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NEWSPAPERS AS MEDIUM AND MESSAGE:
A KEY TO AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Australian newspapers are an incomparable source of information about this country's past. Recent developments in indexing and digitisation have improved possibilities of access to this documentary record. At the same time one needs to be aware of the people who edited and wrote newspapers, produced them physically and consumed them. The seminar also pursues this indispensable human angle, and speakers have been chosen accordingly.

This seminar was held at the State Library of Victoria on Saturday 23 May 2009

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PROGRAM

Introduction by Shane Carmody, Director of Collections and Access, SLV
1.00 pm	Jo Ritale, Manager, Collection Services, Des Cowley, Manager, Rare Printed Collections & Liz Jesty, Manager, Collection Management, State Library of Victoria	The State Library's newspapers in the digital age
1.30 pm	Cathy Pilgrim, National Library of Australia	Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
2.00 pm	Eleanor Pugsley, Research Services Manager, Genealogical Society of Victoria	Using newspaper indexes
2.30 pm	Questions and discussion
3.00 pm	Afternoon tea
3.30 pm	Rod Kirkpatrick, Editor of the Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter	Exploring history through newspapers online: the South Australian experience
4.00 pm	Elizabeth Morrison, author of Engines of Inﬂuence: newspapers of country Victoria, 1840-1890	The David Syme stable: newspapers published by the Age business, 1860-1908
4.30 pm	Wallace Kirsop, Director, Centre for the Book, Monash University	Putting Australian newspaper history in its international context
5.00 pm	Questions and discussion

Presented by the State Library User Organisations' Council with the support of the State Library of Victoria.