Help us build an archive!
News:
We need your help to capture and record Melbourne’s laneways as they exist now for the State Collection.
Archive for March, 2016
Queen’s wharf
Buildings & streets, Such was life:
In the 1840s a burgeoning Melbourne needed a robust wharf, one to replace the current bog built over swamps.
Out of Ireland have we come: the arts in a century of change
Photography, Rare Books & Arts, Updates, Visual arts:
As the State Library celebrates the anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, it seems appropriate to look at how Irish artists have transformed their culture over the course of a not uneventful century.
New display opens to commemorate Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
News:
Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising was a pivotal moment in the Irish struggle for independence from Great Britain, that would have far-reaching repercussions here in Australia.
State Library recognised as ‘speciality event venue’
News:
The Library has been named a state finalist at the Meetings and Events Association Industry Awards. The awards recognise excellence and best business practice in the meetings & events industry.
Law making and breaking in colonial Victoria
People & professions, Social life & customs, Such was life:
Criminals, crime and justice in colonial Victoria!
Behind the lens of the Library’s studio photographer
The Library’s imaging studio is home to two full-time photographers and a studio supervisor. We handle the high end digitisation of a variety of collection items for public orders, digitising projects and other library requests. A day in the studio is never dull.
What do Bob Hope, Japanese gangsters and Patti Smith have in common?
They are all here as popular culture rears just a few of its many heads, on the shelves and online…..
