Michael Organ - Publications, Presentations & Reports
1984-2013
M.K. Organ is the sole author of all material listed, unless otherwise indicated. The bibliography is arranged chronologically.
2013
Peter Jackson and the appropriation of Tolkien's Middle-earth, Screen Education, 2013 (in press). [Journal article]
Tolkien's Japonisme: Prints, Dragons and a Great Wave, Tolkien Studies, 2013 (in press). [Journal article]
"Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia? - The Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Books in Australia, Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries: Journal of the Book Collectors' Society of Australia, 2013 (in press). [Journal article].
What's the Point? The Failure of Community Activism, The Conversation, 16 March 2013. [Web article]
Wollongong's Bicentennial - a time for celebration, or a wake?, Illawarra News [blog], 12 March 2013. [Article]
non-sequitur* - Proposed demolition of Seaview Guest House, Bulli, Illawarra News [blog], 4 March 2013. [Article]
2012
Metropolis: Rotwang's robot, Revolution and Redemption [exhibition], Wollongong City Gallery, 5 November 2012 - 3 February 2013. [Curator]
A. Ashbolt, R. Cahill and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 11, number 1, 2012, 86p. [Co-editor of Journal]
Feredinand Hochstetter in Australia, 1858-1859, in James N. Bade (ed.), Ferdinand Hochstetter and the contribution of German speaking scientists to New Zealand in the nineteenth century, Series: Germanica Pacifica, volume 10, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2012, 297-310. [Book chapter]
"Out of the shadows" .... Strategic development of an institutional repository, Presentation to the CAIRSS Community Days conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, 20 November 2012. [Conference presentation]
2011
Michael K. Organ, Naj Aziz and Jan Anton Nemcik, Improving access to Underground Coal Operators' Conference papers, 11th Underground Coal Operators' Conference, University of Wollongong & the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2011, 390-407. [Conference paper]
2010
Research Online: achieving success, Presentation at the Meeting of Bepress (Digital Commons) Australian Sites Representatives, VALA Conference, Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre, 7 February 2010. [Conference presentation]
Leveraging research quality assessment exercises to increase repository content - an Australian case study, Paper presented at the CAIRSS (Council of Australian University Librarians Institutional Repository Support Service) Community Day, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, 10 September 2010, 7p. [Conference paper]
A. Ashbolt, R. Cahill and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 10, number 1, 2010, 86p. [Co-editor of Journal]
2009
R. Daly and M.K. Organ, Research Online: Digital Commons as a Publishing Platform at the University of Wollongong, Australia, Serials Review, 35(2), 2009. [Refereed journal article]
The Sixties at Wollongong: student affairs in a regional Australian university, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 9(1), 2009, 40-60. [Journal article]
One-stop repository shop for University of Wollongong, inCite, 30(9), 2009, 22. [Journal item]
A. Ashbolt, R. Cahill and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 9, number 1, 2009, 90p. [Co-editor of Journal]
2008
A. Moyal and M.K. Organ, Koala - A Historical Biography, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, 2008, 246p. [Book]
A. Ashbolt, R. Cahill and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 8, number 1, 2008, 98p. [Co-editor of Journal]
2007
M.K. Organ and H. Mandl, Outsourcing open access - Digital Commons at the University of Wollongong, Australia, OCLC Systems & Services, 23(4), November 2007, 353-362. [Refereed journal article].
Greed Town: The failure of community protest and the silencing of community voice in the City of Wollongong 1987-2007, Mermory, Heritage and Place: Wollongong's Changing History Conference, University of Wollongong, 14 June 2007. [Conference paper] .
Light from the tunnel: collecting the archives of business and labour at the Australian National University , 1953-2003, Labour History, 92, May 2007, 183-185. [Book review].
