Images of Australia in Asian Languages

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April 6, 2004

National Library of Australia: Images of Australia in Asian Languages
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From: T.Matthew Ciolek <tmciolek at coombs.anu.edu.au>

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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:   early Apr 2004, Vol. 11, No. 7 (211).
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04 Apr 2004

Images of Australia in Asian Languages

The National Library of Australia (NLA), Canberra, Australia

Supplied note: "The National Library of Australia seeks to collect Asian
language Australiana comprehensively. This includes works published
overseas
in Asian languages where the subject is wholly or substantially
Australian. It
also includes Asian language books published in Australia, as well as
Asian
language editions and translations of Australian authors, whether
published
locally or overseas. The Asian Collections contain some 3000 Australiana
monographs in Japanese, 1000 in Chinese and around 200 in other Asian
languages. In addition there are many journal and newspaper articles
about
Australia in these languages.

An introduction to these holdings, 'Images of Australia in Asian
Languages' by
Andrew Gosling [NLA's Chief Librarian, Asian Collections from 1985 to
2003
- ed.] is included in 'National Library of Australia News,' volume XIV
number
7, April 2004, pp. 14-17 and on the Library's website at [the URL
below].

The article illustrates the wide range of these contemporary and older
publications. It also describes the Asian Accounts of Australia
Project, which
has provided greater access to selected Chinese and Japanese language
monograph and serial holdings reflecting Asian perceptions of
Australia. The
Project was carried out by the National Library, the Australian National
University and Griffith University, with funding from the Australian
Research
Council. - ag."

[The article provides links to the NLA's eight annotated bibliographies
of
Chinese and Japanese Australiana [www.nla.gov.au/asian/accounts/], the
project's final conference, 'As Others See Us', held at the National
Library in
February 2003, and to the abstracts of the conference
papers [www.geocities.com/australiana2003 - ed.]

URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2004/apr04/article4.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/

Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (andrewgosling[use"@"]netspeed.com.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]:
        Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO -
        other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: V.
        Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under
1,000 - under
        300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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- regards -

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek           tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS,
The National Institute for Asia and the Pacific,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
ph +61 (02) 6125 0110      fax: +61 (02) 6257 1893
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