Objects of Substance- Library Foundation Stone

1965 The Reference Library

The lower level of the library with its boomerang-shaped and Laminex-topped counter held the fiction collection and was accessed by an external staircase.

The fiction floor was accessed via the staircase to the right.

What is gratifying to a teacher librarian is that the School continually outgrew its library spaces and the Beanland Memorial Library now makes its presence felt over all five storeys of the Jameson building. The Headmistress, Sophia Beanland, who donated much of her personal collection to the School between 1882 and 1889 to establish the library, must be smiling.

Kristine Cooke (1967) Director of Information Services