Archive for: October 2011

  1. Rare Maps

    The Rare and Historic Map Collection comprises 15,000 culturally significant maps, mostly covering Melbourne, Victoria and Australia, and is located within the University’s collection of 100,000 …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/10/28/rare-maps

  2. Protest!

    The John Ellis Photographic Collection was bought from the artist, a documentary photographer, by the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) in 1999. This incredible collection of …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/10/26/protest

  3. Home Beautiful

    The University of Melbourne’s Architecture and Planning Library Rare Materials Collection contains some wonderful historical items, mostly obtained through donations from architects and planners and the …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/10/14/home-beautiful

  4. Cambridge in Words and Pictures

    One of the fine collections within the University’s Special Collections is the Cambridge collection, consisting of 600 volumes when it was purchased by the University from …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/10/12/620

  5. Vale Diana Gribble

    As co-founder of three publishing companies, Di Gribble had a profound effect on Australian literature and public commentary. ‘Diana Gribble was a legend in Australian publishing, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/10/06/vale-di-gribble