| MacFarland Library, Ormond College | |
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  Location within Melbourne | |
| General information | |
| Type | Library |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°47′34″S 144°57′26″E / 37.7929°S 144.9571°E |
| Completed | 1962 - 1965, 2011 (redesigned) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Frederick Romberg, Romberg and Boyd Architects and McGlashan Everist |
The MacFarland Library at Ormond College, the University of Melbourne, completed in 1965, was Frederick Romberg’s (Romberg and Boyd Architects) second building for Ormond College. The initial scheme for the building in 1962 was a largely classical building that drew on elements from many of Romberg’s buildings from the previous decade. The subsequent revised scheme better complemented the rest of Reed and Barnes’ Gothic Revival Ormond college. The central plan of the library is a tribute to long tradition of library building including the Melbourne Public Library’s domed reading room, which involved Joseph Reed, Selwyn Bates, Norman Peebles and Charles Smart.