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			<title>Get building with Trove at GovHack 2013</title>
			<link>http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1456-Get-building-with-Trove-at-GovHack-2013&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:18:56 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Trove is more than just a discovery portal, it’s also a source of machine-readable data drawn from cultural heritage organisations around Australia,...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Trove is more than just a discovery portal, it’s also a source of machine-readable data drawn from cultural heritage organisations around Australia, including the National Library of Australia and all State and Territory libraries. Through <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api" target="_blank">Trove’s API</a> you can access <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/system/counts" target="_blank">millions of records</a> to build your own tools, applications or visualisations.<br />
<br />
With <a href="http://www.govhack.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">GovHack 2013</a> approaching, we’re inviting developers to take our API and see what they can create.  What could you do with 90 million newspaper articles, 7 million photos or objects, or the details of more than 17 million books?<br />
<br />
For additional inspiration NSLA (National and State Libraries Australasia) are <a href="http://www.nsla.org.au/news/govhack-2013-include-trove-prize" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">offering a prize</a> to GovHack entries that make use of data from Trove.<br />
 <br />
Here’s a few possibilities to get you thinking:<br />
<br />
<ul><li style=""> How might you use or visualise resources relating to World War I or the 1967 Referendum?</li><li style=""> Are there new ways of exposing state based material in Trove that isn’t held by the relevant state library?</li><li style=""> Could you enrich individual library catalogues by displaying a short list of relevant Trove resources?</li><li style=""> Where next for the idea of ‘generous interfaces’ as demonstrated by Mitchell Whitelaw’s <a href="http://mtchl.net/TroveMosaic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Trove Mosaic</a> and <a href="http://mtchl.net/ManlyImages" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Manly Images</a> projects?</li><li style=""> Could you use photographs of places to automatically populate social media tools? What about creating a map-based view of Trove resources?</li><li style=""> What about combining spatial and temporal data to create a visual timeline of newspaper publication?</li></ul><br />
<br />
To get started you need to <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api" target="_blank">sign up for an API key</a> and have a look through the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api-technical" target="_blank">API documentation</a>. We’ll also be posting extra hints and tips in the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?30-Trove-API" target="_blank">API section</a> of the Trove Forum.<br />
<br />
To help you find your way through the riches of Trove, staff from the National Library of Australia will be available as data mentors at GovHack 2013 in Canberra. We’re looking forward to seeing what you make!</div>

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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[tsherrat [NLA]]]></dc:creator>
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			<title>Get building with Trove at GovHack 2013</title>
			<link>http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1455-Get-building-with-Trove-at-GovHack-2013&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:18:56 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Trove is more than just a discovery portal, it’s also a source of machine-readable data drawn from cultural heritage organisations around Australia,...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Trove is more than just a discovery portal, it’s also a source of machine-readable data drawn from cultural heritage organisations around Australia, including the National Library of Australia and all State and Territory libraries. Through <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api" target="_blank">Trove’s API</a> you can access <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/system/counts" target="_blank">millions of records</a> to build your own tools, applications or visualisations.<br />
<br />
With <a href="http://www.govhack.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">GovHack 2013</a> approaching, we’re inviting developers to take our API and see what they can create.  What could you do with 90 million newspaper articles, 7 million photos or objects, or the details of more than 17 million books?<br />
<br />
For additional inspiration NSLA (National and State Libraries Australasia) are <a href="http://www.nsla.org.au/news/govhack-2013-include-trove-prize" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">offering a prize</a> to GovHack entries that make use of data from Trove.<br />
 <br />
Here’s a few possibilities to get you thinking:<br />
<br />
<ul><li style=""> How might you use or visualise resources relating to World War I or the 1967 Referendum?</li><li style=""> Are there new ways of exposing state based material in Trove that isn’t held by the relevant state library?</li><li style=""> Could you enrich individual library catalogues by displaying a short list of relevant Trove resources?</li><li style=""> Where next for the idea of ‘generous interfaces’ as demonstrated by Mitchell Whitelaw’s <a href="http://mtchl.net/TroveMosaic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Trove Mosaic</a> and <a href="http://mtchl.net/ManlyImages" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Manly Images</a> projects?</li><li style=""> Could you use photographs of places to automatically populate social media tools? What about creating a map-based view of Trove resources?</li><li style=""> What about combining spatial and temporal data to create a visual timeline of newspaper publication?</li></ul><br />
<br />
To get started you need to <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api" target="_blank">sign up for an API key</a> and have a look through the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api-technical" target="_blank">API documentation</a>. We’ll also be posting extra hints and tips in the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?30-Trove-API" target="_blank">API section</a> of the Trove Forum.<br />
<br />
To help you find your way through the riches of Trove, staff from the National Library of Australia will be available as data mentors at GovHack 2013 in Canberra. We’re looking forward to seeing what you make!</div>

