Public Holidays

The State Library is open on all public holidays except Good Friday and Christmas Day. Opening hours are 10am-6pm for the main Library areas and 10am-5pm for Library galleries.

Services

We provide the following services on public holidays:

• inquiry service at Information Desks
• user registration
• printing and copying
• same day delivery of books and journals stored onsite (orders close at 5.30pm).

The Heritage Collections, including Manuscripts, Pictures and Rare Printed collections, are closed.

Requests

If you want to use items from Heritage Collections on a public holiday you need to order them in advance. You also need to order newspapers, journals and manuscripts stored offsite in advance.

Day of Public Holiday	Onsite Heritage Collections	Offsite Heritage Collections	Offsite Newspapers	Offsite Books & Journals
Sat, Sun, Mon	3pm previous Friday	3pm previous Friday	5.30pm previous Thursday	5.30pm previous Sunday
Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri	3pm previous day	3pm previous day	5.30pm two weekdays in advance	5.30pm previous day

Arrangements over the longer Easter and Christmas periods are different to those for standard public holidays. More information is available shortly before each of these holiday periods.

Closures

• Good Friday, Friday 21 March
• Christmas Day, Thursday 25 December