It’s always a pleasure…
I particularly love the work of northern European artists of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Rogier van der Weyden 1400-1464: Master of Passion Zwolle : Waanders Uitgeverij ; Leuven :… Read More ›
A sense of place : local studies in Australia and New Zealand
Family history events, Family matters:
The Sense of place conference organised by Auslib Press was held at the State Library of New South Wales on 5 and 6 May 2011 attracting more than 140 participants from… Read More ›
Beats, Punks and Portobello Road
Beat memories : the photographs of Allen Ginsberg DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2010 I just happen to have been reading some of Allen Ginsberg’s poems recently (as one does!), so finding this… Read More ›
Coppelia: free ballet screening.
Coppelia : a ballet in three acts, is the next program in the Music and Dance on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday May 11 in Arts. This ballet classic… Read More ›
Family Matters celebrates first birthday!
Family matters, Uncategorized:
May 2011 marks our blog’s first birthday. One year ago we began with our first post “Hello world!” We looked forward to sharing the State Library’s window on the world… Read More ›
Tutankhamun and 7000 years of Egyptian art
You’ve probably already noticed that Melbourne is currently in the grip of Tutankhamun fever, with the blockbuster exhibition on show at the Melbourne Museum. You can explore the extraordinary history… Read More ›
Stellar line-up for Reading Matters conference
Events, Family history events:
Reading Matters, the State Library’s biennial youth literature conference begins Wednesday May 25 with a stellar line-up of Australian and international authors leading two days discussions, workshops and events about writing and publishing for young adult readers.
Auto fixation
Film, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
This Wednesday 4th April at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the documentary Love the beast, in… Read More ›
Welcome to “Marvellous Melbourne” SAG tour group!
Family history events, Family matters:
For a few days in early May a tour group from the Society of Genealogists in Sydney is visiting a variety of agencies and organisations in Melbourne, including of course the… Read More ›
Behold His mighty hand!
Confession time! I simply can’t resist watching Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments whenever it appears on television in all of its Technicolor, larger-than-life glory, which it did yet again… 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.
