FACILITY
Reid Library
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Extensive study spaces and convenient facilities at the heart of the Crawley campus
The Reid Library offers around 2,000 study spaces, providing students and visitors with a range of options to meet their needs, including collaborative informal study spaces, bookable group study rooms, and quiet and silent spaces for individual study. Completed in 1964, Reid Library was UWA’s first purpose-built library, and the building was awarded a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Bronze Medal.
Centrally located at UWA’s Crawley campus, Reid Library remains one of the busiest and most loved spaces on campus. The ground floor was extensively refurbished in 2016, with a subsequent refurbishment of Level 1 and a full infrastructure upgrade completed in 2024.
The Reid Library houses the humanities and social sciences collections and Special Collections. Features include a café, a dedicated postgraduate study space, bookable study spaces, elearning and event spaces the Wellbeing Lounge, and outdoor study spaces on the terrace and balcony. Our inclusive Library spaces include a Resource room, parents room with nursing facilities and two Sensory Rooms on level 1. Currently The Living Room service is operating from the Reid Library ground floor.
You can explore this library's layout by opening a PDF of its floor plans [PDF 1.6 MB].
Vibrant new look
2,000+ study spaces
Café
Postgraduate study space
Library facilities
- High-use print collection; thousands of online journals and ebooks
- Enhanced Wi-Fi access and technological capabilities
- Café
- Dickinson Resource Room (includes 27 lockers)
- Postgraduate study space
- Parents room with nursing facilities
- Bidit and Woordawoort Sensory Rooms
- Wellbeing Lounge
- Reading Wall
- Library computers
- 18 bookable group study spaces
- Seminar room
- The Circle (learning space)
- Hemsley Learning Suite
- Fini Terrace
- Collaborative study areas
- Silent study areas
- 109 lockers
- Automated laptop loan lockers
- Library and Student IT help
Accessibility
- Automatic sliding doors at entry on the ground floor
- Automatic sliding doors at entry on the first floor via west ramp
- Lift access from ground to all upper floors
- Ground floor has a unisex accessible toilet/shower unit with standard entry door and distress button
- Level 1 has all gender, male, and female toilets, and a unisex accessible toilet
- Levels 2-3 have standard toilets on each floor but alternating male and female accessed through the heavy fire door in the stairwells east and west
- Second floor northeast corner has a unisex accessible toilet with standard door entrance