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Media Releases
3 February 2010
Today the Honourable John Brumby MP, Premier of Victoria formally handed over the 2009 Victorian Bushfire Message Book Collection to the State Library of Victoria.
17 August 2009
Hugh Evans, anti-poverty campaigner and former Young Australian of the Year, will deliver the 2009 Keith Murdoch Oration at the State Library of Victoria, Tuesday 8 September.
20 March 2009
Writers and publishers are now invited to submit entries to the prestigious 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
10 October 2008
Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has lent his support to a State Library of Victoria program bringing together schools, families and libraries to aid teen literacy and foster a reading culture for boys.
16 September 2008
The shortlist of six youth literature books in the running for the second annual Inky Awards were announced today on the State Library of Victoria’s youth reading website, insideadog.com.au.
20 August 2008
CEO and State Librarian Anne-Marie Schwirtlich has warmly welcomed the announcement by the United Nations which names Melbourne as the World’s second City of Literature and a part of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network.
5 August 2008
A long-list of 20 youth literature books in the running for the second annual Inky Awards were announced at the State Library of Victoria today.
8 July 2008
A special travelling exhibition from the Australian War Memorial, Sport and War, combines the two themes to highlight the long association between sport and war in our history and trace how our wartime experiences are reflected in modern sporting events.
6 June 2008
The State Library of Victoria today announced the recipients of a prestigious suite of Fellowships which will assist Australian writers, academics, artists, composers and researchers in their creative and intellectual endeavours.
5 June 2008
Time is running out to see some of the most extraordinary books ever to have visited Australia as the State Library of Victoria’s landmark exhibition enters its final days.
14 May 2008
Patti Manolis, CEO of the Geelong Regional Library Corporation, will soon deliver a lecture on the role libraries can play in rebuilding a war ravaged society.
7 May 2008
Visits to the State Library Victoria’s landmark exhibition 'The Medieval Imagination' topped 50,000 today, proving the popularity of this unique cultural offering.
14 April 2008
The State Library of Victoria has launched ergo, a website designed to help secondary students find information, understand the research process and interrogate information from a variety of sources.
29 March 2008
Authors and publishers are now invited to submit entries to the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2008.
10 March 2008
Priceless illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge University are bound for Melbourne and bring with them two wonderful and ancient Elephants.
1 March 2008
Priceless illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge University join collections from Australia and New Zealand in the largest exhibition of medieval art ever seen in Australia.
29 February 2008
A series of concerts featuring music from medieval and early Renaissance Europe will be held at the State Library Victoria in April 2008.
27 February 2008
Two novels have tied for first-place in a unique program designed to determine Victoria’s favourite summer read.
20 November 2007
The State Library of Victoria is celebrating the joy of summer reading in its latest program, The Summer Read. Using a reader-knows-best policy, The Summer Read asks participants to vote on their favourite book from a recommended list of 20 books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, each set in Victoria or written by Victorians.
13 November 2007
The winners of the inaugural Inky Awards were announced at the State Library of Victoria last night.
22 October 2007
A portrait of Shane Warne has gone on display in the State Library of Victoria alongside materials from Victorian icons such as Ned Kelly, John Batman, William Buckley, and Burke and Wills.
19 October 2007
The President of the Library Board of Victoria, the Hon John Cain, has announced the appointment of the Hon Sherryl Garbutt to the Library Board of Victoria.
28 September 2007
The Inkys are Australia's first teenage book choice awards. The shortlist for the Awards has just been announced and voting is now open to readers under 25 years of age.
4 September 2007
After travelling more than 12,700 kilometres around Australia, Ned Kelly’s helmet today returns to the State Library of Victoria to complete the armour of our best-known bushranger, now on display in the Library’s permanent exhibition, The changing face of Victoria.
26 June 2007
CEO and State Librarian Anne-Marie Schwirtlich has warmly welcomed the news that the Minister for the Arts, Lynne Kosky, will announce today the steering committee that will drive Melbourne’s bid to UNESCO as a City of Literature.
4 June 2007
The State Library of Victoria has launched a major online exhibition 'Mirror of the World: books and ideas', which showcases some of the Library's most precious and historically significant books.
7 May 2007
Photographic portraits of some of the world’s best-known celebrities will be on show when 'Famous: Karin Catt Portraits' opens at the State Library of Victoria.
27 April 2007
In September 2006, the State Library of Victoria, through its Foundation, acquired the diary of Samuel Lazarus - a unique first-person account of the events of the 1854 Eureka Stockade uprising. This fascinating document is now available to all Victorians for the first time.
2 April 2007
Football Stories from Country Victoria is a DVD of 21 short films from digital filmmaker Malcolm McKinnon that captures legendary events, long-time campaigners, rivalries, reluctant marriages and things lost and lamented in Victoria Country Football.
