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AntarcticaBooksAntarctica: Scientific co-operation in the seventh continent /

edited by Jo Monie (1990) [donated by Len Regan]

Australian LiteratureThe War Artist / Simon Cleary (2019)

Jimmy Longtail: An Australian epic / A. Michael Blaire (2018)

Antarctica .......1Australian Literature ........1Australian History ............2Victoria ...........3Other States ....5Tasmania.........5Western Australia .........6Art & Artists ...6Biographies .....6Collectibles & Hobbies ...........6Company Histories .........7

Family History .7Food & Wine ..7Immigrants & Immigration ...7Military Histories .........7Politics & Government ...8Religion ...........8Railways & Transport ........9Reports & Planning .........9Sport ...............10Women ...........10

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PeriodicalsAustralian Book Review: ABR P 028.1 ABR

No.410 APRIL 2019: Pioneering photography: Images from the Australian Museum [Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 by Vanessa Finney] / Philip Jones p13. Another country: The first single volume history of South Australia in fifty years [History of South Australia by Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p16. Not. At. All. A grenade of a book in a lolly wrapper [Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn] / Suzy Freeman-Greene p20. Public intimacies: When the personal became political in 1970s Australia [The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia by Michelle Arrow] / Zora Simic p21. Apotheosis of the right: Two takes on Australia’s political terrain [Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The hard right in Australia by Dominic Kelly and Rise of the Right: The war on Australia’s liberal vaules by Greg Barns] / Andrew Browrtjes p33. Back to earth: The original version of Gerald Murnane’s second novel [A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane] / Paul Giles p36. Bete noire [Islands by Peggy Frew] / Bronwyn Lea p38. The common lot [Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith] / Francesca Sasnaitis p39. Stresses [The War Artist by Simon Cleary] / Robin Gerster p41. Elegy and warning [The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson] / Jane Rawson p43. A couple of radicals: Rescuing the Blackburns from other people’s footnotes [The Blackburns: Private lives, public ambition by Carolyn Rasmussen] / Jacqueline Kent p45. Middle way: On the nation-shaping importance of elections [Elections Matter: Ten federal elections that shaped Australia by Benjamin T. Jones] / Lyndon Megarrity p47. Nature’s lap, nature’s book: The Weindorfers on Cradle Mountain [Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story by Kate Legge] / Jared Hore p50. Publisher of the month with Meredith Curnow p60. Arbus & West / Fiona Gruber p62. Two feet / Lee Christofis p63. A View From the Bridge / Maxim Boon p66. Salome / Michael Halliwell p67.

Australian HistoryBooksSigned by Hand / NLA (2017)

Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion / Louise Swinn (ed) (2019)

The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia / Michelle Arrow (2019)

Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia’s newspaper empires / Sally Young (2019)

Quarterly Essay: The worried well: The depression epidemic and the medicalisation of our sorrows / Gail Bell (2005) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe]

Country Estates of Australia: Cottages, farmhouses, manors and mansions / Janelle McCulloch (2006) [donated by Bayside Library Service]

Australia Remember This Too! / Bob Byrne (2018)

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PeriodicalsTraces: Uncovering the past P 994 TRA

Vol.6 2019: Flinders Street Station, Melbourne p8. Cycling through time / Rupert Guiness p10. Young Irelanders in Tasmania Part 2 [William Smith O’Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, John Mitchell, Kevin Izod O’Doherty and Terence Bellew MacManus] p12. The unexpected legacy of McWhirters Department Store / Melissa Fagan p17. How hope was Australia’s true gold / Mary-Anne O’Connor p22. Spotlight on Bendigo: A heritage goldmine / Eden Cox p25. Delving deeper into your ancestry / Caroline Haigh p32. Fiction from genealogy [Garth family] / Lynette McDermott p34. Finding your German ancestors / Kate Hutcheson p37. Mapping your family tree [using State Library of Victoria maps for family history research] / Simeon Barut p39. Visiting your ancestral towns [Thomas North and tracing family in country towns] / Rod North p41. Cantonese connections: The origins of Australia’s early Chinese migrants / Dr Kate Bagnall p43. Alice Anderson / Loretta Smith p46. Finding Mary Bishop / Jon Heppell p48. Missed opportunities [Maggie O’Donoghue, Tom Robinson] / Denys Slee p50. The dark side of the moon: Part 1 [Luna Park] / Roy Maloy p52. The lost white tribes of Australia [survivors of Dutch shipwrecks settling in Australia] / Henry Van Zanden p56. Ghost signs and the stories they tell / Dr Stefan Schutt, Robert Gray and Tobias Nash p59. Dinkum / Jessica Barratt p61. Shrouded house: Collection care at Rouse Hill House & Farm / Rebecca Jones p62.

