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Perth
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Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with a population of 2.06 million living in Greater Perth. The first areas settled were on the Swan River, with the central business district. Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the centre of the Swan River Colony. It gained city status in 1856, and was promoted to the status of a Lord Mayorality in 1929. The city is named after Perth, Scotland, due to the influence of Sir George Murray, Member of Parliament for Perthshire and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The citys population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia. During Australias involvement in World War II, Fremantle served as a base for operating in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of immigrants after the war, predominantly from Britain, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia, Aboriginal people have inhabited the Perth area for 38,000 years, as evidenced by archaeological remains at Upper Swan. The Noongar people occupied the southwest corner of Western Australia and lived as hunter-gatherers, the wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain were particularly important to them, both spiritually and as a source of food. The Noongar people know the area where Perth now stands as Boorloo, Boorloo formed part of Mooro, the tribal lands of Yellagongas group, one of several based around the Swan River and known collectively as the Whadjuk. The Whadjuk were part of a group of fourteen tribes that formed the south-west socio-linguistic block known as the Noongar. The judgment was overturned on appeal, the first documented sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697. The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, Captain James Stirling, aboard Parmelia, said that Perth was as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed. On 12 August that year, Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship, Sulphur. The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantles diary entry for 12 August, Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, and was in 1829 Secretary of State for the Colonies and Member for Perthshire in the British House of Commons. The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murrays honour, the racial relations between the Noongar people and the Europeans were strained due to these happenings. Because of the amount of building in and around Boorloo
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Western Australia
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Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Southern Ocean to the south, the state has about 2.6 million inhabitants, around 11% of the national total. 92% of the lives in the south-west corner of the state. The first European visitor to Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, the first European settlement of Western Australia occurred following the landing by Major Edmund Lockyer on 26 December 1826 of an expedition on behalf of the New South Wales colonial government. This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, york was the first inland settlement in Western Australia. Situated 97 kilometres east of Perth, it was settled on 16 September 1831, Western Australia achieved responsible government in 1890, and federated with the other British colonies in Australia in 1901. Today its economy relies on mining, agriculture and tourism. The state produces 46% of Australias exports, Western Australia is the second-largest iron ore producer in the world. The International Hydrographic Organization designates the body of water south of the continent as part of the Indian Ocean, the total length of the states eastern border is 1,862 km. There are 20,781 km of coastline, including 7,892 km of island coastline, the total land area occupied by the state is 2.5 million km2. Most of the state is a low plateau with an elevation of about 400 metres, very low relief. This descends relatively sharply to the plains, in some cases forming a sharp escarpment. The extreme age of the landscape has meant that the soils are remarkably infertile, even soils derived from granitic bedrock contain an order of magnitude less available phosphorus and only half as much nitrogen as soils in comparable climates in other continents. Soils derived from extensive sandplains or ironstone are even less fertile, nearly devoid of soluble phosphate and also deficient in zinc, copper, molybdenum, the infertility of most of the soils has required heavy application by farmers of chemical fertilisers, particularly superphosphate, insecticides and herbicides. These have resulted in damage to invertebrate and bacterial populations, the grazing and use of hoofed mammals and, later, heavy machinery through the years have resulted in compaction of soils and great damage to the fragile soils. Large-scale land clearing for agriculture has damaged habitats for native flora, large areas of the states wheatbelt region have problems with dryland salinity and the loss of fresh water. The southwest coastal area has a Mediterranean climate and it was originally heavily forested, including large stands of karri, one of the tallest trees in the world. This agricultural region is one of the nine most bio-diverse terrestrial habitats, thanks to the offshore Leeuwin Current, the area is one of the top six regions for marine biodiversity and contains the most southerly coral reefs in the world
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Academic journal
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An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny and they are usually peer-reviewed or refereed. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research, review articles, the term academic journal applies to scholarly publications in all fields, this article discusses the aspects common to all academic field journals. Upon receipt of an article, editors at the journal determine whether to reject the submission outright or begin the process of peer review. In the latter case, the submission becomes subject to review by scholars of the editors choosing who typically remain anonymous. Though these reports are confidential, some journals and publishers also practice public peer review. The editors either choose to reject the article, ask for a revision and resubmission, even accepted articles are often subjected to further editing by journal editorial staff before they appear in print. The peer review can take several weeks to several months. Review articles, also called reviews of progress, are checks on the published in journals. Some journals are devoted entirely to review articles, some contain a few in each issue, such reviews often cover the research from the preceding year, some for longer or shorter terms, some are devoted to specific topics, some to general surveys. Some journals are enumerative, listing all significant articles in a subject, others are selective. Yet others are evaluative, judging the state of progress in the subject field, some journals are published in series, each covering a complete subject field year, or covering specific fields through several years. Unlike original research articles, review articles tend to be solicited submissions and they are typically relied upon by students beginning a study in a given field, or for current awareness of those already in the field. Reviews of scholarly books are checks upon the books published by scholars, unlike articles. Journals typically have a book review editor determining which new books to review. If an outside scholar accepts the book review editors request for a book review, publishers send books to book review editors in the hope that their books will be reviewed. The length and depth of research book reviews varies much from journal to journal, as does the extent of textbook, an academic journals prestige is established over time, and can reflect many factors, some but not all of which are expressible quantitatively. In each academic discipline there are dominant journals that receive the largest number of submissions, yet, not only the largest journals are of excellent quality
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Manuscript
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A manuscript is any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some automated way. More recently, it is understood to be a written, typed, or word-processed copy of a work. Before the arrival of printing, all documents and books were manuscripts, manuscripts are not defined by their contents, which may combine writing with mathematical calculations, maps, explanatory figures or illustrations. Manuscripts may be in form, scrolls or in codex format. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched with pictures, border decorations, elaborately embossed initial letters or full-page illustrations. The traditional abbreviations are MS for manuscript and MSS for manuscripts, while the forms MS. ms or ms. for singular, and MSS. mss or mss. for plural are also accepted. The second s is not simply the plural, by an old convention, it doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plural, just as pp. means pages. Before the invention of printing in China or by moveable type in a printing press in Europe. Historically, manuscripts were produced in form of scrolls or books, manuscripts were produced on vellum and other parchment, on papyrus, and on paper. In Russia birch bark documents as old as from the 11th century have survived, in India, the palm leaf manuscript, with a distinctive long rectangular shape, was used from ancient times until the 19th century. Paper spread from China via the Islamic world to Europe by the 14th century, when Greek or Latin works were published, numerous professional copies were made simultaneously by scribes in a scriptorium, each making a single copy from an original that was declaimed aloud. Manuscripts in Tocharian languages, written on leaves, survived in desert burials in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia. Volcanic ash preserved some of the Roman library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, ironically, the manuscripts that were being most carefully preserved in the libraries of antiquity are virtually all lost. Originally, all books were in manuscript form, in China, and later other parts of East Asia, woodblock printing was used for books from about the 7th century. The earliest dated example is the Diamond Sutra of 868, in the Islamic world and the West, all books were in manuscript until the introduction of movable type printing in about 1450. Manuscript copying of books continued for a least a century, as printing remained expensive, private or government documents remained hand-written until the invention of the typewriter in the late 19th century. In the Philippines, for example, as early as 900AD, specimen documents were not inscribed by stylus and this type of document was rare compared to the usual leaves and bamboo staves that were inscribed. However, neither the leaves nor paper were as durable as the document in the hot
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Archive
