Melbourne's dome away from home

By Shane Maloney
Updated November 19 2012 - 3:08pm, first published 2:54pm

IT’S mid-afternoon and I’m sitting on a wooden swivel chair in the domed reading room of the State Library – officially the La Trobe Reading Room – checking the index of a book I have removed from its place on the open-access shelves around the walls. I’m looking for any mentions of a once-prominent, now half-forgotten Australian political figure while doing background research  for a story I’m contemplating. This particular book is the only source of the information I’m seeking. It’s not available on eBay or Google Books. The State Library has the only accessible copy in Melbourne.

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