Australian Newspaper Index Feasibility Study
Australian Newspaper Index Feasibility Study

Author: Robert Stafford

Publisher: Canberra : National Library of Australia

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780642992093

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This study of the need for and feasibility of creating an Australian newspaper index comprises a brief historical background; an outline of the current position regarding access to newspapers, including the international scene; an assessment of the need for an Australian newspaper index; recommendations on the breadth and depth of subject coverage required for an index and the range of primary source material to be included; reasons for the failure of previous Australian newspaper indexes; recommendations regarding the physical form of the index, the level of indexing, and the responsibility for its compilation; an estimate of production costs; and a discussion of possible means of cost recovery. A computerized index with subject coverage of specified types of news appearing in the final editions of nine Australian newspapers is suggested. A supplementary section provides the text of a 1977 proposal by Thomson Publications to initiate an Info-Key Index; a critique of this proposal; and recommendations for short-term action based on one of three options--the Thomson index, a cooperative index produced by a consortium of Australian libraries, or an index commercially produced by Bell and Howell with or without participation by Australian libraries. (ESR)

Australasian Serials
Australasian Serials

Author: Carol Moya Mills

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781560241959

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This groundbreaking new book outlines current developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian and New Zealand serials bibliography. Researchers have been hampered by the lack of access to lists and contents of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century serials, including newspapers, and the chapters of this book discuss in some detail the progress being made on projects in this area. Other chapters deal with the contribution of the National Centre for Australian Studies to Australian studies and Australian bibliography. The importance of this center lies in its role in improving access to source and other material of Australian origin or interest of specific use to researchers. There are also accounts of current trends in serials bibliography, online newspaper services, current research projects in Australian studies, sports bibliographies, and newspaper and periodical bibliographies in Australia and New Zealand. Bibliographers, librarians, publishers, rare book dealers, as well as students, will find this book to be helpful and enlightening.