[ANU Pacific.Institute] Pasifika Collections in the UNESCO Memory of the World Registers

[Kari James]

Dear Pacific Institute Members,

This coming Wednesday 12 February at 3pm at the ACT Heritage Library in Fyshwick will be the launch of a new display of Pacific materials from collections on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register, including two collections managed here at the ANU - the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau<https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php> and PARADISEC<https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/>.

If you are interested in attending the opening, including speakers and afternoon tea, please RSVP pambu at anu.edu.au<mailto:pambu at anu.edu.au>

Pasifika Collections in the UNESCO Memory of the World Registers
2025 is an important year for the Pacific region, as it marks the 50th anniversary of Papua New Guinea as an independent nation. Australia's relations with its Pacific neighbours have a long history - of trade, plantations, administration, missionary activity, anthropological and linguistic research, and scientific exploration. The documentary heritage of Australia's relations with its Pacific neighbours is an important component of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register, and is represented on the Memory of the World Asia-Pacific (MOWCAP) Register.

The UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register, and the MOWCAP Register, hold inscriptions of five collections relating to Australia and its Pacific neighbours, including some joint inscriptions. They are:


  *   F. E. Willliams Collection of Photographs of Papua, 1922-1943 (Australia and Papua New Guinea)
  *   Queensland South Sea Islander Indentured Labour Records 1863-1908
  *   Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
  *   Funafuti: The Edgeworth David 1897 Expedition Documents (Australia and Tuvalu)
  *   Pacific Manuscripts Bureau


Items relating to these inscriptions, including photographs, publications and objects collected from Pacific nations such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Tuvalu from the late 1960s onwards, will be on display at the ACT Heritage Library from 6 February to 11 May 2025.

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Kari James
Executive Officer
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and the Pacific
HC Coombs Building #9 | Room 1.323
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2600 Australia
Phone: +61 2 6125 0887
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/
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