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An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organizations lifetime, in general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines for which many copies exist. This means that archives are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their functions and organization, a person who works in archives is called an archivist. The study and practice of organizing, preserving, and providing access to information, the physical place of storage can be referred to as an archive, an archives, or a repository. When referring to historical records or the places they are kept, the computing use of the term archive should not be confused with the record-keeping meaning of the term. The adjective formed from archive is archival, the practice of keeping official documents is very old. Archaeologists have discovered archives of hundreds of clay tablets going back to the third and second millennia BC in sites like Ebla, Mari, Amarna, Hattusas, Ugarit and these discoveries have been fundamental to know ancient alphabets, languages, literature, and politics. Archives were well developed by the ancient Chinese, the ancient Greeks, however, they have been lost, since documents written on materials like papyrus and paper deteriorated at a faster pace, unlike their stone tablet counterparts. Archives of churches, kingdoms, and cities from the Middle Ages survive and have kept their official status uninterruptedly till now. They are the tool for historical research on these ages. Modern archival thinking has many roots from the French Revolution, historians, genealogists, lawyers, demographers, filmmakers, and others conduct research at archives. The research process at each archive is unique, and depends upon the institution that houses the archive. While there are kinds of archives, the most recent census of archivists in the United States identifies five major types, academic, business, government, non-profit. There are also four main areas of inquiry involved with archives, material technologies, organizing principles, geographic locations and these areas help to further categorize what kind of archive is being created. Archives in colleges, universities, and other facilities are typically housed within a library. Academic archives exist to preserve history and serve the academic community. Access to the collections in these archives is usually by prior appointment only, users of academic archives can be undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff, scholarly researchers, and the general public
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Map
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A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word map comes from the medieval Latin Mappa mundi, wherein mappa meant napkin or cloth, thus, map became the shortened term referring to a two-dimensional representation of the surface of the world. Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface, in addition to location information maps may also be used to portray contour lines indicating constant values of elevation, temperature, rainfall, etc. The orientation of a map is the relationship between the directions on the map and the compass directions in reality. The word orient is derived from Latin oriens, meaning East, in the Middle Ages many maps, including the T and O maps, were drawn with East at the top. Today, the most common – but far from universal – cartographic convention is that North is at the top of a map, several kinds of maps are often traditionally not oriented with North at the top, Maps from non-Western traditions are oriented a variety of ways. Old maps of Edo show the Japanese imperial palace as the top, labels on the map are oriented in such a way that you cannot read them properly unless you put the imperial palace above your head. Medieval European T and O maps such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi were centred on Jerusalem with East at the top, indeed, prior to the reintroduction of Ptolemys Geography to Europe around 1400, there was no single convention in the West. Portolan charts, for example, are oriented to the shores they describe, Maps of cities bordering a sea are often conventionally oriented with the sea at the top. Route and channel maps have traditionally been oriented to the road or waterway they describe, polar maps of the Arctic or Antarctic regions are conventionally centred on the pole, the direction North would be towards or away from the centre of the map, respectively. Typical maps of the Arctic have 0° meridian towards the bottom of the page, reversed maps, also known as Upside-Down maps or South-Up maps, reverse the North is up convention and have south at the top. Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion maps are based on a projection of the Earths sphere onto an icosahedron, the resulting triangular pieces may be arranged in any order or orientation. Modern digital GIS maps such as ArcMap typically project north at the top of the map, compass decimal degrees can be converted to math degrees by subtracting them from 450, if the answer is greater than 360, subtract 360. The scale statement may be taken as exact when the region mapped is small enough for the curvature of the Earth to be neglected, over larger regions where the curvature cannot be ignored we must use map projections from the curved surface of the Earth to the plane. Thus for map projections we must introduce the concept of point scale, which is a function of position, although the scale statement is nominal it is usually accurate enough for all but the most precise of measurements. Large scale maps, say 1,10,000, cover relatively small regions in detail and small scale maps, say 1,10,000,000, cover large regions such as nations, continents. The large/small terminology arose from the practice of writing scales as numerical fractions, there is no exact dividing line between large and small but 1/100,000 might well be considered as a medium scale
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Sheet music
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Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms and/or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. The first printed sheet music made with a press was made in 1473. Sheet music is the form in which Western classical music is notated so that it can be learned and performed by solo singers or instrumentalists or musical ensembles. Many forms of traditional and popular Western music are commonly learned by singers and musicians by ear, Score is a common alternative term for sheet music, and there are several types of scores, as discussed below. Sheet music from the 20th and 21st century typically indicates the title of the song or composition on a page or cover, or on the top of the first page. If the song or piece is from a movie, Broadway musical, or opera, if the songwriter or composer is known, her or his name is typically indicated along with the title. Black market sheet music, such as illegal jazz fake books may or may not indicate the songwriter or composer, the type of musical notation varies a great deal by genre or style of music. In most classical music, the melody and accompaniment parts are notated on the lines of a staff using round note heads, the lyrics, if present, are written near the melody notes. However, music from the Baroque music era or earlier eras may have neither a tempo marking nor a dynamic indication. The singers and musicians of that era were expected to know what tempo and loudness to play or sing a song or piece due to their musical experience. In the contemporary music era, and in some cases before, composers often used their native language for tempo indications. These conventions of music notation, and in particular the use of English tempo instructions, are also used for sheet music versions of 20th. Popular music songs often indicate both the tempo and genre, slow blues or uptempo rock, pop songs often contain chord names above the staff using letter names, so that an acoustic guitarist or piano player can improvise a chordal accompaniment. In other styles of music, different musical notation methods may be used, in jazz, while most professional performers can read classical-style notation, many jazz tunes are notated using chord charts, which indicate the chord progression of a song and its form. Like popular music songs, jazz tunes often indicate both the tempo and genre, slow blues or fast bop, professional country music session musicians typically use music notated in the Nashville Number System, which indicates the chord progression using numbers. Chord charts using letter names, numbers, or Roman numerals are widely used for notating music by blues, R&B, rock music. Many guitar players and electric bass players learn songs and note tunes using tablature, tab is widely used rock music and heavy metal guitarists. Singers in many music styles learn a song using only a lyrics sheet
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Sound recording and reproduction
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Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording, prior to the development of analog recording, there were mechanical systems for reproducing instrumental music, such as wind-up music boxes and later, in the late 19th century, player pianos. Analog sound reproduction is the process, with a bigger loudspeaker diaphragm causing changes to atmospheric pressure to form acoustic sound waves. Digital recording and reproduction converts the sound signal picked up by the microphone to a digital form by the process of digitization. This lets the audio data be stored and transmitted by a variety of media. Whereas successive copies of an analog recording tend to degrade in quality, as noise is added. A digital audio signal must be reconverted to analog form during playback before it is amplified and connected to a loudspeaker to produce sound, long before sound was first recorded on cylinders or records, music was recorded—first by written music notation, then also by mechanical devices. Fowler, this. cylinder with raised pins on the surface remained the device to produce and reproduce music mechanically until the second half of the nineteenth century. The Banu Musa brothers also invented an automatic flute player, which appears to have been the first programmable machine, according to Fowler, the automata were a robot band that performed. more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection. In the 14th century, Flanders introduced a mechanical bell-ringer controlled by a rotating cylinder, similar designs appeared in barrel organs, musical clocks, barrel pianos, and musical boxes. A music box is a musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century, some of the more complex boxes also have a tiny drum and/or bells, in addition to the metal comb. The fairground organ, developed in 1892, used a system of accordion-folded punched cardboard books, the player piano, first demonstrated in 1876, used a punched paper scroll that could store an long piece of music. The most sophisticated of the rolls were hand-played, meaning that the roll represented the actual performance of an individual. This technology to record a live performance onto a piano roll was not developed until 1904, piano rolls were in continuous mass production from 1896 to 2008. A1908 U. S. Supreme Court copyright case noted that, in 1902 alone, the use of piano rolls began to decline in the 1920s although one type is still being made today. The first device that could record actual sounds as they passed through the air was the phonautograph, the earliest known recordings of the human voice are phonautograph recordings, called phonautograms, made in 1857. They consist of sheets of paper with sound-wave-modulated white lines created by a stylus that cut through a coating of soot as the paper was passed under it
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Oral history
