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Here you can find past issues of MIV's Useful Knowledge and Newsletter.

We are in the process of digitising the first 19 issues, so please check back as new issues become available online.

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Spring 1999 (0.2mb)

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*MIV's objectives

Summer 2000 (also titled Vol. 1. No. 3) (2.2mb)

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*Launch of Pam Baragwanath's If the Walls Could Speak

*MIV's First Life Membership Awarded

Winter 2000 (0.6mb)

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*Rediscovering Mechanics' Institutes Conference

*Community Partnerships Program

Summer 2001 (also titled Vol. 1, No. 5) (0.8mb)

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*'Remember the Mechanics'?' Travelling Exhibition launched

Winter 2002 (also titled Vol. 2, No. 1)

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Autumn 2001 (also titled Vol. 1, No. 4) (4.9mb)

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*MIV AGM

*Northern Territory Mechanics' Institutes

Autumn-Winter 2003 (also titled Vol. 2, No. 3) (4.9mb)

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*Forthcoming Mechanics' Worldwide Conference

Spring-Summer 2003 (also titled Vol. 2, No. 4) (5.5mb)

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*Grants for Mechanics' Institutes

Spring 2002 (also titled Vol. 2, No. 2)

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Spring-Summer 2004 (8.8mb)

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*Mechanics' Worldwide 2004 wrap-up

Autumn-Winter 2005

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Autumn-Winter 2004

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Spring-Summer 2005

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Autumn-Winter 2006

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Winter 2007

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Summer 2008

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Autumn 2008

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Spring 2007

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Spring 2008

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Winter 2008

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Summer-Autumn 2009 (8.9mb)

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*Kinglake West Mechanics' Institute

*Mechanics' Institutes Resource Centre

*Victorian Railways Institute

Spring 2009 (0.5mb)

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*Mechanics' Worldwide 2009

*Prahran Mechanics' Institute

*Classes in Mechanics' Institutes

Winter 2009 (0.7mb)

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*Burke Museum

*Prahran Mechanics' Institute

Summer 2009-2010 (0.2mb)

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*Storing collection in high bushfire risk areas

*Tribute to Pam Darling

*Essential services safety measures

Summer 2011 (0.5mb)

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*Grants

*Bonnie Doon Free Library

Winter 2011 (0.4mb)

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*Ballan Mechanics' Institute

Winter 2010 (0.3mb)

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*Carisbrook Mechanics' Institute

*From the archives of the Melbourne Athenaeum

March 2012 (0.4mb)

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*Christchurch Mechanics' Institute

*Mechanics' Institute Libraries

Spring 2011 (0.5mb)

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*Committees of Management

*Mechanics' Institute libraries

October 2012 (17.5mb)

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*North Adelaide Mechanics' Institutes

*ADFAS

Autumn/Winter 2013 (16.7mb)

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*Markets

Winter/Spring 2013 (12.2mb)

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*Home is Where the Hall is.

*Dance

Summer 2013 (15.7mb)

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*Mechanics' Worldwide 2012

*Gobur Mechanics' Institute

*University of Huddersfield

Summer 2013/2014 (11.7mb)

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*Performing arts

Autumn/Winter 2014 (6.4mb)

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*"We're Listening" - Kilmore Regional Forum

Spring 2014 (4.8mb)

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*"Lest We Forget"

Summer/Autumn 2015 (6.4mb)

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*Independent Libraries and Mechanics' Institutes Worldwide Conference 2016

*Whroo Mechanics' Institute

Winter 2015

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*Mechanics' On Show

*Prahran Mechanics' Institute

*Nurses Memorial Unveiled at Little River

*Army deployed to Walhalla

Spring 2015

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*Inaugural Wesson Lecture

*Regional Halls Forum at Lilydale Athenaeum

*Melbourne Athenaeum

*Echuca Mechanics' Institute Ex-Libris

Summer 2016

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*Upper Plenty Mechanics' Institute

*Inaugural Wesson Lecture

*These Walls Speak Volumes launch

Autumn 2016

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*Arthurs Creek Remembers Them

*Plaque No. 50 unveiled at Somerville

*Kellermeier's Queensland Institutes

*Mechanics'... and Proud of It!

Winter-Spring 2016

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*Gideon Haigh to deliver Wesson Lecture

* Unveiling of MIV Plaque at Ruffy Hall

*South-Eastern Surprise Bus Tour

Summer 2017

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*Reinvention was a triumph

*Telangatuk East Hall

*Lake Marmal Mechanics' Institute

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