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A Treasure Trove of Community Language Newspapers

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The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press

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Trove, the National Library of Australia’s discovery service for Australian content, comprises resources from disparate sources ranging from universities to local cultural and history groups. It also hosts a growing body of digitised and born-digital collections including fully text-searchable Australian newspapers, a subset of which are community language newspapers. Enabling “in context” discovery across a range of formats and collections, Trove allows patrons to interact with the resources, subject tagging, correcting machine-generated text and including annotations. This enhanced access to full-text newspapers has yielded not only time savings, but enabled new perspectives and types of analysis to be conducted. This chapter will focus on two themes—that of surfacing “hidden” intercultural stories and engaging communities in conversations around their documentary content—through Trove.

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    Communication from Ballarat Library, January 2013.

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    Kate Bagnall, “Early Chinese newspapers”.

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    Marianne Reimann, “The German Language Press”, in The Ethnic Press in Australia, ed. Abe I. Wade Ata and Colin Ryan (Melbourne: Academia Press, 1989) 158.

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    Pascoe, “The Italian Press in Australia”.

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    Pascoe, “The Italian Press in Australia”.

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    Stampa Italiana = The Italian Press (Perth, WA: 1931–1932), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1380 (accessed June 24, 2019). Eco Italiano (Perth, WA: 1958–1959), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1387 (accessed June 24, 2019). Il Canguro = The Kangaroo (Perth, WA: 1955–1957), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1378 (accessed June 24, 2019). La Rondine (Perth, WA: 1969–1994), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1388 (accessed June 24, 2019).

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    Meie Kodu = Our Home (Sydney, NSW: 1949–1956), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/280 (accessed June 24, 2019).

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    Le Courrier Australien (Sydney, NSW: 1892–2011), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/829 (accessed June 24, 2019).

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    The Irish Exile and Freedom’s Advocate (Hobart Town, Tas.: 1850–1851), https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1244 (accessed 24 June 2019).

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    Dymphna Lonergan, “The Irish Exile,” Tinteán, April 6, 2018, https://tintean.org.au/2018/04/06/the-irish-diaspora-in-australia-has-played-a-significant-part-in-the-promotion-and-maintenance-of-irish-not-least-in-the-press-and-as-far-back-as-1850/.

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    See, for example: The Prosecution Project, Web site, https://prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/ (accessed June 29, 2019); and Katherine Bode, “To Be Continued: Discovering serialised fiction in Trove’s digitised newspapers”, Trove blog (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2018), https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2018/02/28/to-be-continued (accessed June 29, 2019).

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Berthon, H. (2020). A Treasure Trove of Community Language Newspapers. In: Dewhirst, C., Scully, R. (eds) The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43639-1_11

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