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These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations. Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives and most of these cannot be found in written sources, Oral history also refers to information gathered in this manner and to a written work based on such data, often preserved in archives and large libraries. Knowledge presented by Oral History is unique in that it shares the tacit perspective, thoughts, opinions, however, as the Columbia Encyclopedia explains, Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written histories. In Western society, the use of oral material goes back to the early Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, the modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at Oral history has become an international movement in historical research. Oral historians in different countries have approached the collection, analysis, however, it should also be noted that there are many ways of creating oral histories and carrying out the study of oral history even within individual national contexts. Authors such as Studs Terkel, Alex Haley, and Oscar Lewis have employed oral history in their books, in another important example of the genre, a massive archive covering the oral history of American music has been compiled at the Yale School of Music. By the end of the 20th cent, Oral history had become a respected discipline in many colleges and universities. At that time the Italian historian Alessandro Portelli and his associates began to study the role that memory itself, whether accurate or faulty, plays in the themes and structures of oral history. Their published work has become standard material in the field. Since the early 1970s, oral history in Britain has grown from being a method in folklore studies to becoming a key component in community histories, Oral history continues to be an important means by which non-academics can actively participate in the compilation and study of history. However, practitioners across a range of academic disciplines have also developed the method into a way of recording, understanding. Influences have included womens history and labour history, in Britain, the Oral History Society has played a key role in facilitating and developing the use of oral history. A more complete account of the history of history in Britain. The Bureau of Military History conducted over 1700 interviews with veterans of the First World War, the documentation was released for research in 2003. During 1998 and 1999,40 BBC local radio stations recorded personal oral histories from a broad cross-section of the population for The Century Speaks series. The result was 640 half-hour radio documentaries, broadcast in the weeks of the millennium, and one of the largest single oral history collections in Europe. The interview based recordings are held by the British Library Sound Archive in the history collection. In one of the largest memory project anywhere, The BBC in 2003-6 invited its audiences to send in recollections of the homefront in the Second World War and it put 47,000 of the recollections online, along with 15,000 photographs
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Ephemera
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Ephemera are any transitory written or printed matter not meant to be retained or preserved. The word derives from the Greek ephemeros, meaning lasting only one day, in library and information science, the term ephemera also describes the class of published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use. This classification excludes simple letters and photographs with no printing on them, large academic and national libraries and museums may collect, organize, and preserve ephemera as history. A particularly large and important example of such an archive is the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Over 2,000 images from the John Johnson Collection are available to search online for free at VADS, by extension, video ephemera and audio ephemera refer to transitory audiovisual matter not intended to be retained or preserved. Surprisingly, the bulk of video and audio expression has, until recently. Early TV broadcasts were not preserved, an article on the Ephemera Society of America website notes Printed ephemera gave way to audio and video ephemera in the twentieth century. These present even more of a problem than printed materials. Although seldom made available for libraries, when videotapes are acquired for archival preservation they are found to be made on low quality tape, poorly processed, and damaged from abuse by users. The large capacity and reach provided by such as the Internet Archive. W. S. Cowell,1962 The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, london, The British Library, New York, Routledge,2000. Fragments of the Everyday, A Book of Australian Ephemera by Richard Stone Twyman, ISSN 1476-7171. org at Louisiana Tech University Sheaff, Dick. Collection of digitized ephemera at Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, Biblioteca Nacional de España
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Western Australian Legislative Council
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The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly, the two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth. The 2005 changes continued to maintain the previous malapportionment in favour of rural regions, the changes took effect for the 2008 State election. Since 2008, the Legislative Council has had 36 members, the term of the current Legislative Council will expire on 21 May 2017, when members elected at the 2017 State election will take their seats. The Labor Party will hold 14 of the 36 seats, the Liberals will hold nine seats, while the Nationals and The Greens will hold four seats each and One Nation will hold three seats. Six members of the Legislative Council are elected from each of the six regions under a proportional and preferential voting system using the single transferable vote method, the term of the current Legislative Council will expire on 21 May 2017. 19 votes are required as a majority to pass legislation, nigel Hallett, who was elected for the Liberal Party at the 2013 election, changed to the Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers in June 2016. The table above reflects the change of party, on 21 May 2017 the Legislative Council elected at the state election will commence its term. The composition will be as follows, Western Australias first representative parliament was the Legislative Council, initially it consisted only of official members, that is, public officials whose office guaranteed them a place on the Council. Three years later, an attempt was made to expand the Council by including four members to be nominated by the governor. However, the demand for elected rather than nominated members was so great that implementation of the change was delayed until 1838. Because of this provision, Western Australia was slow to adopt the system, in 1867, the governor responded to public demand for representative government by holding unofficial elections and subsequently nominating each elected person to the Council. Three years later, representative government was adopted and the Legislative Council was changed to consist of 12 elected members and 6 members nominated by the governor. Suffrage was limited to landowners and those with a level of income. This Council consisted of 15 members, all nominated by the governor, however, it was provided that once the population of the colony reached 60,000, the Legislative Council would become elective. The colony was expected to take years to reach a population of 60,000 but the discovery of the eastern goldfields. The constitution was amended to make the Legislative Council an elective house of 21 seats. The first election to the Council was held following the dissolution of parliament in June 1894 and this system was retained until 1962 when, over the next two years, the Council was reformed, creating a series of two-member electorates
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Queen Victoria
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Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she adopted the title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne aged 18, after her fathers three brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already a constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, Victoria attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments, publicly, Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together, after Alberts death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength and her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era and it was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover and her son and successor, Edward VII, belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the line of his father. Victorias father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, until 1817, Edwards niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl and Feodora —by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen and her brother Leopold was Princess Charlottes widower. The Duke and Duchess of Kents only child, Victoria, was born at 4.15 a. m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. Victoria was christened privately by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, on 24 June 1819 in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace and she was baptised Alexandrina, after one of her godparents, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and Victoria, after her mother. Additional names proposed by her parents—Georgina, Charlotte, and Augusta—were dropped on the instructions of the Dukes eldest brother, George, the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of Kent married on the same day in 1818, but both of Clarences daughters died as infants. Victorias father died in January 1820, when Victoria was less than a year old, a week later her grandfather died and was succeeded by his eldest son, George IV. The Duke of York died in 1827, when George IV died in 1830, he was succeeded by his next surviving brother, William IV, and Victoria became heir presumptive
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Golden jubilee
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A golden jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary. The golden jubilee is a ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the accession of the king. The first Golden Jubilee of Thailand was the celebration of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX celebrated his golden jubilee on 9 June 1996, having acceded to the throne in 1946 which makes him Thailands longest-reigning monarch and the longest-living monarch today. The largest faceted diamond in the world, known as the Golden Jubilee Diamond, was purchased as a gift for the King on the 50th anniversary of his coronation by Thai businessmen, currently, the diamond is located in the Royal Thai Palace as part of the crown jewels. In 1996, Banharn Silpa-archa, the Prime Minister, and the Thai people celebrated the King with a large celebration, the symbol of the golden jubilee of King Bhumibol Adulyadej was designed by Wiyada Charoensuk, who won the contest for the design. The golden jubilee of George III of the United Kingdom was celebrated on 25th October 1809, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her golden jubilee in 2002, having ascended the throne in 1952. In 1887 the United Kingdom and the British Empire celebrated Queen Victorias golden jubilee, Victoria marked 20 June 1887—the fiftieth anniversary of her accession—with a banquet, to which fifty European kings and princes were invited. Although she could not have been aware of it, there was a plan by Irish Republicans to blow up Westminster Abbey while the Queen attended a service of thanksgiving and this assassination attempt, when it was discovered, became known as the Jubilee Plot. At the time, Victoria was a popular monarch. Emperor Wu of Han dynasty Kangxi Emperor of Qing dynasty Qianlong Emperor of Qing dynasty Yeongjo of Joseon In Japan, Emperor Hirohito, celebrated his golden jubilee on 10 November 1976. Showa Memorial Park was established as part of a project to commemorate his golden jubilee, for the year 2015, the Singapore50 initiative is launched in Singapore to celebrate 50 years of independence from Malaysia. The logo is meant to identify with the SG50 celebrations, national Day Parade ceremonies for that year are themed Majulah Singapura - Our Golden Jubilee. In Bavaria, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria celebrated his jubilee as Elector Palatine in 1792. In Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Grand Duke Karl August celebrated his golden jubilee in 1826, in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Josef celebrated his golden jubilee in 1898. In Baden, Grand Duke Frederick I celebrated his golden jubilee in 1906, in Liechtenstein, Prince Johann II celebrated his golden jubilee in 1908. In Greece, King George I was assassinated mere weeks before his golden jubilee was due to be celebrated in 1913, in Montenegro, Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš celebrated his golden jubilee in 1914. In Norway, King Haakon VII celebrated his golden jubilee in 1955, in Burundi, King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng celebrated his golden jubilee in 1965. In Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie celebrated his jubilee, dating from when he became regent
