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Belinda Mason –Magazine for members Winter 2013 SL Decisive moments in photography Whale of a time Bengali poetry in Broken Hill Message Be Amazed The State Library has been rethinking how we ontents contribute to the understanding of Australasia’s history and development. In April, we opened Amaze: The Michael Crouch Gallery and launched the accompanying Curio app. NEWS NEW ACQUISITIONS Both are exciting new ventures for us. They represent 6 26 Revitalising Germany’s Europe dynamic ways of making our outstanding collections Indigenous languages in 1914 accessible to all — to both amaze and inform. Amaze: The Michael Crouch Gallery is the first Memory trigger Views of Moree completely new gallery at the State Library since 1929 Healthy understanding BUILDING A STRONG when the Dixson Galleries opened. Appropriately, Amaze Literary celebration 28 FOUNDATION began with 60 important and curious items from the Dixson Life and times collection. One of the most intriguing is the coffin-shaped ON THIS DAY 8 of Henry Lawson ditty box, carved by crew members on HMS Resolution after 10 DIGITAL EXCELLENCE James Cook’s death in Hawaii in 1779, and presented to SL Preserving the his widow Elizabeth on their return to England. Another C Just digitised Macarthur papers THE MAGAZINE FOR STATE LIBRARY OF NSW FOUNDATION MEMBERS, is a fragile and rare albumen composite photoprint of the MACQUARIE STREET FRIENDS AND VOLUNTEERS PHOTOGRAPHY 2013 SYDNEY NSW 2000 12 VOLUNTEERS 1867 Australian Aboriginal cricketers, photographed in IS PUBLISHED QUARTERLY 32 PHONE (02) 9273 1414 Decisive moments BY THE LIBRARY COUNCIL Tales from the Warrnambool before their departure to tour England. OF NSW. FAX (02) 9273 1255 Shakespeare Room Curio, a leading-edge app, places visitors at the heart WINTER 2013 [email protected] 16 FEATURE VOL. 6 NO. 2 of their Library experience. Interpretative content, ISSN 1835-9787 WWW.SL.NSW.GOV.AU Whale of a time 34 FOR OUR FRIENDS interesting facts and multimedia — about items in Amaze, P&D-4037-5/2013 OPENING HOURS PRINT RUN 3000 MONDAY TO THURSDAY 20 PROVENANCE in our exhibitions and the historic Mitchell building itself 9 AM TO 8 PM 36 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS Simple as do-re-mi — are delivered to visitors, relevant to their location, as FRIDAY 9 AM TO 5 PM EDITOR WEEKENDS 10 AM TO 5 PM 39 Q&A they move through the Library. The content can also be CAThy perkins FEATURE [email protected] EXHIBITION GALLERIES 22 Belinda Mason viewed from anywhere at any time, offering the opportunity OPEN TO 5 PM, TUESDAYS DESIGN & PRODUCTION TO 8 PM DURING EXHIBITIONS Blowing in the to visit the new gallery and its exhibitions without coming ROSIE HANDLEY THE MITCHELL LIBRARY red dust to the Library. READING ROOM IS CLOSED PHOTOGRAPHY ON SUNDAYS. Both Amaze and Curio represent new ways of enabling UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED COVER the people of NSW, Australia and beyond to view and ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK IS BY DIGITISATION AND FRONT: GUARDING RACHEL interact with extraordinary items in our collections IMAGING SERVICES, (DETAIL), 2012, BRONWYN STATE LIBRARY OF NSW. THOMPSON, FINALIST, including manuscripts, publications, artworks, relics HEAD ON PORTRAIT PRIZE 2013, SUSTAINABILITY AN EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY and photographs. They advance the recognition of this THE HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL PRINTED IN AUSTralia great State Library of NSW as both a world-leading library BY LINDSAY YATes group IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE using spiCer’s STATE LIBRARY OF NSW, and a centre of digital excellence. REVIVE LASER Paper 18 MAY TO 23 JUNE BY CHOOSING TO USE BACK: AUSTRALIAN MADE CARVED DITTY BOX SHAPED ALEX BYRNE 100% RECYCLED LIKE A COFFIN ON SILVER CARBON NEUTRAL PAPER STAND, CONTAINING A ROUGH NSW State Librarian & Chief Executive FOR THIS PUBLICATION, WATERCOLOUR SKETCH THE STATE LIBRARY OF NSW OF THE DEATH OF COOK, HAS HELPED REDUCE INCLUDING A LOCK OF Cook’s GLOBAL GREENHOUSE HAIR, C. 1779, CARVED BY GAS EMISSIONS BY MORE SAILORS ON Cook’s laST SHIP THAN 1.9 TONNES CO2E. HMS RESOLUTION, DR 2 THE STATE LIBRARY OF NSW IS A STATUTORY AUTHORITY OF, AND PRINCIPALLY FUNDED BY, THE NSW STATE GOVERNMENT THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA (DETAIL) 1930s, JAMES NORTHFIELD, POSTERS/AUSTRALIA/25 COURTESY OF THE JAMES NORTHFIELD HERITAGE ART TRUST © NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE AMAZE GALLERY TO CELEBRATE THE BICENTENARY OF THE BLUE MOUNTainS’ croSSING 4 / S L MAGAZINE Winter 2013 State Library of New South Wales S L MAGAZINE Winter 2013 State Library of New South Wales / 5 NEWS Memory trigger Healthy understanding Two rangers from Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park The State Library’s collections in languages have spent several days in the Mitchell Library other than English include a range of Interrobang examining photographs taken in their area over information from self-help, fitness and 50 years ago. The photographs, captured by relationships to the latest prizewinning