Meet Patrick

Welcome to Lalor Library, one of Melbourne’s hardest working Libraries.

Situated in one of the most disadvantaged suburbs in Victoria, this local library is far from being the silent, dusty, bound up old institution of the past! This is a community hub and a place that ‘fills the gaps’.

It’s where people go for entertainment, tutoring, friendship, a creative outlet, personal and professional development, to access the internet and printing, language classes, job seeker and social services information and sometimes, just a safe and comfortable place to wait or rest. In this place, knowledge, information and works of the imagination are freely available to all. And the library provides the setting to observe the resilient community in action.

This project was developed in partnership with the City of Whittlesea. How do people who share the same postcode become a community? How are connections made between people? How do little, ordinary moments become opportunities for cooperation, perhaps even friendship? Do people feel the limits of their neighbourhoods? Do people living in less resourced suburbs feel their disadvantage?