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St Georges Terrace
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St Georges Terrace is the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It runs parallel to the Swan River and forms the major road through the central business district. Its western end is marked by the Barracks Arch, whereas the end joins Adelaide Terrace at the intersection with Victoria Avenue. St Georges Terrace was named after St Georges Cathedral, originally, houses occupied by clergy of the cathedral and lay clerks of the cathedral choir constituted a substantial portion of the Terrace. Some of these such as The Deanery remain, however the majority of these were demolished in the 1960s. Originally 150 plaques were installed in 1979, as part of the WAY79 celebrations, since then, additional plaques have been added, so that there is now one for each year from 1829 to 1999. Australian roads portal Media related to St Georges Terrace, Perth at Wikimedia Commons
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James Battye
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Dr. James Sykes Battye was the first chief librarian of the Victoria Public Library in Perth, Western Australia. He was a historian, librarian and public figure in Western Australian. James Sykes Battye was born at Geelong, Victoria, on 20 November 1871 and his father Daniel Battye, was a wool-weaver from Yorkshire in England. Battye died on 15 July 1954, the J S Battye Library is named in his honour. Battye is a term for the library and also his History of Western Australia volume published at the time of the Western Australia centenary celebrations in 1929. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations, adelaide, Cyclopedia Company by Hussey & Gillingham. Facsimile edition published in 1985 by Hesperian Press, Carlisle, W. A. ISBN 0-85905-072-6, Western Australia, a history from its discovery to the inauguration of the Commonwealth. Western Australia Post Office Directory State Records Office of Western Australia Cyclopedia of Western Australia - has his biography until 1912 at - Vol.1, p. 532-533 Garrick, two historians and the aborigines, Kimberly and Battye, commentary on their different attitudes. Studies in Western Australian History, No.8, p. 111-130 Works by J S Battye at Project Gutenberg Australia
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John Winthrop Hackett
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Sir John Winthrop Hackett Senior KCMG, generally known as Winthrop Hackett, was a proprietor and editor of several newspapers in Western Australia, a politician and a University chancellor. Hackett was born near Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, the eldest child of the Rev. John Winthrop Hackett, M. A. and his wife, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he graduated BA in 1871 and MA in 1874. He was called to the Irish bar in 1874, but emigrated to Sydney, Hackett took up journalism and contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald, but in 1876 went to Melbourne to become vice-principal and tutor in law, logic and political economy, at Trinity College. He also contributed to The Age and the Melbourne Review, in 1880 he was a candidate for Normanby at an election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly as an advanced liberal, but was badly defeated and lost his deposit. At a later election Hackett was opposed to John Madden, in 1882 he resigned his positions at Trinity College and went to Western Australia to become a squatter in the Gascoyne district. His first season was a bad one and he decided to give up the land and he joined forces with Charles Harper, the proprietor of The West Australian, and very soon his influence on this paper began to be felt. The Western Mail was established in 1885 and both papers became prosperous, in 1887 Hackett became editor of The West Australian and was a strong advocate of responsible government. Western Australia received its constitution in 1890, and Alexander Forrest selected Hackett as the first man to be asked to join the nominee Western Australian Legislative Council. The population of the colony was still under 50,000 but was beginning to rise, the newspapers grew with the population and became very valuable properties. Hackett, as editor, was writing a daily leading article, in 1894 Hackett was elected to the Legislative Council as representative of the south-western province, and held this seat until his death. He was a delegate to the 1891 and 1897 Federal conventions and he was asked to join more than one ministry, but had to decline as it was impossible for him to add to the work he was already doing. He was also of the opinion that, as a newspaper editor and he advocated womens suffrage, and Western Australia was one of the early jurisdictions to give women the vote. He also strongly supported Forrest in his development policy, in the building of the line to the goldfields. He was interesting himself very much in the Perth public library, museums, and national gallery of which he became president and he was a prominent member of the Church of England, holding the offices of registrar of the Diocese of Perth and chancellor of St Georges Cathedral. He declined a knighthood in 1902 but accepted it in 1911, the University of Western Australia opened in 1913 with Sir John as its first chancellor, and he gave it its first substantial private contribution when he endowed the chair of agriculture. Hacketts partner, Charles Harper, died in 1912, and Hackett acquired full ownership of the West Australian for £88,000, Hackett suffered from Parkinsonism and his health began to fail in 1915. He took a trip to the states which appeared to have benefited him. On 3 August 1905, Hackett married the 18-year-old Deborah Vernon Brockman and they had four daughters, and a son also called John
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
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The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth, Western Australia. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia, the current gallery opened in 1979. The States art collection consists of over 15,500 works of art, the Art Gallery was originally housed in the Jubilee Building with the State Museum and Library. The foundation stone was laid for the Art Gallery in July 1901 by the Duke of Cornwall and York, sir James Dromgole Linton recommended purchases for the State Art Collection. The Art Gallery Administration Building is housed in the former Police Quarters, designed by architect Hillson Beasley and it was built during the economic boom created by the 1890s Kalgoorlie gold rush. The Administration Building moved into the Police Quarters in the 1970s during the mining boom. The Main Gallery Building was built in 1977, and was spurred by the mining boom. Western Australia was also placing more importance on cultural institutions, construction of the Alexander Library began in the same period. The architect of the Main Gallery Building was K. Sierakowski from the Public Works Department and it was designed in the Bauhaus method with a Brutalist exterior, which was popular in European design. The slab and shear head column system was an architectural feature in WA at the time. The Art Gallerys first collection was eclectic, the first collection consisted of Indian and Asian craft work, followed by art created by European Australians and copies of English art. The Aesthetic Movement inspired the collection with its definition of art. Ongoing exhibitions include Indigenous traditional and contemporary art from the Northern Territory and Western Australia, an annual exhibition called Year 12 Perspectives highlights works from Western Australian Art and Art & Design students, including paintings, prints, digital art, fashion design and sculpture
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Western Australian Museum
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The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia. It has six sites, in Perth within the Perth Cultural Centre. The Western Australian Museum is an authority within the Culture. Established in 1891 in the Old Perth Gaol, it was known as the Geological Museum, in 1892, ethnological and biological exhibits were added, and in 1897, the museum officially became the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery. During 1959, the collection was transferred to the new herbarium and the museum. The museum focussed its collecting and research interests in the areas of sciences, anthropology, archaeology. Over the 1960s and 1970s, it began to work in the then-emerging areas of historic shipwrecks. The Western Museum has six branches and four collection facilities. The museum also offers services to all areas of Western Australia. On 9 September 1891, the Geological Museum was opened at the site of the Old Gaol, the Old Gaol still forms a significant part of the Western Australian Museum — Perth and is one of the oldest standing buildings in Western Australia. From 1971 to 2003, a part of the research. This site was closed due to concerns with asbestos, and demolition concluded in late 2011, throughout the Western Australian Museums history the prominent James Street location has remained central to the museums identity and the location of many large permanent and touring exhibits. Exhibitions on fashion, natural history, cultural heritage and history have attracted large numbers of visitors, diamonds to Dinosaurs, An exhibition exploring 12 billion years of WAs history, featuring specimens such as rocks from the Moon and Mars, pre-solar diamonds and dinosaur skeleton casts. Katta Djinoong, This exhibition depicts the history and culture of the Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia from past to present, Dampier Marine Gallery, This exhibit explores the biodiversity of the waters around the Dampier Archipelago. Mammal, Bird and Butterfly Galleries, These galleries contain extensive collections of various animals, the Western Australian Museum — Perth also features the Discovery Centre, designed to help children and adults interact and learn about the museums collections and research. The Western Australian Museum has two branches in Fremantle, Maritime and Shipwreck Galleries, the Western Australian Museum - Maritime is located on Victoria Quay, and contains galleries with themes such as the Indian Ocean, the Swan River, fishing, maritime trade and naval defence. One of the highlights is the yacht, Australia II. Nearby in Cliff Street, the Western Australian Museum — Shipwreck Galleries is recognised as the foremost maritime archaeology, the museum is housed in an 1850s-era Commissariat building and contains a reconstructed hull from the Batavia, which was wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629
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Alexander Library Building
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The building falls under the responsibility of the Western Australian government Department of Culture and Arts. The sloped walkway just east of the building runs roughly along the alignment of the old Museum Street, the street had one of the most mixed and unique streetscapes in this area of Perth – which was all removed in the construction of the new library building. Only one building is commemorated on the Alexander Library Building structure – the Perth Baptist Church which was in Museum Street from 1899 to 1979, the Theosophical Bookshop and library was long established at the corner of Museum and James Streets. The streetscape can be found in Wises Directories for the earlier decades,30 November 1979 – Commencement of Construction 18 June 1985 – Opening of Building State Library of Western Australia State Records Office Department of Culture and Arts
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Wi-Fi
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Wi-Fi or WiFi is a technology for wireless local area networking with devices based on the IEEE802.11 standards. Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, which restricts the use of the term Wi-Fi Certified to products that successfully complete interoperability certification testing. Devices that can use Wi-Fi technology include personal computers, video-game consoles, smartphones, digital cameras, tablet computers, digital audio players, Wi-Fi compatible devices can connect to the Internet via a WLAN network and a wireless access point. Such an access point has a range of about 20 meters indoors, hotspot coverage can be as small as a single room with walls that block radio waves, or as large as many square kilometres achieved by using multiple overlapping access points. Wi-Fi most commonly uses the 2.4 gigahertz UHF and 5 gigahertz SHF ISM radio bands, having no physical connections, it is more vulnerable to attack than wired connections, such as Ethernet. In 1971, ALOHAnet connected the Hawaiian Islands with a UHF wireless packet network, ALOHAnet and the ALOHA protocol were early forerunners to Ethernet, and later the IEEE802.11 protocols, respectively. A1985 ruling by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission released the ISM band for unlicensed use and these frequency bands are the same ones used by equipment such as microwave ovens and are subject to interference. In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, the first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN. They are the credited with inventing Wi-Fi. In 1992 and 1996, CSIRO obtained patents for a method used in Wi-Fi to unsmear the signal. The first version of the 802.11 protocol was released in 1997 and this was updated in 1999 with 802. 11b to permit 11 Mbit/s link speeds, and this proved to be popular. In 1999, the Wi-Fi Alliance formed as an association to hold the Wi-Fi trademark under which most products are sold. Wi-Fi uses a number of patents held by many different organizations. In April 2009,14 technology companies agreed to pay CSIRO $1 billion for infringements on CSIRO patents and this led to Australia labeling Wi-Fi as an Australian invention, though this has been the subject of some controversy. In 2016, the local area network Test Bed was chosen as Australias contribution to the exhibition A History of the World in 100 Objects held in the National Museum of Australia. The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand, the Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was a little catchier than IEEE802. 11b Direct Sequence. Phil Belanger, a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance who presided over the selection of the name Wi-Fi, has stated that Interbrand invented Wi-Fi as a pun upon the word hi-fi. Interbrand also created the Wi-Fi logo, the yin-yang Wi-Fi logo indicates the certification of a product for interoperability
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Music library
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A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Collections may also include non-print materials, such as digitized music scores or audio recordings, use of such materials may be limited to specific patron groups, especially in private academic institutions. Music library print collections include dictionaries and encyclopedias, indexes and directories, printed music, music serials, bibliographies, production music libraries license their copyrighted music for use in film, television, and radio productions. Performance libraries serve performing music groups, particularly large orchestras, by acquiring, preparing, digital music libraries and archives preserve recordings and digitized scores or literature in a variety of electronic formats. Many music libraries dedicate part of their duties to digitizing parts of their collection, digital preservation requires specific procedures to avoid decay, obsolescence, and loss. Digital materials may be part of a larger, physical collection, access may be limited as a fee-based service, a private service to specific user groups, or freely accessible to the public. List of online music databases Music librarianship Music Library Association, the professional organization for the field. Putting the Experience of the World at the Nations Command, Music at the Library of Congress, 1800-1917, Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. Brown, James Duff, Guide to the formation of a library, London, Sipkin, Marshall, Hamilton. Bibliothèque nationale, Département de la Phonothèque nationale et de lAudiovisuel = The National Record,9 p. International Association of Music Libraries. Bibliothèques détablissement denseignement musical, Répertoire européen = Libraries in Music Teaching Institution, International Association of Music Libraries,1994. Title and some of the also in German. Concerns both library and private music collections. Union List of Music Periodicals in Canadian Libraries, Canadian Association of Music Libraries,1981. The title and introd. are also in French, original ed. by Lionel Roy McColvin and Harold Reeves, completely re-written, rev. and extended by Jack Dove, in series, Grafton Book. Vol.1 is a study of such libraries and of music librarianship, xi,137 p. ISBN 0-914954-00-8 Music Library Association. Directory of Music Libraries and Collections in New England, florida State University Music Library - Contains useful links to electronic resources. Improving Availability of Print Collections, A Case Study at the College-Conservatory of Music Library - by David Sandor, songwriting-guide. com/music-library - Contains more info about music libraries
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Genealogy
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Genealogy, also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship, the results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives. Amateur genealogists typically pursue their own ancestry and that of their spouses, professional genealogists may also conduct research for others, publish books on genealogical methods, teach, or produce their own databases. They may work for companies that provide software or produce materials of use to other professionals, both try to understand not just where and when people lived, but also their lifestyles, biographies, and motivations. This often requires—or leads to—knowledge of antiquated laws, old political boundaries, migration trends, bloodlines of Salem is an example of a specialized family-history group. It welcomes members who can prove descent from a participant of the Salem Witch Trials or who choose to support the group. Genealogists and family historians often join family history societies, where novices can learn from experienced researchers. Such societies generally serve a specific geographical area and their members may also index records to make them more accessible, and engage in advocacy and other efforts to preserve public records and cemeteries. Some schools engage students in projects as a means to reinforce lessons regarding immigration. Other benefits include family medical histories with families with medical conditions that are hereditary. The terms genealogy and family history are used synonymously. The term family history may be popular in Europe, genealogy more popular in the United States. In communitarian societies, ones identity is defined as much by ones kin network as by individual achievement, would be answered by a description of father, mother, and tribe. New Zealand Māori, for example, learn whakapapa to discover who they are, Family history plays a part in the practice of some religious belief systems. For example, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a doctrine of baptism for the dead, in societies such as Australia or the United States, there was by the 20th-century growing pride in the pioneers and nation-builders. Establishing descent from these was, and is, important to such groups as the Daughters of the American Revolution, in Nazi Germany, family histories were compiled to affirm individuals affiliation with the master race and to adhere to legal requirements for marriage. In Germany today, family history is often perceived as a threat to privacy rather than as a source of self-esteem. Most 20th-century sources remain unavailable to the public on privacy grounds, funding of support for family history at archives is limited
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Western Mail (Western Australia)
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The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia. It was printed by James Gibbney at the office in St Georges Terrace. The newspaper was renamed to The Countryman on 27 January 1955, however, the name Western Mail was recycled for a last Christmas Annual in 1956. In 1980 the name was resurrected for a new weekly, published by Western Mail Limited, the push for a new paper was made by Robert Holmes à Court and Bell Group following his failed takeover attempt of The Times. The venture was wound up in 1988, Vol.1, no.1 – Vol.70, no.3403 Days of issues Weekly on Thursday 3 July 1919 –20 January 1955. Weekly on Friday 27 September 1912 –27 June 1919, Weekly on Saturday 16 September 1899 –21 September 1912. Weekly on Friday 21 June 1895 –8 September 1899, known as Weekend Mail – TV from 5 September 1959 to 1960. Annual supplement, Weekend Mail Annual The Western Mail, Perth, W. A,1944, Malcolm Uren Most dates are derived from the entries in the State Librarys reference catalogue, Western Mail 1980 Western Mail 1885
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State Library of New South Wales
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The State Library of New South Wales is a large reference and research library open to the public. It is the oldest library in Australia, being the first established in New South Wales in 1826, the library is located on the corner of Macquarie Street, Sydney and Shakespeare Place, adjacent to the Domain and the Royal Botanic Gardens. The library is a member of the National and State Libraries Australasia consortium, the first library collections were part of the Australian Subscription Library which was started by a group of wealthy Sydney citizens in 1826. It was then purchased for £5100 by the New South Wales Government in 1869, in 1895 it was renamed the Public Library of New South Wales until its most recent name change in 1975, when it became the State Library of New South Wales. The Australian Subscription Library was established in 1826 at a meeting at the Sydney Hotel chaired by barrister John Mackaness, Library membership was subject to committee approval. Dr James Mitchell, father of David Scott Mitchell, was a member from 1832 to 1853. Fortunately for the later negotiations with the government were more successful. The foundation stone for new building, on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets, was laid by Alexander Macleay. Financial difficulties continued, and by 1869 the subscription library was in serious debt, the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100. In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20000 volumes, over 60,000 people visited the library in its first year of operation as the Free Public Library. Robert Cooper Walker was appointed Principal Librarian and he, in collaboration with the Trustees, worked to expand the educational role of the library both through collection expansion and the production of printed catalogues of the librarys collection. The library expanded its operations, opening a branch in 1877. This lending branch was handed to the Sydney Municipal Council in 1909, the librarys collection continued to grow, causing continual storage and overcrowding problems, new additions included a First Folio in 1885 and the papers of William Bligh in 1902. Australiana was a focus for the library and David Scott Mitchells collecting activities came to the attention of Henry Charles Lennox Anderson. Andersons stated aim of making the library a National, and not a Municipal, Anderson realised that the library did not have the budget or contacts to compete with Mitchell, and attempted to build a working relationship with Mitchell. In 1898, Mitchell announced his intention to leave his collection to the people of New South Wales, although his offer was quickly accepted, construction of a new building to house the collection was delayed for several years. Construction commenced in 1906, one year before Mitchells death, following Andersons resignation in 1907, Frank Murcott Bladen was appointed Principal Librarian. In 1909, Hugh Wright was appointed to the newly created position of Mitchell Librarian, nita Kibble was another early member of the library staff
