[ANU Pacific.Institute] FW: Collection updates from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU) and ANU Library

[Yanhong Ouyang]

Dear all,

A selection of collection releases and acquisitions from PAMBU and ANU Library.

Key releases from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

The following titles are now available via the PMB catalogue: https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/

Photo Collections

·         Collection PMB Photo 60:  Slides and photographs of missionary service on the island of Tangoa, New Hebrides (1931-33) and a trip for the 75th Anniversary Celebrations of the Tangoa Training Institute, (1970)

·         Collections PMB Photo 79 - PMB Photo 99:  New Hebrides Mission Photographs

·         The last of these collections was released in 2018. All collections copied at the Presbyterian Research Centre, Knox College, New Zealand, are now available via the PMB catalogue.

·         Collection PMB Photo 103:  Slides and Photographs of election campaigns during 1966 election in Fiji

Document & Manuscript Collections:

·         PMB MS 1401 & MS 1423: Catholic Bishops Conference of PNG and Solomon Islands. Restricted Access

·         PMB MS 1424: Lihir language word dictionary translated in German and grammar notebooks

·         PMB MS 1427: Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology Theses

·         PMB MS 1428: Diaries of Conrad Stallan

·         PMB DOC 544: Solomon Islands Broadcasting Memorabilia


ANU Library Pacific collections update


  *   A guide to Pacific studies<https://libguides.anu.edu.au/pacific-studies> resources and collections available from ANU Library is now on the Library website.
  *   All holdings of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau are now available via the ANU Library Catalogue<https://library.anu.edu.au/search~S1?/tPAMBU+1953r+load/tpambu+++++1953r+load/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=tpambu+++++1953r+load&1%2C1953%2C>.
  *   Suggestions of material and resources for the Library to purchase can be made online here<http://library-admin.anu.edu.au/suggest-a-library-purchase/>.

Acquisitions of interest:
Databases

  *   Anthropological Fieldwork Online<https://search.alexanderstreet.com/antf>  - a fully indexed, primary-source database which contains archival collections from North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Key collections related to the Pacific include Arthur Maurice Hocart Papers, Bronislaw Malinowski Papers, Charles and Brenda Seligman Papers, Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, Raymond Firth Papers and Reo Franklin Fortune Papers.
Content includes field notebooks, images, and recordings of the early- to mid-20th century.

Monographs

  *   Indigenous Pacific approaches to climate change : Pacific island countries<http://library.anu.edu.au/record=b4965807> [Online] / Jenny Bryant-Tokalau. Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  *   Artifak : cultural revival, tourism, and the recrafting of history in Vanuatu<http://library.anu.edu.au/record=b5797184> [Online] / Hugo DeBlock. New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
  *   Change and continuity in the Pacific : revisiting the region<http://library.anu.edu.au/record=b4987614> [Online] / edited by John Connell and Helen Lee. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
  *   A Grammar of Kilmeri<http://library.anu.edu.au/record=b5352526> [Online] / Claudia Gerstner-Link. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.
  *   Ole manuõ o tala tu'u ma fisaga o tala ave : the heralding of our oral history and relishing of our story narratives.<http://library.anu.edu.au/record=b5353518> [Print] / Niualama Taifane. Bloomington, IN : Authorhouse, 2018.
  *   Anote's ark<http://library.anu.edu.au/record=b5352192> [DVD] /  film by Matthieu Rytz. Montreal, Quebec : EyeSteelFilm (AA) Productions Inc., c2018.


Regards,
Kari & Tom

Kari James
Executive Officer
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
+61 2 6125 0887
kari.james at anu.edu.au<mailto:kari.james at anu.edu.au>

Tom Foley
Information Access and Collection Management Coordinator
Menzies Library
+61 2 6125 8835
tom.foley at anu.edu.au<mailto:tom.foley at anu.edu.au>

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