A. Ashbolt, R. Cahill and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 7, number 1, October 2007, 62p. [Co-editor of Journal]
2006
Download Statistics - What do they tell us? The example of Research Online, the open access institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia, D-Lib Magazine, Virginia, 12(11), November 2006. [Refereed journal article]
Brickies: Working Life at the Thirroul Brickworks 1972-1983, Illawarra Unity, volume 6, number 2, November 2006, 55-71. [Journal article]
Beyond Hollywood: Frank Gould, Lithographic Printer, Illawarra Unity, volume 6, number 2, July 2006, 72-78. [Journal article]
A. Ashbolt, J. Coghlan and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 6, number 2, November 2006, 86p. [Co-editor of Journal]
A. Ashbolt, J. Coghlan and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 6, number 1, July 2006, 67p. [Co-editor of Journal]
Captain Westmacott's Drawing Book - A Colonial Oddity, Art New Zealand, Auckland, 119, Winter 2006, 77-81. [Journal article]
2005
Metropolis in black and white - the art of Percy Benison 1928, Metro Magazine , St Kilda, 146/147, December 2005, 170-174. [Journal article]
Strike 1912 - Looking for Australia's Earliest Workers Film, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 5, number 1, September 2005, 40-54. [Journal article]
Tribute to Bill Whiley 1927 - 2004, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 5, number 1, September 2005. [Journal article]
A. Ashbolt, D. Cahill and M.K. Organ (eds.), Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, volume 5, number 1, September 2005, 58p. [Co-editor of Journal]
2004
[Australian Federal Parliament - to 9 October 2004] Speeches to the Australian Federal Parliament, Government House, Canberra, by Michael Organ were published within the official Hansard.
2003
[House of Representatives Select Committee on the Recent Australian Bushfires] A Nation Charred: Inquiry into the Recent Australian Bushfires, Parliament House, Canberra, 23 October 2003, 368p. [Report]
[Australian Federal Parliament] Speeches to the Australian Federal Parliament, Government House, Canberra, by Michael Organ were published within the official Hansard.
2002
[Australian Federal Parliament - from 19 October 2002] Speeches to the Australian Federal Parliament, Governemnt House, Canberra, by Michael Organ were published within the official Hansard.
2001
Metropolis Film Archive, A compendium of resources on Fritz Lang's 1927 film [web site], 2001.
The Battle of Bulli - Women, children and striking coalminers repel blacklegs, police and a steam locomotive at Bulli, New South Wales, Australia, Monday, 17th January 1887, Illawarra Unity, volume 2, number 4, 2001. [Journal article]
2000
History and Heritage: Change and Adaptation, in Glen Barkley (ed.), Illawarra Visions - Collections of the University of Wollongong [Exhibition Catalogue], University of Wollongong and Wollongong City Gallery, June 2000. [Book chapter]1999
"...a small fish in a small pond..." The Reverend W.B. Clarke (1798-1878): 200 Years On. Part 2, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 132, June 1999. [Refereed journal article]
1998
"...a small fish in a small pond..." The Reverend W.B. Clarke (1798-1878): 200 Years On. Part 1, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 131, 1998, 101-112. [Refereed journal article]
Organ, M.K. & McGurk, C., Surfing the Internet: Electronic Library and Archival Resources for Historians, Herald of Archives and Society of Archival Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovenia, Sarajevo, 1998. Reproduced from Provenance, 1996. [Journal article]
'Osterreich in Australien': Ferdinand von Hochstetter and the Austrian Novara Scientific Expedition 1858-9, Historical Records of Australian Science, 12(1), June 1998, 1-13. [Refereed journal article]
1997
Netrification: internet infiltration of a university library, inCite - Magazine of the Australian Library and Information Association ALIA , 18(10), October 1997. [Magazine article]
Organ, M.K. and Jantti, M., Academic Library Seating: A Survey of Usage, with Implications for Space Utilisation, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 27(3), September 1997, 205-16. [Refereed journal article]
Organ, M.K. and Speechley, C., Illawarra Aborigines - An Introductory History, in J.S. Hagan and A. Wells (eds.), A History of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Press, 1997, 7-22. [Refereed book chapter]
1996
University Archives in a Hostile Environment - Impacts of the Vanstone Cuts and New Directions in Academic Research, paper presented to the 'Labour and Business Archives as Cultural Heritage and Collective Memory' Conference, Industrial Relations Research Centre, University of New South Wales and State Library of New South Wales, 19 October 1996. [Unpublished conference paper]
Australian Archives on the Net, The Provenance: Electronic Magazine for Information Professionals, 1(2), March 1996. (Available URL: http://www.netpac.com/provenance/vol1/no2/features/archinet.htm).
Australia Post Souvenir Covers, Postal Stationary Collector - Journal of the Postal Stationary Society of Australia, 4, February 1996.
Organ, M.K. and McGurk, C., Surfing the Internet: Resources Historians, in M. Metzke (ed.), Visualising History: New Tools for Old Tasks, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Royal Australian Historical Society, University of Wollongong, 7-8 October 1995, Sydney, October 1996, 18-28. [Conference paper]
----, Surfing the Internet and Academic Research: What Use for Historians?, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 27(1), March 1996, 31-9. [Refereed journal article]
----, Surfing the Internet: Electronic Library and Archival Resources for Historians, The Provenance: Electronic Magazine for Information Professionals, 1(2), March 1996. (Available URL: http://www.netpac.com/provenance/vol1/no2/features/orgnmcg1.htm).