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State Library of Queensland
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The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Queensland Libraries Act 1988 and it contains a significant portion of Queenslands documentary heritage, major reference and research collections, and is an advocate of and partner with public libraries across Queensland. The library is at Kurilpa Point, within the Queensland Cultural Centre on the Brisbane River at South Bank, the Brisbane Public Library was established by the government of the Colony of Queensland in 1896, and was renamed the Public Library of Queensland in 1898. The library was opened to the public in 1902, in 1934, the Oxley Memorial Library, and named for the explorer John Oxley, opened as a centre for research and study relating specifically to Queensland. A year after that, James L. Stapleton was appointed Queenslands first State Librarian, in 1971, the Public Library became the State Library. A few years later the Country Lending Service was established to provide book exchange, the CLS is still going strong today, administered by the State Librarys Public and Indigenous Library Services program. In 2003, the State Library began a new mission of establishing Indigenous Knowledge Centres in the Cape York, there is now a network of 22 IKCs in remote and regional communities, across Cape York, the Northern Peninsula. Area, the islands of the Torres Strait, Central Queensland, the State Librarys current strategic vision is to enrich the lives of Queenslanders through creatively engaging people with information, knowledge and community. In early 2011, the library donated 50,000 pictures to Wikimedia Commons, the library holds general collections, including books, journals and magazines, newspapers, audiovisual items, family history, maps, music, ephemera, Internet and electronic resources. There are research collections and services – including the John Oxley Library and the Australian Library of Art, the library is home to two UNESCO Memory of the World significant collections, Labour Party Manifesto and the Margaret Lawrie collection of Torres Strait Islands material. The library holds a collection of Queensland election-related material, including websites, posters, flyers, access to collections, including access to 50,000 Copyright-free Queensland images through Wikimedia Commons Provides books and other resource material to public libraries throughout Queensland. Specialist services to libraries in a number of areas, including services to young people. Public programs and exhibitions, including exhibition loans to schools, museums, outreach programs in reference, research, information literacy, Internet training and digitisation throughout Queensland for public library staff and the general community. A digital culture centre called The Edge, for young people, a free coworking space, the Business Studio, supports startups, entrepreneurs and small business. Free guided tours of the building are available, in 2010, a total of 3730 school students participated in a tour. The then-Brisbane Public Library moved into the Old State Library Building in William Street and this building had formerly been occupied by the Queensland Museum. The Library originally shared accommodation in the building with an art gallery, in the late 1950s, an extension, with a distinctive tiled mural on the exterior, was built onto the building to provide more space. The mural was the design in a national competition held in 1958
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State Library of South Australia
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The State Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public library in the state with a collection focus on South Australian information. It holds the South Australiana collection, which documents South Australia from pre-European settlement to the present day, reference material comes in a wide range of formats from digital and electronic to film, sound recordings, photographic, video and microfiche. Library collections are not for loan and must be used on site, customers can gain access to a large array of journals, newspapers and other resources from the comfort of their own home by registering for Home Access. The building now known as the Mortlock Wing was opened on 18 December 1884 as a Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery for the colony of South Australia with 23,000 books and a staff of three. In 1860 the Library was housed in the Institute Buildings, North-terrace, the foundation stone was laid on 7 November 1879 by Sir William Jervois and the building was constructed by Brown and Thompson at a total cost of £43,897, and opened in 1884. Supervision for the Board of Directors was undertaken by secretary Robert Kay, later director and secretary of the Public Library, Museum. The building is French Renaissance in style with a mansard roof, the walls are constructed of brick with Sydney freestone facings with decorations in the darker shade of Manoora stone. The interior has two galleries, the first supported by columns, and the second by cast iron brackets. The balconies feature wrought iron balustrading ornamented with gold while the glass-domed roof allows the chamber to be lit with natural light, two of the original gas sunburner lamps survive in the office space located on the second floor at the southern end. Restoration of the building occurred in 1985 as a Jubilee 150 project by Danvers Architects, consultant architect to the South Australian Department of Housing, the $1.5 million project was jointly funded by the government and the community. In August 2014 the Mortlock Wing featured in a list of the top 20 most beautiful libraries of the world, the State Library has a national responsibility to collect, preserve and give access to historical and contemporary South Australian information. The South Australiana collections document South Australia from pre-white settlement to the present day, the South Australiana collection is one of the most comprehensive in the world due to legal deposit requirements for published material, and through donations of unpublished material. A well known donation is the Bradman Collection of cricketing memorabilia, the State Librarys rare books collection is the major collection of its kind in South Australia. It comprises Australian and international items which have identified as having a special interest through subject matter or rarity. The Childrens Literature Research Collection was formed in 1959 and has over 65,000 books, periodicals, comics, board and table games, the collection has been enhanced by donations from South Australian individuals and families and from organisations. It is one of the State Librarys heritage collections and is of international importance, South Australian Museum Art Gallery of South Australia State Library of South Australia Arts SA
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State Library of Tasmania
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The State Library of Tasmania is the main library of the library system in the state of Tasmania, Australia. The State Library of Tasmania administers and funds all public libraries in Tasmania, there are 7 city/suburban lending libraries and 39 smaller branch libraries located in the main cities, regional and rural centres throughout the state. All libraries share a single catalogue and the collection circulates freely between the libraries, located on the second floor of the Hobart LINC building, Murray Street, Hobart, the State Reference Library contains over 200,000 books, periodicals, maps and directories. Items in the catalogue not located on the floor can be retrieved by library staff from an area called the Stack within 30 minutes. Reference and research services are provided to on-site and off-site clients using a range of print, the Ask a Librarian webpage provides clients with access to virtual and online enquiry services. The library operates several collections and archives of historical publications and documents, all Tasmanian-related material is collected including all works published in Tasmania, all works published about Tasmania, and all works by Tasmanian authors. A collection of books, documents, photographs, works of art and objects collected by Sir William Crowther. The library contains about 15,000 books and manuscripts, as well as photographs and artworks, another collection of historical material, bequeathed to the people of Tasmania by the Allport family to the library in 1965. It includes about 6,000 books, and outstanding collection of about 2,500 colonial-era artworks and collections of Georgian era furniture, British, French and Chinese porcelain. State Library of Tasmania - www. think-tasmania. com State Library of Tasmania website TALISPlus, New Tasmanian Library Catalogue Our Digital Island Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
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State Library of Victoria
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The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the state of Victoria, Australia, located in Melbourne. It is on the bounded by Swanston, La Trobe, Russell. The library holds over 2 million books and 16,000 serials, including the diaries of the founders, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner. It also houses the original armour of Ned Kelly, in 1853, the decision to build a state library was made at the instigation of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe and Mr Justice Redmond Barry, Q. C. On 3 July 1854, the recently inaugurated Governor Sir Charles Hotham laid the stone of both the new library and the University of Melbourne. The library opened in 1856, with a collection of 3,800 books chosen by Mr Justice Barry, augustus H. Tulk, the first librarian, was appointed three months after the opening. The first reading room was the Queens Reading Room, which opened in 1859, temporary buildings built in 1866 for the Intercolonial Exhibition remained in use by the library until 1909, when work began on a new annexe building to mark the librarys Jubilee. This new building was the landmark Domed Reading Room, which opened in 1913 and was designed by Norman G. Peebles, the reading domes original skylights were modified and covered in copper sheets in 1959 due to water leakage. The library underwent major refurbishments between 1990 and 2004, designed by architects Ancher Mortlock & Woolley, the project cost approximately A$200 million. The reading room closed in 1999 to allow for renovation, during which light was returned. The renamed La Trobe Reading Room reopened in 2003, as a result of the redevelopment, the State Library of Victoria can now be considered one of the largest exhibiting libraries in the world. In February 2010, the wing of the library on Little Lonsdale Street was reopened as the Wheeler Centre. On 29 April 2015 the Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley announced that the 2015–16 State Budget would provide $55, the grassy lawn in front of the librarys grand entrance on Swanston Street is a popular lunch-spot for the citys workers and students at the adjacent RMIT University. Originally enclosed by a fence, then by a wrought iron fence and gates in the 1870s. A number of statues are in the entrance area, a pair of bronze lions graced the park from the 1860s until 1937. There are statues of Mr Justice Sir Redmond Barry, Q. C, on Sundays between 2,30 pm and 5,30 pm, a speakers forum takes place on the library forecourt, where orators take turns in speaking on various subjects. The landmark Domed Reading Room, which opened in 1913 and was designed by Norman G. Peebles and its octagonal space was designed to hold over a million books and up to 600 readers. It is 34.75 m in diameter and height, and its oculus is nearly 5 m wide
