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Getting the Story: Media, Truth and Conflict

Australia boasts a long and distinguished tradition of war reporting and each conflict has posed particular challenges to journalists. This two-day symposium featured Australia's finest foreign correspondents reflecting on their experiences of reporting from the world's crisis zones.

Innovative Ideas Forum 2009

'The value and significance of social networking for cultural institutions'

This year, the Forum will have a particular emphasis on “social networking” innovations, through which online services engage with their users in the development of their content.

iif2009 radio interview

Louise Maher, 666 Radio ABC interviewer talks to Bobby Graham, Director Web Publishing (Acting) about social networking at the Innovative Ideas Forum 2009.

Books and Breakfast with Robert Dessaix

Writer and journalist Caroline Baum leads a discussion with acclaimed Australian author Robert Dessaix about the writing process.

The Prime Ministers: Biography and Public Life

Prime ministerial biographers discuss the challenges involved in writing about Australia's political leaders.
Presented in association with The National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.

An Evening with Philip Jones - Talk

Join non-fiction prizewinner Philip Jones to discover how the Prime Minister's Literary Awards changes a writer's life.

Before Cook: 18th Century Accounts of Life in Eastern Indonesia

Professor James Fox draws on the personal account of young German officer Ernst Christoph Barchewitz, among others, to present an intimate portrait of social life in the early 18th century in what is now eastern Indonesia.

2008 Kenneth Myer lecture

Presented by Professor Tim Flannery at the National Library of Australia on Tuesday 15 July 2008.  Professor Flannery's lecture was entitled Climate Change: an update to July 2008. More information...

The Kenneth Binns Lecture

Presented by David Malouf at the Love& Desire: Literature and the Intimate Conference, at the National Library of Australia. Entitled ‘Love and Literature’, his lecture explores intimacy and desire in literature and our understanding of what it is to be human.

Kenneth Myer Lecture

Presented by Geoffrey Robertson QC at the National Library of Australia. Mr Robertson talks about Crimes Against Humanity - International Affairs Post Iraq. More information...

NLA Strategic Directions

  • Duration: 26 mins 55 secs
  • Date: 3 Apr. 2006
  • Video: Quicktime™ Media (requires Apple Quicktime™ 6 or higher)

Presented by Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General, Innovation, National Library of Australia at the Innovative Ideas Forum. Dr Cathro talks about the Library's Strategic Directions for 2006-2008.

NLA services to support education and research

A presentation by Tony Boston, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing, National Library of Australia, at the Innovative Ideas Forum. Mr Boston talks about the Library's services and infrastructure to support research and education in Australia based on its own collection and those of the Australian library sector.

Introduction to Libraries Australia

Jan Fullerton, the Library's Director-General, introduces the new Libraries Australia online service.

 

 

Libraries Australia Launch

The Hon. Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, launches the Libraries Australia service in the Parliament House Theatre.

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