LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS – OCTOBER 2023

VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY
7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia.
Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040
E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com >
Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com >

THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.

                                       ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  OCTOBER  2023

BOOKS.

1. The Virtuous Weed, Weeds by Name only, not Weed by Nature by Dr Nimal R. Chandrasena.

     (Donated by the Author, Winthrop, W.A.) 

2. Stay, Daughter – A Memoir of Muslim Girlhood by Yasmin Azad, 202

                     (Donated by Dr Firazath Hussain, Galle, Sri Lanka. Conveyed to Melbourne by Buddhika Samarakkody, Glen iris, Vic) 

3. Sri Lanka, War Stories by Stephen Champion, 2008.

                     (Donated by Ajit St John, Meadow Heights, Vic)

MAGAZINES.

1. Lanka Monthly Digest, International, July – September 2023
2. Lanka Monthly Digest, International, October – December 2023, 3 Copies.

                     (Donated by the Publishers, Colombo, Sri Lanka, courtesy  – Brendon Ferdinand)) 

3. ‘Serendib’, Inflight Magazine of SriLankan Airlines, Vol 20, No 6, November – December 2000.
4. ‘Serendib’, Inflight Magazine of SriLankan Airlines, Vol 21, No 1, January – February 2001.

                     (Donated by Ajit St John, Meadow Heights, Vic)

NEWSLETTERS

1. “The Harbinger’, Family Magazine, Australia / Sri Lanka Welfare Guild Inc (ASWG), Vol 48, No 4, October 2023.
2. “The Old Aloysian News Quarterly, Journal of the Old Aloysians Sports Club (Australia) Inc – March 1998, April 2000, August 2000,

                      December 2000, April 2001, August 2001, December 2001, April 2002, August 2002, April 2003, August 2003, August 2004, 

                      December 2002, December 2004, April 2005, August 2005, April 2006, August 2006, December 2006, April 2007, August 2007,

                      December 2007, April 2008, August 2008, April 2009, August 2009, April 2010, August 2010, December 2010, April 2011,

                     August 2011, December 2011, April 2012, August 2012, December 2012, April 2013, August 2013, December 2013, April 2014,

                     August 2014, December 2014, April 2015, August 2015, December 2015, April 2016, December 2016, August 2016, April 2017,

More Read

Fabulous international dinner and music by popular artistes Shehara Rodrigo and Melantha Perera ends successful RSL events for 2025. By Trevine Rodrigo in Melbourne.

YOUNGEST LYRICIST IN THE ARCHIVES OF SRI LANKA SAJITH V CHATHURANGA CONTRIBUTED LYRICS TO THOUSANDS OF SONGS OF POPULAR VOCALISTS – By Sunil Thenabadu

THE FANTASTIC WEEKEND AT HIKKADUWA IN OCTOBER 2025 BY COLOMBO BRANCH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND FAMILIES

                     August 2017, December 2017, April 2018, August 2018, December 2018, April 2019, August 2019, December 2019, April 2020,

                     August 20230, December 2020, December 2021, April 2022, August 2022, December 2022, April 2023.

                     (65 Copies, Donated by Ajit St John, Meadow Heights, Vic)       

OTHERS

1. The Buddhist Sangha in Ceylon and Thailand by Hans-Dieter Evers, Reprint Series 33, Yale University, USA, 1968
2. Buddha and the Seven Gods” The Dual Organization of a Temple in central Ceylon by Hans-Dieter Ever, Yale University, USA, 1968.
3. SriLankan Airlines, Menu List, Colombo – Melbourrne and Melbourne – Colombo.

                    (No’s 1 – 3, Donated by Ajit St John, Meadow Heights, Vic)