The Pix Grove blog has a post on ‘Incredible Libraries Around the World’. It features some wonderful photos from old and new libraries – and a couple of them are in Australia:

State Library - Victoria

Mitchell Library - New South Wales

This one wasn’t in the original blog post, but I think another library worth a mention is the magnificent Mortlock Library here in Adelaide:

State Library - South Australia

(photo from Lonely Planet)

Click on the images to see them enlarged.