Taken as an ideal, the library acts as a collective mind that collects and archives language, data, ephemera and individual and collective histories, yet like a brain it misplaces and misses things, and it is in the dark matter between the structure of the archive that new connections occur. Edited by Kate Rhodes and Rory Hyde and published alongside a major exhibition at State Library Victoria, You Have a New Memory explores the creative possibilities of memory loss in the library. Tracing a path through the library's 4.5 million collection items, it unearths images that ask how a library remembers and how our own thoughts interact with the memories of others. The book evokes the slideshow format, once an occasion for families to reminisce through photographs and today an algorithm's notification, and sets disparate images flashing and converging: street parties, infrastructure, medieval texts, family portraits, group hypnosis and fashion shows, alongside scenes of shelves, boxes, server racks and staff, and the living memory of songlines, ceremony and culture. The cover shows, side by side, a plume of sea spray exploding against a pier and a woman looking through binoculars in an office.