Piecing together the lives of soldiers
This ANZAC Day we remember some Bendigo soldiers who are included in the Vincent Kelly photographic archive.
New Sights and Sounds: Rigoletto, Walkabout, and much more
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Some great new arrivals in Arts include latest releases in art documentary, pop, rock, jazz, classical, opera, musical theatre and film soundtracks in various audio and video formats such as CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and online… Read More ›
Illustrated children’s books: Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
Edmund Dulac published in the first decades of the twentieth century, at a time now recognised as a golden age of children’s book illustration.
Speculating upon the archive: woman+pants=key search
This is where it starts, in the pictures archive, where visual records are kept. Accompanying the images are written descriptions with misplaced pronouns and sometimes unstable definitions of gender. You have questions: is there something else to be seen here?
Celebrating Australian women on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is always a welcome opportunity to share stories of women. Intrepid, individual, inspiring – there are so many lives that blazed before us and often into obscurity.
Sybil Craig: a life in pictures
Arts & literature, Such was life:
Melbourne artist Sybil Craig became one of the first women war artists in Australia. The Library holds Sybil’s archive which contains over 1700 photographs and more than 280 works on paper, many of which are now online.
2018 Inky Award longlist announced; teen judges invited to apply
News:
The longlist for the 2018 Inky Awards, Australia’s national teen choice awards for young adult literature, has been announced today.
Keith Kings Public Transport Collection
The Library has received a large donation of material documenting Victoria’s public transport, featuring some wonderful photographs of decorated trams.
Books came to life at White Night Melbourne
News:
Books came to life at State Library Victoria for White Night Melbourne.
State Library Victoria brings books to life for White Night Melbourne
News:
State Library Victoria will once again open its doors after dark for the sixth annual White Night Melbourne.
Such was life
Mary Fortune: pioneer of Australian detective stories
Mary Fortune was the author of the longest running 19th-century crime fiction series published in a periodical and one of the earliest female crime writers in the world.
Arts
‘It really belongs to you people anyway…’: The story of Ken Pound
To celebrate the Children’s Book Council of Australia Week, we pay tribute to the life of children’s literature collector, Ken Pound, and the collection he has left for us all.
