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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 46 | August 2000


New look marks milestone for PANDORA Tour de Force

Stuart O'Grady Stuart O’Grady in hot pursuit of Gilles Maignan, eventual winner of the Jacob’s Creek Tour Down Under 2000, one of the new links featured on the PANDORA site. Photograph courtesy of South Australian Tourism Commission

The PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) Archive recently reached a milestone. There are now more than 600 titles in the archive and it is growing rapidly.

Of these, a little over half have been archived as one-off gatherings. A major reason for this is that the title is static, for example a completed report or project such as Journal of Syms Covington (purl.nla.gov.au/nla/pandora/symscov). Or it could be that the site has been archived as an example of how the Internet is being used by Australians, for example the award-winning children’s site Trishan’s Oz (purl.nla.gov.au/slv/pandora/trishan).

The other items in PANDORA are being archived on a regular basis, ranging from weekly to annually.

These items may be electronic journals, for example Australian Humanities Review (purl.nla/gov.au/nla/pandora/ahr), which was one of the first titles ever archived, or sites of ongoing research interest that are being updated regularly, for example Antarctic CRC (purl.nla.gov.au/nla/pandora/antcrc).

Having passed the 600-title mark, we thought PANDORA deserved a facelift. The web site has been completely redesigned and the official launch, complete with a special PANDORA cake and a symbolic ribbon cutting by the designer Christian Coseru, took place on 28 June. The PANDORA home page (pandora.nla.gov.au/pandora) now provides subject access to the titles in the archive via 15 broad subject categories in addition to an alphabetic title listing. You will also find links to the following:

Gilles Maignan

The State Library of Victoria has been a partner in PANDORA since 1998 and has contributed more than 50 titles to the archive. Just in time for the launch of the new-look PANDORA, one of our newest partners, the State Library of South Australia, archived its first title. It is Jacob’s Creek Tour Down Under (purl.nla.gov.au/slsa/pandora/tourdownunder) and includes some wonderful images from the cycle race. Congratulations to the staff at SLSA for their efforts in becoming part of the PANDORA family!
Julie Whiting

Above left: Champion French cyclist Gilles Maignan steps up to the winner's podium after taking out this year's Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under . Photograph: Graeme Watson (Courtesy of South Australian Tourism Commission)

Designer Christian Coseru
Designer Christian Coseru unveils the new-look PANDORA web site. Photograph: Loui Seselja

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