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Wednesday 30 July 2025
Discover Melbourne's Oldest Lending Library
The Melbourne Athenaeum (originally known as the Melbourne Mechanics’ Institution) houses the city’s oldest lending library. Commencing as a collection of donated books in a rented house at the corner...read more
Thursday 31 July 2025
From Convict Printers to Book Arcades
The recently published From Convict Printers to Book Arcades completes the three volume History of the Book in Australia, a project begun in the 1990s. It takes its place alongside...read more
Thursday 31 July 2025
The Archaeology of an Archive
The artists’ archive, through its retention of materials, leaves similar footprints for the researcher and maker to discover. Our three presenters, Peter Lyssiotis, Dr Anne Holloway and Kerri Klumpp, treat...read more

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