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Item Open Access Guide for new students(Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University Library, 2019) The Australian National University. LibraryItem Open Access Colour a collection: Featuring images from the Hokusai Manga collection(Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University Library, 2017) Australian National University. LibraryThis colouring book features selected manga by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japanese artist and wood block printmaker from the Edo period, widely known for creating the iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Throughout Hokusai's life, he had limited contact with the wider world, as Japan had closed borders until the late 1850s. When the borders of Japan opened for the first time in 200 years, Hokusai's prints were exported in large numbers, initiating Western interest in Japanese manga and influencing styles of Chinese painting and art outside of Japan.Item Open Access Colour a collection: Featuring images from the Mortlake Collection in the ANU Library's rare book collection(Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University Library, 2016) Australian National University. LibraryClassic children's books continue to delight: Over a number of years in the 1970s, the ANU Library expanded its academic collection in a somewhat unusual direction—children’s literature. Acquired from an antiquarian bookseller in London, Mr Harold Mortlake, the Mortlake Collection consists of approximately ten thousand volumes of material read in England during the Victorian age including 19th century Gothic literature and rare juvenile books. University Librarian, Roxanne Missingham, said this collection is not only incredibly unique and rare, but its social significance is unquestionable. 'The Collection brings to light aspects of life in England from about 1780 to 1914.' 'As a research tool today these items are multidisciplinary. They could appeal to historians, social scientists, artists, as well as researchers interested in philosophy, religion, classical literature or even politics. The possibilities are endless!'Item Open Access Colour a collection: Featuring images from one of the oldest Chinese titles in the ANU Library’s rare books collection(Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University Library, 2016) Australian National University. LibraryCoinciding with the Library’s exhibition of two Chinese texts from the Xu Dishan Collection, the Library has created a colouring book featuring images from Laojun bashiyi huatu or Lord Lao's Eighty One Transformations, Illustrated 老君八十一化图. According to University Librarian, Roxanne Missingham, the colouring book is an example of how a rare Chinese text can be used in a new and unique way. “The Library’s historic collections open up a world of traditional research possibilities to researchers around the world, but we encourage students and researchers to see the not-so-obvious ways these items can be used”. “Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, Dr. Benjamin Penny, has used Laojun bashiyi huatu in his research over many years, but I wonder if he ever thought it would be use it in such a unusual way”, said Ms Missingham.Item Open Access Colour a collection: Featuring artworks by Australian artist Elizabeth Durack(Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University Library, 2017) Australian National University. LibraryThis colouring book features a selection of sketches from a collection of artworks by the eminent Australian artist Elizabeth Durack (later Durack Clancy). The collection of 410 works is the result of her journey to Papua New Guinea in 1968. She was commissioned by the Australian Federal Minister for Territories and Minister for External Territories to: 'Do something on the women of Papua New Guinea'. As she travelled throughout the country, she created insightful drawings and photographs, together with observations of women, children and the environment.