17 Jul 2009

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU)
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), ANU College of Asian and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description:
"The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Pambu, copies archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long- term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible. Pambu microfilms comprise the most extensive collection of non-government primary documentation on the Pacific Islands available to researchers.
Pambu welcomes suggestions for copying projects, particularly when the material is in danger of loss or destruction."
Site contents:
* About the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau;
* Microfilm catalogue [search fields: Author, Title, PMB Number, Notes - ed.]
* OMPA catalogue [information on the microfilmed records of the Catholic Church in islands of the Western Pacific entrusted to the Marist Order as a field of evangelisation - ed.];
* Printed publications [15 titles in Jul 2009 - ed.];
* Audio recordings [46 titles in Jul 2009 - ed.];
* Online research materials (Digital Photograph Collection, Papers on Pacific archives, Shineberg Database of Indentured Labourers in New Caledonia, Sample Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections);
* Pambu newsletters (from Pambu 2 - Nov 1995 to Pambu 26 - Jul 2009);
* Current projects;
* Contacts;
* Ordering from Pambu;
* Links (Internet Resources, Some of Pacific Manuscripts Bureau's partner organisations, Micrographics Partners, Libraries, Archives and Museum session, Pacific History Association Conference, 2008).
URL http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/
Link reported by: T Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/ Study/ Online Guide/ Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300