How to borrow collections and where to collect and return items.

Borrowing for individuals

Check the pick up times for your borrowed collection items.

Collection delivery times

State Library is part of a network of libraries lending collections to support sharing of information and ideas.

Interlibrary loans

Cultural organisations can borrow collection items for display.

Organisational loans

Framed oil painting on board (and under glass) depicting an Aboriginal woman, executed by Oscar Fristrom, Signed and dated 1902.

You can order copies of material in our collections and from the collections of other libraries.

State Library offers a range of copying services for individuals and libraries. Copies&nbsp;of&nbsp;articles in journals, chapters from books in the collection, copies of content held in other libraries and&nbsp;high resolution digital files and print reproductions of some material are all available.

Order a copy

How individuals, libraries and cultural institutions can borrow and copy from State Library collections and how to request copies and loans from other libraries.

Borrow and request