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4 years

Well done, Victoria 👏 🍩 This Rennie Ellis image from our collection seemed fitting to celebrate #DonutDay (zero new covid cases) and 2020 premiers @Richmond_FC . 📷

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#MeAt20 with a cast-iron fence and bronze lions in 1875🦁 📷H4574

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6 years

A colourful breakdown of the various ways characters come to a sticky end in Shakespeare’s plays. via @openculture

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4 years

A sight for sore eyes! 😍 We love having visitors back in the bright and beautiful La Trobe Reading Room.

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Welcome to a place where your presence is not conditional on buying something. #LIW2019 📷 by Mae Brathanasanti

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We’ve made the difficult decision to close the Library and cancel upcoming programs from 16 March. We’re really sad to close our doors but feel this is best for the safety and wellbeing of our visitors, staff, volunteers and the broader community. Read:

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Greeting the first visitor through our doors after the longest closure in the Library’s history. Welcome back, Jo! ☺️

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5 years

Our second offer for #AuthorsForFireys is a private white-glove viewing of State Library treasures ✨ The highest bidder can enjoy the with up to 9 guests!

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7 years

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We’re back! After the longest-ever closure in the Library’s history, we reopen our doors in just two minutes. 🥳

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8 years

Reshelving got a little festive this morning 🎄

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5 years

Today is our 164th birthday 🏛️🎉 The first building of the Melbourne Public Library opened #OnThisDay in 1856 with 3,500 books. The Library now has over 5 million items in its collection! 📷 From one of our earliest treasures, John Gould’s The birds of Australia, 1838.

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6 years

It’s #InternationalCatDay ! Back in the day, some libraries had a trusty cat or two to stop their books being nibbled by hungry rodents. We don't have a resident feline at the Library, but we have a few in our collection via

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7 years

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7 years

This post about Melbourne's great flood of 1891 feels pretty relevant right now. #melbournestorm

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9 years

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9 years

Tired of stock photos? Go vintage. We have 1000s of images free of copyright restrictions http://t.co/voMNOs5Ml6 http://t.co/vc8VKwcQzu

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4 years

An arcade with over 2 million books!? 😍 These are photographs of the incredible Cole's Book Arcade, which opened in 1883 in what we now know as the Bourke Street Mall. 📷 Explore images of the arcade in the Library's catalogue:

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5 years

#DidYouKnow old books smell so good because over time the cellulose and lignin in their pages break down to form airborne compounds like toluene, vanillin, and furfural, which smell sweet, vanilla-like, and almond-like respectively ⁠- and nostalgia⁠ 😉 (Thanks @CSIRO )

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6 years

Fantastic news! The La Trobe Reading Room and Dome Galleries will reopen from 10am today. We've wrapped up the noisy construction ahead of schedule and now you can visit the dome and exhibitions any day of the week 🎉 Image by Justin Spirason

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6 years

It’s comforting to know people have been enjoying reading the paper with their cup of coffee or tea since 1856. #InternationalCoffeeDay Thank you for discovering this gem @KateMonypenny

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4 years

'Library staff pulled from their database the phone number of every library member over the age of 70 - a total of 16,000 records. Then the librarians started calling those members. All of them.' Some incredible work from Victorian public libraries. ❤️

When Covid closed the library: staff call every member of Victorian library to say hello

Libraries find ways to keep in touch with regulars, from phone calls to delivering books to live-streaming author talks

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

We're thinking of everyone in our city today as we enter lockdown for the next six weeks. See you soon, Melbourne ❤️ 📷 Views of the entrance to Flinders Street railway station, A. E Smith, 1966 | H83.156/145

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7 years

"When in doubt, go to the library." #HarryPotter20

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6 years

Today Victoria farewells Melbourne icon Sisto Malaspina at St Patrick's Cathedral. As co-owner of Pellegrini's, Sisto lay the foundation for our city's world famous coffee culture. He will be remembered for his boundless hospitality and contagious energy. 📷 Hilary Bradford, 2011

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6 years

#OTD in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone by the US Patent Office. ☎️ #DYK he also lodged a variation of this patent in Victoria? Interestingly, his Victorian application (Patent No 2473) was 'Refused'.

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4 years

'Don’t worry book lovers – all is (almost) right with the world. The beautiful and much-loved State Library Victoria will be reopening its doors to the general public this week after the longest closure in the Library’s 164-year history.'

