Collections
Collections
Our general collections support teaching and research at Monash while our Special Collections hold national and international significance.
Special Collections
Discover why our special collections draw interest from scholars around the world.
Exhibitions
Step back to another time and place. Explore the age, uniqueness or beauty of our vibrant displays. Learn the story they tell.
Collection strengths
Browse by faculty, library or format. Find books, newspapers, journals and multimedia, maps, music scores and images.
Building the collection
A user-driven selection program means many ebooks and streaming resources are purchased automatically if they prove useful to students and staff.
Ada Booth Slavic Collection
The Ada Booth Slavic Collection is home to the Library’s extensive holdings in Ukrainian, Russian, and other Slavic and Eastern European languages. The collection was established in 2011 thanks to a benefaction from the will of the late Ada Phyllis Booth.
Artists Collection
The Artists Collection is designed to inspire design creativity and support the research needs of students and academics with interests in art history, theory and practice.
Asian Collections
The Asian Collections include extensive print, electronic and multimedia Asian language holdings. English-language resources relating to Asia complement these resources, as do research resources in Dutch and French for the study of colonial Indonesia and Indochina.
Jewish Studies Collection
The collection supports courses offered by the Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation and makes available testimony of Holocaust survivors.
Music and Multimedia Collection
The Music collection features classical, jazz and popular music which reflects the current areas of research and teaching in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music.
Teaching Resources
Resources for teachers of Japanese throughout Victoria, plus a collection of teaching and classroom resources for Education faculty and students studying early childhood, primary and secondary methods.