LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS – JANUARY 2026

VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY
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                                            ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  JANUARY  2026

BOOKS.

1. The Celestial Maidens by Dodwell Keyt,    (Donated by the Author, Rosebud, Victoria)
2. A Tale From  a Promised Land, Novel, by Palitha Ganewatta – 2 Copies.  (Donated by the Author,  Epping, NSW)
3. Christmas in Ceylon, A Childhood Memoir by Dodwell Keyt, 2025. (Donated by the Author, Rosebud, Victoria)
4. The Chronicle, 1874 – 2024, Wesley College, Colombo, edited by Jeremy Brohier, 2024.
5. Wesley to the Fore, Wesley’s Cricket History, 18092 – 2012, compiled by Jeremy Brohier, 2012

                     (No’s 4 – 5,, Donated by Trevor Collette, Endeavour  Hills, Vic)

6. Rienzie Wijetilleke  Revisited by Savithri Rodrigo, 2019.
7. Looking for Doug, Doug Walters: An Australian Cricketing Legend by NimaL R.Chandrasena, 2024.
8. The Victims. A Novel by Buddhadasa Hewage, 2013.
9. Catalyzing Good Governance Through National Media by Shiranee Dissanayake, 2024.
10. Under Velupillai  Prabhakaran – Christain Fundamentalism, Tamil Casteism, Teenage Pregnancy by Harischandra Wijyatunga, 2012.
11. Four Decades at the BOC by D. B. T. Edirisinghe, 2022.
12. Passionately Cricket by Anura Tennekoon, 2020.

(No’s 6 – 12, Donated  by Sunil Thenabadu, Bahrs Scrub, Qld)    

MAGAZINES.

1. LMD International, January –March  2026, Vol 3, Issue 3, . (3 Copies)

    (Donated by LMD International, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka)

NEWSLETTERS & PERIODICALS

1. Newsletter, St Peter’s College OBSC Melbourne, Summer 2025.
2. Newsletter, Tamil Senior Citizen Fellowship (Victoria) Inc, No; 78, January 2026.

OTHERS

1. “Soundscapes of  Belonging: Auditory memory, migration and transcultural identity among Sri Lanka migrants in Melbourne by 

     Tharupathi Munasinhe, 2026, 21pp.

2. Souvenir, Tamil Senior Citizen Fellowship (Victoria) Inc, 5th Anniversay Souvenir, 15 January 2026.