Lift Maintenance - Stair Access Only
The previously planned lift maintenance has now been rescheduled. The Library Lift will now be unavailable from late July for essential maintenance. During this period, Lower Ground Floor, Level 1, and Level 2 can only be accessed via stairs. We thank you for your patience while we undertake this critical work.
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Current exhibitions
‘For the People’: 100 years of Balls Head and Berry Island Reserves
This Heritage Centre exhibition tells the story of Balls Head and Berry Island, dedicated as public reserves in 1926 and still enjoyed a century later as rare ecological havens. The display features natural history artefacts kindly lent by Willoughby Council, as well as rarely seen items from Stanton Library’s own artwork and archive collection.
Online exhibition: Hidden history of the Chinese in North Sydney
This website explores the Chinese community who lived and worked in this area, often as market gardeners and shopkeepers, from 1870 to 1932. Their personal stories help to write the Chinese back into North Sydney’s history and enrich the broader story of Sydney.
Locality: Telling North Sydney stories in objects and pictures
This Library exhibition explores various aspects of North Sydney’s history using the stories associated with intriguing objects from North Sydney Council’s historical and pictorial collection.
Online exhibition: At home in North Sydney
This award-winning website explores North Sydney's history of diverse and fascinating range of dwellings dating from the first half of the 19th century through its built environment, featuring architecture, architects, builders and residents.
