Sydney then and now: State Library of New South Wales

Then (between 1942 and 1983):  

[ Photograph used with permission of the State Records NSW, Digital ID: 12932-a012-a012X2442000009.jpg  and on Flickr ]

Now (2009):

Now, this is the reading room of the Mitchell Library, part of the State Library of New South Wales.  Not the one in Scotland.  The main reading room is located in a newer building nearby.