Family history events, Family matters:
Friday 29 July to Sunday 28 August 2011 – the dates of this year’s Australian National Family History Week so important dates for your diary! This Week has been held… Read More ›
Film, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
A great selection of movie soundtracks and Broadway Cast recordings on CD, have just arrived into the collection. These include recent Oscar winners – Black Swan and The King’s Speech. … Read More ›
Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
This Wednesday 1st June at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the documentary Teenage Paparazzo, about the… Read More ›
One of the great things about working in a Library like this is the almost constant voyage of discovery it takes us on as new material arrives on the shelves!… Read More ›
Collections, Family history events, Family matters, Research guides:
Newspapers, manuscripts, pictures, maps and so much more… Find out about the diversity of State Library of Victoria collections that can be used for family history research at a talk I… Read More ›
Now that the 150 candles have been blown out and the streamers have all been taken down, I thought it might be a good idea to highlight a few of… Read More ›
A bit of dancing, a bit of acting, a bit of fashion, and even a bit of icon deconstruction (the name’s Bond, James Bond…..); all in a day’s work for… Read More ›
Happy birthday Dame Nellie (150 today!) Click hear for a selection of audio clips available through Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au/music/result?q=melba&l-availability=y&l-format=Sound
Family history events, Family matters, Uncategorized:
The Feast is a day of free information sessions for family history researchers including the annual Victorian Association of Family History Organisations (VAFHO) Don Grant Lecture. In 2011 the Lecture will… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
This Wednesday 18th April at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the self-titled documentary on portrait artist… Read More ›
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.
