Matheson images and floor plans

Key features will create a contemporary and functionally effective library reflecting Matheson's status as one of Australia's foremost humanities libraries.

A reference reading room will be provided on level one, the special collections area.

A view of the central atrium from level one, as depicted by Cox Architecture.

To foster student engagement, a courtyard will add an external location for study or relaxing at the library

The library will contain 22 bookable discussion rooms, and a dedicated postgraduate study area.

The library will provide a range of individual and collaborative study areas, with an overall increase of seating of 25%, to 1,500;

The Matheson refurbishment provides the opportunity to create a contemporary, engaging, inspiring and functionally effective library.

Monash University Museum of Art has secured an extraordinary new indigenous artwork to hang in the atrium of the refurbished Matheson Library. The work, called Kulata Tjuta (many spears), comprises hundreds of individually carved and decorated spears.

The refurbishment will showcase the Library's special collections, and includes a new Special Collections reading room on the ground floor.

The Lower ground level will be student-focussed with collaborative study areas, discussion rooms and computers the focus, and access to the library courtyard

The ground floor will include the entrance, information and research and learning point, café, library teaching spaces, and a new Gallery for exhibitions and events.

Level one will contain special collections, a dedicated postgraduate study area, reading and discussion rooms, and collaborative workspaces for students.

Level two will continue as a quiet study area and the location of the journal collection.