Posts Tagged ‘ephemera’

Canvassing election ephemera in the Pacific

Recently the Library embarked on two ambitious Pacific collecting projects without even leaving the Library building. Pacific collecting has always been a challenge for the Library, with short print runs and often no ground staff to undertake collection development activities.  This year Vera Dunn and Anya Dettman from the Library’s Overseas Collection Development Unit sought [...]

Look out! She’s behind you!

As an intern in the National Library this year, I expected to find myself doing ‘something’ with books, knowing little about the vast holdings of realia and ephemera the Library also holds. For the past few weeks however, I’ve been going through our PROMPT (Australian Performing Arts) collection and updating a finding aid for the [...]