Editing State Library Victoria (section)

=== Exhibitions ===
The Library has a permanent exhibition, ''[https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/world-of-the-book World of the Book]''. The exhibition features more than 300 rare, remarkable, historically significant items in the State Collection, celebrating the unique place books have in our culture. The Library also mounts [https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on special exhibitions] of the Library collection and of international loans. 2022-23's ''The Rest Is Up To You: Melbourne Fringe Festival 1982-2042'' was the Library's most popular exhibition on record. It was co-curated with the [[Melbourne Fringe Festival]] and featured innovative display of [[oral history]] recordings about the festival in celebration of its 40th anniversary, as well as items from the Melbourne Fringe archive held by the Library. In 2023, ''MIRROR: New views on photography'' was the first exhibition at an Australian cultural institution to embed [[Auslan|sign language]] throughout. The exhibition showcases over 140 photographs from the State Collection, alongside creative responses from emerging and established Victorian storytellers.
In October 2023, the Library opened ''Luminous: A thousand years of Hebrew manuscripts''. This is the third in a series of exhibitions at the Library featuring major international loans and about the significance of books and the written word to various cultures. ''Luminous'' follows ''The Medieval Imagination'' in 2008, which looked at European manuscripts, and 2012's ''Love and Devotion'', which focused on Persian manuscripts.

The Library's first born-digital exhibition was launched in 2023. ''Beyond the Book: A journey through the Treasures of the Emmerson Collection'' used state-of-the-art [[photogrammetry]] techniques to digitally capture rare books about the [[English Civil War]] in extreme detail. The exhibition was the result of an [[Australian Research Council]] linkage project. The Library worked with the [[Australian National University]], the [[University of Newcastle (Australia)|University of Newcastle]] and the [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka]].