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Tolkien's Surrealistic Pillow: Leaf By Niggle, Michael K. Organ
Tolkien's Surrealistic Pillow: Leaf By Niggle, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
Much has been written in regards to the content and meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien's semiautobiographical short story Leaf by Niggle, yet there has been little discussion around its origins (Hyde 1986, Collier 2005, Nelson 2010, Glyer and Long 2011, Hanks 2012, McIntosh 2013, Wilde 2015). The scholarship focusses on autobiographical and everyday aspects, placing it amongst Tolkien's small collection of short stories and alongside works such as Farmer Giles of Ham. Unlike the latter, Leaf by Niggle contains elements which suggest the realm of surrealistic fantasy. This article proposes a connection between Leaf by Niggle as published in 1945 and …
The Yellow House Revisited, Michael K. Organ
The Yellow House Revisited, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
Martin Sharp's Yellow House represents a transitional phase in the countercultural movement within Australia, from the peace and love Utopian ideals of the Sixties through to the disenchantment and technological changes of the Seventies. Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's similarly titled building and aborted artist community in the south of France during the 1880s, and the British Arts Lab movement of the late 1960s, a 3-storey Victorian era terrace building in Sydney was transformed into a work of art, living museum, experimental art gallery and performance space, under the liberating and libertine guidance of Martin Sharp - an artist who …
Countercultural Enclave: Martin Sharp’S Yellow House, Michael Organ
Countercultural Enclave: Martin Sharp’S Yellow House, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
Martin Sharp’s Yellow House represents a transitional phase in the countercultural movement within Australia, from the peace and love Utopian ideals of the Sixties through to the disenchantment and technological changes of the Seventies. Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s similarly titled building and aborted artist community in the south of France during the 1880s, and the British Arts Lab movement of the late 1960s, a 3-storey Victorian era terrace building in Sydney was transformed into a work of art, living museum, experimental art gallery and performance space, under the liberating and libertine guidance of Martin Sharp - an artist who …
Confrontational Continuum: Modernism And The Psychedelic Art Of Martin Sharp, Michael K. Organ
Confrontational Continuum: Modernism And The Psychedelic Art Of Martin Sharp, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The Australian artist Martin Sharp (1942-2013) produced a series of psychedelic artworks in London between 1966-8, the most famous of which were the Disraeli Gears record cover for rock group Cream and the Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Mind poster. Sharp’s work exemplifies the connection between early twentieth century Modernist art movements, Pop art and acid-induced psychedelia of the 1960s. In addition, the poster Max Ernst: The Birdman from 1967, represents a homage to Dada and Surrealism, with special reference to anarchy, desire, and freedom of expression. In the spirit of Dada, the poster is meaningfully confrontational, exposing the darker …
Re-Imagining Sandon Point, Glenn Mitchell, Michael Organ
Re-Imagining Sandon Point, Glenn Mitchell, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
When a housing development at Sandon Point north of Wollongong NSW obliterated country that has spiritual, political and economic significance for generations of indigenous people, the consequences were dramatic. Protests and court cases followed. This paper explores loss by imagining life at this place long before land clearing and concrete pours took place. The paper draws on the destroyed evidence of early indigenous life, written colonial accounts, paintings and drawings as well as indigenous memory. It argues that the evidence courts and developers rejected as central to Sandon Point’s indigenous history, has contributed to its contemporary definition as a significant …
Tolkien's Surrealistic Pillow: Leaf By Niggle, Michael Organ
Tolkien's Surrealistic Pillow: Leaf By Niggle, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
This article proposes a link between J.R.R. Tolkien’s autobiographical short story Leaf by Niggle and twentieth century Surrealism. Elements of the story which are suggestive of surrealistic fantasy are discussed, alongside its singular origin and role as the antithesis of Tolkien’s slowly developed narratives, such as the monumental Middle-earth saga The Lord of the Rings and the more expansive The Silmarillion. The dream-like and subconscious qualities of Leaf by Niggle are outlined, as are Tolkien’s thoughts on that subject as revealed in his 1939 public lecture on fairy-stories. It is proposed that Leaf by Niggle, whilst occupying a unique …
With Energy, Ideas And Cheek To Spare, Richard Neville Was The Boy Of Oz, Rebecca Daly, Michael K. Organ
With Energy, Ideas And Cheek To Spare, Richard Neville Was The Boy Of Oz, Rebecca Daly, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
This week saw the passing of Sydney-born Richard Neville - Australian enfant terrible of the 1960s, editor of OZ magazine (published from 1963-73) and leading spokesperson for the counterculture.
