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above the columns);  and
     * central entrance.[1]

  Figure 11.  Building from northwest
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

Notable Interiors
The building contains a number of largely original spaces which are notable because of their design, details, their use of high quality materials, and/or their distinctive original library function.  These include:
     * entry foyer, twin stair cases and mezzanine (GR:55 and L1:78);
     * café and bookshop (enclosing parts of the original foyer space);
     * Main Reading Room (GR:31);
     * Council Room (L1:11);
     * former Director-General's office (L1:01);
     * Chairman's Room (L1:05);
     * Rex Nan Kivell Room Foyer (L2:25);
     * Rex Nan Kivell Room (L2:24);
     * former Manuscripts Librarian's office (L2:38);
     * former Keeper of Rare Books office (L2:11);
     * Asian Collections Reading Room (L3:58);
     * former viewing rooms and projection room (L3:30, L3:31 and L3:34);
     * Lamson tube room (LG1:34);
     * Conference Room (L4:92);
     * Brindabella Room (L4:91);
     * Theatre (LG1:77);  and
     * parts of Lower Ground 1 Foyer (LG1:48).

  Figure 12.  Main Reading Room
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 13.  Entry Foyer
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 14.  Café with Leonard French windows
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 15.  Nan Kivell Room
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 16.  Nan Kivell Room foyer
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 17.  Lamson Tube Room
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 18.  Theatre
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 19.  Former Keeper of Rare Books office, adjacent to the Nan Kivell Room
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 20.  Asian Collections Reading Room
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 21.  Former Viewing Room (one of two), now meeting room
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

Facilities
The Library building provides a range of facilities including storage areas and reading rooms for a wide range of materials which comprise the Library's collection, a visitor centre, catalogue areas, exhibition spaces, theatre, offices, a shop and eating facilities.  A floor by floor description of uses is provided below.

Table 1.  Use of the Library Building

Floor                                  Use

Lower Ground Floor 2                   Book stack areas, mailroom, sales and distribution, digitisation, photography, document supply, loading dock, exhibition preparation
Lower Ground Floor 1                   Book stack areas, theatre, café, Oral History, offices

Ground Floor                           Foyer, shop, restaurant, exhibition galleries, reading rooms

First Floor                            Executive offices, meetings rooms, offices, Special collections reading room
Second Floor                           Stack areas, Rex Nan Kivell room, computer room, offices

Third Floor                            Offices, Asian Collections reading room, book stack areas, meeting rooms

Fourth Floor                           Brindabella Room, Conference Room, training rooms, offices, preservation services laboratory, stack areas, Friends Lounge

Artworks
The building features a number of notable art works, both commissioned for the building when first opened, or subsequently acquired.  A large horizontal sculpture by Tom Bass over the public entrance, referred to both as the