Anatomy of a Digital Project – The UCLA AIDS Poster Collection

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Davison ◽  
Katharine E. S. Donahue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The United Kingdom

In August of 2004 the History & Special Collections of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA purchased a collection of 625 AIDS posters from 44 countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, China (and Hong Kong), Costa Rica, France, Germany, India, Japan, Luxembourg, Martinique, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tahiti, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The posters were issued by a variety of institutions and organizations to educate and warn people about AIDS and to offer advice and information in visual form. Some are more blunt and graphic than others, and they come in many styles.

An Agreement Establishing the South Pacific Commission, Signed February 6, 1947, in Canberra, Australia.

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-428 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom

The Governments of Australia, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, (hereinafter referred to as “the participating Governments”),

International Whaling Commission

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-424
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vice Chairman ◽  
International Whaling Commission ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The United Kingdom

The International Whaling Commission held its fourth meeting in London from June 3 to June 6, 1952. Represented were all of the seventeen member governments except Mexico, namely: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Sweden, the Union of South Africa, the USSR, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Commission elected Dr. Remington Kellogg (United States) chairman, and Dr. J. G. Lienesh (the Netherlands) vice-chairman. Amendments to paragraph 6, paragraph 8 (c), and paragraph 8 (e) of the schedule of the International Whaling Convention were adopted at the meeting, and entered into force in September 1952. In closing, the Commission agreed that research in new methods of whale marking should be pursued, “but if funds should not allow this, marking by the existing methods should continue. The current catch limits … were extended to the 1952/53 season, retaining the same opening date now in force.”

South Pacific Commission

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-528
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The United Kingdom

The 21st session of the South Pacific Commission was held at Commission headquarters in Nouméa, New Caledonia, from October 13 to 25, 1960. It was attended by representatives from the Commission's six member nations—Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States; the chairman was Mr. Dudley McCarthy, senior commissioner for Australia. The meeting reviewed progress made by the Commission in all its fields of work during the year under consideration and approved plans for its 1961 program.

scholarly journals Windows on the World with USBBY’s Outstanding International Books

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Dr. Mon Kerby ◽  
Brenda Dales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

This paper explains the purpose of the Outstanding International Books (OIB) Committee of the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY), the available resources on the USBBY OIB site (http://www.usbby.org/list_oibl.html), and highlights selected titles from the 2015 list. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the OIB Lists have represented some of the most outstanding international books published, providing a range of titles appropriate for children from birth to 18 years of age. Titles were first published in another country and language before being distributed in English throughout the U.S. Some of the countries where these books originated include Australia, France, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The paper includes an annotated bibliography of the 2015 OIB Book list for librarians who wish to have a selection aid when purchasing books for their school libraries.

Fashion, Women and Power: The Politics of Dress

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Women And Power

As never before, women are rightfully in positions of political power, and into the maelstrom of mass media challenges to their fashions and their right to govern. An examination of the fraught narratives surrounding the clothing of women in leadership in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Indonesia.

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