Family matters, Research guides:
A new research guide, Tracing a person in Australia can help you find your relatives. The guide is the latest in a growing collection of family history guides published by the State… Read More ›
Dance, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
Graeme Murphy’s ‘Swan Lake‘ : a ballet in four acts, is the next screening in the Music and Dance on Film series to be held this Wednesday October 13. Swan Lake is… Read More ›
Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
The Arts Reading Room has eight listening posts where you can listen to CDs from the audiovisual collection. Playlists on some of the listening posts have recently been updated. New… Read More ›
Collection, News, Uncategorized:
Last night, Minister for Slovenes Abroad Dr Bostjan Zeks presented the Australian nation with a valuable gift from the people of Slovenia.
As a part of the Outside-in Cinema screenings in Experimedia here at the Library, on Wednesday 6th October at 6:30pm you can watch the recent documentary Man on wire. The… Read More ›
Dance, Film, Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
The Arts Reading Room has eight listening posts where you can listen to CDs from the audiovisual collection. Playlists on some of the listening posts have recently been updated. New… Read More ›
Mary Stuart : an opera in three acts, is the next program in the Music and Dance on Film series, to be screened in Arts this Wednesday September 19. Based on… Read More ›
Family history events, Family matters:
Join Genealogy Team librarian Chris Wade along with staff from the Immigration Discovery Centre and Public Record Office Victoria at one of these workshops to be held at the Immigration… Read More ›
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.
