Nostalgia is all over social media and it’s the bread and butter of Australian cultural institutions like NLA, Trove, NAA and a lesser extent NMA. ABCTV has its fair share too. It presumably sells. Not being nostalgic myself I’ve wondered about this.

So, a thoughtful ABC News opinion piece by Stan Grant on the danger of nostalgia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-16/counting-crows-sydney-concert-1993-nostalgia-dangerous/102222800
(I’ve reserved the cited book at the library.)

I guess there’s a sliding scale of danger/risk. A shift from now to then, action to inaction.

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Wondering if it might not be better to have one agency look after both NLA’s Trove and NAA’s RecordSearch, thus consolidating capability and resources.
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