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scope="col">Other Reading Rooms - Asian Collections, Maps, Pictures and Manuscripts</th><th scope="col">Treasures Gallery and Exhibitions Gallery</th><th scope="col">bookplate café</th><th scope="col">Bookshop</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td scope="row">Monday to Thursday</td><td>9:00am - 9:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>10:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>8:30am - 5:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td></tr><tr><td scope="row">Friday</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>10:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>8:30am - 4:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td></tr><tr><td scope="row">Saturday</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>Closed</td><td>10:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>10:00am - 3:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td></tr><tr><td scope="row">Sunday</td><td>1:30pm - 5:00pm<br/> No collection deliveries or access to special collection material on Sunday.</td><td>Closed</td><td>Closed</td><td>10:00am - 5:00pm</td><td>10:00am - 3:00pm</td><td>9:00am - 5:00pm</td></tr></tbody></table><h3>Book delivery to Main and Petherick Reading Rooms</h3><ul><li>9.00am - 4.45pm when reading rooms close at 7.00pm</li><li>9.00am - 3.45pm when reading rooms close at 5.00pm</li><li>No book delivery service from offsite store on Saturdays</li><li>No Book Delivery service on Sundays</li></ul><p>All <a href="/web/20130116095059/http://www.nla.gov.au/reading-rooms">reading rooms</a> in the Library are open Monday to Friday at the times detailed below. The Main, Petherick, Newspapers and Microforms Reading Rooms are also open on weekends and most public holidays. Other public areas of the Library including the Treasures Gallery, the Exhibition Gallery, Bookshop and <em>bookplate</em> café are also open Monday to Friday, on weekends and public holidays.</p><p>We operate closed book stacks and this means readers can't browse the Library shelves to retrieve material. Instead, readers use the Catalogue to find and order what they need from our collections. That material is then delivered to the relevant reading room within the time frames given in our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116095059/http://www.nla.gov.au/collection-delivery-times">Collection Delivery Service schedule</a>.</p><h2>Public holiday opening hours</h2><p>The Library building is closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day. <strong></strong>Other public holiday opening times are outlined below:</p><h3>Reading rooms</h3><p>The Main, Petherick and Newspapers and Microforms Reading Rooms are open from 9.00am - 5.00pm on all public holidays except Good Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day.</p><p>The Pictures, Manuscripts, Maps and Asian Collections Reading Rooms are closed on all public holidays.</p><h3>Collection delivery service</h3><p>On public holidays, the collection delivery service to the Main and Petherick Reading Rooms operates between 9.00am and 3.45pm. The Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room service operates between 9.00am and 4.30pm.</p><h3>Foyer, bookshop and cafés</h3><p>The Bookshop and Foyer are closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day. On all other public holidays the Bookshop and Foyer are open from 9.00am–5.00pm.</p><p>The bookplate café is closed on Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.</p><h3>Galleries</h3><p>The Treasures Gallery and the Exhibition Gallery are closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day. 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