Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from March 2005

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from March 2005

Why prime ministerial libraries?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... This question has two answers. Why university libraries should develop these libraries is argued forthrightly by the contributions from Lesley Carman-Brown, Kandy-Jane Henderson and Lesley Wallace (the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library),...

Australia's first prime ministerial library: past and future.
March 1, 2005... When the Western Australian Institute of Technology became Curtin University of Technology in 1987, there was a strong feeling that the new university needed 'a heart'. What better way to achieve that than to develop a centre which would focus...

For someone special: the development of the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library.
March 1, 2005... Those of religion perhaps aside, the two most enduring institutions of civilisation are libraries and universities. Libraries rank only in part before universities because that is their place alphabetically. Chronologically, too, libraries are...

The Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library.
March 1, 2005... When Alfred Deakin was Prime Minister, there was no National Archives of Australia to collect and manage the official records of his terms of office. Rather, the papers were held by the National Library of Australia and other public...

It's time--to reveal the Whitlam Institute within the University of Western Sydney.
March 1, 2005... Established in 2000 by way of an agreement between the Hon Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC and the University of Western Sydney, the Whitlam Institute honours the work of Mr Whitlam as parliamentary representative for the seat of Werriwa in Sydney's...

The menzies foundation: an unconventional memorial.
March 1, 2005... Sir John Bunting described Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) as... the benchmark Australian Prime Minister. Week by week, and even day by day, press, radio and television refer to him for political illumination. Leaders and governments and...

The first in the field: Prime Ministers' papers in The National Library of Australia.
March 1, 2005... In 1934 Kenneth Binns made his first overseas trip since joining the staff of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library nearly 24 years earlier. With the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Foundation, he visited about 40 libraries in the United...

From the leaders of our nation: Prime Ministers' records at the National Archives.
March 1, 2005... When the 2000-01 Federal Budget was released in May 2000, the Canberra Times Arts reporter Helen Musa wrote: Perhaps the strangest cultural allocation is the $1.6 million over four years for the National Archives of Australia to...

Australian prime ministerial libraries--comments and reflections.
March 1, 2005... Something strange and exotic began appearing in the 1990s. Australian universities, particular kinds of universities, began establishing a local version the US presidential libraries. At the time, however, I confess my immediate reaction was...

Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers.(Our First Six Susan Marsden and Roslyn Russell)(Stanley Melbourne Bruce John Connor)(Joseph Lyons Susan Marsden)(John Curtin David Black and Lesley Wallace)(Harold Holt Pennie Pemberton )(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers Our First Six Susan Marsden and Roslyn Russell Canberra National Archives of Australia 2002 218pp ISBN 0 642 34480 9 $19.95 ex GST Stanley Melbourne Bruce John Connor Canberra National...

Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions: Theory and Practice.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions: Theory and Practice editor Mark D Winston Binghamton NY Haworth Information Press 2001 Co-published as the Journal of Library Administration vol 32 nos 3/4 2001 198pp ISBN...

The Philosophy of Information.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Philosophy of Information editor Ken Herold Urbana-Champaign Ill University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science 2004 (Special Issue of Library Trends vol 45 no3 pp373-670) This special issue of Library Trends...

Special Collections in the Twenty-first Century.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Special Collections in the Twenty-first Century a theme issue of Library Trends editor Barbara M Jones University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science 2003 201p ISSN 0024-2594 US $28.00 including postage This...

Publications received.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Essential Dewey J H Bowman London Facet Publishing 2005 ISBN 1856045196 John Curtin--Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers D Black and L Wallace Canberra National Archives of Australia Research Guide 2003 ISBN 1920807128 ...