National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN 1443-0568
No. 39
June 1999


CONTENTS

A farewell message from Warren Horton

Kinetica news
Kinetica now operational
Lurking on Kinetica–l
Batch*Link
More about the National Resource Sharing Group
Developing an ANB-type output from Kinetica.

The collections
Patrick White and David Marr
Building the Australian collection
Shadows in the Dust: A Contemporary Portrait of Aboriginal Station Life
Ancient world map in Macrobius work
Australian map acquisitions
Microfilm acquisitions for researchers in East Asian studies
Migration Group visits the Oral History Collection
PROMPT finding aids

NLA at work
Another edition of the Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing
Directory due

New National Library Web site
Meeting visitor needs
National Libraries of the Asia–Pacific
Metadata for preservation: NLA initiatives well received
New senior appointments made
European microform sets: a progress report
Bringing Them Home to Palm Island
Friends of the National Library

New publications
Profiles: Australian women scientists
Little book of birds

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