The program of acquisitions activity over many different forms of material is a core activity of the National Library. This regular report on the acquisitions program is intended to provide information about notable acquisitions together with an understanding of particular issues which have an impact on the Library's work in this area. Traditionally, this report has concentrated on major Australian acquisitions but in the light of continuing public interest in the overseas collecting program, a greater effort will be made in this and future reports to summarise issues and achievements across the full spectrum of the Library's collecting program. Even so, recognising that the Library has a major responsibility to build a comprehensive collection of library materials relating to Australia and the Australian people, this report will give substantial weight to the Australian acquisitions program.
Australian Print and Electronic Collections
Map Acquisitions
Manuscript
Acquisitions
Oral History
Pictorial
Overseas Collecting
Asian Language Acquisitions
The Library maintains a vigorous and wide-ranging program of acquisitions activity in order to meet its statutory obligations to build a comprehensive Australian collection. With the proliferation of Australian publishing and the emergence of new forms of material, the task of collecting has become more complex than in the past. Collecting now includes monographs, serials, newspapers, music, posters, ephemera, CD-ROM materials and the many electronic publications now being generated through the Internet. Current materials, retrospective and out-of-print materials, overseas imprints of Australian relevance and publications in a host of languages are regularly added to the collections.
The intake of monographs deposited in the Library under the Legal Deposit provisions of the Copyright Act is averaging around 1500 titles per month at present. This intake represents the broad spectrum of Australian publishing across all sectors - commercial, government, both state and federal, and private and small publishers. But in spite of the effectiveness of Legal Deposit, the Library invests considerable effort in tracking down and claiming Australian titles from publishers who, for various reasons, do not deposit material. These efforts result in some 5000-6000 claims being made annually to publishers who are either recalcitrant or who are unaware of their obligations to deposit material.
Copies of publications of Australian authorship or Australian subject matter published abroad number an average of 50 per month. These include books by Australian authors on any topic, translations of Australian authors or books which include substantial Australian content.
The Library acquires approximately 260 new serial and newspaper titles each month under the legal deposit provisions of the Copyright Act. Again, these range over the whole spectrum of Australian publishing, with some selectivity in the case of materials which have a very local interest. Such material is referred to the appropriate state library.
In comparison with monographs and serials, ephemeral publications such as brochures, pamphlets, handbills, junk mail advertising, programs and invitations are collected on a selective but representative basis. An average of 1000-2000 items of Australian ephemera are added to the collections each month.
In addition to regular claims from publishers for individual titles, a program of general targeted claiming operates in order to reflect community trends and concerns, political and social campaigns of various kinds, popular culture and community events of different kinds. On a regular basis, key bodies and groups are identified and approached for their publications which are often of an ephemeral kind. Recent approaches of this kind have been made to Winning Ministries for Men, the Central Australian Camel Industry Association, Earth Sanctuaries, The Body Shop (for current advertising posters) and the Cancer Council. Materials have been acquired documenting the Firearms Buy Back scheme and the associated community and political debate, materials documenting the republican debate in Australia and materials documenting the visit to Australia of Japanese Sumo wrestlers.
The emergence of electronic publishing has presented the Library with a new challenge. Because such materials are currently not covered by Legal Deposit, the Library has initiated a Voluntary Deposit scheme to encourage publishers to deposit copies of selected CD-ROMs for preservation as part of the Australian publishing record. This scheme has been very successful. Recent CD ROMs acquired include Under the Southern Sun: Stories from the Australian Landscape and Tales from the Kangaroo, both issued as part of the 'Australia on CD-ROM' project financed by grants from the Australian government. Two CDs from Western Australia have been deposited: Images of Agriculture Volume I and Traces of the Past, the National Trust Register of the built heritage of Western Australia. From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Library acquired Bush Tucker Man. Computer files acquired include two of a serial nature, AUSThealth (January 1997 and all following) andAUSTlaw(February 1997 and all following).
Australian electronic titles on the Internet are selected for preservation at an average rate of seven per month. Recent titles include Deliverance-voluntary euthanasia in the Northern Territory, Letters and journals relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley, NSW 1830-40, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Home Page, serial titles such as The journal of ideas, Central Coast working paper series, the Online journal of veterinary research, the Journal of academic dissent and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander health bulletin. Also selected are sites for ephemera including the retail stores of David Jones and Woolworths, the Fix Australia-Fix the Roads campaign site and the homepage for the very successful Australian rock music band Silverchair.