Organ, M.K. and Murrie, B., The Tom Thumb (II) Replica and the 200th Anniversary of Bass & Flinders' Voyage to Illawarra 1796, Australian Sea Heritage, 45, Summer (April) 1996. [Magazine article]
1995
Conrad Martens' Beagle Journal 1833-5: A Transcription, Conrad Martens: Life & Art. An interactive journey into the world of Australia's leading colonial artist, CD ROM, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, July 1995.
Organ, M.K. and Svensen, S., Research Assistants in the Clever Country, The Australian Universities' Review, 38(1), November 1995, 50-3. [Journal article]
----, Research Assistants in the Clever Country, Working Paper Series WP95-4, Department of Economics, University of Wollongong, June 1995, 17p.
1994
Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories: A Chronological Bibliography of Published Works 1789-1991, Aboriginal History, 18(2), December 1994, 123-44. [Journal article]
A Bibliography of the Reverend W.B. Clarke, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 127(3-4), December 1994, 85-134. [Journal article]
Arthur Cousins: A Biography, in A. Cousins, Illawarra: The Garden of New South Wales, Illawarra Historical Society, November 1994, 360p. [Book chapter]
Conrad Martens' Beagle Journal 1833-5: A Transcription, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, November 1994, 112p. [Book]
Conspiracy of Silence - The Management of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Sites by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Aboriginal Law Bulletin, University of New South Wales, 3(67), April 1994, 4-7. [Journal article]
Organ, M.K. and Warner, G., Australia - Japan Industrial Relations: A Bibliography, in J.S. Hagan and A. Wells (eds.), Industrial Relations in Australia and Japan, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994, 165-200. [Book chapter]
Orchard, K., Organ, M.K. and Walsh, J., Illawarra - The Garden of New South Wales, Wollongong City Art Gallery, 25 November 1994, 52p. [Exhibition catalogue]
Organ, M.K. and Doyle, A..P (eds), Early Land Settlement in Illawarra 1804-1861 by Benjamin Lindsay, Illawarra Historical Publications, 1994 [Book].
1993
A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1900; including a Chronological Bibliography 1770-1990, Report for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, 1 December 1993, 364p. [Report]
Reverend Richard Taylor in Wollongong, January 1839, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, September 1993, 78-83.
Hutton, M. & Organ, M.K., The Bulli Miner's Cottage, Bulli Miner's Cottage Management Committee & Wollongong City Council, March 1993, 18p. [Report]
Duncan, M., Green, D. & Organ, M.K., Aborigines of the Illawarra, Illawarra Mercury, 27 February 1993, 26-7. [Newspaper article]
1992
W.B. Clarke as Scientific Journalist, Historical Records of Australian Science, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 9(1), 1992, 1-16. [Journal article]
A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850; including a Chronological Bibliography 1770-1990, Aboriginal Education Unit, Wollongong University, January 1992, 646p. Corrected reprint. [Book]
The Andrews Family of Wollongong and Trooper Frank Andrews - A Boer War Casualty, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, February & March 1992, 10-12, 16-18.
The Discovery of the Wreck of the Queen of Nations, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, March 1992, 14.
1991
Index, in J. Castle, University of Wollongong: An Illustrated History, 1951-1991, University of Wollongong, 1991, 68p.
The Ghost of Ghost Creek, The Illawarra Trader, Wollongong, October 1991.
Wollongong - Venice of the South?, The Illawarra Trader, Wollongong, September, 1991.
The Old Mount Keira Inn, Figtree, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, September 1991.
Review of Australian Science in the Making, Archives and Manuscripts - Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, O'Connor, ACT, 19(1), May 1991, 92-3.
Woodlands Park, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, April 1991.
Beale, E., Mitchell, W. and Organ, M.K. (eds.), Backhouse and Walker in Illawarra and Shoalhaven 1836, Illawarra Historical Society, December 1991, 108p. [Book]
Doyle, A.P. and Organ, M.K., A Index to References to Illawarra Names pre 1856, Illawarra Historical Publications, Woonona, November 1991, 50p. [Book]
Harrison, W. and Organ, M.K., Tribute - The Illawarra Aborigines, Aboriginal Higher Education Conference. Jamberoo Valley. Speeches, Wollongong University, December 1991, 2-5. [Conference paper]
1990
A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850; including a Chronological Bibliography 1770-1990, Aboriginal Education Unit, Wollongong University, December 1990, 646p. [Book]
Illawarra's First Military Garrison, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, October 1990.