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			<category domain="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?17-Trove-News">Trove News</category>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[tsherrat [NLA]]]></dc:creator>
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			<title>Something Magic Happening</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 11:20:04 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Just had to take some time off frantic correcting to say that something magic is happening over at the Gippsland Guardian in the Victorian...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Just had to take some time off frantic correcting to say that something magic is happening over at the Gippsland Guardian in the Victorian newspapers.<br />
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We have got it online through a $4,000 grant from Wellington Shire Council, and agreed we would raise $3,300 cash ourselves to pay the full sum. But to get grant money, we have to at least match the funding dollar for dollar. Although we can use work in kind. <br />
<br />
So, what we did was factored in the cost of volunteers correcting all the meeting reports for the Alberton Roads Board / Shire Council, and bingo, we had a much bigger input than the $4,000 needed. So that is what we committed to doing.<br />
<br />
So, up goes the Guardian (two uploads so far), so I went out on a Rootsweb list for the region, and asked for text correctors, and explained how to find the necessary articles. Thought I might get one or two - but they have come from everywhere! Some I can recognise, some of them I have no idea who they are, as their user name here is nothing like their e-mail address. And &quot;anonymous&quot; is so active I think there is more than one of him/her.<br />
<br />
And correcting is happening so fast I cannot keep up with it. I will correct an article, and need to jump about four more to get to the next article.<br />
<br />
At times like this, it would be really good to have some sort of facility to message other users who are doing this correcting on the same project, as I am sure there are people out there just waiting to be organised in projects like this!</div>

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			<dc:creator>LindaB</dc:creator>
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			<title>Search not showing existing articles</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 08:25:51 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Went to correct an article on Adam Lindsay Gordon, but decided to first check if there was an earlier printing of it. However, even though the title...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Went to correct an article on Adam Lindsay Gordon, but decided to first check if there was an earlier printing of it. However, even though the title of the article appears on the display for that page of the newspaper, the article itself does not appear in search results (2 out of 3), when the title is used as the search information.<br />
<br />
Does anyone know why this is so?<br />
Also, does this mean that there are a lot more inaccurate search results occurring?<br />
<br />
Tried the search three times, using different parts of the title, but the first two searches gave no results:<br />
<br />
1) &quot;CHRONOLOGY OF ADAM LINDSAY&quot;<br />
<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22CHRONOLOGY+OF+ADAM+LINDSAY%22" target="_blank">http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/re...DAM+LINDSAY%22</a><br />
= no hits<br />
<br />
2) &quot;GRODON'S LIFE PUBLISHED FOR&quot;<br />
<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22GRODON%27S+LIFE+PUBLISHED+FOR%22" target="_blank">http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/re...BLISHED+FOR%22</a><br />
= no hits<br />
(Unfortunately, the name of Adam Lindsay GRODON is now stuck in my head forever)<br />
<br />
3) &quot;FIRST TIME&quot; &quot;Adventurous Career Of&quot;<br />
<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22FIRST+TIME%22+%22Adventurous+Career+Of%22" target="_blank">http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/re...s+Career+Of%22</a><br />
= got a hit<br />
<br />
Have left the article in its uncorrected state, so the search results can be checked by others.<br />
<br />
The article in question is:<br />
CHRONOLOGY OF ADAM LINDSAY GRODON'S LIFE PUBLISHED FOR FIRST TIME. Adventurous Career Of Australia's Great Poet. FIRST VERSES PUBLISHED BY &quot;THE WATCH.&quot;<br />
Article identifier: <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77987541" target="_blank">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77987541</a><br />
Page identifier: <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page7754001" target="_blank">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page7754001</a></div>

