Queen’s birthday holiday closure
Announcements, News, Opening hours:
The Library will be closed on Monday 13 June due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Readings Book Shop and Mr Tulk cafe will also be closed. An extensive range… Read More ›
National Family History Week 2011
Family history events, Family matters:
Friday 29 July to Sunday 28 August 2011 – the dates of this year’s Australian National Family History Week so important dates for your diary! This Week has been held… Read More ›
New Music Listening in Arts
Film, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
A great selection of movie soundtracks and Broadway Cast recordings on CD, have just arrived into the collection. These include recent Oscar winners – Black Swan and The King’s Speech. … Read More ›
Those flashing lights
Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
This Wednesday 1st June at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the documentary Teenage Paparazzo, about the… Read More ›
The bold, the beautiful and the cheeky in Arts!
One of the great things about working in a Library like this is the almost constant voyage of discovery it takes us on as new material arrives on the shelves!… Read More ›
Finding your ancestors…talk at AIGS Blackburn Sunday 29 May 2011
Collections, Family history events, Family matters, Research guides:
Newspapers, manuscripts, pictures, maps and so much more… Find out about the diversity of State Library of Victoria collections that can be used for family history research at a talk I… Read More ›
Dame Nellie Melba and the problems of being a legend
Now that the 150 candles have been blown out and the streamers have all been taken down, I thought it might be a good idea to highlight a few of… Read More ›
Global entertainments, gorgeous frocks and shaking up Mr Bond
A bit of dancing, a bit of acting, a bit of fashion, and even a bit of icon deconstruction (the name’s Bond, James Bond…..); all in a day’s work for… Read More ›
There is nothing like a Dame!
Happy birthday Dame Nellie (150 today!) Click hear for a selection of audio clips available through Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au/music/result?q=melba&l-availability=y&l-format=Sound
Family History Feast 2011 – bookings open next week!
Family history events, Family matters, Uncategorized:
The Feast is a day of free information sessions for family history researchers including the annual Victorian Association of Family History Organisations (VAFHO) Don Grant Lecture. In 2011 the Lecture will… Read More ›
Such was life
Reminiscences from 1965
In 1965, some older Victorians wrote short essays for a competition, recalling their early lives.
Arts
Ailsa O’Connor: highlights of a life of socialist activism, feminism and art
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.
