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ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 38 | April 1999


NLA at work

Roy Jordan moves on

Roy Jordan
Left: Roy Jordan built a large clientele, including National Library staff members, armed with a constant stream (and sometimes flood) of complex law queries

One of the National Library's most experienced and respected specialist librarians, Roy Jordan, has moved to the Parliamentary Library.

Roy's law expertise served the National Library well in the areas of cataloguing, APAIS, and Information Services for nearly 17 years. In 1992 he went on a year's exchange to the National Library of Canada. He returned with very useful experience of the workings of another national library, and of Dynix, the integrated library management system the National Library of Australia had just introduced and which had been developed originally for the National Library of Canada.

One of Roy's last contributions before he left the National Library was the compilation of a research guide appropriately aimed at 1999, The Year of the Older Person. The Aged in Australia: A Research Guide and Select Bibliography of Titles Available through the National Library was compiled over a two-month period in late 1998.

The first part contains information about major organisations (both government and private) that deal with older persons, Internet sites, and listings of research tools to assist those undertaking research into the aged. These include bibliographies, major journals, conference proceedings and relevant subject headings used in the National Library catalogue.

The second part is a listing of titles of 100 pages or more, published since 1945 and held in the National Library under broad subject categories. The contents of composite works, such as collections of essays and conference proceedings, have all been listed as these are not always easy to locate, even using library catalogues and indexing services. The section on law and politics lists major Commonwealth and State legislation relating to services for the aged, together with references to their debates in Parliament.

The Aged in Australia will be published by the National Library later this year both in a printed version and on the Library's Internet home page at http://www.nla.gov.au .

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