The State Library of Victoria is reopening to the public this week

Don’t worry book lovers – all is (almost) right with the world. The beautiful and much-loved State Library of Victoria will be reopening its doors to the genera

www.timeout.com

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4 years

The view from above 😍 How spectacular is this shot? It's not everyday you see a drone in the Dome! 📷Image by David Caird

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7 years

Today is #LibraryLoversDay so what better time to acknowledge all of the amazing public libraries around Victoria. They're doing terrific work bringing books and reading (and more) to people around the state. <3

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5 years

Looking for copyright-free pics? Your search is over. Each one of the 170,000+ images in our digital image pool is out-of-copyright. Pictured: H99.201/3009

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4 years

🥺 We’ll see you soon, Melbourne ❤️

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4 years

For some reason, this one made me tear up. Have never seen these steps not swarming with people. It's the state library. @Library_Vic @theage . pic by Joe Armao.

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"I wish that I could put myself into this sheet to shake hands with you, as you have put yourself into your writings and blessed me." #WaltWhitman was born two hundred years ago today. Meet his greatest Victorian fan.

‘Dear Walt’: Whitman in Victoria

Victorian school teacher Bernard O'Dowd entered a brief but remarkably intense and intimate correspondence with American poet and iconoclast Walt Whitman.

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6 years

We couldn't contain our excitement when best-selling international author, Haruki Murakami dropped in for a visit!

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5 years

"Library workers are quietly changing and saving lives. Providing informal mental health & wellbeing support, raising national literacy levels, supporting families & reaching out into their communities to make them stronger & more cohesive." @guardian

Closing libraries means abandoning society’s most isolated and vulnerable | Dawn Finch

As mental health services continue to be cut, librarians are becoming a lifeline for many, says author and library activist Dawn Finch

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

Today we're celebrating #WorldBookDay by sharing #booksthatchangedyourworld . Stay tuned to see which titles our followers have suggested!

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6 years

Dear @statelibrarynsw , We adore your spectacular stacks, digitised delights, gorgeous new galleries, magnificent Mitchell Library building & your beautiful garden-side location. 🙌 Gosh, you're such a stunner, we can't help but confess our love for #LibraryLoversDay ☺️

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8 years

Once upon a time it was #libraryshelfie day and, all across the land, the people rejoiced as they shared photos of their book shelves.

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5 years

Scenes in Melbourne CBD this morning #melbweather

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6 years

A-hoy matey! We’re behind the stacks discovering some hidden #rarebookspine treasure for #LibraryShelfieDay - the literary work of Harry Collingwood (a pseudonym for William Joseph Cosens Lancaster). He wrote 23 novels from 1886-1913.

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6 years

Today we’re writing love letters 💌 to libraries to thank them for all the ways they make our hearts skip a beat. Send your Library crush some love for #LibraryLoversDay #LibrariesChangeLives

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4 years

Running to the pub like...🤭 Happy days, Melbourne! 👏

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6 years

It’s official, we’ve partnered with @MelbWritersFest to become the heart of Australia’s favourite literary festival. See you at the Library for #MWF19

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5 years

“Libraries are very close to sacred spaces of worship, and the architecture of many of them rivals some of the world’s most famous cathedrals, mosques, and Buddhist temples.” Thank you @BookRiot for including us in this wonderful list! 😍📚

Visit 28 of the Best Libraries in the World | Book Riot

From oldest to largest, most popular to smallest, explore the planet and update your travel plans with this list of the best libraries in the world.

bookriot.com

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"We live in the most blessed country on this Earth." Congratulations to Archie Roach on winning Victorian Australian of the Year! 👏

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5 years

After a 16-year closure, The Ian Potter Queen's Hall will reopen to the public on Thursday 5 Dec. During restoration, layers of paint have been scraped back around the hall to reveal the original decorative paint scheme created by Edward La Trobe Bateman in 1859.

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7 years

Around 7 million records detailing the history of land use in Victoria are now available online after a major digitisation project, funded by @DELWP_Vic . The Sands and McDougall directories can be searched by anyone:

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6 years

It's our birthday! The very first building of the Melbourne Public Library opened on this site #OnThisDay in 1856. Watch this video to see how the Library has evolved to span an entire city block.

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6 years

Absolutely tragic to see history lost in flames today. 💔 We take some relief in the news that the cathedral's main structure and its significant collection of artwork and holy objects have been saved. Notre Dame by Bisson frères, ca 1858-1860. H87.84/6

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4 years

🎈 Birthdays are the perfect time to reflect on growth... ✨ How it started vs how it's going

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1 year

❣️ Wishing a happy retirement to our lovely & dedicated (45 years!) Senior Library Technician, Linda Notley. Sad news for us at @Library_Vic , but likely good news for @TroveAustralia . Linda is an avid text-corrector (114053 lines corrected) who may have more time on her hands!

