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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Each entry is prepared by a leading scholar. The subjects come from all walks of life--from premiers, generals and bishops, through artists, actors and authors, farmers, engineers and schoolteachers, to prostitutes, thieves and murderers--providing a cross-section of Australian society.
This magnificent cumulative work continues to be a valuable and popular reference tool for all libraries, large and small.
The ADB’s Story
Our common ambition to write a history of the ADB was timely. In 2009 the dictionary celebrated its first half-century. Fiftieth birthdays are a cause also for reflection. Thus, in December 2009 we held a one-day conference on the ADB's history. Many of those who have been involved with the ADB over the years, including Ann Moyal and Geoffrey Bolton, who were present at its birth, attended the conference. The following day we held a closed workshop on the dictionary's future directions. Conferences often lead to edited collections. In the absence of any other contenders, the ADB took it upon itself to coordinate the writing of its own history. It proved more difficult than we expected. Many of the leading figures in the ADB's history-Keith Hancock, Laurie Fitzhardinge, Douglas Pike, John La Nauze and Geoffrey Serle-are now, themselves, subjects of ADB entries, and full biographies of Hancock, Pike and Serle have been written. These studies, however, have included little on their contributions to the ADB and its development. Indeed those involved in the ADB have shown a marked reluctance to write memoirs. Historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts, especially their own memoirs, as subjective and, therefore, unreliable. This is changing. There is increasing interest in historians' own pasts, their life stories and the institutions with which they were associated as things that help us understand the stories they have written. 2 Accounts of Australian historical enterprises are, as a consequence, appearing. 3 This collection, then, is a companion to understanding the content, character and form of the 18 volumes (plus the supplement volume) of the ADB, so far published. This collection has taken time to assemble and finalise. Presentations to the 2009 conference, which provided the foundation, needed augmentation. New work was commissioned. In the end we had too much and had to omit some material in the interest of
Australian Dictionary of Biography
L'Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB ou AuDB) est un dictionnairebiographique, en anglais, composé de plusieurs volumes, publiés par les Melbourne University Press. L'ADB fut créé en 1957 par des universitaires de la Research School of Social Sciences de l'université nationale australienne. Depuis sa première parution en 1966, plus de 4 000 auteurs ont contribué à l'ADB et ses volumes contiennent plus de 9 800 articles encyclopédiques présentant plus de 10 700 personnalités australiennes ou étrangères qui furent impliquées dans l'histoire du pays ou en influencèrent la société.
Le , la version en ligne de l'ADB, l'Australian Dictionary of Biography Online fut inaugurée par le gouverneur général d'Australie, Michael Jeffery. L'ADB en ligne a été développé par les chercheurs de l'Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre de l'université de Melbourne en collaboration avec l'université nationale.
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