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			<category domain="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?3-Digitised-newspapers">Digitised newspapers</category>
			<dc:creator>InstituteOfAustralianCulture</dc:creator>
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			<title>Advertising - 0 words</title>
			<link>http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1452-Advertising-0-words&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 23:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Hi, 
 
Any ideas how I can search on advertising in the Womans Weekly that currently is shown as 0 words even though there are words?  
In advanced...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hi,<br />
<br />
Any ideas how I can search on advertising in the Womans Weekly that currently is shown as 0 words even though there are words? <br />
In advanced search, there is is no option in article length for 0 words only:<br />
Article length<br />
 All<br />
 &lt; 100 words<br />
 100-1000 words<br />
 &gt; 1000 words<br />
<br />
Thanks.</div>

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			<category domain="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?3-Digitised-newspapers">Digitised newspapers</category>
			<dc:creator>ronny</dc:creator>
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			<title>Newspaper Obituary Style</title>
			<link>http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1451-Newspaper-Obituary-Style&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:40:34 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[First post, folks. 
 
I'm mulling the obituary for a prominent person who died in Sydney in 1930: 
 
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16694199  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>First post, folks.<br />
<br />
I'm mulling the obituary for a prominent person who died in Sydney in 1930:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16694199" target="_blank">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16694199</a> <br />
<br />
The obituary lists mourners, all of whom are male; yet the deceased, who died unexpectedly, left a wife and three daughters, one married, as well as two sons. <br />
<br />
Is their omission simply style for those times? or could it be inferred that the wife and daughters didn't attend the funeral? <br />
<br />
Can anyone point to a contemporary obituary in which female members of the family are named?<br />
<br />
...later:<br />
<br />
after checking SHM obituaries for January 1930, it's safe to say that female family members are often mentioned, usually by name and relationship to the deceased, sometimes by relationship only.<br />
<br />
So I think it's safe to infer that in the case in question, neither his widow nor any of his three daughters attended Harry's funeral.</div>

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			<category domain="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?10-Trove-general">Trove general</category>
			<dc:creator>bundy2</dc:creator>
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			<title>How many are there?</title>
			<link>http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1450-How-many-are-there&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:33:29 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Following a fun Q&A on Trove last night over at Inside History (thanks guys!), i am tempted to ask how many correctors there are at the minute. Given...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Following a fun Q&amp;A on Trove last night over at Inside History (thanks guys!), i am tempted to ask how many correctors there are at the minute. Given the main fb page for the library has just said there are &quot;hundreds&quot;.<br />
<br />
I queried that, and received this logical response:<br />
<br />
It's hard to calculate &quot;total&quot; numbers... There certainly have been thousands of text-correctors over time but if you try and calculate &quot;active&quot; editors then you have to determine a cutoff date (i.e. have they edited in the last 24 hours, last week, last month...) and you also have to determine a minimum number of actions which could (i.e. 1 line of correction, 1 whole article, 20?...). All of these change the &quot;total&quot; number...<br />
<br />
<br />
However, since I have worked my butt off to get to 299, only to take a rest and find myself back at 328 (and a lot of hard work in front of me to regain lost ground!), I reckon there are a heck of a lot more than just &quot;hundreds&quot; at work at the minute.<br />
<br />
Are there any figures we can have?<br />
<br />
PS I have asked the main fb page if we can have a T Shirt - we want to see a Trovalition of Textaholics in T Shirts. If yu feel the same, there is also the main NLA fb page to encourage the gift shop to stock them....<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/National.Library.of.Australia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/National.Library.of.Australia</a></div>

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			<dc:creator>LindaB</dc:creator>
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			<title>Linktype Query</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:55:50 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Does anyone know the syntax for a query to return records restricted to linktype=thumbnail? 
 