VictoriaBooksBendigo The Bendigo & Eaglehawk Tram Lines [DVD] (2013)

Castlemaine Castlemaine Bird Walks: A guide to walks and birds in the Castlemaine district / Damian Kelly (2018)

Gippsland Is Emu Off The Menu?: Historic homes and recipes of Gippsland / Emu Committee (2007) [donated by Ann Andrew]

Llowalong Llowalong Soldier Settlement / Judy Richardson (2019)

Melbourne Literary Melbourne: A celebration of writing and ideas / Stephen Grimwade (2009) [donated by Marie Pernat]

Spring Gully A History of Spring Gully via Fryerstown / Ken James (2019)

Toorourrong Just Add Water: A social history of Wallaby Creek, Toorourrong and Yan Yean Reservoirs / Friends of Toorourrong (2019)

Western Melbourne How the West Was One / Karyn Howie and Sue O’Brien (2017)

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PeriodicalsAnglesea Anglesea Historical Society: Coastal current P 994.52 ANGL COA

No.122 AUTUMN 2019: Those Magnificent men in their flying machines in Anglesea [First reported flight 15/2/1920 with Pilot Lieutenant Charles Pratt] (Geelong Advertiser 4/1/1921) [Mishap to Lieutenant Charles Pratt’s Avro machine at Anglesea and kewpie mascot stolen] / Jan Morris p4. Moggs Creek 50 years ago / Jane Forster p5. Catalogue item 0652 the joke is on me [Australian Natives’ Association] / Susan Clarke p6.

Anglesea Surf Coast Family History Group: Inverlochy log P 994.52 ANGL INV Vol.71 MARCH 2019: It’s not all online - Early hospital records [Alice Rogers, Rees Jenkins, Alfred Davis, William Timms, Henry Girdwood, Robert McKay, Isabella White, Norman McVitty] p4. Mousley Family of Anglesea / Susan Clarke p5.

Dandenong Dandenong Historical Society: Gipps-Land gate P 994.51 DAND GIP Vol.47 No.1 APRIL 2019: Retirement of the Gippsland Gate editor-Carmen Powell / Chris Keys p1. Early golf in the district [history of Kingswood Golf Club] p2. Dr Pat Wellington p14. People and places [JWH (Bill) Toon] p30. Harking back 1943 8th September-10th November [Mrs. WHA Rodd, Japanese POW cards, Pte TH Ely, LAC Jack Sadler, Lf Liuet Jack Canterbury, showground damage, EW Corbin and a leaking house, vandalism at sewerage works, Dandenong ACF, Alan Keith Allan p40. Alfred James Gartside] / Ben Pursell p36.

Doncaster and Templestowe Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.51 DONC DON MARCH 2019: The Furphy water cart p1. Guest speakers [mines of North East Melbourne with Peter Hanson] / Glenys McIntyre p3.

Inverloch Inverloch Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.56 INVE INV No.239 FEBRUARY 2019: Ripple information panels [signage installed and funded by Bass Coast Shire] p2. The Amazon 1863 shipwreck project 15 Nov - 5 Dec 2018 Heritage Victoria a business unit of DWELP [Dr Maddy McAllister has completed her report on this heritage project and provided a copy to the Society ahead of publication and a link will be available on the website an extract is included] p2.

