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Newsletter No 86 - May 2015 NEWSLETTER NO 86 - MAY 2015 OFFICIAL OPENING All PMI members are invited to the: INSIDE Opening of the new Around the Library ........2 Writing History: PMI Library Bryan Francis ............ 5 Books Etcetera ................6 by the Mayor of the City of Stonnington, Cr Melina Sehr Historic Happenings .....7 and the President Cr John Chandler OAM 2.00pm, Saturday 30 May ABOUT THE PMI 39 St Edmonds Road at the Moss Room, PMI, 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran Prahran VIC 3181 ABN 1316 4635 256 Refreshments will be served. Sec. Lib.: Tim McKenna Please RSVP by Friday 22 May 9510 3393 or [email protected] Pres: Cr John Chandler COMING UP EXHIBITION CONTACT P 03 9510 3393 E [email protected] Annual General On the Home Front: WW1 W www.pmi.net.au Meeting! in Caulfi eld and Beyond OPEN: M-F 9.30am-4.30pm Sat 9.30am-1.00pm 2.00pm on Sun 31 May excluding public holidays. Details p. 3. An exhibition from the ISSN: 1836 2567 (print) Glen Eira 1836-2559 (pdf online) Historical Published quarterly. Society Feedback/suggestions for this Explore newsletter may be directed to a display writer/compiler featuring Christine Worthington everyday life for those at home and the role of BOOK SALE! the community in supporting 10am-12pm, Sat 13 Jun the war effort. This newsletter is sponsored by: Mason Room On show in the Windsor Community Bank® (ground fl oor, 39 St Edmonds Road) William Moss Room, PMI Branch & Prahran Market Branch Hardbacks $2 ON NOW until Tue 26 May Paperbacks $1 This is a FREE exhibition and is a National 111 Chapel Street, PMI Members Only Trust Heritage Week event. Windsor VIC 3181 Ph 9510 9311 ALL WELCOME! www.windsor Volunteering to community.com.au help with the sale entitles you to FIRST DIBS. Contact Ursula 9510 3393 or [email protected] Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Newsletter No 86 ▪ May 2015 Page 1 of 8 NewsletterMay.indd 1 22/02/2016 10:16:16 AM AROUND THE LIBRARY Above left: Helen Doyle conducting the fi rst lecture in the Moss Room see p.2 Above right : First visit to the new library by a historical group : members of Carisbrook Historical Society. Below: First volunteer function at the Moss Room with PMI President Cr John Chandler OAM on far left. Make sure you visit Glen Eira Historical Society’s exhibition in the Moss Room before it fi nishes (last day will be 26 May) and don’t forget to sign the visitors’ book. Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Newsletter No 86 ▪ May 2015 Page 2 of 8 NewsletterMay.indd 2 22/02/2016 10:16:48 AM AROUND THE LIBRARY MEMBER NEWS GENERAL NEWS New Members images of the local area of that time. Helen’s book Welcome to the following Suburbs at war : the cities of Malvern and Prahran during the new members who joined Great War was launched on 30 April and we look forward Mar-Apr: to acquiring a copy for the PMI Library. The McCalman Lecture was in hiatus while we prepared for our move, so it was great to resume presentation of this event with the Prahran Historical & Arts Society. This was a very fi tting fi rst lecture at our new premises. ■ Catalogue If have the old Civica catalogue bookmarked or favourited on your computer, please change this link to http://library.pmi.net.au as the old catalogue is no longer Financial Donors Jadzia Lemieszek being updated and will soon be closed. Thank you to the following Michael Macgeorge Some work is still being carried out on our new members who made fi nan- Ian Matthews catalogue and we appreciate your patience as this work cial donations to the library Jennifer Matthews progresses. In the meantime, if you experience any Mar-Apr: Cecile Rees hiccups we would be pleased to assist - christine@pmi. Ron & Ruth Cameron Keith Rogers net.au or 9510 3393. Philippe De Gail Philippa Strang To log into the catalogue and view your record : Katrina Goddard George Swinburne ◘ click ‘catalogue’ on the right in the main menu across Margaret Hicks the top ◘ type in your email address and password (until you change it your default password will be your surname all in lower case) and click ‘log in’, your name should appear Book Donors ◘ the input boxes should then be replaced by a Thank you to the following Jim Ellwood ‘welcome ... [your name]’ message people and groups who Graeme Fischer ◘ then hover your mouse over ‘catalogue’ in the main donated books to the Fergus Gibson menu and amongst your alternatives should be library Mar-Apr: Robin Grow ‘My Details’, ‘Loans & Reservations’ and ‘Change Fran Bader Holy Trinity Church Password’. You can even have a go at saving searches B.M. Thomas Balaclava and recording your areas of interest - more about these Barbara Brown Stuart Smith (functions) in the next newsletter. ■ Judith Buckrich Sir Ninian Stephen Cinema & Theatre Yarra Plenty Regional Student Engagement Historical Society Library From Monday 25 May to Friday 12 June we will be joined Sally Edwardes Ursula Zamecnik by Erica Cooper, a placement student from the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. Erica will be learning about the role and services of the PMI GENERAL NEWS library, our users and their needs, our collection and other information resources, cataloguing, classifi cation AGM and Offi cial Opening and indexing and our library system. Accompanying this newsletter should be your notice of An information management student from Monash the PMI’s Annual General Meeting to be held Sun 31 May University Information Management, Linda De Fina 2015 in the Moss Room. visited the PMI on 29 April to interview Christine for Refreshments provided - please RSVP by Monday 25 May an information service investigation. Topics included so we can make seating arrangements. objectives, policy, technology, user education and Reports will be provided on RSVP. information access. There is one committee position up for re-election. If The PMI has always enjoyed interest from students, you wish to nominate for the committee, nomination particularly of history and of library and information forms are available from the Secretary Librarian. studies, but our capacity to assist with assignment work Nomination forms must be received by 4.30pm Sat 23 and professional experience placements was limited May. in the past by a lack of space and resources. We are Because we’ll be holding library opening and the AGM confi dent that our new library gives us a far greater on the same weekend, there will be no lecture on AGM capacity to engage with tertiary students and education day this year. Still we hope to see good attendance at our providers. The PMI benefi ts by increasing our profi le fi rst AGM at St Edmonds Road. ■ within this sector and by our being able to draw upon the up to date knowledge students can bring to their McCalman Lecture placements. Thank you very much to Helen Doyle for conducting the Congratulations to Susanne Jones (one of our volunteers Laurie McCalman Lecture on 28 March (pic p.2). It was and also a Masters of Information Management student) very interesting to hear about and see so many fantastic who has found full time work as a school librarian. Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Newsletter No 86 ▪ May 2015 Page 3 of 8 NewsletterMay.indd 3 22/02/2016 10:16:50 AM AROUND THE LIBRARY GENERAL NEWS Members might remember that Susanne also fi lled in for staff leave last year, and she’s also helped us with some Get your collection management duties on a weekly basis for the past 14 months. Susanne joins a growing list of our volunteers who have succeeded in fi nding employment in libraries and PMI Mouse Mat though we miss them we are very pleased to see them using their developing skills and experience to transition today! to the employment they seek in the fi eld. ■ Newsletter Only $4 Thank you very much to those members who have converted the way they receive the newsletter from posted hard copy to email. Available at the loans desk If you currently receive the newsletter in hard while stocks last. copy, but have an email address and would be happy to receive the digital version, we’d very DON’T MISS OUT! much appreciate it. Let us know: [email protected] ■ VOLUNTEER NEWS Volunteer Function Our volunteers had a chance to kick back in the Moss Room on the day of our annual volunteers function (see pic, p.2). Postponed because of our move, we were pleased to be able to fi nally thank all those hardworking people who have contributed so much to the library over the past year. After an introduction by Christine Worthington about the year’s volunteer contribution, PMI President Cr John Chandler OAM thanked the volunteers on behalf of the committee. He then presented each with a letter of thanks and gift. The catering costs for the day were covered by a City of Stonnington Community Grant, and we’re very grateful for Stonnington’s continued support for our volunteer program. SHORT HISTORY PRIZE 2015 2014 Volunteer Statistics The PMI invites you to participate in the In 2014, 18 volunteers contributed 953 hours’ work in 2015 Short History Prize. the library (including book care, archives, newsletter mailing, collection administration support and assistance Prize: $1,000 – $500 for the author(s) and $500 for the with the move) and 8 book indexes (covering Apsley, associated historical group. Dennington, Avenel, Baranduda, Mittyack, Queenscliff, Topic: A historical essay, article or work of a place or Seville, Maldon, Tarrangower, and Wandiligong).
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