Australian Common Reader Launched
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 |