Knox Knox Historical Society: Knox historian P 994.51 KNOX KNO Vol.1 FEBRUARY 2019: Bushfires menace homes at the Basin (Argus 29/11/1937) p2. School time memories [Punished left handers] / Ian Bowler p5. School Days [Cadet Corps, weapons used] / Ray Peace p5. The start of another school year [Cuisinaire rods for arithmetic, Infantile Paralysis Epidemic school closures 1938] / Elizabeth Phillips p7. Arbor Day at the Basin (Weekly Times 19/8/1916 and 9/12/1916) [George Puddephat] p8. Black Saturday 7th February 2009 / Amanda Eades p9.

Korumburra Korumburra and District Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.52 KORU KOR No.30 MARCH 2019: The Korumburra and Bena state schools (Great Southern Advocate 20/2/1896) p3. The Korumburra excursion [1200 people visited the coal centre at coal creek] (The Age 15/11/1893) p3. Korumburra [Weather and Natural Disasters] (The Australasian 30/4/1898) p4. History of the Arawata Cricket Club / Frank Harrison April 1935, p4.

Lilydale Lilydale and District Historical Society: Now and then P 994.51 LILY NOW FEBRUARY 2019: Vale founding and life member Sandy Ross p1. Cartoon by local WW1 ANZAC [George Hastie 58th Battn Australian Imperial Forces Bermondsey Military Hospital Lewisham 20/4/1917] p3. Rare Cave Hill Bacon advertisement [Advertising David Mitchell style in 1906, found Victor Harbour South Australia] p5. Cr Len Cox OAM p5. Court House repainted then the vandals struck p6.

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RECENT ADDITIONSMaryborough Midlands Historical Society, Maryborough: Diggings P 994.53 MARY DIG

Vol.31 No.1 FEBRUARY 2019: Januaries past [bottled water 1939, Minister for Transport Mr Stoneham stops fire 1947] p2. Welcome Stranger: 150 years p3. Highland gatherings of the past p5. Large Family portrait p6. History turns full circle: The Lowenstein trowel p7.

Mornington Mornington and District Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.52 MORN NEW No.284 FEBRUARY 2019: Australia day 2019 / Janet Groves p6

Mortlake Mortlake and District Historical Society: Shadwell stories P 994.57 MORT MOR FEBRUARY 2019: Editorial [Mortlake community centre, Colonial Bank, Three Castles Carey bridges p1. A conversation with Ann Gee p2. Castle Carey Bridge [Niel Black and Castle Carey Bridge] p3. The Soiree at Kolora (Mortlake Dispatch, March 19th 1870) p4. A search for family 1893-1897: A son rediscovers family in England for his father [Alexander and Charles Goodall] / Kelvin Goodall p5.

Nhill Nhill and District Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.58 NHIL NHI No.71 JANUARY/MARCH 2019: Memories of Kellytown / F K McKenzie p1. Wimmera welcomes Mr. and Mrs Hinkler p2.

Torquay Torquay Museum Without Walls: History matters P 994.52 TORQ HIS Vol 4 No 1 MARCH 2019: Cutting the Bells Track: Cutting the track from Jan Juc to Bells Beach, probably for the first time in 1960 [Colin Blunt finding his way from Torquay to Bells Beach via the old Cobb and Co track, Australian Surfing] / Colin Blunt p4. Remembering Boong [John Boong Robinson, Springside house] / Chris Barr p10. Old butcher’s shop / Cheryl Baulch p11. It was 50 years ago [Rip Curl’s 50th Anniversary, Old bakery in Boston Road] / Chris Barr p12. History of the wetsuit / Jock Serong p16. The changing fabric of Torquay: Sybil Stock [Sewing Rip Curl’s first wetsuits] / Chris Barr p20. ANZAC Day: A Time to remember [Point Danger, Sydney Melbourne Keith Smith] / Helen Sceney p24. Victoria Tower Shipwreck [The Iron Clipper Victoria Tower] / Cheryl Baulch p26.Research Month: Melbourne General Cemetery / Jeff Atkinson p28. Mt.Duneed Grave Stories: William Bickers / Gwen Threlfall p32. Town Talk: As reported in Geelong Advertiser [Jan Juc name change] / Cathy Smith p34.

