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Welcome
It's hard to believe we are heading into the final quarter for 2014 and will soon be heeding the shopping day countdown to Christmas!
A recent highlight for the Griffith University community was the outstanding performance of our students and alumni at at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Such was our dominance that at one stage, if we were our own country, we would have been fourth in the medal tally. We ended the Games with an impressive total including 10 gold, 5 silver and 7 bronze medals, edging out Jamaica to take 10th place in the overall rankings!
Our next round of events features Dr Charles Page sharing his beautiful photographic essay Memories in Place: The Centenary of WW1 and a presentation by Oxford University Associate Fellow Dr David Goldberg on drone technology and its use by the media.
A special welcome to our new members and I encourage you to provide your feedback at friends-library@griffith.edu.au.
I look forward to seeing all of our Friends at the next Friends of the Library event.
Linda O'Brien
Pro Vice Chancellor (Information Services)
Griffith University
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Be engaged, inspired, entertained and informed! Join Friends online.
A $25 annual membership or $65 three year membership will deliver:
- Invitations to a range of events
- 'Friends only' cocktail receptions
- Performances and exhibitions
- Friends of the Library eNewsletter
- Discount on University library borrowing
- 20% discount Griffith Review subscription
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Memories in Place: The Centenary of WW1
Join us for our next Friends of the Library event as Brisbane documentary photographer Dr Charles Page shares highlights from his beautiful photographic essay Memories in Place: The Centenary of WW1. Charles' book explores the enduring connections between European WW1 battlefields and the Australian streets, estates and rivers that were named as a result of patriotic fervour in postwar Australia.READ MORE >>
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Know More in Sixty Seconds
Have you got a minute? Griffith has released a vault of 60 second videos to celebrate the power of knowledge. Our staff and students have expertise across an extraordinary range of subjects. To capture some of their great ideas, Griffith has launched the Know More in Sixty Seconds website. You'll be amazed at what you discover in just a minute! WATCH NOW >>
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Griffith historian wins Magarey Medal
Griffith University history lecturer Fiona Paisley has won the prestigious 2014 Magarey Medal for Biography for her book The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe. The book follows the life of Aboriginal activist Anthony Martin Fernando, who lived in Europe during the first half of the 20th century, and ranges from his internment in World War 1 to his remarkable street activism in Rome, Bern and London. READ MORE >>
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Groundbreaking digital storytelling platforms used in exciting project
Griffith teams have collaborated on a groundbreaking digital project Pest Controller, Shock Absorber: 40 Years of the Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff. In what is believed to be an Australian first, this exciting project uses interactive digital media as a storytelling platform to communicate research to a mass audience. READ MORE >>
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Geoffrey Robertson QC presents the 2014 Griffith Lecture
International human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC presented the 2014 Griffith Lecture last week. In his address What Global Integrity? Mr Robertson considered the failure of international institutions and NGOs to develop legal or ethical guidelines in relation to spying and secret surveillance for commercial or economic gain. WATCH NOW >>
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