Three key projects are in progress at present to deal with the areas of particular concern or to focus on areas of specialist publishing. These are in the area of Australian government publishing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander publishing and the wide and varied body of Australian publishing which is proliferating in the lead-up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
The patterns of government publishing at both the federal and state level have changed dramatically over the past two or three years. Centralised distribution is no longer the norm with publishing now being undertaken at the branch or section level in departments or instrumentalities. To monitor these changes and to assess the implications for collecting, the Library carried out over the past two years a survey of Commonwealth Government publishing. As a result of this survey, the Library exercises greater vigilance in the claiming of newly reported publications and in maintaining contact with individual publishers. For state government publishing, the Library conducted a survey via an ABN Supersearch of holdings for publications issued in 1995. This revealed a National Library holding rate of only 52% but which varied greatly from state/territory to state/territory e.g. Northern Territory (only 13% held) and NSW (60% held). ABN is being searched again for 1996 imprints and claims for publications are being sent to departments or branches. The resulting success rate and intake has been encouraging. It is a fact however that supplies beyond an initial contact point cannot be guaranteed. This means that an ongoing program of monitoring must be maintained.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander materials continue to receive attention. Over and above the routine monitoring of new reports and publications, a project has been underway for some months to collect printed resources in the Field of indigenous health. Based on the detailed searching of a specialist bibliography Indigenous Health Promotion Resources published by the Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, the Library is approaching a diverse range of institutions, departments and organisations to build up its holding of relevant publications. These include Amnesty International, Queensland Health, Arts Victoria, the Western Australian Department of Health, the NSW Office of the Status of Women, the Health Rights Commission, the Aboriginal Resource and Development Service in Darwin and the tropical Public health Unit in Townsville. An improved flow of reports, newsletters, brochures and posters are being received on a regular basis as a result.
The Library is devoting a special effort to the collecting of publications now being generated by the preparations in train to mount the Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000. The aim is to develop as comprehensive a collection as possible of an event of major national and international significance. A similar approach was taken with the Australian Bicentennial in 1988 and with EXPO '88. The Library has established close and fruitful contact with SOCOG and a full set of that body's publications are now being received. The Library will also pursue contact with official sponsors, all peak bodies representing Olympic sports, groups associated with the Green Games campaign and with the academic sector. Press reports and promotional material is being monitored on a daily basis to establish new leads and to follow up materials as they are issued.
Acquisition of retrospective Australiana continues at a moderate rate. Based on offers from the antiquarian book trade as well as individual offers from members of the public, the Library acquires on average some 1000-1200 retrospective titles each year. In recent months, the elusive world of the circus in Australia was captured in two rare posters and a volume of press cuttings. The posters were acquired at a specialist auction of circus material held in Paris. One of these is an American poster (circa 1920) depicting the Australian equestrienne May Wirth. The other is even more unusual, advertising a troupe of performing sulphur-crested cockatoos on tour in France in the 1890's. The press book of clippings is a unique compilation on performers, stars, animal acts events and programs about circuses and vaudeville for the period covering 1910-1935 in Australia and New Zealand.
Great and expensive rarities are increasingly unusual in the regular routine of the National Library's acquisitions program. In part, this is a reflection of the great depth and strength of the Library's older holdings. However, the Library recently obtained an item of special importance, a bound volume of three works by Johann Georg Forster (1754-1794), the German writer, traveller and revolutionary who accompanied his father the author and naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, as a member of the scientific party on Captain Cook's second voyage. It is believed that this volume was bound together for Sir Joseph Banks. One of the works in the volume, Herbarium australe feu catologus exficcatarum (Gottingen, 1797) is extremely rare with only two other copies -one each in Germany and Britain - being recorded. No copy of this item apparently exists in any other Australian collection.
Since December 1996, a number of significant acquisitions have been made in the area of early Australian cartographic material. These acquisitions are in accord with the current Collection Development Policy which is defined in the following terms:
"Australian materials considered for acquisition include: material published in Australia and its territories, including material produced overseas of which the subject is wholly or substantially Australian....The Library will continue to acquire retrospective maps in line with modern published maps."
