Celebrating children’s literature at the Library
In this special guest post Juliet O’Conor, our Children’s Research Librarian – best job ever – takes us through highlights from our collection.
Family History Feast 2015 BOOKED OUT
Some of the boys, Mena 1915 H84.356/13 The annual Family History Feast hosted by the State Library of Victoria will be held on Monday 10 August 2015 during National Family… Read More ›
Lights and shades of city life
People & professions, Such was life:
In the 1920s Reverend George Wong was a minister at the Collingwood Methodist Church, helping the poor, teaching at kindergarten and lecturing around Victoria about the life of Melbourne’s poor with the help of a limelight projector.
The Battle of Waterloo and its 200 year old legacy
Film, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The Battle of Waterloo continues to fascinate, even 200 years after those ferocious days
Friends of the Library view children’s classics
News:
Throughout the year there are opportunities for Friends of the Library to go behind the scenes and enjoy the Library’s treasures.
Tiger in the goldfields
People & professions, Such was life:
Ballarat: Sunday 8th July, 1855: ‘Got home and found the tent afloat and my blankets wet…Kindled fire and cleaned up tent. Boiled kettle and prepared supper. Ironing my blankets, I burned one of them.’
Wendingen: Designing modernity
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to an art magazine that is itself a work of art
Moments to treasure
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
Between the Library and the internet you can find almost any treasure
Finding inspiration: An interview with Julius Bryant
Curator Julius Bryant tells us how the Victoria and Albert Museum’s National Art Library inspires designers.
New historic material on display at the Library
News:
Last week 164 new items were added to The changing face of Victoria exhibition, refreshing the existing displays with exciting new material.
Such was life
Online Collection Spotlight: Trench journals and unit magazines of the First World War.
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.
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.