Warragul Warragul and District Historical Society: Monthly bulletin P 994.56 WARR WAR No.512 FEBRUARY 2019: Last meeting [Professor Erik Eklund and the Centre for Gippsland Studies] p1. Strange disappearance from Warragul Railway Station p12.

Warragul Warragul and District Historical Society: Monthly bulletin P 994.56 WARR WAR No.513 MARCH 2019: Last meeting [Judy Farmer on stories of Drouin] p1. Warragul and Drouin Gazette, dated February 19 20919 [industrial hemp industry and the history of the Warragul Oil Mill Company] p6.

Northern Territory Other StatesBooksA Handful of Sand: The Gurindji struggle, after the walk off / Charlie Ward (2016)

TasmaniaPeriodicalsTasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and proceedings P 994.6 THR Vol.66 No.1 APRIL 2019: The long history of Australia in 45 minutes: What are the hallmarks of our history, Tasmania included / Geoffrey Blainey p4. 99 bends [Queenstown hills and the winding road] / Raymond Arnold p17. Cycling in nineteenth-century Tasmania / Rosemary Sharples p25. John Francis: Royal assassin, Launceston builder / Derek Binns p47. A short holiday of 65 years ago [1887-1888] / Mrs E.A Reid p57.

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Western AustraliaPeriodicalsRoyal Western Australian Historical Society: History West P 994.1 HIS

APRIL 2019: History in the city [the ship Duyfken] p2. Members’ research projects-part 2 [Gena Culley-Innerhadden, Hilaire Natt- Isidro Oriol, Jan Richardson-Don Mcleon-Rachel Roe-Thomas Martin Dann and Elizabeth Grace Dan] p3. Still Hale and heart: Bishop Hale-Father Ted Doncaster’s community talk p4. A library query [was the Kookaburra introduced to Western Australia] / Hilaire Natt and Jill Maughan p5. Affiliates and other news [Irwin and Districts Historical Society, Maritime Heritage Association, Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association, Melville History Society, Rockingham District Historical Society, Walpole Nornalup and District Historical Society, Family History WA, Friends of Battye Library] p6.

Art and ArtistsBooksCostume in Australia, 1788-1901/ Marion Fletcher (1984)

BiographiesBooksThe Resilient Man [Frederick Illingworth] / David Illingworth [3 volumes] (2019)

A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett: Author, teacher, activist for indigenous justice / Sue Taffe (2018)

The Blackburns: Private lives, public ambition / Carol Rasmussen (2019)

Bush Wireless / Ian Braybrook (2015)

Collectibles and HobbiesBooksWhite Ensign 1939-1945: The Navy goes to war / Chris and Tina Coulthard-Clark (1993) [donated by

David Frost]

Gaining Ground: Landcare in Australia / Rosemary Clark (1992) [donated by Len Regan]

World Down Under / John van Tiggelan (1995) [donated by Len Regan]

Once, A Splendid Coin: An arcadian story behind the 1938 shilling / Edward Stephen Burns (2012)

Australians Under Fire 1942: Australia’s heritage in stamps / Australia Post (1991) [donated by Len Regan]

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Company HistoriesBooksThe Hico Story: Dairy herd improvement in Gippsland and Colac / Ann Andrew (2016)

[donated by Ann Andrew]

Family HistoryBooksOur Families: Not too many skeletons [Parker, Edwards, Tucker, Peart families] /

Margaret Edwards [electronic resource] [2004] [donated by the Edwards family]

Archie and Nornie Gooch: Married at Kilamany Park 3rd may, 1911: Their story for their family, who gathered at Kilmany Park 7th May 2011 / Ann Andrew (2011) [donated by Ann Andrew]

