Busy author : Andrew Gosling continues his writings

Andrew, who retired from the National Library in early 2003, is continuing to write on Asian studies library matters. His 'Buying books in my garage : memories of an Indonesian Acquisitions Librarian' is in National Library of Australia News, December 2003: 11-14. It describes living and working in Indonesia between 1979 and 1983 as the NLA's representative in Jakarta. The April 2004 issue of the same monthly will contain his introduction to the national library's Asian language holdings with an Australian connection. It will cover Chinese, Japanese and other Asian language works about Australia, writings by Asian Australians and translations of Australian authors into Asian languages. He is also preparing an article for publication in this monthly later in 2004 on the eminent ANU China scholar and bibliographer, Otto van der Sprenkel (1906-1978), whose Chinese collection is held at NLA. The first part of a series by Andrew on his 30 years working at the NLA has appeared in the East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia Newsletter, January 2004 : 11-15, as 'From Orientalia to Indonesia : my first years at the National Library of Australia'.

A a