The Melba Conservatorium Library offers books, journals, music scores, recordings and listening facilities, together with computing services suited to music students. The Library archives hold extensive memorabilia of Dame Nellie Melba, Professor G.W. Marshall-Hall and Fritz Hart as well as historical photographs, diaries and scrapbooks of the Melbourne music scene from 1900-1950.
Facilities include:

Melba Conservatorium Library is located in the main building, and is for use by students and staff for borrowing of materials, reference or listening any time when the library is open. Library opening hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. The library is closed for lunch each day at 1pm for 30 minutes. The Library also holds many old, valuable and ornate editions, several special collections, and archives of substantial historical significance. The Melba Conservatorium Library is registered with the CAVAL reciprocal-borrowing scheme, so that through the Melba Library eligible students may also borrow material from other participating Victorian Libraries. As members of an affiliated institution, Melba students may borrow from any campus Library of Victoria University upon presentation of their Melba Conservatorium identity card.

> Click here to view the library conditions >Meet the Librarian John Nieuwenhuizen is the Melba part-time Library Manager. After thirteen years in the position of Library Manager at MacRobertson Girls' High School, Mr Nieuwenhuizen retired at the end of 2000. Prior to this, Mr Nieuwenhuizen worked in a public library, as a teacher and as co-ordinator of music education at the Victorian Correspondence School. John has qualifications in Librarianship, English, Philosophy and French. In his other life, he is known as a literary translator.

home