Paula and her son Joshua (12) told their story of belonging to Pop Up Story Catcher, Kirsten at our Big Day of Belonging in June. Mother and son discuss the colour of belonging, immigration and learning a new language. Paula: Belonging is every experience you have, like every morning in your life you have some … Read more
State Library of Queensland has released the code behind the Fun Palaces Comic Maker, a comic-making website piloted in 2015 as part of the global Fun Palaces event. The Comic Maker was designed and built by Talia Yat and Phil Gullberg of The Edge at State Library of Queensland, from a concept by SLQ’s Creative in … Read more
7 short videos about digitisation and conservation activities and equipment used at SLQ are now available to watch on Vimeo, as a resource for anyone wanting to explore the work done by our Collection Preservation team. Our preservation staff use specialised techniques to care for, preserve and make accessible a range of items according to … Read more
Over winter 2016, SLQ and the Queensland Poetry Festival partnered to deliver SlammED!, a series of slam poetry workshops and heats. The workshops were facilitated by a range of professional poets based in Queensland. Ten schools across Queensland held workshops and slam heats, and in total over 150 high school students participated in the SlammEd … Read more
Libraries are fun. For the more than two million public library members across the state, this would likely come as no surprise, but now research is confirming it too. Fun has been added to the list of common goals of libraries by the researchers behind the report Advancing Queensland Public Libraries. Findings from the research … Read more
Pop-up Story Catcher, Kirsten Fogg stopped by our Big Day of Belonging in June. Musician Sophie shared her feelings about when a stranger calls her beautiful. I grew up mostly here in Australia and partly in India. There is a lot of racism within my own culture back in India. I grew up not at all thinking … Read more
Verrierdale, a rural suburb at the northern end of the Sunshine Coast, is celebrating community history with a “Back to Verrierdale Day” on Saturday 1 October 2016. The Gubbi Gubbi people were the original inhabitants of this district, where heavy forests grew. Timber felling was a major industry after European settlement, with cleared land being … Read more
This Wednesday September 14 is Ask a Curator Day. It is a day dedicated to giving visitors direct access to the expertise of museum, library and gallery curators via social media. This year State Library of Queensland is joining more than 1,200 cultural institutions taking part in 52 countries. Participants are encouraged to ask anything that they are curious about or want more … Read more
We’re continuing to share stories of belonging, gathered by Pop-up Story Catcher Kirsten Fogg at our Big Day of Belonging in June. Natalie shares how her family reconnected in Brisbane after living overseas. “We used to live in England and when we were looking about for places to live in Australia again. My husband said he didn’t want to … Read more
The National Portrait Gallery has opened the Call for Entries for the annual Digital Portraiture Award, where an artist will win $10,000 cash and an artistic residency valued at $10,000 with The Edge, State Library. Now in its fifth year, the Award seeks to extend the traditional notion of portraiture to the digital realm and encourages … Read more