An interview was recorded for Radio SBS, explaining the aim of the project. The interview is in Croatian and it calls for all the Croats in Australia to collaborate in gathering data about publications that are of interest. The interview will be broadcast by the end of November and shared on social media afterwards.
At Macquarie University a meeting was held with Dr Walter Vori Lalich, a scientist who also participated in some important events regarding Croatian immigrants and who knows some important facts about Croatian newspapers in Australia.
Interesting materials were found in the Croatian Archives of Australia in Sydney. New data about newspapers was gathered through interviews with members of the Archives – Fabijan Lovoković (president and former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Spremnost that was published in the period of 1957-2007), Ante Glavor (co-president of the Archives and president of Croatian-Australian Literary and Artistic Society), Ana Watson, Bože Žuro, Zora Marušić and reverend Petar Horvat. Interviews were made by project team members Jasna Novak Milić and Ivana Hebrang Grgić. On the portal Domovina a text about the meeting was published.
There were three meetings at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Canberra – with Betty Bernardica Pavelich Sirois, Croatian Ambassador to Australia(Figure 1), first secretary Sandra Tvrtković (Figure 2), Mario Dešpoja (Figure 3) and Vanda Boras Podravac (Figure 4). New meetings have been arranged as well as cooperation with Zoran Šangut, Consul General of Croatia in Perth.
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In a meeting with Ivica Glasnović, Consul General of Croatia in Sydney, new meetings with members of Croatian community have been arranged.
After first version of bibliography of newspapers and journals for Australia, the first version for New Zealand has been published. Both bibliographies will be updated based on research conducted in Croatia, Australia and New Zealand. The newest versions will be available at Bibliographies.
At a meeting in Zagreb, the first version of the bibliography for Australia was analysed. New actions regarding data collection have been arranged. The meeting was attended by Luka Budak (Macquarie University, Sydney), Ana Barbarić and Ivana Hebrang Grgić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb).
First version of the bibliography of newspapers and journals published by Croats in Australia has been published. The bibliography will be updated regularly, based on the researches in Croatia, Australia and New Zealand.
Insight in the first version of the bibliography (Koha)
First version of the bibliography of newspapers and journals published by Croats in Australia (pdf)
In June 2018 the first preliminary list of serials has been produced, based on the analysis of library catalogues. Software Koha was chosen and tested in the period from June to August 2018.
In September 2018 the work on creating bibliographies in the Koha software began. The plan is to add all the records from the preliminary list by October 15, 2018.
Working version of the interface in Koha