A punctuation symbol anthropologist Frederick Rose on his 1962 research literature, film tie-ins and bestsellers. comprising an trip to Angas Downs Station, were reprinted in Rose’s NSW residents can borrow these books exclamation mark book The Wind of Change in Central Australia. They through their local public library. Libraries and a question mark. show Aboriginal workers and their families who lived regularly order books in a particular genre Q: Were women on the sheep and cattle station that covered 300,000 or place individual requests — for example, Literary celebration always allowed into hectares to the east of Uluru. Angas Downs was run The Life of Pi in Turkish (Pi’nin Yaşamı) With 54 works shortlisted across the Mitchell Library? by the Liddle family from the 1920s to the 1990s or The Hunger Games in Spanish (Los 10 categories, the 2013 NSW Premier’s A: Women have Revitalising and is now owned by the Imanpa community. Juegos del Hambre). Literary Awards recognise diverse always been allowed Rangers Jim Clayton and Craig Woods came In recent years the demand for health contributions to Australian writing, Indigenous languages into the Mitchell to see if viewing restrictions should be placed on information has increased. ‘Many new from children’s writing and translation An international gathering at the State Library Library Reading the photographs after Rose’s papers became the migrants don’t have family close by or to the newly named Nick Enright Prize in August will explore the role of libraries and archives Room, but they were subject of a PhD thesis. They hope to use the images a network of friends to give them advice,’ for Playwriting and Betty Roland Prize in helping to revive Indigenous languages and culture. excluded from its as a trigger for encouraging community elders to says State Library multicultural consultant for Scriptwriting. The winners were ‘The State Library of NSW is the repository of an earlier incarnation record their memories as oral history. ‘It’s fantastic Oriana Acevedo, ‘and they need to access announced at a celebration dinner enormous amount of material relating to Aboriginal — the Australian to see childhood photos of people we now know information in their first language.’ in the Mitchell Library Reading Room and Torres Strait Islander linguistic culture,’ says Subscription Library as elders,’ says Woods. ‘The old people love seeing Migrants can also find health information on 19 May. Senior Judge of the 2013 NSW State Librarian Alex Byrne. ‘Our current work and Reading Room — photos of themselves.’ online, through the national MyLanguage Awards Dr Kathryn Heyman said this in identifying Indigenous wordlists within our when it opened While appropriate restrictions will be placed on website, a collaboration between state year’s award nominations represent collection will contribute to vitally important language in 1826. According culturally sensitive images, the rangers stressed the libraries. This year the Library has been the broad scope of Australian revitalisation programs.’ The symposium, ‘Hidden to David J Jones’ importance of making this material available to raising awareness of its wide-ranging health literature, with authors ‘telling stories Gems: The Role of Libraries and Archives in Cultural A Source of Inspiration researchers and to the community around Uluru. collection, which covers conditions such which confidently reflect the wider Revitalisation’, will be held at the Library from and Delight, women as diabetes and arthritis, as well as offering world as well as the world of our 26 to 27 August. It is sponsored by the International JIM CLAYTON AND CRAIG WOODS were permitted to join FROM ULURU-KATA TJUTA NATIONAL PARK books on men’s and women’s health, nation’. You can view the winning Federation of Library Associations, Indigenous PHOTO BY BRUCE YORK the Library from 1846. children, and healthy eating, in over titles and read the judges’ reports Matters Special Interest Group, and the Aboriginal 40 community languages. on the State Library website. and Torres Strait Islander Library Information and Resource Network. For more information, please USING MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES AT THE BOWEN LIBRARY www.sl.nsw.gov.au/premiersliteraryawards RANDWICK CITY COUNCIL, PHOTO BY HAMILTON CHURTON contact Melissa Jackson <[email protected]> SHORTLIST FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR or Monica Galassi <[email protected]>. FICTION, 2013 premier’s liTerarY AWARDS INDIGENOUS WORDLISTS WILL BE ON DISPLAY DURING THE SYMPOSIUM 6 / S L MAGAZINE Winter 2013 State Library of New South Wales SL MAGAZINE Winter 2013 State Library of New South Wales / 7 23 June 1979 on this The Eastern Suburbs Railway opens in Sydney. This photograph shows NSW Premier Neville Wran cutting the ribbon at Martin Place Station. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 4 - 08348 COMPILED BY Margot Riley, Discover Collections 8 June 1953 Trailblazing press photographer Sam Hood dies. The Library acquired DAY a collection of about 30,000 negatives 11 August 1858 from his daughter Gladys Hood in 1973.
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