the new Library site has been carried out by a number of specialists and no threatened habitats or species have been identified in this area. Read on ...[pdf 1.4mb]

Your Library on the Move: tagging 1.4m items
As the new Library takes shape, Macquarie University Library is already ' on the move' gearing up for the massive task of ...Read on [pdf 782kb]

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Library Friends & Stories

The Macquarie University Library Friends Foundation was formed in 1986 by Eoin Wilkinson, the University's second University Librarian (1971-1987). It provides a focus, both professional and social, for all those interested in the Library and its future.

As part of the Library 2010 project, Library Friends are collecting Library Stories to commemorate the 40 year history of the current building.

Share your
story

If you are interested in sharing your recollections, reflections or remembrances of our Library contact us: librarystories@library.mq.edu.au

1968: Imagine another time... another place...


It is an age filled with expectation, a landscape in transformation, a generation in motion.

You turn towards the camera. Sunlight on your hair. Destiny in your hands. Is there a question on your lips? Is there a suggestion in your eyes?

The raw landscape of the new Macquarie University lies behind you. From your rooftop balcony on Building E7B you survey your domain and challenge the future. The skeletal frame of the new University Library hangs suspended beyond your right shoulder. The gaunt tower of W6A spikes the western skyline, while plumes of smoke spiral skywards from where the market-garden farmland stands in silent witness to the future site of the Sports and Aquatic Centre.

2008: 40 years have passed since you stood upon your rooftop eyrie. Much has changed since then. The world is a much more fragile place. The University wears a gentler face.

Dream woman: maiden of the 60's. Who are you? Where are you now? Memory-keeper, story-maker, goddess from another time. Your youth has passed, but perhaps not your innocence? Reveal yourself again. Tell us your tale...