Live Breaking News & Updates on Alex burnard

The Perfect 4-Day Travel Itinerary to Miami, Florida

4 days is a great amount of time to spend in Miami. Use this 4-day Miami travel itinerary to get to know the city via its beaches, restaurants, nightlife, and more.

Miami , Florida , United-states , Little-havana , South-pointe-park , Boca-chita-key , Everglades-national-park , South-beach , Japan , Miami-beach , Cuba , Coral-gables

Recent acquisition highlights - December 2018

Background This report offers a review of recent significant acquisitions by the Library and of collecting activities. It does not describe the large volume of acquisitions of both Australian and overseas materials that are routinely acquired through deposit, purchase or donation.

Dead-sea , New-york , United-states , Canada , Jakarta , Jakarta-raya , Indonesia , Australia , Anzac , Alberta , Bali , Jawa-timur

Symphony Australia collection

Symphony Australia collection
nla.gov.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nla.gov.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Australia , Sydney , New-south-wales , Arundel , Victoria , Australians , Australian , Camille-gheysens , Alex-burnard , Mirrie-hill , Robert-dalley-scarlett , Felix-gethen

Symphony Australia collection


Symphony Australia collection
During the Australian Broadcasting Corporation s (ABC) extensive years of commitment to developing orchestral life in Australia, the national broadcaster had a secondary role of facilitating the composition, performance and broadcast of works by Australian composers. The ABC s Federal Music Library preserved many of the musical scores and parts arising from the ABC s function as Australia s premier classical music performing organisation in the days when archiving Australia s musical history was not a significant consideration for any national institution. This resulted in a collection of Australian musical works, dating from 1912 through to the 1970s.
The National Library of Australia acquired this collection, known as the Symphony Australia Collection in 2000, from the Symphony Australia Library, formerly the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Federal Music Library (ABC Federal Music Library).

Australia , Sydney , New-south-wales , Arundel , Victoria , Australians , Australian , Camille-gheysens , Alex-burnard , Mirrie-hill , Robert-dalley-scarlett , Felix-gethen

Recent acquisition highlights - December 2018


CBRLife = 堪 生 活  is now being received through legal deposit. Published by a group of young Chinese Australians, it is a ‘magazine for Chinese Australians living in Canberra, recording their lives and memories with connection of this City .
While many multicultural publishers are pleased to deposit their works with the Library, others can be less responsive to the Library’s standard ‘official’ approach. There was a good example recently with the acquisition of three volumes of
Aodaliya hua ren nian jian = Yearbook of Chinese in Australia, which we believe to be the first Chinese language yearbooks published in Australia. The acquisition was achieved indirectly, as the publisher did not respond to direct approaches requesting deposit. One of the Library’s volunteers made contact with the editor via his personal network, at which point the volumes were deposited. In these situations, the ‘community-based’ collecting approach is liable to be more successful, and applies in a multitude of other situations as we.

Bangalow , New-south-wales , Australia , Tarakan , Kalimantan-timur , Indonesia , United-states , Yuan-ming , Fujian , China , United-kingdom , Cockburn-islands