Are you a serial lunatic? By which I mean, do you love browsing through magazines at your local newsagent, incurring the filthy looks of the staff behind the counter as you ingnore those signs telling you that “this is not a library!!!”? If this is you, then you can relax by actually coming into the library and spending as much time as you like at our current periodicals display.
We subscribe to hundreds of titles across all of our subjects, and here in the Arts Library we have some of the best magazines devoted to art, music and the performing arts from Australia and overseas.
Rolling Stone, still considered the granddaddy of rock music journals.
![images Rolling Stone](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/images1.jpg)
Rolling Stone
But snapping at its heels, Mojo and Q.
![mojo Mojo](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mojo1.jpg)
Mojo
![images3 Q](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/images3.jpg)
Q
If jazz is music to your ears there’s always Down Beat.….
![down beat Down Beat](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/down-beat.jpg)
Down Beat
or Rhythms which is great for the local scene.
![imagesCA06PFFO Rhythms](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/imagesCA06PFFO.jpg)
Rhythms
Sight and Sound, an institution when it comes to the cinema….
![S&S Sight and Sound](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/SS.jpg)
Sight and Sound
as is Film Comment.
![Film comment Film Comment](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Film-comment.jpg)
Film Comment
Not forgetting Australia’s own FilmInk
![FilmInk FilmInk](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/FilmInk.jpg)
FilmInk
And my own personal favourite, full of fantastic stories of Hollywood’s “golden age” Classic Images
![photo Classic Images](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/photo-150x150.jpg)
Classic Images
If its film industry news your after then you need look no further than Variety, Screen International and Encore
![imagesCAVKLQ9S Variety](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/imagesCAVKLQ9S.jpg)
Variety
![imagesCADCPZQM Screen International](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/imagesCADCPZQM1.jpg)
Screen International
![imagesCA8U79D9 Encore](https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/imagesCA8U79D9.jpg)
Encore
But I can see that this is going to have to be a continuing series, having only just scratched the surface! In future posts, classical music, dance, art, photography and much more besides! In the meantime, you can also browse through the thousands of magazine titles we have available in electronic format by going to our e-journals page; a real teasure trove!
Just keep on browsing……