What's new?

In this term's mailout you will find:

• Topic List 2003 Term 4 update
• Infocus order form
• Infocus resources to support "The Journey"

Term 4 update

The Term 4 update contains more than 40 new items. Topics covered by these new resources include:

• Animal communication (Items 2165 - 2166)
• Scott Monk's Raw (Items 2167, 2178)
• Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech (Item 2168)
• Wordsworth's view of nature (Item 2169)
• Legal Studies* (Items 2170 - 2177, 2208)
• Agricultural biotechnology (Item 2179)
• Anil's ghost (Item 2180)
• Brumby Innes (Items 2181)
• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Item 2182)
• Contact (Items 2183 - 2184)
• David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (Items 2185 - 2187)
• Vietnamese-Australian intercultural communication (Items 2188 - 2190)
• Amin Maalouf's Ports of call (Items 2191 - 2192)
• Citizen Kane (Item 2193)
• A country wife by William Wycherley (Items 2194 - 2195)
• 7 stages of grieving (Item 2196; see also Items 1924 and 1940)
• Gary's house (Item 2197)
• Komninos and performance poetry (Items 2198 - 2201)
• Hip hop in popular culture (Item 2202)

*This term's Legal Studies items cover topics including International environment law, reconciliation, crimes against humanity, the World Order focus study, transsexual marriage, sex-gender discrimination and a new Hot Topics titled Terrorism.

Infocus resources supporting 'The Journey'

Click here for a list of Infocus resources supporting the 2004/05 HSC English Area of Study, 'The Journey'. Infocus does not yet offer resources supporting Coleridge, Ballard's Empire of the Sun and Watson's edition of Imagined corners, but they are on our "to do" list!

Students may also find the following web sites useful to assist with their study of 'The Journey':

Lionheart by Jesse Martin
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nla.arc-22631

This site is an archived version of jessiemartin.net as part of the National Library of Australia's Pandora project. Personal information, photographs and videos about Jesse Martin, and his family are available, as well as plans for future journeys.

Contact, the 1997 science fiction film by Robert Zemeckis, is another prescribed text for The Journey. The official site for Contact may prove a valuable source of related information. See
http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html

Performance poetry resources on the web

For Standard English Module C. Texts and Society. Elective 2: Ways of Living - Poetry
Komninos by the Kupful
Cyber poetry http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos/ will be useful for background information and online performances of the poetry. There are six archived versions of this Internet resource as part of Pandora. To proceed use the following link: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nla.arc-10267

Komninos also suggests the following link for HSC students: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos/hsc/fascist.html

Useful web resource for study of Indigenous peoples

Legal Studies students who elect to do a focus study on Indigenous peoples, will be interested to know the latest Social Justice Report for 2002, chapter 6 is titled: "International developments in the recognition of the rights of Indigenous peoples". This report notes the extensive developments in the recognition of Indigenous rights at the international level. These are considered within two main contexts: the current review taking place within the United Nations of all the existing mechanisms at the UN dealing with Indigenous issues, and the International Decade for the World's Indigenous Peoples, now in its final two years. This review illustrates how Australia has moved towards the most conservative end of the spectrum in addressing the rights of Indigenous people.

You can access the full text of this report at: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/sjreport_02/index.html

On exhibition at the State Library

Champions: Australian Sporting Greats showcases a selection of photographs, letters and memorabilia from the Library's collections - supported by photographs from Getty Images - that will prompt memories of some of Australia's finest champions. On exhibition until 16 November 2003.

Max Dupain's Australians is the third exhibition at the Library featuring the extraordinary photographic legacy of our most celebrated photographer and showcases more than 40 rare photographs of people spanning six decades of his work. On display until 8 February 2004.

Freeman Studio celebrates 150 years of the Sydney Gallery of Photographic Art, now simply known as the Freeman Studio. This exhibition displays prints made from the original negatives portraying visiting royalty, famous Australians and ordinary Sydneysiders. The Freeman Studio recorded the changing fashions as well - from nineteenth century bustles to twentieth century glamour. These photographs will charm and delight with the intriguing faces and fashions of our forebears. On display until to May 2004.

Run the Ball: Australian Rugby is an engaging look at the development of Rugby Union in Australia. Run the Ball uses items from the superb collections of both the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Rugby Union. On display until November 2003.

The Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection showcases some of the rare, famous and most historically significant items from the State Library of New South Wales' world-renowned collection. Amongst the items currently on display are nine First Fleet journals (until March 2004); the first four Shakespeare folios (until December 2003); journals, compass and travelling clock belonging to Ludwig Leichhardt (until June 2004) and manuscripts of Ethel Turner, "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson (until December 2003).

For more details, visit http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/

Infocus contact details

Infocus: linking people and information
State Library of New South Wales
Macquarie St, Sydney 2000
Tel: 02 9273 1519 Fax: 02 9273 1248
E-mail: infocus@sl.nsw.gov.au