by PMI Librarian | Jan 8, 2025 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally Posted 25 June 2020 Elena began volunteering at the PMI in 2019. Some of her volunteering background was working with indexing, including some archive work with the National Trust in their fashion collection and the Beechworth Pharmacy records. She...
by PMI Librarian | Jan 7, 2025 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally Published 14 January 2020 We’re kicking of this year’s Instituting the Past with a post from one of our newer volunteers Siti- who has been doing an amazing job repairing our damaged books. My name is Siti Suryanata, I joined the PMI Library in...
by PMI Librarian | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally Published 27 November 2019 Irene is our longest serving volunteer, she’s been volunteering for 11 years. The photo is of her receiving her long term volunteer award at the Volunteer High Tea earlier in 2019. I started volunteering at the old PMI...
by PMI Librarian | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally Published 24 October 2019 I’m Jake MacDonald and a relative newcomer to the library-Â and indeed Australia. My first library volunteer shift was at the end of June and I’ve been in the country since February 2018. My wife Clare was recruited to...
by PMI Librarian | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally Published 19 September 2019 I commenced volunteering with PMI around May/June 2018. I think I had previously visited on a library-themed excursion some years ago but that was back when the library was located in its original historical premises on High...
by PMI Librarian | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog, Events, Volunteers
Originally Published 11 September 2019 On the 16th and 17th of August the PMI was proud to present the inaugural Victorian History Showcase. The Showcase was run by the Friends of the PMI under the leadership of Wendy Eldridge.  We’ve asked Wendy to write an...
