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Manuscript Name | Papers of Albert Moran |
Manuscript Number | MSS 329 |
Last Updated | April 2022 |
Extent | 5 boxes + 2 AV boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Research material gathered by author Albert Moran relating to the Australian and international publishing industry |
Literary
The papers of Albert Moran contain research materials on the Australian and international publishing/book industry related to his published works on the subject. These materials comprise book chapters, articles in newspapers, magazines and journals, privately or university commissioned reports or studies, and excerpts from various Commissions of Inquiry into the industry. Audiovisual material includes interviews with publishers, literary editors and writers recorded on audiocassettes
1980s
Academic, film critic, and author Albert Moran was born in Dublin in 1942. Moran has published several works on the film and publishing industries in Australia, including Inside Publishing : The Environments of the Publishing House (1990). He has been a professor in screen studies in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, and his works have been used in units of study at that university as well as several others. He is credited with helping pioneer the critical analysis of Australian film and television history, and established the field of global television format studies
References:
Austlit : Albert Moran https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A23150 retrieved 18 September 2020
Libraries Australia Name Authority Record : 36161523 https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=36161523 retrieved 18 September 2020
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This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Papers of Albert Moran, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 329, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
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The boxes contain briefly annotated copies of journal articles, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs and book chapters. This collection also consists of newspaper articles (Australian and overseas) from the 1980s with some annotation or creator’s markings on them. Correspondence is minimal and where it does exist it has been put at the front of the relevant folder. Many folders contain materials that are not found elsewhere and these consist principally of photocopied sections of Commissions of Inquiry into the publishing industry, local government reports into libraries, publishers, and books, publishing, library and book statistics, book or publishing industry-related economic policy papers, and privately and university commissioned reports or papers. Moran’s own file numbering system (where it exists) is listed at the beginning of the folder description
Further material relating to Albert Moran is held in the AFI Research Collection at RMIT University in the Albert Moran Material Collection
Albert Moran, 1942- — Archives
Publishers and publishing — 20th century
Publishing industry — Australia — 20th century
Albert Moran, 1942-
Authors
Academics
Research materials
Folder 1
Book project
‘1/19 Book project: international publishing’
Folder 2
‘4/19 Book project: authors’
Folder 3
‘7/19 Book project: publishers’
‘9/19 Book project: publicity and promotion’
Folder 4
‘10/19 Book project: distribution / wholesaler’
‘12/19 Book project: education market’
‘13/19 Book project: libraries’
Research materials
Folder 5
Book project
‘14/19 Book project: bookshops’
Folder 6
‘15/19 Book project: reading and readers’
‘17/19 Book project: case studies’
‘18/19 Book project: the state’
Folder 7
Publishing and publishers
Uni Press
Gordon & Gotch
Macmillan
Mills & Boon
Lonely Planet
Small Presses
Mary Martins and A+R [Angus & Robertson]
Folder 8
‘1/19 International publishing’
Publishers
Research materials
Folder 9
Australian booksellers and publishers
The publishing industry IAC report
Folder 10
‘5/19 APBA’ [Australian Book Publishers Association]
Foreign ownership
Folder 11
Books
Book business
Folder 12
Book editors
Book prices
Research materials
Folder 13
Libraries
Inter library directory
Library
Libraries
Folder 14
Reviews
Reviews
‘9i/19 Reviewing’
Folder 15
Reports
Harrap report
Tariff Board reports
Folder 16
Miscellaneous
Historical
Literature Board
Tariff Board reports
Winchester thesis [Lorraine Winchester, ‘Popular Reading Practices in New South Wales, 1900-1930’, Honours thesis, University of New South Wales, 1986]
Bibliography
Research materials
Folder 17
Reading
Children’s literature
Communications history material
Folder 18
Nation Wide [collection of 1980s newspaper review articles]
Folder 19
Images of audiences [collection of 1980s newspaper review articles]
Audio-cassette tapes –A-K; also contains ‘Inventory of audio tapes interviews with authors, publishers, literary editors etc.’, with number of tapes (151 in total) and identification by subject, not number
Audio-cassette tapes –L-Z