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Profile of the PMI Victorian History Library

Ellen Coates — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:25:01 +0000

The PMI Victorian History Library began life as the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute in 1854 and it still hold true to its original aims of being for the mental moral improvement and rational recreation of its members, by means of Lectures, Discussions, Library, Reading Rooms, Classes, Museum, Philosophical Apparatus, &c. The PMI Library still does all of this, excepting the museum and the Philosophical Apparatus, as the current staff remains unclear on exactly what a “Philosophical apparatus” constitutes. Today the PMI Library specialises in Victorian history and holds a collection of over 70 000 items onsite in its building in Prahran. Most of the PMI Library’s collection is available for loan to its members, with membership only costing $30 a year.

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The hold shelf

Alyssa Jade McDonald-Beartl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:24:22 +0000

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.

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Bowled over by the MCC library

Emily Wilson AALIA(DCP) — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:21:06 +0000

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 Ground (MCG), on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, in an area that has been a site of learning since time immemorial. During… Read More »

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