National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN 1443-0568
No. 40
August 1999


CONTENTS

A first for Kinetica users
STOP PRESS: Jan Fullerton appointed Director-General
Matters of the mind—and the law
Chinese community support

NLA and the library community
Australian Library Collections Task Force: new research on access to scholarly information
Joint acquisitions effort in South Australia
More gateways and metadata initiatives
Joint disaster training in the ACT
NLA funds training at the National Library of Laos
China and Australia: library and information issues
Performing arts resources: access and ashes

The collections
Manuscripts of a composer: the Humble Collection
Regional Office covers the Indonesian elections
Portrait of Andrew Sibley
Cyclone Tracy revisited
Collecting the cuddlies

NLA at work
PADI online forum on the way
Loansome Doc finds a friendly home at NLA
Enhanced electronic access for readers
Serials visible index disappears
Music cataloguing marches on

Arrivals and departures
New Director of Readers Services
Bryan Yates
Warren Horton retires
Chris Harrison retires
John Thompson returns to academe

New exhibitions and publications
Terre Napoléon—the exhibition
National Library’s Collection Development Policy published

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