17 Dec 2003

[Asia in] National Library of Australia News, Dec 2003
The National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: The latest issue of 'National Library of Australia News', vol. XIV, no.3, December 2003 contains two articles relating to the National Library's Asian collections and services. They are also accessible at [the URL below]
The items are 'Buying Books in My Garage: Memories of an Indonesian Acquisitions Librarian' by Andrew Gosling, describing his time working for the National Library in Indonesia from 1979 to 1983; and 'Ethnic Presses : Asians and Arabs, 1980s-1990s', the second and final instalment of Barry York's look at the Library's collection of ethnic community newspapers published in the 1980s and 1990s. - ag."
Self-description; "National Library of Australia News [www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/ - ed.] is a 24-page colour magazine produced monthly. It features interesting articles focusing on existing projects, news and information concerning the Library's numerous collections, services and activities.'
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2003/dec03/dec03news.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [due to technical problems at www.archive.org details of the archival versions of the National Library of Australia News site were not available at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (andrewgosling[use"@"]netspeed.com.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30