Sustaining A Library Digitisation Program: The Uow Experience, Michael K. Organ
Sustaining A Library Digitisation Program: The Uow Experience, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
Digitisation of library and archival collections has recently been facilitated by improvements in digital storage technologies and related scanners and software. However the success of such initiatives is also contingent on the financial and staff resources available to make best use of these new and evolving digitisation opportunities. University of Wollongong Library has, since 2011, undertaken a comprehensive digitisation program which has seen a changing landscape in regards to budget allocations, technological requirement and staffing. Scholarly and popular journals, theses, books and historic archival collections have been digitised and made available on open access as part of this project. However, …
Working With The Research Services Office, Michael K. Organ
Working With The Research Services Office, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The Australian and New Zealand university sector presents numerous permutations in regards to how institutional repository (IR) managers work with their local research office. The repository may be managed by the research office, the library (common), the information technology (IT) section, central administration (rare) and either singly or in a mixture of the above. At the University of Wollongong (UOW), for example, the open access institutional repository was set up in 2005 with the assistance of funding from the Research Services Office (RSO). The UOW Library has, since 2006, managed the repository – branded Research Online (RO) - and the …
Appin Massacre And Governor Macquarie's War 1816, Michael K. Organ
Appin Massacre And Governor Macquarie's War 1816, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The Appin Massacre of Aboriginal men, women and children occurred on 17 April 1816. It was the first of the "official" massacres of Aboriginal people to occur in Australia, and took place within the context of the war with the Aboriginal people of the Sydney area declare by Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
3d Immersive Collection And Teaching Environments: The Yellow House Project At Uow, Michael K. Organ, Christopher L. Moore, Rebecca Daly, Neil R. Cairns
3d Immersive Collection And Teaching Environments: The Yellow House Project At Uow, Michael K. Organ, Christopher L. Moore, Rebecca Daly, Neil R. Cairns
Michael Organ
This paper discusses the Yellow House VR project at the University of Wollongong. Innovative virtual reality technologies such as Oculus Rift are being utilised to recreate the 1970s Sydney artist community space known as the Yellow House, as both an historic replication and openly accessible, immersive teaching and learning environment for use and adaptation by teachers, students, researchers and the general community. The paper considers the role of the library in the enhanced presentation of digitised collections through new and evolving technologies that provide opportunities for knowledge enhancement and support the development of student e-portfolios.
Outsourcing Open Access: Digital Commons At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Michael Organ, Helen Mandl
Outsourcing Open Access: Digital Commons At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Michael Organ, Helen Mandl
Michael Organ
Purpose - The purpose of this article is to outline the experiences of an Australian university in selecting a proprietary solution for its open access digital repository requirements.
Design/methodology/approach - An overview is presented of the environment leading up to the decision to select Digital Commons over an open source software solution. The paper also outlines subsequent experiences during a one-year period in operating the outsourced solution.
Findings - Outsourcing is an appropriate digital repository option for higher education institutions when costs are considered and compared with open source solutions, and especially when on-site IT support is limited. Outsourcing allows …
Outsourcing Open Access: Digital Commons At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Michael Organ, Helen Mandl
Outsourcing Open Access: Digital Commons At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Michael Organ, Helen Mandl
Michael Organ
Purpose - The purpose of this article is to outline the experiences of an Australian university in selecting a proprietary solution for its open access digital repository requirements.
Design/methodology/approach - An overview is presented of the environment leading up to the decision to select Digital Commons over an open source software solution. The paper also outlines subsequent experiences during a one-year period in operating the outsourced solution.
Findings - Outsourcing is an appropriate digital repository option for higher education institutions when costs are considered and compared with open source solutions, and especially when on-site IT support is limited. Outsourcing allows …
Bulli Mine Disaster Centenary, Michael K. Organ
The Old Mount Keira Inn : 59 Princes Highway, Figtree, Michael K. Organ
The Old Mount Keira Inn : 59 Princes Highway, Figtree, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Report On August Meeting - Illawarra Stockade, Michael K. Organ
Report On August Meeting - Illawarra Stockade, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Vale A.P. (Peter") Doyle, Michael K. Organ
The First Show Society, Michael K. Organ
Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland: Christian Yandell's Alice, Michael K. Organ
Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland: Christian Yandell's Alice, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
In 1923, young Australian artist Christian Yandell (1894–1954) applied a Pre-Raphaelite pen to the task of illustrating an Australasian edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1924). A latecomer to the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist worlds of myth and legend, Yandell’s work from the 1910s through to the 1930s strongly reflected both art movements, with theosophical underpinnings eventually dominating. Like Pre-Raphaelitism, Yandell’s was a narrative art, embedded in stories and telling their own, thus the natural application to Carroll's classic work of fantasy. Intelligent, mythological, spiritual, dreamy, and mystical, Yandell's drawings were less a reflection of her hometown Melbourne in 1923 …
Hume Cook And Christian Yandell's Australian Fairy Tales 1925, Michael K. Organ
Hume Cook And Christian Yandell's Australian Fairy Tales 1925, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
Hume Cook's Australian Fairy Tales of 1925 was the first book fully produced in Australia to bear that specific title. Its appearance followed on the passage of almost 30 years since the publication in London during 1897 of Frank Atha Westbury's similarly titled work, and Jessie Mary Whitfield's The spirit of the bush fire and other Australian fairy tales in Sydney the following year. There had been numerous stories about local fairies and other fantastical creatures written in Australia prior to 1925, including the Reverend Charles Marson's Faery Stories (Marson 1891) and the many small booklets, articles and monographs by …
Measuring Success: Research Online At The University Of Wollongong, Michael K. Organ
Measuring Success: Research Online At The University Of Wollongong, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
With nearly 50,000 submissions and ten million downloads, University of Wollongong’s Research Online repository is one of the largest in the world and continues to grow. As such, it is considered an incredibly successful initiative--, but how does Michael measure success beyond number of objects and downloads? He’ll discuss how his goals and measures of success have changed over time, as well as some of his strategies for sharing successes across and beyond campus.
