create world-leading research.
The Library seeks to build a significant and sustainable philanthropic revenue stream to digitise the most important, impactful and unique areas of its collection, and to make them accessible to Australians everywhere through Trove. The Treasured Voices campaign will ensure a truly national library that removes geographical, economic and other barriers, and connects all Australians with their stories.
The Australian Government is supporting this ambition by providing $10 million over four years starting from 2019–20 to leverage philanthropic contributions.
Challenges to the Library’s aim to connect with many communities include:
• increasing community expectations about the volume of collection material that can be delivered online and free of charge
Community
Modern surfing was born in Hawaii. But wave riding has probably been going on for centuries around the world. Photo: From the cover of the film,
Anthropologists, when noting a time period associated with the first human inhabitation of the coast of West Africa, point to fossil kitchen shell middens dating back 170,000 years; dense academic tomes like
Traditional Fishing Methods of Africa chronicle shoreline techniques in use over 10,000 years ago. So what? So, consider that 20 years ago I accompanied veteran surf explorers Randy Rarick and John Callahan to a tiny island off the coast of West Africa called Sao Tome. There we encountered a uniquely-indigenous surfing culture: village kids who rode their local waves both on hand-carved bellyboards called