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HomeWelcome To The National Centre of BiographyNCB PublicationsBiography Footnotes 16
Biography Footnotes 16
Biography Footnotes 16
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Publisher: National Centre of Biography
Year published: 2016
Issue no.: 16

Abstract

Read Michael Kirby’s speech to the guests at the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of volume one of the ADB; Kent Fitch’s controversial suggestion that we should place ADB entries in Wikipedia; information about the relatively new, but very useful, Biographical Database of Australia; and a review of the latest batch of entries added to the ADB’s website in March.

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