Reminiscences of C.T. Smith, 1865, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, June & July 1990.
Odins, P., Bamberry, W.J., Hutton, A.C., Jones, B.G. and Organ, M.K., in 'Petrography of Sandstones and Other Rocks, Illawarra Coal Measures', Papers and Proceedings of the Southern and Western Coalfields Geological Conference, Wollongong University, February 1990, 59-69. [Conference paper]
Clarke, Coal, and Controversy, in Hutton, A.C. (editor), Papers and Proceedings of the Southern and Western Coalfields Geological Conference, Wollongong University, February 1990, 1-10. [Conference paper]
1989
An Archivist is an Archivist - Thoughts on an Image, Archives and Manuscripts - Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, O'Connor, ACT, 17(2), 1989, 232-5. [Journal article]
Illawarra's First White Settlers, 1796, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, August 1989.
The Birthplace of Wollongong - The Brighton Beach and Wollongong Harbour Precincts, Archaeological and Historical Significance', Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, June 1989.
The Death of Captain Waldron, 1834 (Yet Another Version), Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, June 1989.
Edgar Beale and the Illawarra Historical Society, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, June 1989.
Robert Brown at Hat Hill (Mount Kembla) 1804, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, June 1989.
Organ, M.K. and Doyle, A.P. (eds.), Reminiscences of Illawarra by Old Pioneer, Illawarra Historical Publications, Woonona, 1989, 176p. [Book]
Buddin, M., Organ, M.K., and Trott, L., A Guide to the Australian Museum Archives, Australian Museum, Sydney, [Reprint] 1989, 78p. [Book]
Davis, J. and Organ, M.K., Unearthing a Birthplace, Illawarra Mercury, 24 June 1989, 19.
1988
Buddin, M., Organ, M.K. and Trott, L., A Guide to the Australian Museum Archives, Australian Museum, Sydney, 1988, 78p. [Book]
The Illawarra Diary of Lady Jane Franklin, 10-17 May 1839, Illawarra Historical Publications, Woonona, 1988, 52p. [Book]
Wollongong or Randwick, 1859 - Which was the first Municipality? Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, October, 1988.
A Guide to the Archives of the Illawarra Councils, 1859-1988, unpublished manuscript, 1988, 40p. [Report]
Conrad Martens in Illawarra, 1835, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, April & June 1988.
1987
Last Results from Computer Survey, Bulletin of the Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 76, December 1987, 2. [Journal article]
Ephemera in Archives: What to Do? - A Possible Solution from the University of New South Wales Archives, Archives and Manuscripts - Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 15(2), November 1987, 105-118. [Journal article]
The Great Melbourne to Sydney Scooter Push, Alumni Papers, University of New South Wales, Kensington, November 1987. [Journal article]
Survey of the use of Personal Computers in Australian Archival Institutions, Bulletin of the Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 75, October 1987, 3-4. [Journal article]
The Archives of the Australian Museum, History of Australian Science Newsletter, 13, Melbourne University, June 1987, 2. [Journal article]
Reminiscences of Illawarra, by Alexander Stewart, 1898, Illawarra Historical Publications, Woonona, 1987, 52p. [Book]
Organ, M.K. and Doyle, A.P., Illawarra Residents 1828 & 1841, Illawarra Family History Group, Wollongong, 2nd edition, 1987, 82p. [Book]
1986
Bibliographic Notes on Captain R.M. Westmacott's Sketches in Australia [1848], Biblionews, The Book Collectors' Society of Australia, Sydney, September 1986, 79-81. [Journal article]
Augustus Earle in Illawarra, 1827, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin, Wollongong, April 1986. [Journal article]
Organ, M.K. and Doyle, A.P., Illawarra Residents 1828 & 1841, Illawarra Family History Group, Wollongong, 1986, 77p. [Booklet]
1985
Old Wollongong Wesleyan & Presbyterian Cemeteries, (editor), Illawarra Family History Group, Wollongong, August 1985, 54p. [Booklet]
1984
Pioneers of the Illawarra - The Story of the Family of Elias Organ 1835-1865, Woonona, 1984, 124p. [Booklet]
Any comments, corrections, or additions to the content of this site are most welcome. Please e-mail the author at: Michael Organ [morgan@uow.edu.au]. Site last updated: 22 May 2013.