Food and WineBooksWine Hunter / James Halliday (2006) [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]

Immigrants and ImmigrationBooksNoone is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten: Eye-witness accounts of the Holocaust from

Melbourne residents / Association of former inmates of Nazi concentration camps and ghettoes from the former Soviet Union (2008) [donated anon]

Growing Up African in Australia / Maxine Beneba Clarke (2019)

Ideology and Immigration: Australia 1976 to 1987 / Katherine Betts (1988) [donated by Itiel Bereson]

Military HistoriesBooksLost Boys of ANZAC: First to join, first to fight, first to die / Peter Stanley (2014)

[donated by Bayside Library Service]

VietNam Voices Australians & The Vietnam War / Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (2000) [donated by Melbourne Museum]

Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 / Brian MacArthur (2006) [donated by Bayside Library Service]

Men of Mont St Quentin: Between victory and death / Peter Stanley (2009) [donated by Bayside Library Service]

The Battle of Long Tan: The legend of ANZAC upheld / Lex McAulay (1986) [donated by Bayside Library Service]

Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France 1916-1919 / EPF Lynch ed Will Davies (2006) [donated by Bayside Library Service]

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RECENT ADDITIONSPolitics and GovernmentBooksFrom Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsorary

voting / Judith Brett (2019)

Quarterly Essay: Bad news: Murdoch’s Australian and the shaping of the nation / Robert Manne (2011) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe]

Quarterly Essay: Kangaroo court: Family law in Australia / John Hirst (2004) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe]

Quarterly Essay: Breach of trust: Truth, morality and politics / Raimond Gaita (2004) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe]

Quarterly Essay: Latham’s world: The new politics of the outsiders / Margaret Simons (2004) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe]

Quarterly Essay: Sending them home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference / Robert Maine (2004) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe]

ReligionBooksThe Time of My Life: The memories of Sister Patience OBE CCK / Sister Patience

(2017) [donated by Sister Patience]

PeriodicalsAustralian Catholic Historical Society: Journal P 282 CAT

Vol.39 2018: Archdeacon John McEnroe: An architect of the Australian church / Edmund Campion p4. Lewis Harding, catechist at Norfolk Island Penal Settlement 1838-1842 / Colin Fowler p13. The life and contribution of Bishop Charles Henry Davis OSB (1815-1854) to the Catholic Church in Australia / Graeme Pender p29. Beyond Melbourne: Nineteenth century cathedral building in the diocese of Perth / Odhran O’Brien p45. Missionaries from many lands: The nineteenth century foundations of the Catholic Church in Western Australia / John Kinder p57. Law and religion in Western Australia: Cooperation or conflict? / Michael Quinlan p73. Their eminences, An Eminence Grise, and ruffled feathers: The sometimes rocky voyage of St Patrick’s Church Hill, within the Archdiocese of Sydney / Peter McMurrich p93. Francis McGarry and the ‘little flower black mission’: Encounters of a Catholic lay missionary with Indigenous people of central Australia 1935-1944 / Charmaine Robson p107. In search of Cardinal Gilroy / John Luttrell p119. The development of a system of Catholic schools in Greater Sydney and the emergence of Catholic education offices / Kelvin Canavan p129. Humane Vitae after fifty years / Deirdre Grusovin p146. Humane vitae: The beginning of the end of Tridentine Clericalism / Desmond Cahill p149. Catholic social justice and parliamentary politics / Susan Ryan p164. Royal Commission into Institutional responses to child sexual abuse: Lesson and learnings for the People of God / Robert Fitzgerald p171. My fifty years as a Sydney priest: Homily at Golden Jubilee mass, St Andrew’s Malabar 20 August 2016 / John de Luca p191.

