
ISSN 1443-0568
No. 40
August 1999
CONTENTS
A first for Kinetica users
STOP PRESS: Jan Fullerton appointed
Director-General
Matters of the mindand 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 Napoléonthe exhibition
National Librarys Collection
Development Policy published
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