Sound Beam for Autumn
Sound Beam is a regular program highlighting recorded music from the Arts audio-visual collection. It is accessible through headphones at selected workstations in the Arts Reading Room. Sound Beam currently… Read More ›
Carmen – opera screening
Carmen: an opera in four acts by Bizet, is the next program in the Music and Dance on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday April 13 in Arts. Recorded Live… Read More ›
Researching Rosa Robota
I recently became interested in the story of Rosa Robota, a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, who was executed for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt of October 7, 1944. Rosa… Read More ›
A Tasmanian Devil in Hollywood
Film, New books, Rare Books & Arts:
The new books shelf in Arts continues to amaze and delight; and occasionally perplex and bewilder! A couple of new books about “Australia’s own” Errol Flynn set me to thinking…..… Read More ›
Gutter glitter
The New York Dolls were a rock group both fortunate and unfortunate enough to fall in the cusp of two movements: glam and punk rock. Playing a trashy, loud, and… Read More ›
Easter and Anzac Day holiday closure
Announcements, Library services, News, Opening hours:
The Library will close at 9pm on Thursday 21 April and reopen at 10am on Wednesday 27 April 2011.
Doing nothing in Arts, and then some!
They say that you can’t, or shouldn’t, judge a book by its cover (a theory I don’t entirely agree with), and I suppose the same can be said for the title, but… Read More ›
Firebird & other legends – free screening.
The Music and Dance on Film series commences for 2011 this Wednesday March 30. A great lineup is scheduled for the year, beginning with this tribute to the Ballet Russe by… Read More ›
Great news for map lovers!
A significant number of digitised Victorian maps have recently been added to the State Library of Victoria catalogue . In the past few weeks, over 500 digitised maps have been added… Read More ›
What’s new in the Genealogy collection
Family matters, New to the collection:
I think that Pitfalls and possibilities in family history research by Pauline Litton is essential reading for all genealogists: If your ancestors are proving elusive and the records are not… Read More ›
Such was life
Strange lights in the sky: The Westall UFO event, 1966
On 6 April 1966, in a quiet suburb south east of Melbourne, reports emerged of something strange in the sky…
Arts
Nineteenth century Victorians
The Etkins collection consists of wonderful portraits of people and places throughout 19th century Victoria.
