by PMI Librarian | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
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...
by PMI Librarian | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
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...
by PMI Librarian | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
Originally Published 20 June 2019 With the Miles Franklin Longlist out and the shortlist to be announced in a just over a couple of weeks. We thought a blog post highlighting the PMI’s fiction collection would be timely. The picture below is of our display of the...
by PMI Librarian | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
Originally Published 7 June 2019 Theatre has been an important part of the Melbourne cultural landscape since its inception. Community theatres have become meeting places for artists and audiences to converge, study, challenge and share creativity and ideas and often...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
Originally Published 3 May 2019 The PMI ephemera collection began its life as a vertical file collection (we’re in fact still in the process of changing the name on the Library Management System). A vertical file is clippings of articles (mainly from newspapers) and...
by PMI Librarian | Aug 7, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
Originally posted on 8th March, 2019 This Collection Spotlight we thought we’d shine the light on our electronic resources. The PMI has a really strong collection of electronic resources, from books, to audio recordings, indexes, electoral roles, databases,...