Consistent with this policy, and in response to a significant increase in the trade of early cartographic material particularly on the overseas market, a number of significant early world and Australian/Australasian/Pacific maps, ranging from 1657 through to the 1870's were purchased. These maps show not only the evolution of knowledge of the Australian coastline but also the growing understanding of Australia's geography through exploration as well as changes in administrative/political boundaries in the country at intervals from the beginning of European settlement.
Items of particular interest include:
A printed map showing the extent of the Nuclear Free zone, with manuscript annotations of the signatories to the Treaty which proposed the Zone on 7 April 1986.
The mapping and map publishing of the Australian Capital Territory forms part of the Library's acquisitions program. Acquisitions of interest in this area of specialisation include some interesting cadastral maps and related materials. Approximately thirty sales plans, manuscript property plans and other cadastral maps of properties formerly owned by Sir Keith Murdoch and members of the Cunningham and Ryrie families dating back to the 1930-40 period were acquired. Amongst this material was an incomplete, 6 sheet set of the 20 Chain Federal capital Plan (originally issued as 10 sheets), with manuscript annotations of landholders of rural properties in the ACT during the 1940's. This material complements an earlier acquisition of the same set with annotations for an earlier period. Thus, the Library's holding of three sets, including the original 1915 issue, provides a remarkable record of land ownership in the area now known as the ACT from the turn of the century through to the 1940's prior to the resumption of land for urban development in the Territory.
A number of acquisitions have been made in electronic form with the deposit or donation of cartographic CD ROM products. These include: Northern Territory/SA travel Guide, issued by the Royal South Australian Automobile Club.
The deposit by AUSLIG of a number of new products including: Geodata 9 Second Dem (a raster edition of a digital elevation model). Geodata raster 250K: a raster edition of the 1:250,000 topographic map series for Australia with some updating from the hardcopy map edition. This product allows access by place name and map sheet number and provides for down loading into a word document.
Gazetteer of Australia: a joint product between State and commonwealth mapping agencies around Australia of place name files held between both levels of jurisdiction to allow greater access to information held at various map scale levels of Australian place names.
A number of overseas topographic map series relating to the Asian area were also acquired during the period. These include:
The Library has purchased from a Sydney dealer a manuscript of Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), a noted naturalist and friend of Joseph Banks, Johann Georg Forster, Daines Barrington, Gilbert White, Samuel Johnson and other scientific and literary figures of the eighteenth century. It is entitled 'Animals observed or collected by Joseph Banks esq & Dr Solander in the voyage round the world begun August 25th 1768 ended July 1 2th 1771'. Within a day of his return to London, Banks was corresponding with Pennant and the manuscript was almost certainly written soon afterwards. It is therefore probably the earliest compilation on Australian fauna apart from the journals of Banks and the officers of the Endeavour. Pennant was the author of A history of quadrupeds (1781) and other publications and he played an important role in disseminating information about the animals of Australia and the Pacific among the European scientific community. This acquisition adds to the Library's important holdings of published, pictorial and other manuscript sources relating to the eighteenth century European scientific discoveries in Australia.
Some interesting nineteenth century items have been acquired from dealers and auction houses in both Australia and England. At a Sotheby's auction, the Library bought a handsome commonplace book kept by John Lawrie, an officer of the East India Company and an admirer of Robert Burns (the covers are decorated with vignettes relating to Burns). The volume contains many poems and also accounts of visits in 1822 to Torres Strait and Pitcairn Island, where Lawrie met John Adams, the last surviving Bounty mutineer. Another recent acquisition is a diary dating from 1822-84 of a member of the Lynch Family, bellringers and glassophinists, who toured Australia. It provides a record not only of their performances but of the hotels where they stayed around the country. An addition to the collection of ships' journals and logs is a log kept by an officer on HMS Royal Arthur in 1898-99. The Royal Arthur was the flagship of the Admiral of the Australian Station; the log records visits to Sydney, Jervis Bay, Moreton Bay, Melbourne, Hobart, Port Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle and other Australian ports. Another naval officer, the Duke of York (later King George V), visited Australia in 1901 to open the Federal Parliament. The Library has acquired two hand-written letters written by the Duke at the end of his Australian tour.
