March 21, 2012
Get up, stand up…for libraries
In 2010, the UK government announced a swathe of public service cost cutting measures. These included the proposed closure of up to ten per cent or 450 public libraries READ MORE
February 9, 2012
Open learning @ The Hub
When the University of Adelaide’s Hub Central opened last September, students found the doors open at 7.00 in the morning, and by 10.00 the new learning hub was packed. READ MORE
June 8, 2011
A bias against the quirky
Madmen’s Don Draper, the enigmatic creative director at fictional Madison Avenue agency Sterling Cooper, is an appealingly unorthodox character. READ MORE
April 2, 2011
Texture and spirit – the fibre art of Meg Viney
The lush landscape of Victoria’s south Gippsland region is home to many things – dairy cattle, organic produce, a wild coastline fronting the notoriously fickle Bass Strait, and a thriving arts community. READ MORE
March 11, 2011
Places of Invention
1995 – it marked a threshold between the old and the new millennium, and the buzzword for this millennium was knowledge. The ‘knowledge revolution’ posed tremendous challenges, opportunities and threats to the library profession, in particular. READ MORE
September 23, 2010
Hidden treasure
Marion Milner had always wanted to be an artist. But the biologist, and later psychoanalyst, became frustrated with the conventional drawing techniques she had learned. So she began to experiment READ MORE
July 15, 2010
Day-to-day sisu
Drawn to mathematics and art as a child, Katherine Longhurst saw architecture as the perfect intersection between the two. READ MORE
June 22, 2010
Jessica’s Adventure
Jessica Douglas-Henry has been making documentaries since the early 1990s. Until recently, Jessica’s company, Iris Pictures, moved along in an organic, word-of-mouth way, building a reputation for sensitive and probing work that explored different aspects of human experience. READ MORE