Celebrating Australian women on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is always a welcome opportunity to share stories of women. Intrepid, individual, inspiring – there are so many lives that blazed before us and often into obscurity.
Arts & literature, Such was life:
Melbourne artist Sybil Craig became one of the first women war artists in Australia. The Library holds Sybil’s archive which contains over 1700 photographs and more than 280 works on paper, many of which are now online.
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The longlist for the 2018 Inky Awards, Australia’s national teen choice awards for young adult literature, has been announced today.
The Library has received a large donation of material documenting Victoria’s public transport, featuring some wonderful photographs of decorated trams.
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Books came to life at State Library Victoria for White Night Melbourne.
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State Library Victoria will once again open its doors after dark for the sixth annual White Night Melbourne.
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We’re turning the Library façade into a canvas for White Night Melbourne.
Some of Kooyong’s greatest hits weren’t from the racquets of John Newcombe or Billie Jean King but from that select group of the world’s greatest rock stars whose performances at the stadium were as incendiary as a McEnroe meltdown, as graceful as a Goolagong backhand, as rock steady as the Borg baseline game.
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Applications are now open for State Library Victoria’s prestigious annual fellowships program, with a new specialist fellowship for Victorian Aboriginal researchers offered from 2018.