Australasian Serials

Australasian Serials
Author: Carol Moya Mills
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1991
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781560241959

This groundbreaking new book outlines current developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian and New Zealand serials bibliography. Researchers have been hampered by the lack of access to lists and contents of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century serials, including newspapers, and the chapters of this book discuss in some detail the progress being made on projects in this area. Other chapters deal with the contribution of the National Centre for Australian Studies to Australian studies and Australian bibliography. The importance of this center lies in its role in improving access to source and other material of Australian origin or interest of specific use to researchers. There are also accounts of current trends in serials bibliography, online newspaper services, current research projects in Australian studies, sports bibliographies, and newspaper and periodical bibliographies in Australia and New Zealand. Bibliographers, librarians, publishers, rare book dealers, as well as students, will find this book to be helpful and enlightening.

Contemporary Australian Television

Contemporary Australian Television
Author: Stuart Cunningham
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1994
Genre: Popular culture
ISBN: 9780868403977

This book provides the first up-to-date introduction to the shape and style of Australian television in the 1980s, 1990s and beyond. Traditional formats like news, current affairs and sport as well as newer genres like tabloid and reality TV are treated in detail. The authors use their expertise in cultural and media studies to take apart the medium in terms of text, genre, audience, nation, culture, policy, industry and postmodernity. Trends and developments that are taking Australian television into the future, such as the increasingly international orientation of the local industry and new services like pay TV, community TV and ABC satellite TV are also examined in depth.

List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture as of July 1, 1957

List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture as of July 1, 1957
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1958
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

This list includes all serials, printed and processed, received by the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture, on a current basis, as of July 1, 1957. Only dailies or administrative use are omitted. A serial is defined as a publication that is issued either regularly or irregularly over an unspecified period of time. For the purposes of this list, a serial was considered current if it had been received in the Library at any time since January 1954, unless it was known to have ceased.