Remarkable Occurrences
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
ISBN : 9780642107305
Treasures from the World's Great Libraries
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : Canberra : National Library of Australia
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
Full-colour illustrations of all the items in the exhibition with commentary on each.
A Room Made of Leaves
Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1925923460
Book Description
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, best-selling author Kate Grenville.
Bibliography of Australia
Author : John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780642990464
Book Description
Sorry Day
Author : Coral Vass
Publisher : National Library of Australia
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0642279039
Book Description
There was a hum of excitement. Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced with delight. 'This is a very special day!' her mother said. Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology to show a willingness to reconcile the past for future generations. In the excitement of the crowd Maggie loses touch of her mother's hand as is lost. In a time 'long ago and not so long ago' children were taken from their parents, their 'sorrow echoing across the land'. As the Prime Minister's speech unfolds Maggie is reunited with her mother. But the faces and memories of the stolen generation are all around them. Two stories entwine in this captivating retelling of the momentous day when the then Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, acknowledged the sorrows of past and said 'Sorry' to the generation of children who were taken from their homes. The book includes a foreword from Lee Joachim; Chair of Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative and Director of Research and Development for Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation.
No Shelf Required
Author : American Library Association
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838910548
Book Description
Sue Polanka brings together a variety of professionals to share their expertise about e-books with librarians and publishers. Providing forward-thinking ideas while remaining grounded in practical information that can be implemented in all kinds of libraries, the topics explored include an introduction to e-books and their different types, an overview of their history and development, e-book technology, why e-books are good for learning, and how librarians can market them to a wide range of users.--[back cover]
Illustrating the Antipodes
Author : Philip Jones
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2021-08
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780642279507
Book Description
George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes, and rapidly assembled a portfolio of 250 fine watercolours. In this fully illustrated volume, Philip Jones has used Angas's sketches, watercolours, lithographs and journal accounts to retrace his Antipodean journeys in vivid detail. Set in the context of his time, Angas emerges both as a brilliant artist and as a flawed Romantic idealist, rebelling against his father's mercantilism while entirely reliant upon the colonial project enabling him to depict pre- and early colonial ways of life.
Mountains
Author : Alasdair McGregor
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780642279644
Book Description
On Australia's mountains, the great sagas of the earth from its earliest days are inscribed for those who care to look closely. Alasdair McGregor traces the rise and fall of the Australian continent, from mountains of ice and fire to those of iron and those with their heads in the clouds. An expansive contemplation of natural, geological and social history, McGregor's account defies Australia's reputation as the flattest continent on earth, illuminating the landscape in all its breathtaking height and glory. Australian mountaineer Greg Mortimer describes his own long connection with mountains big and small, and his particular affection for the ancient peaks of Australia.
The Past Web
Author : Daniel Gomes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030632911
Book Description
This book provides practical information about web archives, offers inspiring examples for web archivists, raises new challenges, and shares recent research results about access methods to explore information from the past preserved by web archives. The book is structured in six parts. Part 1 advocates for the importance of web archives to preserve our collective memory in the digital era, demonstrates the problem of web ephemera and shows how web archiving activities have been trying to address this challenge. Part 2 then focuses on different strategies for selecting web content to be preserved and on the media types that different web archives host. It provides an overview of efforts to address the preservation of web content as well as smaller-scale but high-quality collections of social media or audiovisual content. Next, Part 3 presents examples of initiatives to improve access to archived web information and provides an overview of access mechanisms for web archives designed to be used by humans or automatically accessed by machines. Part 4 presents research use cases for web archives. It also discusses how to engage more researchers in exploiting web archives and provides inspiring research studies performed using the exploration of web archives. Subsequently, Part 5 demonstrates that web archives should become crucial infrastructures for modern connected societies. It makes the case for developing web archives as research infrastructures and presents several inspiring examples of added-value services built on web archives. Lastly, Part 6 reflects on the evolution of the web and the sustainability of web archiving activities. It debates the requirements and challenges for web archives if they are to assume the responsibility of being societal infrastructures that enable the preservation of memory. This book targets academics and advanced professionals in a broad range of research areas such as digital humanities, social sciences, history, media studies and information or computer science. It also aims to fill the need for a scholarly overview to support lecturers who would like to introduce web archiving into their courses by offering an initial reference for students.
Songs of Central Australia
Author : Theodor George Henry Strehlow
Publisher : Angus & Robertson Publishers
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
This is Strehlow's most widely regarded work and the culmination of his anthropological work related to the Aranda (Arunta) people of the Alice Springs region. In this work Strehlow records the patrilineal chants or songs of the Aranda people and puts them into a wider context of totemic cultural understanding. Of particular interest is Chapter 10, the love songs of the Aranda people, which pre-date European romantic conventions by several thousand years.
