Google News Archive

The Australian Newspapers (beta), and Papers Past (New Zealand) are now available via Google News Archive:http://news.google.com/archivesearch?ned=us&hl=en
The Google archive is a sub part of the main Google news page (direct link to archive search from Google news page).Google intends to deliver newspapers via the Google News Archive only (not the main Google) at present. The Google News Archive consists of three resource types:1. Newspapers digitised by Google and available via Google newspaper viewer (launched Sept 2008)2. Digitised/online newspapers from other organisations that are free or cost and results go direct to those sources eg New York Times, Australian Newspapers beta, Papers Past (NZ), Sydney Morning Herald.3. News from web sources.The digitised Australian and New Zealand newspapers are the first non American newspaper content in Google News Archive, so this is a landmark event for users.

The easiest way to find the old historical digitised newspapers is to go into 'advance search' and check the 'no price' box, then add your search terms. There is a date filter on the left that lets you find older things since the search seems to default to latest news first even in the archive search. For example search for Sydney Gazette. There is also a timeline option. If you are interested in viewing the digitised papers from Google in the Google newspaper viewer here are the instructions: (we do not know the extent or titles of the Google newspaper digitisation program).How to find Google Digitised Newspapers in the Google viewer:1. Go to Home Page of Google News Archivehttp://news.google.com/archivesearch2. Select Advanced search3. Man on the moon - all words Check No price4. In the Results list look for the title of a newspaper followed by - 'Google News Archive' in grey to find those Google have digitised that are available in their viewer. Click the link. The page should open in the viewer.5. Once an article is found you can cite it by clicking 'link to this article' top right to get a persistent URL. e.g.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8KAFAAAAIBAJ&dq=man%20on%20the%20moon&sjid=9TIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6926%2C4212087OR1. In advanced search put in the source name eg Rome News Tribune or St. Petersburg Times and check no price. Put no keywords in search box.We have provided a site map for Google to harvest which ensures that useful metadata is visible in the Google results list and that users are taken directly to the article level view. This will promote wider usage and accessibility of the Australian Newspapers.

Local Newspapers and ANZ Reference Centre

The Whitehorse Leader and Manningham Leader are now available through ANZ Reference Centre. Images are not available. Entries start from March 2009 onwards.

The database includes the local community newspapers from Australia's five major capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth).

New library board members

Manningham Council - Graeme MacMillan Meg Downie

Whitehorse Council- Sharon Ellis Raylene Carr

The new mayor for Manningham is....

Councillor Charles Pick
http://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/council/media_and_news/latest_news/mr_dec_new_mayor.html?s=1595237190

New councillors for Manningham

The new councillors for Manningham are -

Koonung Ward -Charles Pick ,Ivan Reid, Fred Chuah
Heide Ward -Geoff Gough, Grace La Vella , Stephen Mayne
Mullum Mullum Ward -Meg Downie, David Ellis, Graeme MacMillan

The new mayor for Manningham will be decided on Monday 8-12-08

New mayor and councillors for Whitehorse

The new mayor is Helen Harris. Cr Harris has lived in Whitehorse for more than 30 years, the past 12 years in Elgar Ward. She is married with two adult daughters.Her notable achievements include receiving the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) awarded by the Commonwealth Government in 1993 for services to community history and attaining a Master of Arts (History) at Monash University.Cr Harris has strong community connections and is affiliated with the Box Hill Historical Society, the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Incorporated and the Whitehorse Branch of the Greens.

The new Whitehorse councillors are -
CENTRAL WARD – Andrew Munroe and Bill Pemberton
ELGAR WARD – Robert Chong and Helen Harris
MORACK WARD – Raylene Carr and Mark Lane
RIVERSDALE WARD – Sharon Ellis and John Koutras
SPRINGFIELD WARD – Philip Daw and Ben Stennett

For more details go to http://www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=2260
http://www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=2315

Did you know?

Did you know that the Whitehorse News is accessible through the Whitehorse Council Website.

www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au.

Go to Publications and Policies link - click on Whitehorse News.

The Whitehorse News is a monthly Council newsletter delivered to all households in Whitehorse.

Back copies from 2005 onwards are available from the website. Fulltext and in colour.