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ACT Heritage Library
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The ACT Heritage Library is the state library of the Australian Capital Territory and the pre-eminent ACT reference library. The Library is the section of the ACT Library and Information Services and is located on Level 1, Woden Library, Corner Corinna Street and Furzer Street. Antoinette Buchanan has been the Manager of the ACT Heritage Library since 2004, the ACT Heritage Library collects, manages and provides access to material relevant to the ACTs documentary heritage. It offers assistance in researching matters relating to the ACT, its history, the collection of books and journals in the ACT Heritage Library focuses on the works published in the ACT, by ACT residents, or about the ACT. Special collections include the collection and a small zine collection, the ACT Heritage Library holds 4,000 maps and plans of Canberra and the ACT and plans of some public and private buildings. A full listing of the maps and plans collection is located on the ACT Heritage Library website, the collection of approximately 200 archives and manuscripts collections in the ACT Heritage Library focuses on local groups and individuals who have made notable contributions to the ACT community. Strengths include early education and performing arts. An index of archives held and links to finding aids is accessible from the ACT Heritage Library website, the ACT Heritage Library has an extensive ephemera collection of around 300 archive boxes and 2,000 posters, with a particular strength in the performing arts. Finding aids for the Librarys general ephemera, posters and performing arts ephemera collections are available from the Librarys website, additional ACT photographs held in national and state institutions, as well those from Images ACT, can be found on Picture Australia. The ACT Heritage Library regularly presents small exhibitions and display in their reading room, reflections of Canberra is an online exhibition, sampling the collection of the ACT Heritage Library and reflecting the changing landscape lifestyles of the Canberra region and its community. ACT Heritage Library ACT Library and Information Services ACT Public Library Blog
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Black Swan State Theatre Company
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Black Swan State Theatre Company is Western Australias state theatre company. It runs a subscription season in Perth at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, tours its productions regionally and interstate. Black Swans Artistic Director is Kate Cherry, past artistic directors include Andrew Ross, Black Swan’s inaugural production was Twelfth Night in 1991. The Australian’s Alison Farmer claimed that the new company “soared triumphant”, Black Swan’s founding Artistic Director was Andrew Ross, he held the position until 2003. Black Swan’s office and rehearsal room was located at the Old Masonic Hall in Nedlands, Black Swan won critical and popular acclaim for both its world premiere productions and locally inspired reinterpretations of international theatre classics. Some of its productions from this period include Bran Nue Dae, Sistergirl, Tourmaline, Corrugation Road, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, Cloudstreet. Following Ross’ departure in 2003, Peter Kingston was engaged as Black Swan’s acting Artistic Director until the appointment of Tom Gutteridge in 2004. In 2008, Black Swan was rebranded Black Swan State Theatre Company, in 2011, Black Swan became one of two Resident Companies in the new State Theatre Centre of WA. Since then, all of its productions have been performed there in either the Heath Ledger Theatre or the Studio Underground, Black Swan’s Artistic Director is Kate Cherry, who was appointed to the position in 2008. Cherry’s critical successes include Helpmann and Green Room nominations and awards and she has been the recipient of an NYC Drama League Fellowship and a Williamson Leadership Program Fellowship. Black Swan commissions new productions in partnership with the Rio Tinto Group and this partnership has so far produced four mainstage works, Aidan Fennessy’s National Interest, Hilary Bell’s The White Divers of Broome, Hannie Rayson’s The Swimming Club and Kate Mulvany’s The Web. A fifth play, The Damned by Reg Cribb, received its premiere in the Studio Underground at the State Theatre Centre of WA, Writers currently under commission include Hilary Bell, Damon Lockwood, Caleb Lewis, Suzie Miller, Hellie Turner, and Brendan Hanson and Tim Cunniffe. Black Swan’s Resident Artists Program supports up to five emerging artists annually by offering a year-long involvement working on a minimum of two Black Swan productions, the Resident Artists Program provides access to training, funding opportunities, mentoring and state-of-the-art theatre practice in order to facilitate learning and performance. Black Swan’s Emerging Writers Group ushers a selected group of writers through a process of writing and devising a new work for the theatre. Members must complete a full length play by the end of the year, three completed plays are chosen for full readings by a professional cast, in addition, one play is selected to be part of the Blue Room’s ‘Summer Nights’ season the following year. The HotBed Ensemble was Black Swan’s professional development program for emerging Western Australian artists directed by Adam Mitchell, the program included exclusive skills development and workshop opportunities with local, national and international artists, and the opportunity to create original, contemporary work. More than a third of the HotBed artists went on to work in Black Swans mainstage program, the Shape of Things, Yellow Moon and Caucasian Chalk Circle all received Equity Guild nominations, Caucasian Chalk Circle won two Equity Guild Awards, and The Shape of Things won five. In 2011, the HotBed Ensemble was replaced by the Emerging Artists Program, Black Swan State Theatre Company Black Swan State Theatre Company Blog
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Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
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Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is a contemporary visual and performance arts venue located in Perth, Western Australia. PICA is currently housed in a building at 53 James Street. The building, which dates from 1896, was for 40 years the Perth Boys, the Perth Central School was developed principally between 1877 and 1914. It amalgamated the Infants School, Perth Boys School, Perth Girls School, Manual Training School, on 22 May 1895, the contract to construct Perth Boys and Girls Schools building in James Street was awarded to William Atkins for the sum of 10,452 pounds. Soon after the contract was awarded, the plans were altered to include an extra eight classrooms, however only six of these were constructed at the time. On 18 January 1897, the new Perth Boys and Girls School building, the first headmaster was Mr W J Rooney. The buildings provide accommodation for 500 boys on the floor and 500 girls on the upper floor. The construction of the Boys School was the largest project undertaken for the Education Department in the 1890s, in April 1900, further additions to the Perth Boys and Girls Schools building were completed. The additions included two classrooms, one for the boys and one for the girls, each designed to house seventy-five children, in September 1936, the new Perth Girls School opened in East Perth and the entire building was used by the Boys School. In 1947, the Perth Boys School became the Perth Boys High School, during the 1950s, residential development in the inner city decreased as land values increased and the growth of the suburbs displaced inner city living. In 1959, the Perth Boys High School closed and the Perth Technical College moved into the buildings, the building was known as the James Street Annexe. In the following years, a number of changes were made to the building, including electrical connections. In July 1988, the successor of Perth Technical College, TAFE, vacated the building, plans to refurbish the building were drawn up by Donaldson and Warn. In 1991, the building was refurbished according to revised plans, on 8 November 1991 the building was officially opened as PICA. In 1992 Donaldson and Warn were awarded a commendation for their work on the PICA building by the WA Chapter of RAIA in the category of Conservation/Recycled buildings. In 1996, PICA used the building for a variety of purposes including, the PICA building was designed in the Federation Free Classical style. The exterior features prominent decorative elements but, overall, displays a degree of restraint appropriate to an academic institution. The physical evidence confirms that main boys and girls entries were given particular emphasis in their level of detailing, the external walls are constructed of face brick in stretcher bond, with a random stone plinth below ground floor level
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State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
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The State Theatre Centre of Western Australia is a theatre complex located within the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. The larger of three dedicated performance areas is known as the Heath Ledger Theatre in honour of Perth-born film actor Heath Ledger. After an international competition in 2005, attracting more than 40 designs worldwide, was won by Kerry Hill Architects. The centre was opened on 27 January 2011. The largest of three dedicated performance areas is the 575 seat Heath Ledger Theatre, named in honor of the late Academy Award winning actor and it is a traditional proscenium theatre. The stage can be modified to accommodate an orchestral pit, all the rows of seats are curved to face the stage and each row is elevated above the row in front, so that the occupant of every seat in the house can have an unobstructed view of the stage. There are timber acoustic baffles below the ceiling which enhance the qualities of the auditorium. The 234-seat Studio Underground is a black box theatre, the Courtyard is an outdoor area that can be configured to seat up to 200 people. Although there is a lift, the main entry to the first floor foyer of the theatre is by a staircase over which hang spectacular decorative elements. The foyer is timber paneled like the auditorium, media related to State Theatre Centre of Western Australia at Wikimedia Commons
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Jubilee Building
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The Jubilee Building is part of the Western Australian Museum in Perth, Western Australia. Designed in the Victorian Byzantine style by George Temple-Poole and supervised by his 1895 successor John Harry Grainger, the building was originally planned as a combined library, museum and art gallery to be sited in St Georges Terrace, Perth to commemorate Queen Victorias Golden Jubilee in 1887. However, by 1894, enthusiasm for the project had waned and it was still termed the Victoria Public Library when it was being built in 1897. The museum moved into the basement prior to the completion in 1899. Register Entry, Place No 01962 Heritage Council of Western Australia Assessment Documentation Heritage Council of Western Australia
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Perth Gaol
