SLV Email Newsletter October 2007
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In this issue:
1. Melbourne Cup Day services
2. Renewing the Library lawn
3. Stephen Murray-Smith Lecture recording
4. Inky Awards
5. Shane Warne portrait
6. Famous - last days!
7. Victorians on Vacation
8. Reading Victoria - The Summer Read
9. Biography - the impossible art?
10. Creative Fellow Lectures
11. Poetry Slam State Final
12. Treasures travel to regional Victoria
13. History Council Annual Lecture
14. The Art of the Collection
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FROM THE INFORMATION DESK
MELBOURNE CUP DAY SERVICES
On Tuesday 6 November, Melbourne Cup Day, the Library and its galleries will be open. However, opening hours and some services will be altered, reflecting the fact that it is a public holiday.
For full details see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/news/latest/171007.html?newsletter
RENEWING THE LIBRARY LAWN
The Library is currently preparing its front lawn for summer. We are working with the Melbourne City Council to determine which grass varieties will be best for a low-water, high-traffic environment.
For more information see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/news/latest/241007.html?newsletter
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LISTEN UP
STEPHEN MURRAY-SMITH LECTURE RECORDING
Did you miss the recent 2007 Stephen Murray-Smith Lecture? Dr Tom Griffiths spoke about Murray-Smith's voyage to Antarctica in 1985-6 and the cultural challenge of the continent of ice. The audio is now available online, along with a transcript of the lecture. A recording of the lecture will be broadcast on the ABC on 4 November.
To hear the audio or read the transcript online see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/ltf/lectures/smsl/2007/index.html?newsletter
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
INKY AWARDS
On 12 November, the winners of Australia's first teenage choice book awards, the Inkys, will be announced. Developed by the Library's Centre for Youth Literature and decided by young readers, the Inkys will recognise the best Australian book, to be awarded the Golden Inky, and the best international book, to receive the Silver Inky. Voting on a shortlist of three books per category has been open to under-25s since late September. If you know a keen teenage reader, send them to the insideadog website to cast their vote now - voting closes on 5 November.
To find out more see:
http://www.insideadog.com.au/inkys/?newsletter
SHANE WARNE PORTRAIT
The Library recently acquired a portrait of cricketing legend Shane Warne by Victorian artist David Ralph. The painting, one of only two Warne has ever sat for, is on public display in the Library's Newspaper Reading Room.
Find out more at:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/news/latest/221007.html?newsletter
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COMING EVENTS
FAMOUS - LAST DAYS!
'Famous: Karin Catt Portraits', our current Keith Murdoch Gallery temporary exhibition, closes on 11 November. If you haven't yet seen this wonderful collection of celebrity portraits, hurry in. The exhibition is open 10am-9pm Monday to Thursday, and 10am-6pm Friday to Sunday. On Melbourne Cup Day, 6 November, the exhibition will close at 5pm.
To find out more see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/exhibitions/kmg/2007/famous/index.html?newsletter
VICTORIANS ON VACATION
This upcoming free exhibition traces the ways in which we have enjoyed holidays and leisure in Victoria since the 19th century - from the seaside and the ski slopes to camping and caravanning. It showcases historical and contemporary material from the Library's collection, including photographs, travel posters and guidebooks, postcards and 1950s home-movies. The exhibition will be open from 30 November 2007 to 2 March 2008 in the Keith Murdoch Gallery.
More information will be available online from the end of October at:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/exhibitions/kmg/index.html?newsletter
READING VICTORIA - THE SUMMER READ
This summer, immerse yourself in great summer reading with the State Library's holiday reading program. Choose from the list of 20 recommended titles, and join readers all over Victoria to vote for your favourite. Participate in events at public libraries, hear celebrity readers at the State Library on Australia Day, and swap reviews and recommendations with other readers online.
More information will be available online in November.
BIOGRAPHY - THE IMPOSSIBLE ART?
Book now to hear noted academic and writer Inga Clendinnen deliver the 2007 National Biography Award Lecture on Wednesday 7 November at the Library. She will discuss whether biography is an impossible art, reflecting on Virginia Woolf's comment that 'Biography pretends that a life can be told, when experience teaches us that it cannot...'.
For more information see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/events/2007/nat_bio_lecture.html?newsletter
CREATIVE FELLOW LECTURES
November brings four more talks in this series featuring Library Creative Fellows discussing their research projects. Award-winning children's author Kirsty Murray speaks on 8 November about her latest novel, on 20 November writer Elizabeth Willis discusses gentlemen amateur collectors of Victorian Aboriginal material culture, writer Maria Tumarkin talks about her new non-fiction book 'Courage' on 22 November, and cartoonist Judy Horacek discusses her research on the concept of home and ordinary people on 27 November.
For more information see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/ltf/lectures/creative_fellows/index.html?newsletter
POETRY SLAM STATE FINAL
After months of regional heats and workshops, the state's top 11 slam poets will strut their stuff at the state final, on 22 November at the State Library of Victoria. They will be competing for prizes, accolades and a place in the national final in Sydney on 7 December. Hosted by performance poet Philip Norton with guest artists.
To find out more go to:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/poetry_slam/index.html?newsletter
TREASURES TRAVEL TO REGIONAL VICTORIA
The final Travelling Treasures program for the year goes on the road in November. It will visit public libraries and schools in Horsham, Warracknabeal and Nhill between 13 and 15 November. On display will be the Lazarus Diary, the Lofty Cannon Collection, Goldfields maps and an original account of the Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay.
To learn more see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/events/2007/travelling-treasures/index.html?newsletter
HISTORY COUNCIL ANNUAL LECTURE
Book now to hear Professor Janet McCalman give the 2007 History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture at the Library on 29 November. She will discuss 'Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians'.
For more information see:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/ltf/history_seminars/history.html?newsletter
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ONLINE SHOP SPOTLIGHT
THE ART OF THE COLLECTION
This lavishly illustrated publication celebrates the Library's extensive Pictures Collection, which documents the history of Victoria and its people from the early years of the colony to the present day. The collection ranges from 18th and 19th-century portraits and busts to contemporary portraits and landscapes. Among the artists represented in the book are Eugene von Guerard, Frederick McCubbin, Albert Tucker, Jan Senbergs and Howard Arkley. The book retails for $59.95 and is published by the Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of Victoria.
To purchase this book online see:
https://shop.slv.vic.gov.au/details.php?imageNo=SHOP0120&?newsletter
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