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Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook

Changing Coastlines examines Australia’s cartographic history. The publication reminds us of the importance of maps, not only as locators of places but also for what they tell us today about the perceptions of Australia in the minds of those who created and used them.

Putting Australia on the World Map, 1493-1993

Changing Coastlines

Australian Government Publications

This lavishly illustrated book takes a broad sweep through the history of Australian childhood, from the early nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on material from the Library's Pictorial, Manuscript, Ephemera and Newspaper Collections, and using excerpts from the Oral History Collection, in addition to specially commissioned feature articles from Robert Holden, and children's writers Steven Herrick, Ursula Dubosarsky and Jack Bedson, the book surveys and celebrates two centuries of growing up in Australia.

Celebrating Australian Childhood

The Endless Playground

A Union List

Serials in Australian Libraries: Social Sciences and Humanities

Australian Books

Thirteen papers from a national interdisciplinary seminar convened by the National Library of Australia discuss, among other issues, the effects of specific disabilities on language and literacy skills, problems associated with English as a second language, and future strategies.

Publishing for People with Reading Disabilities

The Right to Read

Kirsty Murray

To the first Europeans who came to Australia, everything seemed topsy turvy. Christmas was in the summer and trees shed their bark but not their leaves. And the animals were bizarre. There was a bird that laughed like a donkey and a type of greyhound that bound along on its hind legs like a hare. There was an animal in Tasmania whose nocturnal screeches sounded like the devil and a river creature that had a duck's bill at one end and a beaver's tail at the other. The Europeans had never seen anything like these animals before and gave them names similar to those of the European creatures they already knew. They drew and painted odd pictures of them, showing they did not understand the animals' habits. In one illustration, a wombat is standing on its back legs and in another a Tasmanian tiger is wrestling with a platypus of the same size.

How Australian Animals Puzzled Early Explorers

Topsy-turvy World

An Annotated Guide to the Collections of the National Library of Australia

Our Multicultural Heritage, 1788-1945

A List of Australian Works

The Pre-school Child

A Select List

This is a little gem of a book--the perfect Christmas gift for lovers of reading! Reading Pleasures is filled with gorgeous photographs and artworks, each paired with an inspiring quotation. Book lover and host of The Book Club Jennifer Byrne introduces the book magnificently in her Foreword: 'Here are brief quotations and observations on the reading life, accompanied by illustrations from the National Library of Australia's own collection'. They 'amount to a celebration--and examination--of the lifelong, earthy, impossible-to-explain love affair between readers and their books.' We all read in different ways: some in a private moment revelling in the escape that reading allows, or some with an eye to sharing and discussing. Tim Winton sums up reading in one word: 'privacy'. But for others, reading is company. 'As long as you have the capacity to read,' says Elliot Perlman, 'you needn't be alone any more'. Or as Richard Flanagan puts it in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, when his hero Dorrigo Evans stands in his library: 'he was not alone'. And Miles Franklin wonderfully describes the place we go to when we are reading as 'book-land'. To return to Jennifer: 'As the chorus of voices in this book makes clear, there are as many ways to read as there are to live.'

Reading Pleasures

Australian Maps, 1961-73

Australian National Bibliography: 1992

Richly illustrated with exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of 17th century to familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps. Discover the stories behind these maps, the technological changes in map making and changes in human knowledge and representation of the world.

Great Maps in Australia's History from the National Library's Collection

Australia in Maps

Annual Report - National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia. National Preservation Office. Conference

Proceedings of the Second National Conference of the National Preservation Office, 28-30 November, 1995

Multimedia Preservation : Capturing the Rainbow

The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years, 1901-2001

Remarkable Occurrences

Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook: Foreign Office, class and piece list

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