(11 August 2015) The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the state of Victoria, Australia, located in Melbourne. It holds over 2 million books and 16,000 serials, including the diaries of the city’s founders, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, and the folios of Captain James Cook, R.N. It also houses the…
(27 July 2015) Kate Torney, currently Director of News at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has been appointed as the new CEO of State Library Victoria. ‘I look forward to working with the Board and the Library team to build on the world class service the Library offers and to further the digital transformation of this…
(29 April 2015) The 2015-16 State Budget will provide AUD$55.4 million to transform the State Library of Victoria, Australia, bringing it to the doorstep of primary and secondary students across the state and their families. Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, made the announcement today while visiting the library, which attracts almost 1.8 million people…
(17 April 2015) One of the world’s great rare book collections has been donated to the State Library of Victoria, Australia. Valued at over $5 million, the collection encompasses more than 5,000 volumes from the 15th to 18th century, including political, religious, philosophical and literary works. The collection was amassed over 40 years by the…
“For more than a century and a half, Melbourne has spawned networks of creative iconoclasts – poets, painters, novelists, performers, satirists, filmmakers, rock ’n’ roll stars – as famous for their subversive, controversial lifestyles as for the work they produced.” – Tony Moore The State Library of Victoria will explore the counter-cultural and creative identity…
(3 May 2014) The original 1862 manuscript of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, a French national treasure, is leaving Europe for the first time to be exhibited exclusively at the State Library of Victoria, Australia, Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria announced today. The 945 page volume will leave the Bibliothèque nationale de France to be…
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