Instituting The Past: The inner mechanics of the PMI Victorian History Library
Instituting The Past: The inner mechanics of the PMI Victorian History Library is a blog from the members and staff of the PMI Victorian History Library.
For the last 170 years we have been a community owned and run library specialising in the history of Victoria, Australia. The library collection is the only lending collection of its kind in Australia – with over 30,000 books for loan and over 40,000 items on site, including titles that are unavailable elsewhere.
This blog contains news about the library and research happening within it’s walls. We have everything from professional historians, to fiction writers, to architects and family historians visiting us, so this blog will always have something interesting. We also include book reviews from both our members and our staff.
We hope you enjoy Instituting The Past and if you’re interested in the library come down and say hello, our professional staff are always happy to help with any historical queries you might have.
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Plotting History: Stella M. Barber
Originally Published 15 August 2019 I have been a member of the PMI for so long I can hardly remember how I came to join. I think I joined in 2001, by which time I had been working as a freelance historian for 3-4 years. Prior to that I worked for Coles Myer, managing...
Meet The Volunteers: Patrick Galvin
Originally Published 8 August 2019 Patrick (Pat) Galvin AM has been a member of the PMI for almost 20 years and a volunteer for nearly ten. A former senior career Commonwealth public servant (Secretary Department of Arts, Heritage and the Environment , Chairman...
Collection Spotlight: Books on Music
Originally Published 30 July 2019 Music is the most important thing in the world to me. Without music of any kind, the universe has no colour. The right song can teach you about yourself and about the people around you; the right song can influence your mood; the...
Collection Spotlight: DVDs
Originally Published 18 July 2019 Did you know that the PMI has a DVD collection? It’s nonfiction (so no Australian movies) but there is an interesting array of Australian stories. In particular, there is a lot of railway material so if that is something that you’re...
Town of the Month: Maldon
Originally Published 11 July 2019 Located within the Shire of Mount Alexander about 20 km from Castlemaine and 136 km from Melbourne, the town of Maldon has often been described as being entirely classified by the National Trust of Victoria. In fact that is not too...