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Open it online and see!6The Battye Library is responsible forpreserving the State’s documentaryheritage. A vital part of this heritagecomprises published works, whichincreasingly are being made availableelectronically over the Internet.Immediate action is needed if thesignificant portion of WesternAustralia’s documentary heritage thatis being produced online is to bearchived and preserved. The Statecollection should also form part of anationally accessible collection.In June 2001, Ronda Jamieson, theDirector of the Battye Library, met withrepresentatives from all StateLibraries and staff of the NationalLibrary of Australia in Canberra todiscuss participation in the PANDORAArchive. The Archive preserves andprovides networked access to theonline documentary heritage ofAustralia. The State Library formallybecame a PANDORA partner inAugust 2001. While Brian Stewart, theTeam Leader for Battye PublishedCollections, was the project leader forthe development of a discussionpaper on the collecting of electronicpublications in early 2000, the newpartnership was the catalyst for thedevelopment of a formal selectionpolicy for the development of acollection of online electronicpublications. The Library Boardapproved the selection policy inOctober 2002.While work on developing policy wasunderway, staff in the Battye Librarywere busy training and beginning thetime-consuming process to obtainpermissions and archive electronicpublications and websites through thePANDORA Archive maintained by theNational Library of Australia. GlendaOakley has been the PANDORA coordinatorand she has taken on thechallenge of building the WA electroniccollections with enthusiasm. This hasinvolved a great deal of consultationwith our National Library partners,particularly over technical issues. TheLEFT: The PANDORA homepage.BELOW: Librarian GlendaOakley, Battye Library’sPANDORA co-ordinator, iscurrently building theWestern Australiancontribution to the website.support of the National Library staff hasbeen very much appreciated. And theresponse of Western Australianauthors and website administrators toGlenda’s requests to archive theirpublications or sites have been veryenthusiastic. Here are some of thecomments received:• Wow!! That’s fantastic!• I went in expecting links to mynovels and found all those otherreferences. Amazing how theyhave been cross-referenced.• Thank you very much forproviding such a professionalresource. I feel very special!• Best wishes to you and yourlibrary team. Please pass on mythanks to all involved.• My comment is “I’m totallychuffed. Looks great on bothsites.” I commenced the site toprovide primary source materialfor art students and maybe, justmaybe, write a form of arthistory. Thanks to you, SLWAand NLA and PANDORA, I’vedone just that!Already a variety of Western Australianpublications, ranging from websites forthe 2001 State election through avariety of government publications toart sites, are available on thePANDORA site. To see these, connectto the State Library of WesternAustralia’s catalogue at http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au/ and do akeyword search on ‘Pandora ElectronicCollection Western Australia’. To seeall the catalogued titles do a title searchon ‘Pandora Electronic Collection’.The full PANDORA archive is availableon the PANDORA archive site at http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html. Andwhile you are there take a look at someof the wonderful resources which areavailable, such as the Sydney 2000Olympic Games, Centenary ofFederation and many others.Brian StewartTeam Leader, Battye Published CollectionsState Library of Western Australia
7b a t t y eabout booksCyril AyrisThis is the story of Flying Officer Stan Watt and some ofhis fellow brave WWII pilots who pressed attack afterattack through the heaviest anti-aircraft fire the Germanscould muster. It is also the story of their remarkableaeroplane, the Kittyhawk, which made the transition fromfighter to dive bomber with outstanding success.compiled by Marolyn HamiltonTwenty gold sovereigns were stolen from Charlie Harrisduring his voyage from England and he arrived with littlemoney at Fremantle in 1891, aged 23. Unable to findwork at his trade of baker and confectioner, he walkedfrom Perth to Albany, almost dying of thirst on the way. Julie TuckeyThe story of two children growing up on a cattle stationin the Hamersley Range of Western Australia and whoare of mixed blood. The boy, Toby, has problems comingto terms with his Aboriginality, and as they seek onejourney after another into the Aboriginal dreamtimestories, Toby is able to find and accept who he is.Suellen MurrayWomen’s refuges in the 1970s did more than just providecrisis accommodation; they worked to politicise domesticviolence. Politicians and bureaucrats began to takenotice from the 1980s and, over time, service responsesimproved. The author uses Nardine Women’s Refuge inWestern Australia as a case study.Margaret E. PuseyThis book is the first release of memories collected fromthe people who were Niagara and Kookynie, WesternAustralia. It is a journey into the home life, school days,tragedies, plagues and mining accidents. A compilationof photographs, mining details, humorous and sad talesensure it will become a treasure for Goldfields families.Rod DicksonIn 22 individual stories, mostly unpublished, RodDickson has attempted to portray the hardshipsencountered by the thousands of men who wereengaged in the pearling industry during the early partof the 1900s in the north-west of Western Australia.Harry AtkinsonBorn legally blind, Harry Atkinson was first licensed asa radio amateur in 1937 and was an active ham untilhis death in 2001. He began as a roving reporter for theWireless News before embarking on a career in countrybroadcasting. This is his story.Bindy DatsonSamphires are an easily overlooked and much malignedsucculent plant, often found growing in inhospitableplaces such as saline wetlands and tidal estuaries. Thisnew field guide to Chenopodiaceae tribe salicornieaedescribes each species in simple terms and with theaid of simple keys. Christine HalseErnest Gribble’s life teemed with trials andcontradictions. Once described as the first ‘successful’missionary to the Aboriginals, Gribble would die inobscurity, mourned only by those he had spent his lifetrying to protect. Christine Halse’s biography revealsthe humanity of this complex, tragic figure - a man whoselife echoes the tensions that haunt Australia’s past.
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