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7 years

THANK YOU to the awesome Victorian Ghostbusters for averting an ectoplasmic crisis at the Library tonight #Halloween #Ghostbusters

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6 years

Every librarian is a hero to us, but smuggling 500,000 manuscripts out of Timbuktu is quite impressive. #librarylove

Librarians to the rescue! A brief history of heroic bibliophiles

Whether they’re saving books from censorship, or sheltering their community from danger, there’s nothing new about librarians choosing actions alongside words

www.theguardian.com

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9 years

Dome: the final frontier #whitenightmelb

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4 years

Happy #WombatDay ! We're sending you into the long weekend with an adorable snap of this much-loved Australian icon (aka the ultimate #chonk 😍) 📷 Wendy the Wombat, Healesville Sanctuary. H91.330/4571

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5 years

You might notice one shelf in the Dome that has no books... Rumor has it, every time the librarians filled this particular shelf, they would come in the next day to find books on the floor of the reading room 👻👻 We'll let the superstitious decide! #FridayThe13th

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4 years

We’re delighted to announce the Library will reopen to the public from Thursday 19 November. Details about spaces, services, collection access and pre-bookings will be available on Monday 16 November: We can’t wait to welcome you back soon! 🙌

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8 years

Happy #libraryshelfie day!

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6 years

"Every single day, your public library aims to provide something necessary or enriching – for free – for you and every individual in its locality. It aims to do this even for those who never darken its door, just in case one day they do."

Libraries are about democracy, not just books

Librarians like myself attempt at every turn to counter a pervasive idea that libraries are nice middle-class havens, a temple of books.

www.theage.com.au

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"It inspired me as an undergraduate student in 1968 – it was in the dome that I wrote my honours theses. I was lost in the research ... My mind teemed with infinite possibilities." – Author Arnold Zable found #inspiration in the domed La Trobe Reading Room #Archive30

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6 years

"Reading is more than a distraction; it is an active engaging of the imagination, which causes you to enter what psychologists describe as an altered state of consciousness." Susan McLaine on #bibliotherapy

Reading is so good for you

“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies — I mean books — that were written for one person on…

mnnews.today

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7 years

Grids on grids on grids. 🙃 Melbourne from above, somewhere between 1940 and 1950.

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1 year

🥰 Thanks for sharing the good news, @TimeOutMel !

Melbourne's State Library Victoria has been named one of the best in the world

The historic site has been named in the top 15 best libraries worldwide.

www.timeout.com

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4 years

🎂 We're celebrating 165 years of knowledge, stories and community.⁠ ⁠ 📖 The Library opened #OnThisDay in 1856, founded on the belief that free access to knowledge is critical to a thriving community. ❤️ Thank you to our Library community for all your support over the years.

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📣 Ned Kelly's armour has a new home at @Library_Vic ! 🔑 After a year-long hiatus due to Library closure, Ned Kelly's armour, rifle & colourful Jerilderie letter are now on display in the Library's South Rotunda. 🔗 Visit the new exhibition:

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5 years

This grand marble staircase was originally installed in 1913 and has been closed to the public since 2003. On 5 December, the marble-lous staircase will be reopened and you'll be able to follow in the footsteps of our first visitors. Grand opening:

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8 years

Purple, white & green tonight in honour of the Australian women's movement 👊🏼 #IWD2017

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5 years

People from all over Victoria have written on postcards about the librarians, programs, books and services that have made a difference in their lives. Today we're showcasing the value of Victoria's public libraries. @PubLibrariesVic #LibrariesChangeLives

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4 years

Our first readers back in the domed La Trobe Reading Room - and you have it (almost) all to yourself! ✨

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4 years

The Library roof is a site usually inaccessible to the public. However, @katetorney has the keys 🗝️ and invites you to join her as she ventures beyond the 'Keep Out' signs to take in an elevated vista of our beautiful city. 🏙️✨ Discover more:

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6 years

"Where are other places that people can go without any transaction required, where everyone walks in completely equal ... ? That is why libraries and particularly libraries in Australia are thriving." - @katetorney

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5 years

Feline in the mood to celebrate #InternationalCatDay ?🐈💕 Why not browse our cat-alogue for some purrfect snaps to share – go on and take a look, we're not kitten around!

