Festive Sights and Sounds: Bandstand, Shakespeare, Mozart, Carols and much more.
The sounds of Melbourne Music Week may be fading into the distance, but there’s still lots to listen to here at the State Library.
Preservation: caring for our collections
Collection Care, Our stories, Preventive conservation:
The Library’s Preservation team work to ensure the ongoing care, preservation and access of our collections. Here the team bring you inside their work, from the quarantine room where items are checked for pests and mould, to the preservation studio where an average of 50,000 items are re-housed in any given year.
A cargo of fallen angels
People & professions, Such was life:
Children in detention. Stopping the boats. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was recent times but in fact, it was the 19th century.
Alison Lester awarded the 2016 Dromkeen Medal
News:
State Library Victoria today awarded the 2016 Dromkeen Medal to celebrated children’s author Alison Lester and the Dromkeen Librarian’s Award to Sarah Steed from Libraries ACT.
Sincerely, L. Cohen
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
2016 has been a tough year for music lovers and now, as the year draws to a close, we’ve lost Leonard Cohen as well.
Summer exhibition celebrating 40 years of Triple R now on show at State Library Victoria
News:
ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR, a free exhibition that marks the 40th anniversary of Triple R, Melbourne’s iconic and much-loved community radio station opens tomorrow, Friday 18 November 2016.
The politics of poster making: the RedPlanet archive
People & professions, Such was life:
The years 1992 and 1993, when RedPlanet artists produced 24 house posters, can arguably be called the golden years of poster design in Australia.
Digital publishing partnership supports emerging writers, builds collections
State Library announced a partnership with online publishing start-up Tablo – an innovative new platform that supports emerging Victorian writers, connecting them with other writers, readers, industry experts and potential publishers.
New books, and something très bon from the sixties!
Classics of all kinds hit the shelves in Arts this week
State Library Victoria launches early literacy campaign
News:
As part of Children’s Week, State Library Victoria and Public Libraries Victoria Network launches 1000 Books Before School, the first statewide program in Australia designed to work with families to promote early literacy skills, and to combat the scourge of adult illiteracy in our communities.
Such was life
Online Collection Spotlight: Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail
Watch the wonders of fashion unfold with this informative and visually stunning peak into the history of clothing. This video database, with companion articles, explores historical contexts, materials, and construction methods, enabling you to see how different garments were worn, and the function that each item served.
Arts
Online Collection Spotlight: American Music
From Willie Nelson to Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters to Flaco Jimenez, you can enjoy a journey across the diverse musical roots of America with the Music Online: American Music database. Hosting an astonishing array of talent the collection consists of almost 7000 albums and 120,000 songs.
