What is an artist book?
Our exhibition Inspiration by Design has artist books from Picasso, Matisse and Ernst, to name but a few! What exactly is an ‘artist book’? Learn from the experts.
New in the visual arts: on the shelf and online
New books, Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The visual arts come in all shapes and sizes
Making an exhibition of yourself
People & professions, Such was life:
Want to meet some ordinary Melbournians from the 1880s? About 500 of them lurk in the pages of a ‘security album’ from the spectacular Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, held in 1888.
A new space to hang out in the Library
News:
We are building a more comfortable space for visitors to hang out, check email and have a break
Q&A with children’s author Andy Griffiths
Hear from children’s author extraordinaire Andy Griffiths in the lead up to his visit to the Library for Children’s Book Festival 2015.
Media Release: CEO and State Librarian Ms Sue Roberts will be retiring from her role
News:
Media Release Monday, 16 March 2015 – for immediate release CEO and State Librarian Ms Sue Roberts will be retiring from her role The State Library of Victoria announces that… Read More ›
Upcoming: Children’s Book Festival
News:
We’re inviting kids and their families to dive into the pleasures of books and reading.
Bring the sound of the world into your home
With the global sounds of WOMADelaide still vibrating in the air, it seems like a good time to draw your attention to one of our most fascinating eresources, the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries database from Alexander Street Press; full of beautiful and unexpected pleasures and treasures from around the world.
The Final Frontier: putting the fiction into science
Film, Rare Books & Arts, Television:
The sad news this week of the death of American actor Leonard Nimoy (aka Star Trek’s Mr Spock) transported me back to my days of rubber Vulcan ears and plastic phaser guns…..
Have you looked at the online records available at PROV recently? with guest blogger Charlie Farrugia
Charlie Farrugia Senior Collections Advisor at Public Record Office Victoria is our guest blogger for March 2015. He updates us on the range of records now digitised, indexed and available… Read More ›
Such was life
Collection of wills from Cohen, Kirby & Co. Solicitors, Bendigo
A recent donation to the Library gives us insight into the last wills and testaments of Victorians of the 19th and 20th Century, from what they were bequeathing to who they held dear.
Arts
Collecting Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was a leading author of the golden age of detective fiction whose books continue to excite, delight and intrigue readers. To celebrate her outstanding legacy, State Library Victoria recently acquired first editions of some of Christie’s most popular titles.
