The 2026 Victorian Library and Information Award is open and in closes on the 21st of June. Ellen Coates, ALIAVic Convener, sat down with last year’s winner Pru Mitchell to talk winning the award, and why nominating your colleagues is so important.
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The hold shelf
The hold shelf sits just inside the entrance, level three, close enough to the doors that it feels less like furniture and more like part of the building’s circulation system, something you pass through rather than arrive at, unless you know it’s there and slow down deliberately, which I always do.
The Margaret Hamilton Creators’ Residency
The Margaret Hamilton Creators’ Residency is a new initiative from the NSW branch of The Children’s Book Council of Australia [CBCA] and provides a week of...
Bowled over by the MCC library
On a trip to Naarm in early February, I had the opportunity to visit the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) Library. The Library is housed at the Melbourne Cricket...
Moon festival at Fisher library
As the full moon rises across many parts of Asia, families gather, lanterns glow, and stories of reunion fill the air. At the University of Sydney, we brought...