There have been a number of acquisitions in areas of traditional collecting such as politics, government and diplomacy. A collection of letters of Sir Arthur Stanley, Governor of Victoria in 1914-1920, was bought at a London sale. Stanley shared the literary abilities of other members of his family, including his daughter Adelaide Lubbock, whose papers are held in the Library. Three former Federal parliamentarians, Neville Bonner, Wal Fife and Clyde Cameron, have made substantial additions to their papers. Cameron has transferred his correspondence with Sir Garfield Barwick, one of a number of political opponents whom he interviewed for the Library's oral history project. The public servant and historian of public administration Robert Hyslop has donated a large collection of research materials on the history of Australian defence administration. A contrasting collection are the papers of the late Dennis Freney, the Communist activist and author of A map of days; life on the Left.
Two former diplomats have placed papers in the Library. Hugh Gilchrist has donated his correspondence and research files built up when he was writing the first volume of his book Australians and Greeks. Harold Marshall, who was private secretary to R.G. Casey and later High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, has presented two diaries, papers and photographs concerning his autobiography as well as letters to him written by Lord and Lady Casey.
Literature and the arts are other major areas in which the Library has always had strong manuscript holdings. A major recent acquisition has been the manuscripts and papers of Marian Eldridge, the Canberra novelist, short story writer and poet who died earlier this year. They form an unusually comprehensive collection, extending back to her childhood and including an extensive correspondence with her parents, husband and children. Other writers who have made substantial additions to their collections are Geoffrey Dutton, Nicholas Jose and Dennis Haskell. The Library's recent successes in acquiring the papers of children's writers have continued with the acquisition of the papers of Mem Fox and Robert Ingpen. Mem Fox, the author of the best selling book Possum Magic, has been methodical in keeping papers ever since she first took up a creative writing course (Possum Magic originated as an assignment). Similarly, Ingpen has kept many papers and also the meticulous artwork which is a feature of all his books.
There have been additions to two music collections. The family of Dame Joan Hammond have transferred further papers covering her career as one of Australia's greatest opera singers. The papers of Rex Hobcroft, the pianist, teacher and music administrator, document many aspects of Australian music in the last decade or so and in particular the Sydney International Piano Competition.
An outstanding source on the visual arts is the archives of the Holdsworth Galleries in Sydney and the papers of its founder and director Gisella Scheinberg. Of particular note is her correspondence with Donald Friend, but her files of letters, catalogues, reviews and photographs cover hundreds of other artists. Other acquisitions have included further manuscripts of the art historian Bernard Smith and the diaries, correspondence and other papers of the controversial Chilean-born Melbourne painter and critic Juan Davila.
In the last two years, the Library has sought to build up strength in other areas of Australian life, including law and science which were not previously so well represented. Approaches have been made to nearly fifty notable figures and they have been followed by a number of discussions. While it is too early yet to judge the success of these projects, some tangible results can be reported. Judith Cohen, the former judge and member of the National Library of Australia Council, has presented an interesting collection of personal papers covering her legal career and her work for educational and other organisations. The chemical engineer Neville Whiffen has donated a series of albums containing papers, cuttings and photographs. His career has been marked by great diversity: he was Scientific Attache at the Australian Embassy in Washington in 1943-48 and later one of the founders of the University of New South Wales, Managing Director of Berger Paints, the President of the Institute of Chemical Engineers and Executive Director of the Canberra Development Board.
After five years of often difficult negotiations, the purchase of the papers of Lindy Chamberlain has been finalised. It is believed that all the papers for the period 1980-95 are now in the Library. This is a huge archive which documents the lives of the key figures and reflects public opinion in one of the most divisive cases in Australian legal history.
Whereas Lindy Chamberlain is a household name, Roy Ryan was a shearer who each year worked his way down from Longreach to Melbourne. The Library does not have a great many original sources on outback life and it was therefore pleasing that the diaries that Ryan kept for forty years should be offered to the Library by his son. Another significant acquisition in an occupational category of special interest to the National Library is the collection of papers of the distinguished librarian and bibliographer Dietrich Borchardt who died a few months ago. Borchardt had deposited papers in his lifetime and his family have now added his reminiscences, diaries, correspondence and files on his various library and publishing projects.
The pattern of collection development in the Oral History program continues to be a balance between the interviewing of eminent Australians and the collecting of materials which document aspects of Australian social history and folklore.
In the eminent Australians program, the Library's approach is to commission single interviews with prominent individuals or to carry out special projects in subject categories where a number of prominent or representative subjects will be interviewed.
