Biblionews -Index 2005Numbers 345-348Barnard, Robert, 348:126-56Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library, 345:3-32Blair, Richard, Booked for Cricket: A Glance at a Score (or so) of Cricket Books, 347:84-109Bodleian Library: A Subject Guide to the Collections, G Walker et al, 347:118-120, reviewBook Collectors’ Society of Australia—membership statistics, 345:1-2; 347:82; Minutes of the 2005 Annual General Meeting of the … Continue reading Biblionews -Index 2005
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2006-03
In these two glossy illustrated books, libraries are represented by Hofer as static works of art, while Barreneche sees museums as “theme parks” competing for a slice of the public’s leisure time and disposable income.
Dr Tim Bonyhady, in his Introduction to the National Library’s profusely illustrated catalogue National Treasures, notes that, “exhibitions of ‘treasures’ have a long, though interrupted, history. They were first staged in the 1850s and the 1860s, then again from the 1970s. In both periods the public response has been immense, turning several exhibitions into blockbusters”.
Patrick White (1912-1990) is one of Australia’s greatest writers and was a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. Hubber and Smith’s excellent descriptive bibliography of this controversial figure, both in letters and politics, has been in preparation for some considerable time. Indeed, it began while Patrick White was still alive. As the authors state in their introduction, White was sympathetic towards the bibliography but it did not assume the importance for him of his biography, namely David Marr’s Patrick White: A Life (Random House, 1991).