New directors appointed to State Library leadership team
About us, Announcements, News:
Sue Roberts, CEO and State Librarian has announced the appointment of three new directors to the State Library leadership team.
About us, Announcements, News:
Sue Roberts, CEO and State Librarian has announced the appointment of three new directors to the State Library leadership team.
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
This week’s Outside-in cinema screening is of the 2013 Academy Award winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man. The film follows the film-makers as they try and find out what came… Read More ›
To celebrate agIdeas, the Library will host three displays including a body of work by French poster designer Alain Le Quernec, large-format vinyl lettering by type designer Nadine Chahine, and… Read More ›
This modern, digital world of ours can be a wonderful place, and that’s no more evident than in resources such as these where you can click yourself through to an… Read More ›
Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts, Theatre:
As you like it : a comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, is the next program in the Arts on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday May 1 in… Read More ›
Family matters, Uncategorized:
The State Library of Victoria is trialling the UK National Archives Discovery Service until May 22, 2013. The trial provides free access to the digitised documents available on the National… Read More ›
In August 1914, a young Samuel Figgis joined the Victorian Public Library as a library assistant, just after the outbreak of the Great War. Less than a year later he died on the beaches of the Dardanelles on his 20th birthday.
Australian War Memorial : treasures from a century of collecting by Nola Anderson This beautiful book is a guided tour through the history of the Australian War Memorial and features… Read More ›
Sue Roberts, CEO and State Librarian visited the Geelong City Library today to examine the progress of the library’s redevelopment and explore the role the State Library of Victoria will… Read More ›