Recent collecting activity has seen the completion of a number of interviews in the fields of politics, the law and journalism. People interviewed included the following: Hazel Craig who served for many years as private secretary to Sir Robert Menzies; Professor Jack Richardson, the first Commonwealth Ombudsman; Sir Harry Gibbs, a former Chief Justice of the High Court; and the journalist David McNicoll. Dr Ragbir Bhathal completed interviews with a series of outstanding women scientists: Professor Marie Skyllas-Kazacos (chemical engineering and industrial chemistry); Dr Kathleen Makinson (wool and polymer research); Dr Alessandra Pucci (biotechnology); and Dr Shirley Jeffrey fisheries research). In the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience, Dr Peter Read and Ms Jackie Huggins continue to make good progress with their project to interview emerging Aboriginal leaders.
In the field of social history and folklore, the principal acquisitions have come from Dr Gwenda Davey's current project which is concerned to document Greek-Australian experience centred in Melbourne. During the first phase of this three year project, Dr Davey has focused on the social and cultural significance of rebetina music (the so-called 'Greek blues'). Fifteen hours of very high quality material have been received to date. The final field recordings completed by Gregg Borschmann as part of his People's Forest project have been received. Similarly, the final recordings completed by Dr Barry York in his Maltese-Australians project have entered the collection. Diana Giese's project to record interviews with Chinese-Australians has been scaled down but will continue over the next two years. To date Ms Giese has recorded more than fifty interviews with a special emphasis on life in the Northern Territory and North Queensland.
The Library is currently carrying out a number of collection development projects on particular themes to fill gaps or to extend the coverage of the collection in fields which have not been strongly developed in the past. These include the following:
This is a continuing project which is intended to document a range of aspects of contemporary life in Australia which might not otherwise be represented in the Library's collection. Recent acquisitions include photographs of public demonstrations against racism, particularly at the rally against racism held in Melbourne; photographs of Australia day ceremonies and commemorations; and photographs of the annual Easter Blessing of the Fleet ceremony in Ulladulla, New South Wales.
A project to acquire documentary images of daily life in Canberra is continuing. Recent acquisitions include photographs of the following subjects: the Quamby Youth Detention Centre; the Canberra Festival; images taken at the Australian Institute of Sport; the Mugga Quarry; and a Greek Orthodox wedding ceremony at the Church of St Nicholas in Kingston.
As part of an on-going project to document Australian festivals, photographs were received of the following: the Castlemaine State Festival (Victoria); the Oompah Festival, a German cultural festival in South Australia; the National Folk Festival (ACT); and the Canberra Writers Festival.
This on-going project to acquire documentary photographs of nationally significant members of the Australian legal community was furthered by the completion, for the present, of the program in New South Wales and Victoria. The project will continue in other states and territories later in the year.
The Regional cities and Major Towns Project was established to acquire a representative collection of documentary photographs of towns and cities throughout Australia in the latter part of the twentieth century. Recent acquisitions include photographs of Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Renmark, Whyalla, Burra Burra and Port Wakefield in South Australia and Katherine in the Northern Territory.
The Library's purpose in building its pictorial collection is to collect images which document at a national level social themes and aspects of popular culture, portraits of Australians of national significance and the appearance of and changes in the Australian landscape following European settlement. In support of these aims, the Library has acquired a wide range of material in recent months.
The subjects of recent photographic acquisitions include: youth hostels; the erotic video industry; aspects of Australian domestic architecture; sports and sporting celebrities; the effects of drought in the ACT's Jerrabomberra wetlands; and celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Old Parliament House.
The Library's large collection of documentary portraits of prominent Australians was enriched by the acquisition of the following: the writer Peter Carey painted by Margot Hutcheson; the cricketer David Boon; the actor, director and writer Peter O'Shaughnessy, painted by Clifton Pugh; the racehorse owner and trainer Bart Cummings painted by Peter Wegner; the businessman and entrepreneur G.H. Taubman, founder of Taubman's Ltd, painted by Judy Cassab; and a self-portrait of the singer and entertainer Rolf Harris.
