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July 2013
A roving writers’ festival arrives at the Library
By tchanning
Friday 26 July 2013
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If you wander up the stairs to the dome in the next few weeks, you’ll come across a collection of beautiful kangaroo-leather cases surrounded by bookshelves full of Indian literature. The books and cases are part of a travelling exhibition called...
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Categories: Behind the scenes
Sasha Grishin's spiritual home
By fnegrin
Thursday 18 July 2013
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Professor Sasha Grishin has been a friend of the Library for a long time. He was a Library Creative Fellow in 2010, he wrote a history of Australian art at the...
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Categories: Dome stories
Back to the future at a Carnival of Curiosity
By fnegrin
Thursday 11 July 2013
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The Library was transformed into a hive of discovery and surprises last Sunday as more than 5,500 people attended the free Carnival of Curiosity.
Marty McFly's DeLorean couldn't have competed with the Victorian-era time machine in the Library...
Read moreJohn Gollings pays tribute to the enchanted dome
By fnegrin
Monday 08 July 2013
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If architecture’s your thing, you’ll know the work of John Gollings.
John’s a legendary architectural photographer who specialises in photos of cities, buildings and landscapes from an aerial perspective...
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Categories: Behind the scenes, Dome stories
Atlases as sculpture
By tchanning
Thursday 04 July 2013
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Nicholas Jones is a Melbourne-based sculptor who uses books and printed paper to make works which question how books are ‘read’. I talked to him about his...
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Categories: Behind the scenes, Dome stories
The hummingbird craze
By fnegrin
Wednesday 03 July 2013
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At the centre of the Free, secular and democratic exhibition is a display case of more than 200 tiny hummingbirds, whose marvellous metallic plumage has to...
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Categories: Behind the scenes, Did you know?
