The State Library was alive with excitement and activity last Sunday as more than 5,500 Victorians attended the first Carnival of Curiosity which transformed the Library into a place of creativity, storytelling, performances and talks.

Sue Roberts, CEO and State Librarian, has announced the appointment of Ms Justine Hyde to the position of Director Library Services and Experience to complete the new State Library leadership team.

The State Library of Victoria is proud to announce the 2013 winners of The R E Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Awards. Each of these talented writers will receive funds to help bring their scripts to the stage.

What will a Victorian public library look like in 2030? How will Victorian community needs have changed? These questions and others are explored in the Victorian Public Libraries 2030 Strategic Framework.

Today the State Library of Victoria announces the recipients of the 2013-14 Creative Fellowships, a program started ten years ago to foster the creative use of the State Library’s collections and resources. 

The anticipated Inky Awards longlist of ten Australian books and ten international books was announced as the Centre for Youth Literature’s 2013 Reading Matters Conference drew to a close at the State Library of Victoria on Saturday.

As the State Library of Victoria continues to celebrate the centenary of its iconic Domed Reading Room, Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria came to the party with a surprise gift – $6.7 million to fund repairs to the 100-year-old dome.

The creation of Melbourne’s earliest cultural institutions and the people who conceived them are the subject of a new State Library of Victoria exhibition: Free, secular and democratic: building the Public Library 1853–1913.

Reading Matters, the State Library’s biennial youth literature conference begins Thursday 30 May with a stellar line-up of Australian and international authors leading three days of discussions, workshops and events.

UNESCO has added three 19th-century goldfields diaries from the State Library of Victoria collection to the Australian memory of the world register. The diaries provide first-hand accounts of the most significant moments of the gold rush.