National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries
NLA, $34.95 pb, 162 pp, 064227620X
Gillian Dooley reviews 'National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries' by NLA Great Libraries
Treasures exhibitions have reached epidemic proportions in Australia since the runaway success of the National Library’s ‘Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries’, which ran from December 2001 to February 2002. Now the National Library has decided to repeat its act, but this time to concentrate on home-grown exhibits. Australia’s ‘great’ libraries, it must be noted, are in this case only the national, state and territory collections, a definition that might put the noses of some of the other major Australian libraries, such as those belonging to the older universities, out of joint.
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