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kazcooke.bsky.social
Please join us at the rally to save the #StateLibraryofVictoria from mismanagement & insane staff cuts. Library steps, Saturday 13 December at 12.30. Every citizen of this city owns this place & now we have to defend it. I'm sorry we're all so busy & distracted by bad things: but this we can do.
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
alexandraalmond.bsky.social
Rallying to save the state library #statelibraryofvictoria
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
kazcooke.bsky.social
Calling all Melbourne & Victoria #bookgroups & #readinggroups! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State #Library of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.) #StateLibraryofVictoria #ReadingMakesFriends
Eccentric dresser, British poet Edith Sitwell in sunnies and snood, and actress Marlyn Monroe in a demure black suit, sitting at either ends of a couch, genuinely delighting in each other's company.
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
chrisnsue.bsky.social
#Bibliophiles This is the State Library of Victoria in #melbourne🏛️ See the 4-part series on our #blog about public #libraries with impressive #architecture
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#books #chrisnsue #library #architecturephotography #librarylife #book #statelibraryofvictoria #reading #study
reading room with impressive dome and skylight, balconies
November 27, 2024 at 12:07 AM
chrismbr.bsky.social
#StateLibraryOfVictoria domed reading room, 1913, Bates, Peebles & Smart, the largest reinforced concrete dome in the world (34.75m diameter & height) for a short time; Rome’s Pantheon is 43m diameter & height. Napier Waller’s 1928 frescos represent ‘Peace After Victory’.
an octagonal room with a large shallow dome with skylights four photographs of a mural of figures and animals against a pale blue sky part of a mural with a man holding a basket of fruit on his head and a large white bull with flower garlands
May 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM
chrismbr.bsky.social
The #StateLibraryOfVictoria captured in sun immediately after rain. The #sparkle was intense.
a stone building with columns sparkles in winter sunlight
August 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
chrismbr.bsky.social
#StateLibraryOfVictoria Forecourt #PHOTO2024 display: apparently images of protest and diversity, but I can’t credit them as the organisation has stupidly removed them from the website, the idiots.
April 1, 2024 at 3:51 PM
amandahuang.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #slv #StateLibraryOfVictoria
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM