Australian Common Reader Launched

Australian Common Reader Launched
Explore - Data Visualisation on Australian Common Reader
Tuesday 18 June 2019

The Australian Common Reader system has been launched. The CDHR (ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research) developed system helps reveal the reading habits of late 19th and early 20th century Australians.  It is the world's largest database of library loan records, allowing users to sort through the borrowing histories from six Australian libraries between 1861 and 1928.

See report from ANU media here: https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/past-page-turners-given-fresh-shelf...

The Australian Common Reader includes records from libraries at The South Australian Institute in Adelaide, the Rosedale Mechanics' Institute in Gippsland Victoria, the Port Germein Institute in regional South Australia, The Maitland Institute in the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, and Collie Mechanics' Institute in Western Australia.

You can read through the records at australiancommonreader.com

Top five most borrowed books/magazines for women

Publication

Author

On the Wings of the Wind

Allen Raine

A Welsh Witch

Allen Raine

Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds

Horace Annesley Vachell

Within the Maze

Ellen Wood

The Gambler

Katherine Cecil Thurston

Top five most borrowed books/magazines for men

Publication

Author

Household Words

Magazine

New Monthly Magazine

Magazine

What Will He Do with It?

Bulwer Lytton

Bentley's Miscellany

Magazine

Tales from 'Blackwood'

H Chalmers Roberts

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