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Railways and TransportBooksDiesel Spectrum : Part one. Private operators / David Attenborough (2004)

More Rail Motor Journeys [DVD] (2007)

Remembering ‘The Beechy’: 50 years after closure. Featuring the films of Keith Atkinson [DVD] (2012)

Keeping Things on Track: Railway preservation in Victoria and its place within the broader heritage movement from 1954 to 1986 [thesis] / Peter Enlund (2018) [donated by Peter Enlund]

Rail Motors Across Victoria - 1950s and 1960s [DVD]: Featuring the films of Keith Atkinson (2008)

PeriodicalsNautical Association of Australia: The Log P 387.205 NAU

Vol.52 No.1 Issue 215 2019: M.V San Eduardo / Capt. D. Wilson p19. HMAS Forceful / P. Nunan p21. Studying for ‘Tickets’ [Second Mates Certificate of Competency] / Capt. P. Hay p26. Maritime news p36.

Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division): Newsrail P 385 NEW Vol.47 No.4 APRIL 2019: The Geelong tramways / Trevor Penn p104. Railway remnants: The 105 M.P bridge p110. Naynook to Noojee p112.

Australian Railway Historical Society: Australian railway history P 385 AUS Vol.70 No.978 APRIL 2019: The Tasmanian main line railway: Part 1 / Jim Stokes p4. Colac and district football trains / Norman Houghton p18. My days in Queensland railways’ bridge carpentering gang 1959 to 1967 / Trevor Mussig p22. William Rowan and this steam railcars / Darryl Grant p29.

Australian Bus Panorama P 388.322 AUS Vol 34 No. 6 MAY/JUNE 2019: Bus advertising in Truck & Bus Transportation. Part 1: Bus Sales and Comair / Steven Haby p4. Morgan Family, Foster / Alan Ofak p9. Australia Day 2019 - a photo essay / Grant Wise p11. Calderwood Coaches 1927 to 1973 / Paul Kennelly p14. Keith Kings RIP / Paul Kennelly p57.

The Times : A journal of transport timetable history and analysis P 388.041 TIM Vol. 36 No. 4 issue No. 423 APRIL 2019: Travel through NSW on $2.50 per day / Michael Vale p3. Slow flights to Melbourne / James T Wells p7. An editorial survey of railway public timetables of Australasia (Part 1 - introduction and NSW 1855-1905) / Victor Isaacs p9.

Reports and PlanningBooksRegional Planning in New South Wales and Victoria since 1944 with special reference to the Albury-

Wodonga growth centre / CP Harris and Kay E Dixon (1978) [donated by Colin Davis]

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SportBooksThe Hum of the Wheels the Roar of the Crowd: Five cycling Shaw brothers from Woolloomooloo /

Harry Irwin (2018)

Wheel Life: Cycling reflections of the 1950s & 1960s / Ben Schofield (2014)

WomenBooksUnfettered and Alive: A memoir / Anne Summers (2018)

The Women’s: Carers, advocates and reformers / Medical History Museum University of Melbourne (2019) [donated anon]

GOVERNANCEThe PMI is incorporated under the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Act No 1617 (1899) and operates under the Rules of the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute and Circulating Library, gazetted in the Victorian Parliament on 24 July 2007.Members are provided with copies of the PMI legislation and Library Policy on request, and can join our mailing list to receive committee meeting minutes.

CommitteeThe PMI is administered by a committee of seven people. Six Committee members are elected by the members of the PMI at the annual general meeting for a four year term of office and one person appointed by the City of Stonnington. The current PMI Committee Members are:

f Dr Judith Buckrich (President)

f Cr Steve Stefanopoulos (Vice President & City of Stonnington representative)

f Mr Ben Quin, CPA (Treasurer)

f Cr John Chandler OAM

f Dr Michelle Negus Cleary

f Mr Chris Michalopoulos

f Mr Tim McKenna

THE PMI LIBRARY STAFF f Steven Haby, (BASocSci Librarianship) (Secretary Librarian)

f Ellen Coates (BA (Hons); MA (Info. Stud.)) (Collections Librarian)

f Christine Moysey-Barker (AssocDegInfoStud) (Marketing and Communications Officer)

The Prahran Mechanics’ Institute is an institutional member of the Australian Library & Information Association and is a member society of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

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