The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau: History and Recent Developments

ABSTRACTOutlines the history of the Pacific Manuscript Bureau (PMB) since 1968 and recounts the author's effort, while on secondment from the National Library of Australia during the 1994 calendar year, to reconstitute the bureau as a viable and forward-looking institution.Edited version of a talk given to the Asia Pacific Special Interest Group of ALIA at the National Library of Australia on 19 May 1995.