........and there it is. I hadn't actually read anything about cuts to trove funding but in a climate where the venerable CSIRO, BOM and the public broadcasters are fighting to get enough money to survive, it's no surprise the nla is getting the axe put to it too.
I'm resigned to the fact that we'll see no more large scale digitisation for a little while- but it will come, it has to.
Interesting that once again we, 'stralia, were leaders in the area. And once more we don't know it, don't appreciate it and pull the pennies out from under it. Happened so often.
I went through a stage where I would get up in the morning and read the headlines from the courier mail for that day in 1939, or 1945, or whatever other year suited my fancy. More interesting than the crud on the front page of the local rag now.
Cheers,