Have dug through the docs and tried various...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Does anyone know the syntax for a query to return records restricted to linktype=thumbnail?<br />
<br />
Have dug through the docs and tried various permutations but nothing has worked so far. No errors returned but no filtering applied either.<br />
<br />
Any suggestions much appreciated!</div>

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			<category domain="http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?30-Trove-API">Trove API</category>
			<dc:creator>zenlan</dc:creator>
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			<title>Trove Evaluation Survey - Your chance to help us improve Trove!</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 06:42:01 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>*Help us improve Trove and win a Coles Myer voucher or a Trove T-shirt* 
 
The National Library of Australia has commissioned a research company,...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><b>Help us improve Trove and win a Coles Myer voucher or a Trove T-shirt</b><br />
<br />
The National Library of Australia has commissioned a research company, Gundabluey Research, to help us evaluate customer satisfaction with Trove.<br />
<br />
You’re invited to participate in this survey by following  the link below. Your participation will contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the Trove service.<br />
<br />
The online survey will take around 15 minutes to complete depending on your experience, and every completed survey goes into the draw for one of ten $100 Coles Myer vouchers or one of 20 Trove T-shirts.<br />
<br />
Whether you’re a new or experienced user, an academic or a family researcher, or just use Trove to pursue your interests, we would appreciate your time. Your comments will remain confidential.<br />
<br />
If you have any questions about the survey itself, or require assistance please do not hesitate to contact the research company directly:<br />
<br />
<ul><li style="">Sarah Wrigley from Gundabluey Research on 03 9844 2678 or <a href="mailto:sarahw@gundabluey.com">sarahw@gundabluey.com</a></li></ul><br />
<br />
If you would like to check the bonafides of the survey, please contact Rosemary Turner on <a href="mailto:rturner@nla.gov.au">rturner@nla.gov.au</a> <br />
<br />
Please follow this link to start the survey:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://iquestion.completemr.com/Q219867/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://iquestion.completemr.com/Q219867/</a></div>

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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[tsherrat [NLA]]]></dc:creator>
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			<title>Australian visits to Trove for April 2013</title>
			<link>http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1445-Australian-visits-to-Trove-for-April-2013&amp;goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:59:57 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>In April we had 2,006,125 visitors to Trove, with 1,181,524 (or 58.9%) of these visits from Australians. Again, the USA (8.8%) and UK (6.23%) were...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>In April we had 2,006,125 visitors to Trove, with 1,181,524 (or 58.9%) of these visits from Australians. Again, the USA (8.8%) and UK (6.23%) were the next two countries with the most visitors. <br />
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Trove usage seemed fairly consistent with March usage, however there was a decrease in visitors to Trove in South Australia. New South Wales is still the state with the most Trove visitors in Australia.</div>


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			<title>Douglas Robson 1860 Sydney</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:45:39 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Hello All 
I am trying to find out what happened to a Relative of mine, his name was Douglas Robson he was born in 1835 in Newcastle, England, his...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hello All<br />
I am trying to find out what happened to a Relative of mine, his name was Douglas Robson he was born in 1835 in Newcastle, England, his Parents were John Robson &amp; Eleanor Urwin.<br />
Douglas was a Seaman and the last record I have of him is being a on the 'SS Cairngorm' which sailed to Sydney in 1860, after that the trail runs cold, there is no sign of him returning to England to marry and no sign of his death.<br />
I am wondering if he settled in Australia, maybe someone can shed some light on this mystery.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
Allan Robson</div>

