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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- A colourful breakdown of the various ways characters come to a sticky end in Shakespeare’s plays. openculture.com/?p=1012394 via @openculture
- A sight for sore eyes! 😍 We love having visitors back in the bright and beautiful La Trobe Reading Room.
00:00 - Welcome to a place where your presence is not conditional on buying something. #LIW2019 📷 by Mae Brathanasanti
- 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: slv.vic.gov.au/closure
- Greeting the first visitor through our doors after the longest closure in the Library’s history. Welcome back, Jo! ☺️
- 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!
- We’re back! After the longest-ever closure in the Library’s history, we reopen our doors in just two minutes. 🥳
- 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.
- 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 bit.ly/cataloguecats
