Colour our collections
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This week, libraries, galleries and museums across the world will be sharing some of their favourite collections for you to get colourful with on Instagram.
Archive for 2016
Call for 2016 Fellowship applications
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Artists, performers, writers, historians, filmmakers, scholars and thinkers are encouraged to apply for a prestigious State Library Victoria Fellowship.
Melbourne’s Joan of Arc
Melbourne’s Maid of Orléans arrived at Port Melbourne from Marseilles on 28 January 1907. Here, Pictures Librarian Gerard Hayes traces Joan’s history from a Francophile rallying point to the mysterious case of a missing crown.
The trial and execution of a King
The Library holds some of the earliest printed accounts of the trial and execution King Charles I. The pamphlets are part of the Emmerson collection, one of the great private libraries of early English books in the world.
Kids’ big book spectacular coming soon
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There are just two weeks to go until the inaugural Kids’ big book spectacular at the Library, a day of free family fun to celebrate the wonderful world of children’s literature and illustration.
Our women
Social life & customs, Such was life:
Our women was a magazine in the 1950s and ’60s which focused on the social issues, contributions and opinions of women in Australia.
Hard rock, hard roll: some deaths in the family
Its been a tough start to the year with the loss of some truly iconic rock music figures.
New ebooks in Arts for your epleasure
The ebook shelves continue to grow, and even Elvis is getting in on the act.
