Established by the Council of the National Library of Australia in 1983 as the National Library Fellowships, the first Fellows commenced their research in 1984. The Fellowships were renamed in honour of Sir Harold White CBE (1905-1992), the first National Librarian, in 1985.
Thai treasure trove: the Thai collection
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Asian Collections at the National Library of Australia:
Forty years of history. Article by Andrew Gosling, originally published in National Library of Australia News, vol. 3 (11), August 1993, pp 19-21
The National Library houses the largest and most actively developing research resource on Asia in Australia, with holdings of over half a million volumes. The following is not intended to be a comprehensive coverage of Asian collections at the National Library of Australia. The aim is to provide an historical overview concentrating on areas and languages given a high priority by the Library, while also referring to other parts of the region. The Library has emphasised East Asia, namely China and its periphery, Japan and the Korean peninsula, and Southeast Asia, consisting of the ASEAN and Indochina countries as well as Burma. Within Southeast Asia the Library has placed greatest stress on its Indonesian and Thai collections. Thus this article refers particularly to Chinese, Japanese,
Harold White Fellowships
Established by the Council of the National Library of Australia in 1983 as the National Library Fellowships, the first Fellows commenced their research in 1984. The Fellowships were renamed in honour of Sir Harold White CBE (1905-1992), the first National Librarian, in 1985.
The Fellowships aimed to promote the Library as a centre of scholarly activity and research, and encourage the use and promotion of the Library’s rich and varied collections. It supported 150 researchers until 2014 when it was replaced by the Fellowships and Scholarships program.
The Library will continue to honour Harold White s legacy in other ways.
Thai treasure trove: the Thai collection
Thai Treasure Trove: the Thai Collection at the National Library of Australia by Rosemary Borthwick. Originally published in
National Library of Australia News, 6 (9), June 1996, pp 14-16.
It is now almost 40 years since the establishment of a bilateral exchange agreement at governmental level between Thailand and Australia, to be implemented through the respective National Libraries of the two countries, was successfully concluded with an exchange of notes in December 1956. These formal arrangements received a further impetus in the same year from discussions begun in Japan between the National Librarian of Australia, Sir Harold White, and the Chief Librarian of the National Library of Thailand, Nai Tri Amatykul.
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