11.0712 Humanities in Australia

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:11:05 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 712.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:58:41 +0800
From: Toby Burrows <tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: The Humanities in Australia: Strategic Review

Subscribers to HUMANIST may be interested in the following new report:

Knowing Ourselves and Others: the Humanities in Australia into the 21st Century.
(ISBN 0 642 23746 8)

This Strategic Review was prepared by the Australian Academy of the
Humanities for the Australian Research Council. It is in three volumes, and
contains:

* 29 recommendations on major issues affecting the future of humanities
research in Australia;
* surveys of 27 disciplines within the humanities in Australia;
* "reflective essays" on a range of important topics, including "the
information infrastructure";
* statistical tables and analyses.

For more information, contact the Australian Academy of the Humanities:
aah@anu.edu.au

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Dr Toby Burrows
Principal Librarian, The Scholars' Centre
The University of Western Australia Library
Nedlands 6907, Western Australia

E-mail: tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au
Facsimile: + 61 8 9380 1128
Telephone: + 61 8 9380 2358
WWW: http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/

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