29 March 2007
Cambridge University and the State Library of Victoria are delighted to announce a collaboration that will bring some of Europe’s oldest and rarest illuminated manuscripts to Melbourne in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.
23 March 2007
Authors and publishers are now invited to submit entries to the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2007. A total of $195,000 will be awarded to established and emerging writers across eleven categories - among them Australia's richest prizes in the categories of non-fiction writing and journalism.
2 March 2007
How I entered there I cannot truly say is a new exhibition at the State Library of Victoria showcasing artist books created by some of Australia’s leading artists.
31 January 2007
The prestigious State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships are once again on offer to Australian writers, academics, artists, composers and researchers.
14 June 2006
State Library of Victoria’s Vicnet group designed the PictureVictoria website and is hosting the site.
9 June 2006
The State Library of Victoria today announced the acquisition of Samuel Lazarus' diary, which chronicles life on the Victorian gold fields and the events leading up to the Eureka stockade of 1854.
8 May 2006
The RE Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards 2006 are now open for entry.
27 April 2006
Australia now has its first website for teenagers to share their enjoyment of books and reading.
7 April 2006
Entries are now invited for the prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. A total of $195,000 will be awarded to winners in 11 categories rewarding the best in Australian writing.
5 April 2006
A public forum at the State Library of Victoria on 12 April 2006 will examine the past and future of Australian Rules Football.
5 October 2005
Opening on 9 December 2005 in the State Library's Dome Gallery, Mirror of the World: books and ideas is a permanent, free exhibition that traces the development of civilisation through books.
4 October 2005
The Library Board will visit the State Library's state-of-the-art storage facility currently being built at the Mt Helen Campus of the University of Ballarat.
1 October 2005
An upcoming exhibition in the Keith Murdoch Gallery traces the artistic journeys of two distinguished Australian artists through the Library's Rare Books and Pictures collections.
27 September 2005
The Governor in Council has appointed the Hon. John Cain and Mr Stephen Kerr to the Library Board of Victoria.
16 September 2005
The shortlist for the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, one of Australia's richest awards for writers, was announced today.
22 August 2005
The Copyright, Digitisation and Cultural Institutions Conference, to be held at the State Library of Victoria on 26 August 2005, will look at the copyright implications digital technologies pose for cultural institutions.
18 August 2005
The Bendigo Petition, one of Australia's most important historical documents, will be displayed at the State Library from 6 September 2005.
27 July 2005
A 4000 year old clay tablet and Melbourne's first newspaper are among the Library treasures that will tour regional Victoria in August.
25 July 2005
A special event to introduce young people to the world of Shakespeare through drama, music, and a witty wordless picture book The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard.
29 June 2005
This travelling exhibition uses original works of art and memorabilia to retell the story of the Eureka Stockade.
27 June 2005
The President of the Library Board of Victoria, Sam Lipski, has announced the reappointment of Stephen Kerr to the Chair of the State Library of Victoria Foundation.
27 June 2005
The names of successful recipients of the 2005 Creative Fellowships were announced today.
31 May 2005
Award-winning landscape designers Paul Bangay and Jim Fogarty will be talking at the Library about what inspires outstanding garden designs.
23 May 2005
The Mayor of Bayside, will be presented with a full-size colour print of an original drawing of the Brighton mansion Kamesburgh.
5 May 2005
The Grollo family is sponsoring a new category in this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards which promotes books that explore the experiences of Italians in Australia.
2 May 2005
Victorian playwrights are invited to apply for this year’s R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Awards.
19 April 2005
Writing, reading and talks from outstanding Australian and international writers! It’s all part of Reading Matters, Australia’s leading youth literature event.
6 April 2005
See your children dress up in a replica of Ned Kelly’s armour, listen to stories, watch classic magic shows and learn how to care for your precious documents.
4 April 2005
Stage Two of The Changing Face of Victoria exhibition at the State Library will open to the public this Sunday.
9 March 2005
A major report released by the State Library of Victoria and the Victorian public libraries network reveals the vital importance of public libraries in our community.
22 February 2005
The popular State Library of Victoria exhibition Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening has been extended until Sunday 26 June 2005.
21 February 2005
A cuneiform clay tablet dating back to 2050 BC, Melbourne’s first newspaper The Melbourne Advertiser, and the Ortelius Atlas mapping the world as it was known in 1574 are some of the State Library of Victoria’s collection treasures touring regional Victoria during March 2005.
14 February 2005
The Centre for Youth Literature launches its exciting new program for 2005.
4 February 2005
The State Library Creative Fellowships are once again on offer to writers, artists, musicians and researchers throughout Australia.
