Film, New books, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Television:
Sitting pretty : the life and times of Clifton Webb by Clifton Webb with David L. Smith A face that any lover of classic Hollywood movies will instantly recognise, Clifton… Read More ›
Announcements, Library services, News:
The Library will be closed on Good Friday 6 April 2012. During this period you may still access many digitised collection items and online resources via our website. The Library… Read More ›
New CDs arriving in Arts include a few re-releases by Irish supergroup U2, all with a bonus disc. The recent multi-Grammy award winning English singer, Adele, features on her 2011 multi-planinum release… Read More ›
Family matters, Uncategorized:
Saturday 31 March 2012 from 10am to 4pm join Ann and Grant from the State Library of Victoria’s Genealogy Team to “Byte into your family history” at the National Archives of… Read More ›
A few new books on our shelves celebrating some radically different approaches to the visual arts. Sea of dreams : the lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830-1914 This catalogue from… Read More ›
Dance, Music, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts:
The Arts on Film series (formerly Music & Dance on Film), commences for 2012 this Wednesday March 14. It will feature music and theatre performances, and arts documentaries. A great… Read More ›
Announcements, Exhibitions, Family history events, News:
The largest exhibition of illustrated Persian manuscripts in Australia’s history is now open at the State Library of Victoria.
To celebrate the opening of the Library’s magnificent new exhibition, Love and Devotion: from Persia and beyond, I thought it might be interesting to highlight some of the material we… Read More ›
Dance, Music, Performing Arts, Rare Books & Arts, Theatre:
Drum roll, fanfare, marching band, etc., etc.! I’m really pleased to be able to tell you that, along with the Naxos Music Library, we are now able to offer our… Read More ›
Announcements, Exhibitions, News:
The Library will be open from 10am to 6pm on Monday 12 March during the Labour Day public holiday.
This Online Collection Spotlight examines WWI trench journals created by units from several combatant nation between 1914 and 1919. Produced in camps and battle zones, these handmade publications reveal humour, creativity, and resilience through poems, sketches, notes and stories.
Ailsa O’Connor (1921-1980) was a political activist, painter, sculptor, author and teacher. Throughout her art career she was a member of the Communist Party and associated with the Socialist Realist Group.
