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National Library of Australia, November 2005
On the cover this month

Michael Leunig (b.1945)
Street Football c.1990 (detail)
watercolour, gouache and crayon on
paper; 21.0 x 36.3 cm
Pictures Collection, H98.98/1
State Library of Victoria
Gift of Helga Leunig, 1996

 

Michael Leunig’s artwork is one of more than 170 items gathered from Australia’s state and territory libraries which, along with works from the National Library’s Collection, make up a major exhibition, National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries, showing around Australia, beginning at the National Library in December. See story.

November 2005 Volume XVI Number 2

NATIONAL TREASURES FROM AUSTRALIA ’S GREAT LIBRARIES

 

A preview of the major national exhibition opening at the Library in December, before touring Australia

A TASMANIAN TREASURE: HOBART’S ALLPORT LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
  Christopher Bantick introduces one of the Heritage Collections of the State Library of Tasmania
MIRROR OF THE WORLD: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AND UNESCO’S MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAM
 

Gwenda Beed Davey gives an update on a major international cultural initiative

SCHOLARS’ VOICES
 

Ann Moyal samples an array of interviews from the Library’s Oral History Collection

EBENEZER EDWARD GOSTELOW—A NAME WITH WHICH TO CONJURE

Christobel Mattingley looks at the lifework of one of Australia’s most significant nature painters

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