3 February 2005
More than 30,000 books will go on sale at the State Library of Victoria to help raise funds for the Red Cross Appeal for Tsunami Relief.
2 December 2004
The State Library of Victoria Foundation has appointed Morton Browne as its new Executive Director.
11 November 2004
The armour worn by Ned Kelly at the siege of Glenrowan will be assembled by Library conservation staff for a new exhibition.
27 October 2004
The question of knowledge versus information in our contemporary world will be examined in the 2004 Keith Murdoch Oration.
18 October 2004
The four winners of the RE Ross Trust Awards were announced tonight at Zinc in Federation Square.
18 October 2004
The Deputy Premier John Thwaites tonight announced the ten winners of the prestigious Premier's Literary Awards.
15 October 2004
In the 2004 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture, Phillip Adams will examine the difficulties and conflicts facing Australian society.
24 September 2004
This year’s finalists in the 2004 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction category are all based in Melbourne.
14 September 2004
The art of the gardener comes alive in a new exhibition which presents a lively, entertaining and occasionally whimsical look at gardening.
24 August 2004
The Minister for the Arts to launch a unique display of one of the Library's treasures.
17 August 2004
The State Library's Public Libraries Unit awards this year's Pierre Gorman Award to the ‘Digital Audio for the Disabled’ (DAD) project.
13 August 2004
All will be revealed in the forum, ‘Electronic Music: a beautiful set of numbers,’ at the State Library of Victoria next week.
9 August 2004
An item in the State Library of Victoria’s collections has been recognised by a UNESCO committee as a significant piece of Australian history.
5 August 2004
The diaries of Miss Anne Drysdale and the field book of John Helder Wedge are among the Library tresaures to visit Geelong and Ocean Grove.
5 August 2004
Hamilton, Portland and Warrnambool are the destinations of Edward Henty's journal and the CJ La Trobe papers.
5 July 2004
The names of the successful recipients of the 2004 State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships were announced today.
18 June 2004
The Age of Cartooning, an exhibition of more than 100 works on paper by many of the cartoonists published in The Age, opens on 2 July.
12 May 2004
Caryl Phillips has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004 for A Distant Shore (Secker & Warburg).
7 May 2004
The diary of an early 19th-century Gippsland farmer is among the treasures which will be touring around country Victoria in May.
5 May 2004
Some of the Commonwealth's best writers will be visiting Geelong and Warrnambool on Monday 10 May.
5 May 2004
Some of the Commonwealth’s best writers will be visiting Bendigo and Ballarat on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 May.
4 May 2004
The judging and presentation of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize hosted by the State Library will take place from 9 to 15 May.
29 April 2004
The pistol that Peter Lalor is said to have used at the Eureka Stockade is among the Treasures travelling to country Victoria in May.
27 April 2004
Victorian-based playwrights are invited to apply for the RE Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Awards 2004.
16 April 2004
Some of the State Library’s Treasures will be touring around country Victoria during April and May as part of our 150th celebrations.
8 April 2004
A new space called Experimedia where users are able to work with the latest computer technology will be officially launched tomorrow.
11 March 2004
Drawn mostly from the Library’s own collection, this exhibition explores the work of firm Stephenson & Turner.
9 March 2004
The Reading Relay is a fun event designed to celebrate reading, and is part of the Library’s 150th Anniversary program.
25 February 2004
The Premier of Victoria will be joined by the founding President of the State Library of Victoria to launch the 150th Anniversary Program.
2 February 2004
The State Library Creative Fellowships are once again on offer to Australian writers, artists, academics, composers and researchers.
5 December 2003
The wonderful whimsical characters of Michael Leunig are animated in this new exhibition.
26 November 2003
The new edition of the La Trobe Journal is devoted to Charles Joseph La Trobe, who was truly 'a man of a thousand occupations'.
23 November 2003
MyLanguage, a new web portal to more than four million information links in over 60 languages, is to be officially launched by the Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs.
17 November 2003
Victorian historical works of art - many never exhibited before - are on display in a new gallery.
10 November 2003
The Premier, Steve Bracks, announces the ten winners of the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2003.
17 October 2003
The Premier, Steve Bracks, today released the shortlist of finalists for the Premier's Literary Awards 2003.
7 July 2003
The Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks, recently announced the inaugural recipients of the State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships.
5 July 2003
The singer, writer, festival director and public arts advocate will deliver the 2004 State Library of Victoria’s Redmond Barry Lecture.
5 March 2003
Writers, academics and researchers are invited to apply for up to eight Creative Fellowships.
30 January 2003
The exhibition Kelly Culture: Reconstructing Ned Kelly explores the enduring presence of Edward 'Ned' Kelly within Australian culture.
16 January 2003
The appointment of Anne-Marie Schwirtlich to the position of CEO and State Librarian was made today.
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