Does listening count as reading? Should narrators perform? Can audiobooks do more than imitate printed ones? This event explored the evolution of the audiobook from analog to AI.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Science for Year 9 students. It draws on the Library's Oral History and Folklore Collection, which has recorded the thoughts and stories of thousands of influential Australians from all disciplines.

Explore oral histories and portraits of trailblazing Australian women working in the space industry.

Hear from Hugh Tranter, author of Southern Signals, about the history of Australian communication technology.

About 140 oral history interviews, the majority for his Maltese-Australian and Polish-Australian folklore and social history projects. Personal papers of York plus papers of the historian Michael Cigler. Also a large quantity of Maltese newspapers, student newspapers, radical pamphlets and ephemera.

About 600 books and 66 serials, mainly relating to entomology and the natural sciences. Includes works on British entomology as well as Europe, North and South America. About one-third were published in the 18th and 19th centuries.