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			<dc:creator>ADR65</dc:creator>
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			<title>John Masefield, Poet Laureate, in Australia 1934</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 04:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent review (http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/an-evening-of-sweetness-and-swagger-20130501-2isne.html#ixzz2T7wbVLWm) of &#8216;An evening with...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>A recent <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/an-evening-of-sweetness-and-swagger-20130501-2isne.html#ixzz2T7wbVLWm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">review</a> of &#8216;An evening with Bryn Terfel&#8217; at the Sydney Opera House mentioned that Bryn Terfel , introducing song settings of John Masefield, was &#8217;sure John Masefield would have loved Sydney harbour&#8217; . The reviewer, Peter McCallum notes that John Masefield did in fact vist Sydney in 1934, as &#8216;the National Library's splendid Trove database shows&#8221;.Quite a bit of his journey can be<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=39449" target="_blank"> retraced</a> through the digitised newspaper articles of the day.<br />
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John Masefield gave a <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17114613" target="_blank">reading</a> of his poems in the Great Hall of Sydney University on 21 November 1934 and again the following day in the Sydney University Union Hall.  In Sydney he was <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17127668" target="_blank">photographed</a> with C.E.W Bean, the official Commonwealth War Historian.<br />
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Some of the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38496185" target="_blank">wonders</a> of Australia which amazed him included the miles of giant gums,great open plains, shearing sheds and 'charming people' but perhaps 'the thing that lingers so lovingly in his heart is the song of the magpie', 'the very soul of the Australian scene'.<br />
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While in Canberra, he and the Governor General, Sir Iasaac Isaacs, laid the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16933838" target="_blank">foundation</a> stones of the new National Library.  Masefield paid tribute to the National Library a &#8216;lodestar for scholars of the future&#8217;. After this, &#8216;the Poet Laureate was entertained by the Federal Cabinet at luncheon and at afternoon tea, at which all members of Parliament and their wives were present&#8217;.<br />
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He was a guest in Melbourne at the centenary celebrations. He was <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11004893" target="_blank">thrilled</a> by the Victoria forests and became fascinated with boomerang throwing: 'I still stand carefully from under when delivering a boomerang'. He <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32818766" target="_blank">expressed</a> his desire to see the 'Melbourne Cup as a spectacle not as a business'. Confirmation in Trove that he actually saw Peter Pan win the 1934 Melbourne Cup eludes me. <br />
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'The Shakespeare Society was fortunate in being able to celebrate its <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35015598" target="_blank">jubilee</a> with Mr. Masefield, who gave his Romanes lecture on Shakespeare&#8212; a most sympathetic and vivid picture of the young Shakespeare and his England.' He addressed pupils from public schools in the Melbourne Town Hall.<br />
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An<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14449335" target="_blank"> etching </a> of John Masefield was done by artist Norma Bull who met him during his time in Melbourne in 1934. He was &#8216;much <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29207259" target="_blank">impressed </a>with her art&#8217;.<br />
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In Adelaide for just a day he was asked by a woman for a <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74124275" target="_blank">memento</a>. Offering an autograph, she asked for something else. He drew her a ship, in a lightning sketch, and signed it.<br />
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He read poetry to an <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97789536" target="_blank">audience</a> at the Albert Hall, Canberra under the auspices of the Society of Art and Literature on Friday 23 November telling guests that his Australian visit was a &#8216; delight beyond telling&#8217;. <br />
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Mrs Masefield <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86021348" target="_blank">expressed</a> strong opinions about cooking, gardening, schooling, mining and alcohol. She thought the 8 hour day too long for the miners she visited in Kalgoorlie and worried about them getting enough sunlight. She <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17129757" target="_blank">admired </a>the beauty of the natural flora, preferring the bottle brush to the flannel flower. She commented that Australians were &#8216;physically beautiful specimens&#8221;; John Masefield called them &#8216;<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32798467" target="_blank">people </a>of the sun&#8217;. <br />
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They crossed the country by rail after visiting Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne to join their ship the 'Orontes' at Fremantle.</div>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 12:36:22 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Sorry if this has already been asked (and answered) I cannot find it. 
 
One line of a newspaper article I've just been correcting had been...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Sorry if this has already been asked (and answered) I cannot find it.<br />
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One line of a newspaper article I've just been correcting had been transcribed as two lines (neither making sense - the first was based on the top half of the characters and the second, based on the bottom half). I corrected the 'first line' in the 'Edit this text' and deleted the text from the second. Is it possible to delete the 'spare' line?<br />
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Mags</div>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 02:23:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Hi 
 
