Geelong and genealogy
Family history events, Family matters:
About 700 people over the two days, more than 70 exhibitors and some 36 talks, such was the successful Unlock the Past Expo held at the Geelong Arena on Friday 2… Read More ›
New music listening in Arts.
New CDs arriving into the collection include classic movie soundtracks like 2001: a space odyssey and Doctor Zhivago, pop favourite Rihanna, two Gershwin selections and another ABC compilation, High Tea: elegant… Read More ›
Geelong : the place to be 2 and 3 September 2011
Family history events, Family matters:
No the mighty Cats (Geelong Football Club) are playing Collingwood in Melbourne at the MCG on Friday night 2 September! Sketches at Geelong 14 January 1888 (wood engraving) IAN14/01/88/5 mp 006963 State Library… Read More ›
Vienna: art and design
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The current Winter Masterpieces exhibitions at NGV International explores Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century; a city of enormous vitality, creativity and burgeoning avant garde arts. If you would like… Read More ›
Mahler Symphony Screening
A complete performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor is the next program in the Music and Dance on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday August… Read More ›
Reefer madness, sexy music, graphic rock and loads of Blab
Sometimes oddness is its own reward…… Reefer movie madness : the ultimate stoner film guide by Shirley Halperin & Steve Bloom It would appear that there is a movie guide for just… Read More ›
Life on board a migrant ship
Collections, Family matters, Research tips & tricks:
I always love speaking with our Rare Books Librarian, as I often learn about remarkable items in our collection. Yesterday, I was introduced to the publication Instructions for the Surgeons… Read More ›
Counts and Castles
Legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki is no stranger to Outside-in cinema here, having featured in last years season not just once, but twice. This Wednesday just past we showed another… Read More ›
Businessman, forger, convict and author
Family matters, Uncategorized:
In the middle of May, I decided to escape the cold weather of Melbourne for the extremely cold weather of Hobart. Being my first visit to Tasmania, I followed the… Read More ›
Television studies: taking the idiot out of the box
Rare Books & Arts, Television:
The new books shelf was a bit light-on this week, but an enquiry I took from a customer regarding popular television shows had me delving into an increasingly interesting part of… Read More ›
Such was life
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.
