Upcoming: Children’s Book Festival
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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 ›
Moomba
Social life & customs, Such was life:
Melbourne’s Moomba festival first took place in March 1955 and was initiated to liven up Melbourne and attract tourists.
Ned Kelly is going on tour
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Ned Kelly’s armour, rifle and death mask will be on loan to Bendigo Art Gallery until 8 July.
Upcoming La Trobe Journal to focus on artists’ books
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The latest La Trobe Journal explores how more artists, printmakers and binders are creating and designing books than ever before.
Victorian libraries collaborating to commemorate WWI
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Victoria’s public libraries and the State Library have worked together in the lead-up to the Anzac centenary.
White Night Wonderland
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More than 19,000 culture vultures descended on the Library for White Night Melbourne last weekend.
Reading Matters 2015 program announced
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Hear from bestselling young-adult authors during the 11th biennial Reading Matters conference in May.
Such was life
Early views of Melbourne by Robert Russell
Surveyor and artist Robert Russell published an early survey of Melbourne featuring the Yarra Falls that determined the site for the foundation of the township. He also produced drawings and watercolours of the Yarra Falls from where his cottage was located.
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.