I have not used these forums before, so forgive me if this is popping up in the wrong place, or you have been over this issue a thousand times...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hi<br />
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I have not used these forums before, so forgive me if this is popping up in the wrong place, or you have been over this issue a thousand times before.<br />
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I have been doing corrections to my local historical paper 'The Cobargo Chronicle.' I am having the best time doing it, but I have noticed that someone has been re-correcting my work and taking out line breaks li-<br />
ke these and changing it to look<br />
like this.<br />
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My understanding and great hope is that what is on the page of the newspaper stays EXACTLY how it is, even if there is a spelling eroor. Is there a way to make people read AND understand the guidelines, before they start working on corrections. I had to go back and fix all the corrections they made, and I feel kind of awkward in doing so. As I am sure they mean well and want to be a useful contributor.<br />
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The integrity of what was printed is so important. <br />
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Cheers<br />
Joanne.Cole</div>

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			<title>Newspaper titles recently added to Trove</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:35:13 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the following newspapers which have issues that have been newly added to Digitised...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the following newspapers which have issues that have been newly added to Digitised newspapers and more on Trove. Many of these newspapers are currently being added to Trove and further issues will become available shortly.<br />
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<b>New South Wales</b><br />
<ul><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title434" target="_blank">Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post</a> (NSW : 1900 - 1925)*</li><li style="">Arrow (Sydney, NSW : 1916 - 1933)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title443" target="_blank">Bega Budget</a> (NSW : 1905 - 1921)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title391" target="_blank">Bega Gazette and County of Auckland Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1865) Digitisation supported by Bega Valley Shire Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title392" target="_blank">Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1865 - 1899) Digitisation supported by Bega Valley Shire Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title463" target="_blank">Burrowa News</a> (NSW : 1874 - 1951)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title483" target="_blank">Campbelltown Herald</a> (NSW : 1880 - 1919)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title475" target="_blank">Carcoar Chronicle</a> (NSW : 1863 - 1943)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title447" target="_blank">Catholic Press</a> (NSW : 1895 - 1942)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title448" target="_blank">Cobar Herald</a> (NSW : 1899 - 1914)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title393" target="_blank">Cobargo Chronicle</a> (NSW : 1898 - 1944) Digitisation supported by Bega Valley Shire Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title473" target="_blank">Corowa Chronicle</a> (NSW : 1905 - 1928)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title432" target="_blank">Daily Observer</a> (Tamworth, NSW : 1917 - 1920)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title440" target="_blank">Democrat</a> (Lithgow, NSW : 1915 - 1916)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title480" target="_blank">Eden Free Press and Eden District Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1899) Digitisation supported by Bega Valley Shire Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title381" target="_blank">Examiner</a> (Kiama, NSW : 1859 - 1862)  Digitisation supported by Kiama Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title464" target="_blank">Freeman's Journal</a> (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title409" target="_blank">Gilgandra Weekly</a> (NSW : 1915 - 1929) Digitisation supported by Gilgandra Shire Council, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title357" target="_blank">Globe</a> (Sydney, NSW : 1885 - 1887)</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title365" target="_blank">Goulburn Herald</a> (NSW : 1860 - 1864)</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title364" target="_blank">Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1848 - 1859)</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title477" target="_blank">Independent</a> (Deniliquin, NSW : 1901 - 1946) *</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title380" target="_blank">Kiama Examiner</a> (NSW : 1858 - 1859)  Digitisation supported by Kiama Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title388" target="_blank">Kiama Reporter</a> (NSW: 1886 - 1887)</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title509" target="_blank">Labor News</a> (Sydney, NSW : 1918 - 1924)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title470" target="_blank">Land </a>(Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1954)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title423" target="_blank">Leader</a> (Orange, NSW : 1912 - 1922)  Digitisation supported by Central West Libraries, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government Country Libraries fund and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title438" target="_blank">Mirror of Australia</a> (Sydney, NSW : 1915 - 1917)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title424" target="_blank">Molong Argus</a> (NSW : 1909 - 1921)  Digitisation supported by Central West Libraries, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government Country Libraries fund and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title425" target="_blank">Molong Express and Western District Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1912 - 1922)  Digitisation supported