Louis Lothian Children’s Literature Fellowship
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Our newly titled Louis Lothian Children’s Literature Fellowship is named in honour of Louis Lothian.
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A new space to hang out in the Library
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We are building a more comfortable space for visitors to hang out, check email and have a break
Media Release: CEO and State Librarian Ms Sue Roberts will be retiring from her role
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Media Release Monday, 16 March 2015 – for immediate release CEO and State Librarian Ms Sue Roberts will be retiring from her role The State Library of Victoria announces that… Read More ›
Upcoming: Children’s Book Festival
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We’re inviting kids and their families to dive into the pleasures of books and reading.
Ned Kelly is going on tour
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Ned Kelly’s armour, rifle and death mask will be on loan to Bendigo Art Gallery until 8 July.
Upcoming La Trobe Journal to focus on artists’ books
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The latest La Trobe Journal explores how more artists, printmakers and binders are creating and designing books than ever before.
Victorian libraries collaborating to commemorate WWI
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Victoria’s public libraries and the State Library have worked together in the lead-up to the Anzac centenary.
White Night Wonderland
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More than 19,000 culture vultures descended on the Library for White Night Melbourne last weekend.
Reading Matters 2015 program announced
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Hear from bestselling young-adult authors during the 11th biennial Reading Matters conference in May.
Poets at war: ‘What passing bells for these who die as cattle?’
Exhibitions, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to some of the great poets of the First World War, currently highlighted in The Mirror of the World exhibition
