I love the National Library of Australia for many reasons. This is one of them. They do many things right web-wise and deliver on their promise to reach out and engage with the community. The PictureAustralia-Flickr project is a case in hand.
Another case is the Libraries Australia service and the potential it allows for building [...]
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Blue Mauritius launched in… Mauritius!
Blue Mauritius was launched in Mauritius during my recent visit, and it was a lot of fun. The launch was organised by and held at the Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis (the capital city of Mauritius) on Friday 20 October – a lot of hard work to get it done so quickly by Alain [...]
Call me, almost but not quite, Dr Johnson
It was Samuel Johnson I believe who wrote, ‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life’. That’s how I felt on arrival and my first full day here on Sunday – tired and wondering why on earth I’d swapped Mauritius for drab London – dirty, smelly and very expensive.
But it’s not [...]
Blue Mauritius Research Companion online – at last!
For weeks I have been fiddling with this website – the research companion to my book. It brings together subject entries from the narrative, including a biography for each of the twenty-seven stamps, with bibliographical citations and related images. The navigational key to the website, and its utility, lies in the relationships between subjects and [...]