by Central West Libraries, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government Country Libraries fund and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title513" target="_blank">Newcastle Argus and District Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1916)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title437" target="_blank">Newsletter</a>: an Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW : 1900 -1918)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title433" target="_blank">Northern Daily Leader</a> (Tamworth, NSW : 1921)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title514" target="_blank">Peak Hill Express</a> (NSW : 1902 - 1952)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title516" target="_blank">Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate</a> (NSW : 1882 - 1950)*</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title517" target="_blank">Queanbeyan Leader</a> (NSW : 1905 - 1916)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title389" target="_blank">Reporter and Illawarra Journal</a> (Kiama, NSW: 1887 - 1894)</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title520" target="_blank">Shoalhaven News</a>, Nowra (NSW : 1937)*</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title416" target="_blank">Southern Argus</a> (Goulburn, NSW : 1881 - 1885)  Digitisation supported by Goulburn Mulwaree Council, Upper Lachlan Shire Council, Yass Valley Council, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title418" target="_blank">Southern Morning Herald</a> (NSW : 1920 -1923)  Digitisation supported by Goulburn Mulwaree Council, Upper Lachlan Shire Council, Yass Valley Council, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title394" target="_blank">Twofold Bay and Maneroo Observer</a> (NSW : 1860 - 1899) Digitisation supported by Bega Valley Shire Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title479" target="_blank">Twofold Bay Telegraph</a> (NSW : 1860) Digitisation supported by Bega Valley Shire Library, Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title413" target="_blank">Wagga Wagga Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1874 - 1905) Digitisation supported by Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga City Council, The Daily Advertiser and the Wagga Wagga &amp; District Historical Society.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title412" target="_blank">Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter</a> (NSW : 1868 - 1874) Digitisation supported by Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga City Council, The Daily Advertiser and the Wagga Wagga &amp; District Historical Society.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title382" target="_blank">Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser</a> (NSW : 1858 - 1875) Digitisation supported by the Wagga Wagga &amp; District Family History Society.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title419" target="_blank">Werriwa Times and Goulburn District News</a> (NSW : 1901)  Digitisation supported by Goulburn Mulwaree Council, Upper Lachlan Shire Council, Yass Valley Council, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title426" target="_blank">Western Herald</a> (NSW : 1896 - 1970) Digitisation supported by Bourke Shire Council, the Library Council of NSW, the NSW Government and the State Library of NSW.</li></ul><br />
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<b>Victoria</b><br />
<ul><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title484" target="_blank">Gippsland Guardian</a> (Vic : 1855 - 1868) Digitisation supported by Wellington Shire Council, Wellington Shire Heritage Network and Gippsland Prospectors and Miners.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title385" target="_blank">North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Advertiser</a> (Vic. : 1895 - 1913)  Digitisation supported by Melbourne Library Service.</li><li style=""><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title384" target="_blank">North Melbourne Gazette</a> (Vic. : 1894 - 1901) Digitisation supported by Melbourne Library Service.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title428" target="_blank">Record and Emerald Hill and Sandridge Advertiser</a> (Vic. : 1872 - 1881) Digitisation supported by the City of Port Phillip.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title383" target="_blank">Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian</a> (Vic. : 1866 - 1888) Digitisation supported by the Malvern Historical Society, Prahran Historical &amp; Arts Society, St Kilda Historical Society and Stonnington History Centre.</li><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title390" target="_blank">Yarragon, Trafalgar &amp; Moe Settlement News</a> (Vic. : 1902 - 1922) Digitisation supported by the Trafalgar &amp; District Historical Society, the Victorian Government and Public Record Office Victoria.</li></ul><br />
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<b>Western Australia</b><br />
<ul><li style="">The <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title386" target="_blank">Herald</a> (Fremantle, WA : 1867 - 1886) Digitisation supported by Fremantle City Library.</li></ul><br />
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*Digitisation of these titles has been supported by the State Library of NSW as part of the Digital Excellence Program, funded by the NSW Government.<br />
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To find out the latest titles which have been added to Trove, subscribe to one of our Web <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/help-on-finding-things/#feeds" target="_blank">feeds</a>.<br />
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Titles have been selected by the National Library in consultation with the state and territory libraries. A number of the titles are being digitised with the generous support and funding from a range of organisations. <br />
For those libraries and organisations wishing to digitise a newspaper title, please see our <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/content/contributor-guidelines" target="_blank">Contributor Guidelines</a>.<br />
If you would like any additional information please email us at <a href="mailto:andp@nla.gov.au">andp@nla.gov.au</a></div>

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