Digitised Documents

The Melbourne Athenaeum Library and The City of Melbourne donated books to the Sri Lankan libraries with these bookplates inside.

A decorative bookweight placed in the centre of an open book to hold the pages during the cataloguing process.

Simple inkwells used at the main counter with pens and spare nibs.

A commemorative badge made to mark our 125^th anniversary in 1965.

An old chocolate box discovered in the theatre, from a time when sweets were sold during movie intervals.

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