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The Voice of Croatia published a short text about the project, as well as the link to an interview broadcasted by SBS Croatian.

By December 31, 2018 all new records were added to both bibliographies. After the first phase of the research (searching catalogues of national libraries), there were 52 records in the bibliography of Australian newspapers. In the bibliography of New Zealand newspapers there were 13 records. Therefore, in the first phase of the research, until November 2018, 65 publications were found and recorded.

The second phase of the research included additional content analysis of secondary sources as well as research in libraries and archives in Australia and New Zealand. The second phase also included meetings with Croats in Australia and New Zealand that work (or worked) in the publishing sector. After the research and meetings, 41 more titles were found for Australia and three more for New Zealand. All the new records were added to the bibliographies. By the end of the year 2018, the bibliography of Australian newspapers had 93 records, and the bibliography of New Zealand newspapers had 16 records.

The two bibliographies have been created using library software Koha that supports international universal bibliographic standards. The total number of records at the end of 2018 was 112.

In January and February 2019 the records will be edited and unified. If new titles are discovered, new records will be added.

Serials – Australia (after the first phase, until November 2018)

Serials – Australia (after the second phase, until the end of 2018)

Serials – New Zealand (after the first phase, until November 2018)

Serials – New Zealand (after the second phase, until the end of 2018)

During research in Australia and New Zealand, through researching bibliographies, catalogues and literature, data about 36 more titles from Australia and 3 more from New Zealand were discovered. The copies are mostly held in private collections or in archives of Croatian associations.  Some of the records were made based on copies and some based on secondary literature or interviews.

Some of the monographs that were used as secondary literature are:

Holjevac, Većeslav. Hrvati izvan domovine. 2. ed. Zagreb : Matica hrvatska, 1968.

Hrvatska – Australija i Novi Zeland : povijesni i kulturni odnosi = Croatia – Australia & New Zealand : historical and cultural relations / osmislila i priredila = conceived and compiled by Tuga Tarle ; uredio = edited by Ivo Žanić. Zagreb : The Croatian Writer’s Association, 2000.

Lovoković, Fabijan. Hrvatske zajednice u Australiji : nastojanja i postignuća. Kingsgrove : Središnji odbor hrvatskih društava Australije = Central Council of Croatian Associations in Australia, 2010. ISBN 9780646530536.

Marković, Luka. Pod australskim nebom. Zagreb : Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1973.

Tkalčević, Mato. Hrvati u Australiji. Zagreb : Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1992. ISBN 864010199X

Tkalčević, Mato. Povijest Hrvata u Australiji. Melbourne : Hrvatski svjetski kongres u Australiji, 1999. ISBN 0646371584

Working version of a new record 

In the Newsletter of the Dalmatian Cultural Society in Auckland, within which the Genealogical and Historical Society acts, a short notice about the visit  to their archive, library and museum has been published.

An interview with the project manager was broadcasted on the SBS Croatian radio programme.  A short notice was published on the portal Domovina (Homeland) as well as in the printed edition (in the newspaper Domovina) about the visit to the Croatian Archive of Australia in Sydney.

SBS Croatian

Domovina

In the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library some copies of Zora (The Dawn) published from 1913 to 1916 are stored, in print and on microfilm.

The Central City Library in Auckland is home to some copies of Napredak (Progress), 1906-1909.

The copies are available in the Research Centre in print and on microfilm.

The Dalmatian Cultural Society in Auckland has a museum, an archive and a library. Some copies (or photocopies) of newspapers published by Croats in New Zealand are available at the Society. One of the titles is Zora (The Dawn), a newspaper that had been published in Croatian, in the period 1913-1917. The legacy of S. Jelicich, that include unique copies of some newspapers, is also available.

Figure 1. Title page of Zora, no. 15 from 1914

Figure 2. Karen Dobrić, Albin Dobrić, Linda Tolich, Ivana Hebrang Grgić, Sylvia Sokolich and Slavko Žarnić

The newspaper Brotherly Unity (Bratska sloga) is a newspaper that was published in only four issues in 1899. All the four issues can be found in Alexandar Turnbull Library that is a part of National Library of New Zealand in Wellington. In the same library some issues of The United Front (1942-1943) are available.

Our project collaborator Maja Krtalić arranged some meetings in Wellingtonu – with members of the Croatian Cultural Society, Ester Slee and Lyn Bareta (Figure 1) and with Janet Toland, the dean of the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Ester Slee, Lyn Bareta and Ivana Hebrang Grigć

Figure 2. Janet Toland and Ivana Hebrang Grgić