The 'London' Edition Of Captain Charles Wilkes' Narrative Of The Us Exploring Expedition, 1845, Michael K. Organ
The 'London' Edition Of Captain Charles Wilkes' Narrative Of The Us Exploring Expedition, 1845, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A copy of the rare 1845 imperial octavo 'London' edition of Captain Charles Wilkes' Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition exists in the National Library of Australia collection with original cloth bindings and ornamental blind and gold stamping featuring the seal of the United States on the front and back covers.1 This set of five volumes plus atlas allow us to obtain a precise bibliographic description of this little known variant of the Narrative.
The Half Time Report: Measuring Success And Maintaining Momentum, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael Organ
The Half Time Report: Measuring Success And Maintaining Momentum, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
In this session, Stephanie Davis-Kahl (Illinois Wesleyan University), Michael Organ (University of Wollongong), and Jean-Gabriel Bankier (bepress) presented around the following topics: Measuring success Reviewing and evaluating needs and goals Setting your next milestone Stephanie Davis-Kahl: A recent redesign DigitalCommons@IWU has gotten Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor, thinking about where they are now and where to go next. Here she’ll discuss their original goals, how they’ve measured and shared their success, what lessons they’ve learned along the way, and how they’ll be moving forward with their initiative. Michael Organ: With nearly 50,000 submissions and ten million downloads, …
Augustus Earle In Illawarra - 1827, Michael K. Organ
Augustus Earle In Illawarra - 1827, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Conrad Martens In Illawarra : July 1835, Michael K. Organ
Conrad Martens In Illawarra : July 1835, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Rev. Richard Taylor : Extract From Diary Of A Residence In New South Wales (1) 13th - 20th January 1839, Richard K. Taylor
Rev. Richard Taylor : Extract From Diary Of A Residence In New South Wales (1) 13th - 20th January 1839, Richard K. Taylor
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Guerilla Publishing, Michael K. Organ
Guerilla Publishing, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The University of Wollongong Archives contains collections which have relevance to the subject of feminism in Austrlalia. Two examples are given - the records of New Opportunities for Women (NOW) 1965-70 set up by Carmelita Steinke, and the archive of artist and filmmaker Mary Callaghan.
Secret Service: Governor Macquarie’S Aboriginal War Of 1816, Michael K. Organ
Secret Service: Governor Macquarie’S Aboriginal War Of 1816, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
Detailed analysis of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s punitive actions against the Aboriginal population of New South Wales in 1816 reveals the extent of war engaged in by local military forces and the colonial authorities, along with a corresponding cover-up of those activities and outcomes to both the local community and authorities in England. This analysis has implications for our present day reading of Australian history and the ongoing debate over recognition of the so-called Forgotten War (Australian Aboriginal War), especially in light of the ANZAC and World War I centennial commemorations of 2015-18. The use of unpublished archival resources is highlighted …
Embed And Engage! Delivering A Digitisation Program At The University Of Wollongong Library, Rebecca Daly, Michael Organ
Embed And Engage! Delivering A Digitisation Program At The University Of Wollongong Library, Rebecca Daly, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
The digital environment is growing rapidly, through ubiquitous and increasingly powerful personal computing devices, and the demand for information to be accessible. Libraries and archives, as traditional providers and storehouses of content, are adapting to this changing environment by adopting new and innovative digital content delivery mechanisms to unmask their special collections. In 2012, the University of Wollongong Library implemented a comprehensive digitisation program for its unique archival and research collections. Film, photographs, documents, artworks and audio are being made available online through several platforms and delivery tools in combination, complementing the increasingly important role played by the library in …
Warriors Without A War, Michael Organ
Warriors Without A War, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
Opposition to the naming by the Western Australian Barnett government of a prominent Perth city square after Noongar resistance warrior Yagan highlights the failure to recognise the Aboriginal War of 1788–1901. Whilst many view the place naming as an honour, others see it as an insult to a man murdered in 1833 for opposing the brutality anddispossession of European settlement. Yagan was a warrior at war. At the time of his capture in 1832 local settler Robert Lyon argued for his treatment as a prisoner of war. ‘What war?’ you may ask. There is no Aboriginal War officially recognised or …