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 27, 2024 | Blog, Committee, Meet the Staff and Board, News
The PMI Victorian History Library Inc. welcomes a new member of the Board – Mr Paul Davis, who will also chair the Board’s Finance, Risk and Audit Committee. Paul has qualifications and leadership experience across various organisations in business development,...
by PMI Librarian | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog, Plotting History
Originally Published 14 June 2019 My name is Tim LAMBOURNE I am a Sergeant in the Victoria Police Force, a third generation police officer and a research officer for the Victoria Police Historical Society, (V.P.H.S.). The aims of the V.P.H.S. are to promote and...
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, Book Review
Originally Published 30 May 2019 A haunting book without being bleak, a feat in and of itself. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart draws deeply on the Australian landscape and is intensely evocative in its depiction of the natural environment. It also has one of the best...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally posted on 15th March, 2019 A chance meeting with a PMI Library staff member resulted in my visiting the library and kindly being given a guided tour. I immediately thought that I would love to volunteer in such a fine library with great historical as well...
