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- Stella Days Out – Victoria 2025
We would like to invite you to our three upcoming Stella Days Out in Melbourne and Victorian surrounds. We aren’t done for the year, and still have Melbourne, Ballarat and Aireys Inlet left to visit. We have many jam-packed sessions with Stella-listed writers and local moderators lined up, with book sales, signings, drinks, and canapes to boot. MELBOURNE Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2025 Location: Quest NewQuay, 26… - Creating Community Circular Hubs – Webinar
Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN) Learning Forum Climate Action – Creating Community Circular Hubs This free webinar brings together changemakers from across Australia to explore how Circular Hubs can foster sustainability, inclusion, affordability, and stronger community connections. It’s a chance to connect libraries, councils, and community organisations around practical climate action. What’s on offer: Practical strategies to share, repair, and reuse — cutting waste and… - Melbourne Writers Festival: 2026 Local Libraries Program EOI
From 6 October, Melbourne Writers Festival welcomes expressions of interest for the 2026 MWF Local Libraries Program. Each year, the festival offers a selection of libraries the opportunity to bring a piece of Melbourne Writers Festival right into their own local community. Working closely with MWF’s programming team, you’ll have access to our wide catalogue of guests to develop an event that best appeals to… - Save the date: PLV Conference 7 & 8 September 2026
Public Libraries Victoria is delighted to advise that we have set the date for our next statewide conference to be held on Mon 7 and Tues 8 September 2026 at Rydges Melbourne. With the theme of ‘Libraries – Loud & proud’, the conference working group is already engaged in planning and preparation for what promises to be an excellent and affordable opportunity for sharing, networking,… - The Librarians: Screening and Panel Discussion
Monday 10 November, 6.00PM – 10.00PM The Capital Theatre, 113 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Join Informit and CAVAL for a powerful evening that explores the global fight for intellectual freedom through the lens of The Librarians, a documentary that reveals how librarians in the United States are standing up against sweeping censorship efforts and political intimidation. 📽️ About the Film Librarians emerge as first responders in… - Deadline extrended to 28 September: Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project
Calling all Victorian oral history collection holders – the Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project wants to hear from you! Do you hold an oral history collection in Victoria? Are you confident that your collection will be safe in 10, 20 or even 50 years? If not, the Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project wants to hear from you! This project asks any… - Play in Australian libraries – survey
A group of Victorian public library folks and others is presenting a panel promoting public libraries at Melbourne’s international games convention, PAX Australia, at 10:30am on Friday 10 October. This convention draws over 40,000 folks of all ages (but with a strong contingent of young adults) from Australia and around the APAC region. As part of this presentation we are conducting a survey on what… - VCE Students Exam Revision in School Holidays – FREE!
This program is designed to support students — particularly those in rural and regional communities who may not have easy access to subject-specific exam revision resources — as they approach the end of their VCE journey. As a social enterprise, Skyline Hatch is committed to reducing education inequity by making high-quality resources accessible to all Victorian students. This free program is supported by the Department…