Mona’s new library is spectacular. But does it work as a library?

What do our bookshelves say about us? Which of our books do we choose to display and why? And what happens to a private collection when it becomes a public exhibit? Review: Phrontisterion library, Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Hobart Mona founder David Walsh’s new private library at the Hobart gallery raises all of these questions and more. A lifelong avid reader who spent much of his childhood reading his way through the public library in the Tasmanian suburb of Glenorchy, Walsh possesses…