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The Perth Gaol was a gaol built in Perth, the state capital of Western Australia, Australia, between 1854 and 1856 to house convicts and other prisoners. It is located just west of Beaufort Street and it operated until March 1888 when the last prisoner was transferred to Fremantle Prison. The main gaol building, minus the yards, stands adjacent to the Western Australian Museum in Northbridge. In addition to a number of displays of colonial and prison related artefacts, with the growth of the city it was deemed that the latter was an inappropriate location for a gaol and it was demolished in 1855. With the expanding population and with the importation of convicts in 1850 to provide a force for public works. A proposal was submitted to Governor Charles Fitzgerald in December 1853 for such a facility comprising two floors with a basement, the project was approved but construction took longer than expected and substantial modifications to the original design were made while work progressed. The final building comprised a cruciform layout with cells, a chapel, the gaol was built using sub-contract labour with stone provided by convict labour. The stone was cut from limestone cliffs in Rocky Bay near Fremantle, while construction was underway, the Enquirer newspaper appealed for provision of facilities for hangings at the gaol. On Wednesday last the execution of Samuel Stanley and the aboriginal native Jacob took place a distance from the Perth Causeway. While on this subject we cannot help expressing a hope that a portion of the new Perth Gaol may be appropriated to a place of execution. If such an arrangement were carried out, such spectacles we have here recorded would soon cease, the first execution took place in 1855 in an execution yard on the south side of the site. After complaints, the sides of the gallows were enclosed to hide the executions from public gaze, the gallows remained until the gaol ceased operating in 1888. Transportation of convicts ended in 1868 and in 1875 the gaol was handed back to the colonial government, in 1886 it was reported that the gaol was overcrowded with 128 prisoners and at times the inmate population had reached 150. Later that year the Convict Establishment was disbanded, leading to the imminent demise of the gaol, the last prisoner was transferred to Fremantle in about 1888 and it ceased being used as a gaol from that date. It was used briefly as the Perth courthouse before that returned to Stirling Gardens, in 1891 the building was renamed to the Geological Museum and used to store Reverend Charles Nicolays geological collection. In 1892 the building was renamed as the Perth Museum, storing the Swan River Mechanics Institute museum collection as well as a collection of artifacts from the Police Department. At about the time, the building was substantially modified with the roof lowered. A northern wing was built in 1895, from 1968 until about 1976, major renovations of the gaol were undertaken including raising the roof to its original height and alignment
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Perth Town Hall
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The Perth Town Hall, situated on the corner of Hay and Barrack streets in Perth, Western Australia, is the only town hall built by convicts in Australia. Designed by Richard Roach Jewell and James Manning in the Victorian Free Gothic style and its decorations contain a number of convict motifs, including windows in the shape of the broad arrow, and decorations in the shape of a hangmans rope. The foundation stone for Perth Town Hall was laid on 24 May 1867 by Governor Hampton in a ceremony involving a lot of pomp and parade. The ceremony went on anyway with a procession from Government House and a mock battle performed by the Volunteer Regiments, Enrolled Forces of Pensioners. For many decades in the 20th century, shops were built into the sides of the floor. The shops included pharmacies, and lunch bars, all these businesses and the attendant structures were removed prior to the renovation of the hall. At the time of its centenary in 1970, the floor was still full of commercial businesses. Town Hall fact page, City of Perth Pre-1910 photo showing original arches Place ID10331
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Parliament House, Perth
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Parliament House, Perth is located on Harvest Terrace in West Perth, Western Australia. It is the home of the Parliament of Western Australia, including the Legislative Council, the building exhibits elements of Greek Revival architecture. Initially, the Legislative Council was housed in small 1830s government offices in St Georges Terrace, after designs were completed for both sites, the Royal Commission recommended the St Georges Terrace site. Politicians J. W. Hackett and George Leake favoured the Harvest Terrace site, an Australia-wide competition was held for the design of Parliament House, adjudicated by the government architect of New South Wales. He did not recommend any of the entries, but gave awards of merit, one of the awards went to four officers of the Public Works Department. Construction of the first stage of Parliament House commenced in 1902, the walls were constructed of local brick with tile facing from Rottnest Island, Donnybrook stone, jarrah woodwork and locally-made clay tiles. A large general room for members and a library were added to the design during construction. The building was extended to the south in 1978, in 1997, protesting union workers established Solidarity Park on vacant land opposite Parliament House
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Barracks Arch
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The Barracks Arch is located on the corner of Malcolm and Elder Streets, at the western end of St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. Designed by Richard Roach Jewell, the Barracks were originally built from 1863 to 1866 to house the Enrolled Pensioner Force, the Enrolled Pensioner Force came to Australia as guards on convict ships, and were given small land grants in return for part-time guard work. The bulk of convict work moved from Fremantle to Perth in the 1860s, so there was a need to accommodate many Enrolled Pensioners, architect Jewell designed the three-storey building in Tudor style that resembled a medieval castle. The building was brick, rather more expensive stone. The roof was made of timber shingles, the building was finished in 1866, and was later extended to house an additional 21 families. Each family apartment had two rooms, each about 13 feet by 11 feet, with at least one fireplace, the outbuildings included a cookhouse, firing range and gun-room, wash-house, stores and stables, and a fives court constructed later. A fire in 1887 destroyed the timber flooring of the east wing, Water was pumped by hand pumps from the Swan River and brought by buckets through a chain of volunteers. The burnt sections were later restored, the Barracks were gradually converted to offices for the Public Works Department between 1900 and 1904, becoming its headquarters in 1904. OConnor, whose office was immediately above the arch, the fives court housed the drawing office, and eventually connected to a mid-1920s addition for the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage department. The Public Works Department and Metropolitan Water Board moved to Dumas House in March 1966, the Government intended to demolish the Barracks to facilitate the building of the Mitchell Freeway after the departments moved to their new location. The Royal Western Australian Historical Society formed a Barracks Defence Council in 1961, the Barracks Defence Council worked to keep the arch and five bays of windows either side, and at worst, keep only the gateway and towers. Meanwhile, demolition proceeded, with the third and fourth bays of windows demolished, opinion polls were conducted to gauge the publics preferences. A March 1966 poll by radio station 6IX received 2,747 votes to retain the arch and 59 votes for demolition, the West Australian newspapers July poll recorded 9,681 votes for retention and 1345 against. Cabinet authorised a Gallup poll, which showed 49% of votes for retention, 35% against, 11% no opinion, premier Sir David Brand interpreted the results as indecisive, and declared Parliament would decide on the archs fate on a non-party basis. The motion to demolish the arch was defeated on 19 October 1966, the Barracks Arch blocks the otherwise unobstructed view from Parliament House down the length of St Georges Terrace and conversely of Parliament House from St Georges Terrace. That intention was a prime argument advanced in favour of the demolition, the Public Works Department retained the arch and landscaped the surrounding area. Reid, G. S. Perths arch wrangle, the case of the Barracks Arch
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Supreme Court of Western Australia
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The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the highest state court in the Australian State of Western Australia. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in matters. The Supreme Court consists of a General Division and the Court of Appeal, the General Division sits in the David Malcolm Justice Centre for civil proceedings and the District Court of WA Building and the original Supreme Court Building for criminal proceedings. The Court of Appeal hears both civil and criminal appeals from cases in the General Division, the District Court and the State Administrative Tribunal and it sits in the original Supreme Court Building. When required, Supreme Court judges may also constitute the Industrial Appeal Court, the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is the Hon. Wayne Martin AC who was formally appointed to the position on 4 April 2006. Martin was appointed after a selection process which followed the retirement of David Malcolm on 7 February. Martin had been one of Western Australias leading QCs before his appointment, the Supreme Court was established in 1861 when the Court of Quarter Sessions and the Civil Court were amalgamated. Sir Archibald Burt was the first Chief Justice of the court, the Full Court of the Supreme Court was established in 1886 to decide both criminal and civil appeals. In 1893 the criminal appeals were transferred to the Court of Appeal which was reconstituted as the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1911. The Supreme Court, Full Court and Court of Criminal Appeal were effectively the one court with each judge able to sit on cases in any of the courts. In 2004 the Full Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal were subsumed by the Court of Appeal, in 1899, a joint parliamentary committee was formed to decide on location of the new court building with three sites being considered. The locations were a site in Irwin Street, the old Government Boys School on St Georges Terrace, a decision was made and the contract awarded of £55,888 11s 3p to RP Vincent and Sons in February 1901 and an announcement was made to the public during March. The foundation stone was laid on 2 June 1902 and would open on 8 June 1903 with WA Governor Sir Frederick Bedford present as was the Chief Justice Sir Edward Stone and the full court. The two-storey brick building was designed by John Harry Grainger, Chief Architect with the Public Works Department of Western Australia and it is designed in the Federation Academic Classical style, a style that was often used for major public buildings of the time. The original design called for local materials to be used with Donnybrook stone, Meckering granite. Stuccoed cement had to be substituted when insufficient quantities of Donnybrook stone of identical texture, another change was the slate roof, when a galvanized roof was installed instead saving £5,425. Originally, the foyer was to be painted in colours reflecting those of the glass domes. The foyer was more appropriately redecorated to celebrate the Court’s centenary in 2003, Chief Justice of Western Australia Judiciary of Australia History
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