 Volume 17
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Welcome to the Australian Dictionary of Biography home page. The ADB is a reference series containing biographical articles on Australians from all walks of life. The biographies range in length from 500 to 6000 words. The ADB is part of the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra.
The ADB comprises Volumes 1-17, an Index Volume for volumes 1-12 (plus consolidated corrigenda), and the Supplement (which also includes a name index to volumes 1-16). Volume 16 was published in November 2002, the Supplement volume in December 2005, and Volume 17 (1981-1990 A-K) in November 2007. Volume 18 (1981-1990 L-Z) will be published in about four years time. It is anticipated that Volumes 19 and 20 will complete the twentieth century.
National Centre for Biography
Inaugural Director of the National Centre for Biography and
General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Professor Melanie Nolan
Job Advertisement (new closing date, 15 September)
Managing Editor, ADB
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Research School of Social Sciences
Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre for Biography, History Program
Managing Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Academic Level B/C
Fixed Term - 5 years
Salary Range: $68,767 - $95,977 pa plus 17% super
Reference: A067-08AV
Applications are invited for the position of Managing Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), National Centre for Biography (NCB). The Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University is in the process of establishing a NCB within the History Program of the Research School of Social Sciences. Under the umbrella of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, the Centre will build on the long-established, nationally-recognised intellectual core of the ADB to bring together other outstanding work in biography across the College and in other parts of the University, to provide a centre of excellence for biography for scholars and postgraduate students throughout Australia, and to continue to work closely with the nation’s cultural institutions. The Centre will continue to research and publish the ADB and to develop the ADB Online. A new position of Managing Editor of the ADB has been created to assist the Director of the NCB and General Editor of the ADB. The Managing Editor will contribute to the management of the ADB and the supervision of staff through the oversight of editing and research within the new context of the NCB.
There are exciting opportunities for innovation and initiative in working with the General Editor in developing the future of the ADB within a new context. Applicants should have the capacity and vision to help position the ADB in a new funding and technological environment.
The successful applicant will have professional and technical knowledge and skills in writing and editing biography. They will be able to help develop ADB online. They will have management experience and more specifically experience in managing an academic research unit. Applicatants will need to have a research track record and the experience to be able to help raise external funding.
The Research School of Social Sciences encourages applications from women and Indigenous scholars.
Enquiries: Professor Melanie Nolan, email: melanie.nolan@anu.edu.au, tel: 02 6125 2131
Closing Date: 15 September 2008
Position details:
http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=183
Speakers at the launch of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17; 20 November 2007:
(l. to r.) Louise Adler, chief executive officer and publisher, Melbourne University Publishing; Dr Di Langmore, General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography; Professor Tom Griffiths, chair of the Editorial Board, and Professor David de Kretser AC, Governor of Victoria, with Mrs de Kretser.
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‘one of the university’s great achievements’ which ‘sets on record for all time the Australian experience.’
‘arguably the nation’s most substantial and significant publishing venture, and among the greatest of its kind in the world'.
‘for consistency, interest, fluency, accuracy - and sheer pleasure - the ADB may be the best English-language biographical dictionary in the world’.
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