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Family enjoys sharing Shoosh by Simon Howe

Shoosh! A great story about making noise

Our new range of Stories for Little Queenslanders books is designed especially for 0-5 year…

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Traffic entering and leaving the second permanent Victoria Bridge in Brisbane ca 1913

History of Brisbane's Victoria Bridge

The Victoria Bridge, the Brisbane River’s first road crossing has had a long and interesting…

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Whittreds Bakery deliver bread during the 1942 floods Gaal Whittred Collection Bundaberg Regional Council Image number qbun00041

Bundaberg floods on Flickr Commons

Queensland is no stranger to extreme weather events, especially flooding. State Library is looking back…

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Sound as historical material: developing a new way of cataloguing, describing and accessing sound in the archive - Part 2

Guest blogger: Seth Ellis - 2019 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence. I spent the Mittelheuser scholarship-in-residence experimenting with…

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Houses in the Ipswich region underwater during the 2011 Queensland floods

Remembering the 2011 Queensland floods

This year marks 10 years since the devastating Queensland floods of January 2011. Parts of…

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Stack of small neodymium magnets with ban icon

Fatal Attraction - Using Magnets in Your Projects

Fatal Attraction – Using Magnets in your Projects Since their discovery in 1984, small, powerful…

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