Explore your family history: Genealogy research through ADPML
Did you know that August is Family History Month? While the month is half over, it’s never a bad time…
What in the world is pteridomania?
If there is one thing librarians love, it’s strange and little-known words. Interrobang, omnilegent, biblioklept, librocubicultarist – these are a…
Discovering Deakin Library’s Special Collections
When Deakin students Ishya and Jacob started the unit SLE352 – Community Science Project, they were given an assessment task…
Exciting news: Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial (Special Collections) Library is reopening its doors
We have some fantastic news to share with all the library enthusiasts out there! The Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial (Special…
Exhibition of rare library items at Deakin Downtown
A very special collection 31 October – 13 December Deakin University Downtown Gallery Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins…
‘The book of my heart’: the Children’s Encyclopaedia
Our Special Collection contains many items read and used by children throughout history, including particularly the Australian schools textbook collection…
Beautiful botanical illustrations on display
Despite the wide use of photography as a record keeping medium, botanical illustration is still necessary for the scientific descriptions…
Listening to the lyrebirds: the Sex, Lyres and Audiotape podcast
For hundreds of years, Australia’s remarkable wildlife has proved to be a source of fascination for many amateur and professional…
Interactive sugar hit
To create an interactive game to highlight one of our largest special collections, the cookery collection. Our curator of Special…