National Library of Australia Annual Report 2000-01
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Building the Collection

Two of the Library's significant manuscript collections were selected as the first Australian entries for UNESCO's Memory of the World register. The Endeavour journal of Captain James Cook, the personal papers of Edward Koiki Mabo and a related manuscript collection, the legal papers relating to the litigation by Mabo and other Torres Strait Islander plaintiffs, were added to the register which lists documentary materials considered to have had a major influence on the history of the world.

The Library's Collection was enhanced by the addition of materials in all the information formats collected by the Library. Some significant collecting areas include:

The Olympic and Paralympic Games held in Sydney in 2000. As well as publications, posters, and ephemera the Library acquired an extensive collection of photographs documenting Games events, venues, cultural activities and visitors to the Olympic city. Games-related web sites were preserved in the PANDORA Archive, including the official SOCOG site, which was captured daily throughout the Games. Many of these sites have now disappeared from the live Internet.
The Olympic Rings on the Sydney Harbour Bridge

click to enlarge imageLoui Seselja (b.1948)
The Olympic Rings on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
19 September 2000
National Library of Australia

Events of national significance, such as the Sydney Olympics, are recorded by National Library photographers.

 



The acquisition and management of selected Australian online publications in the PANDORA Archive has now become a routine part of the Library's collecting activities. The Archive is growing rapidly, and has more than doubled in size during the year. Two new PANDORA partner organizations, the State Library of South Australia and ScreenSound Australia began adding online publications to the Archive.

Todd McKenny

click to enlarge imageTodd McKenny as recorded at the National Library studios,
5 December 2000
Interviewer, Bill Stephens
Photographer, Greg Pook
Courtesy Todd McKenney
Oral History Collection



Distinguished Australians who placed their papers in the Library's Manuscript Collection, or who were interviewed for the Oral History program, include Arlene Chai, Sir William Keys, Phillip Adams, Sir Arthur Tange, Clare Burton, Reverend Sir Alan Walker, Professor Peter Singer, Noel Ferrier, Galarrwuy Yunipingu, the Hon. Jim Bacon, Richard Wherrett, Shirley Hazzard, Bishop Owen Dowling, Hugh Morgan and Professor David Penington.


A large collection of unpublished music scores and orchestral sets was donated by Symphony Australia. These musical works, performed by ABC orchestras up to the 1960s, include unique musical manuscripts with many annotations by composers, conductors and performers. They will be an important resource for performance history.
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