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Records of the Australian Society of Authors, 1963-c.1999

(16 ms boxes + 5 archives boxes + 94 sound/av carriers + 9 digital carriers)
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MS 4572 includes correspondence, notes, articles and drafts of the journal The Australian author, reports, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Australian Society of Authors, financial papers such as receipt books and accounts and copies of the journal, Broadside. They relate to the organisation of the Society in 1963, the publishing of The Australian author and the problems involved in writing and publishing. The records also include correspondence, notes and minutes of the Australian Writers' Guild, papers relating to an inquiry into conditions of writers made in 1969 and transcripts of ASA seminars held in 1968.The correspondents in MS 4572 include G.C. O'Donnel, Dal Stivens, Frank Watts, J. Hellyer, Geoffrey Dutton, K.S. Prichard, Xavier Herbert, Nettie Palmer, Dymphna Cusack, A.D. Hope, T. Inglis Moore, Kylie Tennant, Keith Ewers, C.B. Christesen, J.M. Douglas Pringle and Morris West.The Acc01/218 instalment includes translations drafted under the ASA Translation Grants Program, a project funded in 1999 by the Literature Fund of the Australia Council. Most of the translations are from English to foreign languages, with a few foreign titles which have been translated into English. Titles include, David Williamson's Travelling north (Vietnamese), Patrick White's The vivisector (Greek), Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (Chinese), Peter Carey's Illywacker (Russian) and Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's New Guinea diary (Russian to English).
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Papers of David Garnsey, 1936-1990

3.78 metres (27 boxes)
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The papers cover Bishop Garnsey's career in the Church and in education from the time of his return from Oxford in 1938 to his retirement. They document his work as Headmaster of Canberra Grammar School and Bishop of Gippsland, and his involvement with the Australian Student Christian Movement, the ecumenical movement, the Australian Council of Churches and the Australian College of Theology. There is also material on the many controversial issues he spoke out on, including Australia's involvement in the war in Vietnam.
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Papers of Andrew Reeves, 1910-1998

7.2 metres (48 ms boxes + 33 sound/av carriers)
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Personal papers of Andrew Reeves relating to his career in archives and museums at the University of Melbourne Archives, the Museum of Australia, and the Museum of Victoria as well as the involvement of Reeves and Margaret Anderson in the Heritage Collections Working Group, the Council of Australian Museum Associations (CAMA) and the Museums Association of Australia (MAA).
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State Theatre Company of South Australia : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 29 October 1988-20 September 1997

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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of advertising flyers and booklets about the plays that are performed at the State Theatre Company of South Australia.
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Records of the Holdsworth Galleries, 1969-1996

28.6 metres (185 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 27 sound/av carriers)
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The records cover the full 27-year history of the Galleries and document in detail its activities in dealing and promoting Australian art. There are some 7,000 files relating to the staging of exhibitions and the sale of art works. Separate files were created for each artist or exhibition. The files vary considerably in size, from one or two items to several files for an eminent artist. Each file can contain correspondence with the artist and with other galleries and clients, draft and published catalogues, invitations, guest lists, price lists (including marked-up catalogues of prices realised), sale documents, loan agreements, insurance arrangements, newspaper clippings and reviews, photographic prints and slides of artworks.
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Records of the Australian National Playwrights Conference, 1972-2006

(95 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 folio packet + 10 sound/av carriers + 2 digital carriers)
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MS 5062 comprises playscripts, readers' reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings, subject files, funding applications, notes, press cuttings, photographs and printed material. The subject files include records relating to: Austral-Asian Playwright Conference, 1992; Belvoir Street Theatre, 1987; Conference of Australian Professional Performing Arts Ltd., 1985-1986; Music Board, 1983-1987; Music Theatre, 1986-1987; Salamanca Theatre Company, 1988; Sydney Writers Festival Committee, 1992; Sydney Theatre Company, 1988-1989; and, the Young Playwrights Weekend, 1993 (95 boxes, 1 fol. box, 1 map folio).
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Collection of books and reports received from the Victorian Government Library Service, 1910-2013

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This collections consists of books and reports donated to the National Library of Australia by the Victorian Government Library Service between 2014 and 2019. Items mainly cover subjects pertaining to the environment and primary industries, including, but not limited to: forestry, fisheries, water resources, soil salinity and conservation, farming, land management and nature conservation.