Contents: The formation of the Geelong Free Library p4. Queenscliffe Free Library [Queenscliff] p10. Management of libraries in Ballarat 1851-1900 p19. Geelong Mechanics' Institute and its loss of the Government Book Vote in the 1870s-80s p27. The Chilwell Free Library's suggestion book 1881-1895 p31. Never on Sunday, or how the hegemony of middle class respectability and Sabbatarianism kept libraries closed on Sundays p33. Changing attitudes to fiction in 19th century Australian public libraries p39. Invisible readers - the Geelong Mechanics' Institute's library catalogue 1892-99 p48. Kensington Free Library 1883-1903 p53. Geelong West Free Library p65..