Photographic portraits were acquired of a diverse cross-section of leading Australian men and women. These include: the conductor Simone Young; the journalist Mike Carlton; the arts administrator and current Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Donald McDonald; the academic and critic Dame Leonie Kramer; the businessman and philanthropist, Tony Berg; the rock singer Stevie Wright; the actor Yahoo Serious; the New South Wales state parliamentarian and community advocate Clover Moore; the academic and writer Val Plumbwood; the present Head of the Office of the Status of Women and former radio journalist Pru Goward; the footballer George Gregan; the actor, singer, song writer and arts administrator Robyn Archer; Brad Rogers, the first male entrant in the Miss Australia competition; and a group portrait of members of the Centenary of Federation Council.
A collection of photographs documenting Dunmoochin, the home and studio of the painter, the late Clifton Pugh was acquired from the freelance photographer Brendon Kelson to provide a complementary visual record to the collection of Pugh's papers held in the Manuscripts Section. Dunmoochin was the centre of an artists' colony established by Pugh in the countryside outside Melbourne in the early 1950's and until Pugh's death. The property continues to provide residential and studio support for artists under a program managed by the Dunmoochin Foundation.
The Library's collection of portraits of prominent Indigenous Australians was enhanced by the acquisition of photographic portraits of activist Ruby Langford, Native Title claimant Ted Thomas and author and academic Jacqui Huggins
A signed vintage photographic portrait of the Duke of York (later George V), taken in Sydney by the Falk Studio during the 1901 visit of the Duke to Australia was acquired to add to the Library's rich holdings of Federation materials.
The Library acquired a number of early documentary works including the following: a watercolour view of 1827, painted three years after the first attempt to establish a convict settlement on the north coast of Australia; a watercolour by Thomas Wingate (1807-1869) depicting the area of Woolloomooloo Bay shortly after the first subdivision of land in 1842; and a wash drawing by James Waltham Curtis of a view at Port Melbourne in the early 1870's.
In July of this year, a senior Library officer undertook an acquisitions visit to New Caledonia. During this visit contacts were renewed with the South Pacific Commission and the Australian Consulate. The South Pacific Commission deposits its publications with the National Library while the Australian Consulate sends a range of local publications to the Library. Visits were also made to a number of specialist research institutes and cultural bodies as well as to local publishers and bookstores. Because of an inadequate and unreliable book supply infrastructure, personal contact of this kind is considered to be essential if the Library is to achieve its collecting objectives.
The Library is undertaking a review of government publications from the United States of America and Canada. The nature of government publishing is changing in both these countries from paper and microform publications to online publishing which offers advantages of timeliness and economy. Current changes in the pattern of publishing are being monitored by the National Library to assess whether changes can be made to existing patterns of acquisition and service delivery.
The Library recently purchased a facsimile edition of La Solidaridad which has been published in both Spanish and English. La Solidaridad was published from 15 February 1889 to November 1896 by the Propaganda Movement in Spain. The Propaganda or Reform Movement arose within the communities of Filipino students and young professionals living in Spain, Britain, France and Hong Kong. In this fortnightly paper, the reformists published articles to advance the Filipino cause, urging reforms in both religion and government. The newspaper contains political articles as well as historical, artistic and social news of the era.
The Library has made a number of Asian language acquisitions relating to the modern history and politics of East and Southeast Asia consistent with its major priorities under its current Overseas Collection Development Policy. These include the following:
Chung kung chung yao li shih wen tzu liao hui pien [Major sources on the history of the Chinese Communist Party). Los Angeles: Chung wen ch'u pan wu fu wu chung hsin, 1995. 12 volumes in 76 parts. Sources on leading Chinese Communist Party figures and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), one of the most momentous periods in modern Chinese history.
Denki sosho [Series of Japanese Biographies]. Tokyo: Ozarasho. 200 volumes. This is a major set of biographies of people prominent in the moderization of Japan since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. It includes Japanese and foreigners who lived in Japan and covers many fields of endeavour.
Himpunanpidato Presiden tentang hubungan luar negeri, tahun 1990-1996 [collected Presidential foreign policy speeches, 1990-1996]. 7 volumes. Jakarta: Departemen Luar Negeri. 1991- A major collection of foreign policy speeches by President Suharto of Indonesia.
Profil dan visi perempuan anggota DPR RI 1992-1997 [Profile of female members of the Indonesian Parliament 1992-1997]. Jakarta: Pustaka Cidesindo, 1997. xxiv, 509p. Biographical information on female members of the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, the Indonesian Parliament.
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