The bold, the beautiful and the cheeky in Arts!
One of the great things about working in a Library like this is the almost constant voyage of discovery it takes us on as new material arrives on the shelves!… Read More ›
One of the great things about working in a Library like this is the almost constant voyage of discovery it takes us on as new material arrives on the shelves!… Read More ›
Collections, Family history events, Family matters, Research guides:
Newspapers, manuscripts, pictures, maps and so much more… Find out about the diversity of State Library of Victoria collections that can be used for family history research at a talk I… Read More ›
Now that the 150 candles have been blown out and the streamers have all been taken down, I thought it might be a good idea to highlight a few of… Read More ›
A bit of dancing, a bit of acting, a bit of fashion, and even a bit of icon deconstruction (the name’s Bond, James Bond…..); all in a day’s work for… Read More ›
Happy birthday Dame Nellie (150 today!) Click hear for a selection of audio clips available through Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au/music/result?q=melba&l-availability=y&l-format=Sound
Family history events, Family matters, Uncategorized:
The Feast is a day of free information sessions for family history researchers including the annual Victorian Association of Family History Organisations (VAFHO) Don Grant Lecture. In 2011 the Lecture will… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
This Wednesday 18th April at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the self-titled documentary on portrait artist… Read More ›
I particularly love the work of northern European artists of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Rogier van der Weyden 1400-1464: Master of Passion Zwolle : Waanders Uitgeverij ; Leuven :… Read More ›
Family history events, Family matters:
The Sense of place conference organised by Auslib Press was held at the State Library of New South Wales on 5 and 6 May 2011 attracting more than 140 participants from… Read More ›
Beat memories : the photographs of Allen Ginsberg DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2010 I just happen to have been reading some of Allen Ginsberg’s poems recently (as one does!), so finding this… Read More ›