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7 years

If there's something weird, and it don't look good... #Halloween

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6 years

Something big is happening. Today when you visit the Library, we’ll be welcoming you in via one of our two new entrances. The Russell Street entrance and a new accessible entrance on La Trobe Street open their doors at 10am. We can’t wait to see you inside. #hustletoRussell

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4 years

Then 👉 Now on High Street, Northcote. 📷 While working from home, we've been hitting the streets of Melbourne to replicate street photography from our collection! What suburbs would you love to see next? #TBT Image: Rose Stereograph Co between 1920-1954 | H32492/1585

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6 years

Vale Karl Lagerfeld. As well as Lagerfeld's incredible contribution to fashion, we'll remember him for the awe-inspiring, floor-to-ceiling library. Complete with catwalk and spiral staircase, his Parisian apartment holds more than 60,000 books.

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6 years

"Libraries are the places in society where money doesn’t buy you a better level of service, or a VIP entry, or a privileged seat at the table. The currency of libraries is knowledge..."

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6 years

It’s been 50 years since @NGVMelbourne moved to their current location on St Kilda Rd. Until 1968 we shared the space on Swanston St, where the Library is still located today. Happy anniversary NGV!

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5 years

Wouldn't be #LibraryLoversDay and #ValentinesDay without a little pun and a lot of kitsch ❤️📚

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5 years

Melbourne, you're in for a treat 🎄 From 29 November nightly projections on the Swanston Street facade will tell the story of 'a very Melbourne Night before Christmas,' written by @MelbWritersFest Director, Marieke Hardy, and narrated by Lee Lin Chin!

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5 years

Welcoming our first visitors through the doors! #JustAddCuriosity

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4 years

Some welcome news! We will be reopening in June. After the longest closure in the Library’s history, we’re looking forward to reconnecting in person with our Victorian community. We’ve missed you! Learn more:

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6 years

When every dollar spent on a public library delivers more than four times its value: #LibrariesChangeLives

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8 years

We will light up red & white tonight until Friday in solidarity with Turkey after the tragic attacks in #Istanbul

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5 years

#OnThisDay in 1918 ‘The Magic Pudding’ was first published. This Australian classic has stood the test of time, and 101 years on having never been out of print, the proof is in the pudding! 🐨🐧📚

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6 years

This mourning brooch is woven with the intertwined hair of two women who ran a sheep farm near Geelong from the 1840s. When Anne Drysdale died, her partner Caroline Newcombe had it made for a mutual friend as a remembrance. #memory #archive30 @ARAScot

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8 years

It's official. When in #Melbourne , Santa's preferred transport is the tram. (1963, Keith Kings collection)

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8 years

Today's #WorldPoetryDay ! To celebrate, we're sharing some book spine poetry. Send us your best book spine poems. 🙂

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6 years

Here's a colourful #shelfie from our rare book stacks 📚 by @KateMonypenny to celebrate #PaperbackBookDay . The Penguin New Writing series was a literary digest published in 1940s Britain. @statelibrarynsw we adore the Pelican titles too 😀

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7 years

Edna Walling's cat has been waiting for #InternationalCatDay and is very excited it's finally arrived.

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9 years

Tonight we will light up in blue, white and red in solidarity with France #PrayersForParis

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6 years

Great to see two Australian libraries feature here. Nice one @statelibrarynsw 👌

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#LibraryShelfieDay throwback, circa 1950. More info:

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5 years

If you're looking for copyright-free images for your creative projects this weekend (or to make memes) head to our digital image pool to start searching:

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9 years

1000s of high-res out-of-copyright images for you to download & use (free!) http://t.co/Uo3LINJ06b http://t.co/535LRjpA1y

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Library Board of Victoria President, Christine Christian has announced that Kate Torney will leave the Library in Sept to become CEO of the Peter MacCallum Foundation. ❤️ Thank you for all that you’ve done for @Library_Vic and Victoria, @katetorney . 🔗

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7 years

Hello spring 👋🏼 we missed you!

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6 years

Howzat? The Ashes Urn at the Library? – we’ve hit a six! 🏏😄

State Library Victoria scores the Ashes Urn

The iconic Ashes Urn is set to feature in State Library Victoria’s brand new exhibition, ‘Velvet, Iron, Ashes’.

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🚨Warning!🚨 If you submerge yourself in our digital image pool, it may be a while before you come up for air. Please only click through if you are prepared to dive through more than 170,000 out-of-copyright images! 📷 H99.201/676

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A little improvisation from the storage team 🎄

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