Recent Acquisitions
Serbska protyka 2008. [ Upper Sorbian book calender for 2008 - text in Upper Sorbian (obersorbisch) language].
Editor: Alfons Frencl.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Gemeinde in Weissenberg und Kotitz. (Contributions to the history of the Lutheran churches in Weissenberg and Kotitz)
[Text in German]
Author: Dr. Wolfgang Beyer.
Donated by Robert Wuchatsch.
The history and family tree of Johann George Hohnberg, 1788-1856 and his wife, Anna Maria (nee) Irmler, 1791-1875, and their known descendants, 1788-1971.
Authors: Desmond P. Hohnberg, Reginald S. Munchenberg and Donald A. Ross.
Donated by Calvin Noack.
Great Grosse blessings (Grosse Segen). [160 years of the Johann Traugott Grosse family in Australia, 1847-2007]
Editor and compiler: John Grosse.
The Unesco Courier: a window open on the world: August-September 1978: the Slavs; a culture in close-up. [ This double issue of the Unesco Courier is entirely devoted to the history of the cultures of the Slav world, whose study forms a major part of Unesco's programme in the field of culture]
Editor-in-chief: Caloz, Rene.
Donated by Felicity Bradford (nee Burger).
Australian dictionary of dates, and, Men of the time. [CD-ROM]
(Digital version of a 570 page book originally published in 1879]. Men of the time is a listing of biographies of men of note with connections to Australia.
The Australian dictionary of dates has a listing of topics. e.g. Adelaide Charitable Institutions, Coal, etc. - then under each topic is a listing of events in date order that have occurred relating to this topic.
Translated extracts from a book.Werben: Geschichte eines Spreewalddorfes.
Author: Siegfried Ramoth. [Translated from the German into English by W. D. Verran].
These extracts describes the migration of the Wends from Werben in Prussia to Australia in the nineteenth century.
Donated by by W. D. Verran.
Koonibba Jubilee booklet: 25 years of mission work among Australian aboriginals,1901-1926.
Published in 1926, this book is an important historical record of the work of Lutheran missionaries with Australian aborigines on the Koonibba Mission Station in South Australia. The book is well illustrated with many interesting photographs showing aspects of the life and activities of the people on the Station.
[Our library also has a copy of the Second Jubilee booklet 1901-1951 which is a record of 50 years work among the Australian aborigines by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, 1901-1051].
Donated by Ken Noske.
