Electronic Publications

The National Library of Australia's electronic publications (e-publications) are aimed at the broad Australian and international communities, researchers, special interest groups and the library community. The Library aims to expand its e-publishing activities in order to increase the range of collection material and services available online and, from 2008, will increasingly publish monographs in electronic form. E-publications will also include online exhibitions, promotional websites, guidelines, e-newsletters, educational material, and online ‘spaces’ to facilitate scholarly discourse.

NLA News

NLA News

Publication Date: October 1990 -

Discover your National Library through the magazine, National Library of Australia News. Each issue features articles about material in the National Library's collections, the activities of the National Library and the wider Library and cultural communities. View NLA News

Gateways

Gateways

Publication Date: November 1994 -

Gateways is the National Library of Australia's online journal for the Australian library profession and community.View Gateways

 

Paradise Possessed

Paradise Possessed

Publication Date: 1998

This collection of essays provides a series of fascinating insights into the National Library of Australia's extraordinary Rex Nan Kivell Collection. This is one of the most remarkable and valuable collections of material held by a library anywhere in the world; a collection which documents European imaginings of the fabled Antipodes, and real European journeys in search of the fabulous. View Paradise Possessed or visit the online exhibition

Cook & Omai

Paradise PossessedPublication Date: 2001

The journey of one man across half the world, from his home in Tahiti to 1770s London and then back again, provides us with a key to understanding the significance of Cook’s three Pacific voyages and the cultural milieu un which they took place. Mai, better known as Omai, was discussed by scientists and philosophers, introduced to all the ‘best’ circles and written about in everything from poetry to pornography. The legacy of Omai's encounter with Europe reveals a culture in a moment of transition, when old certainties were collapsing and new ones were yet to form. View Cook & Omai or visit the online exhibition

 

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