by PMI Librarian | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog, Plotting History
Originally Published 14 June 2019 My name is Tim LAMBOURNE I am a Sergeant in the Victoria Police Force, a third generation police officer and a research officer for the Victoria Police Historical Society, (V.P.H.S.). The aims of the V.P.H.S. are to promote and...
by PMI Librarian | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog, Collection Spotlight
Originally Published 7 June 2019 Theatre has been an important part of the Melbourne cultural landscape since its inception. Community theatres have become meeting places for artists and audiences to converge, study, challenge and share creativity and ideas and often...
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...
