La Trobe Library Journal is published twice yearly in April and October. The annual subscription is $2. Single copies, $1, 25c post. Subscriptions are payable to La Trobe Library Journal, State Library of Victoria, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000.

The cover-reproduction is from a medallion of C. J. La Trobe (Superintendent of the Port Phillip District 1839–51 and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria 1851–4) by Thomas Woolner in 1853.