The longlist for the 2018 Inky Awards, Australia’s national teen choice awards for young adult literature, has been announced today.

Artworks inspired by images from the Library’s collections will be brought to life in stunning projections across the Library’s facade and under its iconic dome during White Night Melbourne.

Applications are now open for State Library Victoria’s prestigious annual fellowships program, with a new specialist fellowship for Victorian Aboriginal researchers offered from 2018.

Melbourne hobby artist Natasha Sim has beaten nearly 2000 entries worldwide to win State Library Victoria and Redbubble's #createarthistory international design competition.

State Library Victoria today awarded the 2017 Dromkeen Medal to esteemed editor and publisher Erica Wagner.

The Dromkeen Medal was founded in 1982 by Joyce Oldmeadow to honour outstanding contributions to Australian children’s literature. It has since been awarded to 35 prominent Australian writers, illustrators, editors, publishers and booksellers.

Around 7 million records detailing the history of land use in Victoria are now available online after a major digitisation project, funded by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, was released today at State Library Victoria.

Record crowds attended State Library Victoria last financial year with more than two million visits to the Swanston Street landmark, making it the busiest state library in Australia and one of the most visited libraries in the world.

State Library Victoria is opening up its collection to the world through a new partnership with global creative marketplace Redbubble.

Nominations for the 2017 Dromkeen Awards for Australian children’s literature are now open.

Victorians are set to benefit from two exciting new spaces at State Library Victoria, thanks to a $3.5 million donation from Australian business leaders and philanthropists Jane Hansen and Paul Little AO.