by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Originally Published 30 May 2019 A haunting book without being bleak, a feat in and of itself. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart draws deeply on the Australian landscape and is intensely evocative in its depiction of the natural environment. It also has one of the best...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally posted on 15th March, 2019 A chance meeting with a PMI Library staff member resulted in my visiting the library and kindly being given a guided tour. I immediately thought that I would love to volunteer in such a fine library with great historical as well...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Originally Published 24 May 2019 Why doesn’t Hawthorn Rd go to Hawthorn? And why is there a Junction Hotel at Oakleigh? The first remains a puzzle but the second makes sense. By 1895 Oakleigh was the junction of three railways: the Outer Circle, the Gippsland and the...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
Originally Published 3 May 2019 The PMI ephemera collection began its life as a vertical file collection (we’re in fact still in the process of changing the name on the Library Management System). A vertical file is clippings of articles (mainly from newspapers) and...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Volunteers
Originally Published 17 May 2019 Hello everyone, my name is Donna Mead and I have been a volunteer at the PMI since August 2018. I am studying to be a librarian whilst working in the joyous world of car claims. I spend most of my day dealing with people who do dumb...
by PMI Librarian | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Local Histories
Originally Published 1 May 2019 On the first of May 1854 a meeting was held in Prahran, the rules for the new Prahran Mechanics’ Institute were gazetted and the PMI declared itself into existence. William Moss (local congregational minister) moved that the institute...
