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These text resources can be found at the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, and may be able to be viewed at your local Australian Library via a participating Australian Library Inter-Library Loan Request.
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The
biggest event of Australia's bicentenary : World Expo 88 in Brisbane
Publication:
Bowen Hills, Qld. : Queensland Newspapers, 1988
Call
Number: P 607.34 big
» World
Expo 88 Brisbane Australia 30 April-30 October 1988 : opening
ceremony speeches, national day speeches, closing
ceremony speeches
Publication:
Brisbane : World Expo 88 Commissioner General
Call
Number: Q A825.3 wor
» Report of
the Commissioner General of Expo 88 on the Australian
Government's involvement in Expo 88
Publication:
Brisbane : World Expo 88 Commissioner General
Call
Number: Q 607.34 rep
World
Expo 88 Report
Publication: Brisbane : World Expo 88,
Publication: Brisbane : World Expo 88,
Call
Number: Q 607.34 wor
World
Expo 88 : media guide
Publication:
Call
Number: P 909.828 wor
Showing
off : Queensland at World Expositions 1862-1988
Publication: Central Queensland University Press and the Queensland Museum 2004
Author: Dr Judith McKay, Queensland Museum
Call Number: Q 381.1 M'KA
Some world cities old and new : administrative aspects : a report on overseas study tour July-August 1988 led by Sir Llewellyn Edwards, chairman of Expo 88 /
Publication: Central Queensland University Press and the Queensland Museum 2004
Author: Dr Judith McKay, Queensland Museum
Call Number: Q 381.1 M'KA
Some world cities old and new : administrative aspects : a report on overseas study tour July-August 1988 led by Sir Llewellyn Edwards, chairman of Expo 88 /
Call
Number: Q 352.9418 san
World
Expo 88 : landscape
Publication:
Brisbane : Australian Print Brokers, 1988
Call
Number: P 607.34 wor
Business
news / World Expo 88 Business Visitors Programme
Main
Author: World Expo 88 Business Visitors Programme
Publication:
Brisbane : World Expo 88
Call
Number: S 338.09 001
The
Courier-Mail World Expo 88 report
Publication:
Brisbane : Queensland Newspapers Pty. Ltd., 1988
Call
Number: F 607.34 cou
World
Expo 88 : the official souvenir program
Publication:
Sydney : Australian Consolidated Press,
Call
Number: Q 607.34 wor
World
Expo 88 : Australia host nation : official souvenir
Publication:
Brisbane : Sydney G. Hughes, 1988
Call
Number: P 994.064 wor
Intergovernmental
co-operation [videorecording] : World Expo 88
Publication:
Brisbane : Telemission, 1988
Call
Number: HVC 351.943 int
World
Expo 88 : River Stage / compiled by the Entertainment Division, World
Expo 88
Publication:
Call
Number: P 792 wor
That's
Entertainment : World Expo 88
Publication:
Brett Cochrane (Photographer), 1988
Call
Number: GSB 790.209943 1988
World
Expo 88 : entertainers' handbook
Publication:
Call
Number: J 607.34 wor
World
Expo 88 [videorecording] :
Publication:
Brisbane : TVQ Channel 10, 1988
Call
Number: HVC 607.34 wor
Publication:
: Queensland Tourist & Travel Corporation, 1989
Call
Number: P 338 exp
Publication:
West End, Qld : Southside Urban Research Group,
Call
Number: Q 306.48 all
Publication:
St.Lucia, Qld. : Dept.of Social Work, University of Queensland, 1988
Call
Number: P 306.48 day
World
Expo on stage : April 30-October 30 1988, Performing Arts Complex,
Brisbane Australia / edited by Di Buckley
Publication:
Sydney : Patrick L. Vitch & Company,
Call
Number: P 790.2 wor
Now
it is all over : paper / by Lola Brownell
Main
Author: Brownell, Lola
Publication:
1989
Call
Number: VF 607.34 bro
EXPO
'88 Act Amendment Act 1987
Is
in: Queensland No.62 1987 Laws, etc.
Record
no: 87714
Australian
pavilion World Expo 88
Publication:
, 1988
Call
Number: P 607.34 aus
Publication:
New Farm, Qld : Philip Bacon Galleries, c1988
Call
Number: Q 735.23 scu
The
human factor of World Expo 88
Publication:
Brisbane : Australian Print Brokers,
Call
Number: P 735.23074 hum
The
Vatican collections : the pavilion of the Holy See at World Expo 88
Publication:
Call
Number: P 708.5634 vat
* Please note: Foundation Expo '88 has it's own collection of World Expo '88 digital internet resources located on this site's Academic Forum
National Libraries of Australia
View the some 200 listings for Australia-wide collections on World Expo '88
Visit
the Wikipedia listing for World Expo '88
Picture
Australia - National Library of Australia
Search
the national database of images concerning "expo 88" - over 100 photos
are on record.
Search Brisbane
Images
- Brisbane City Council
Some
66 photos in the archives however not as convenient to view as Picture
Australia.
State
Library of Queensland
Visit
the John Oxley Library at the State Library of Queensland (Level 2),
Queensland Cultural
Centre, South Bank (just next to the former expo site) and ask to see
the "World
Expo '88" photo collection. There are some several dozen boxes of archived photographs at the Library - in Pavilion and Attraction alphabetical order - the majority of which are in black & white - and some in colour. Every aspect of World Expo '88 - its construction, day-to-day operations, and de-construction was captured by State Photographer, Ms Reina Irmer of the State Library of Queensland. Some of these photographs have also been digitised and are viewable at the State Library of Queensland website.
Stefan Hairdressing - a local Queensland legend - and home of the Expo Symbol Tower - 'Night Companion' - now known as the 'Stefan Sky Needle'
The iconic symbol tower of the Exposition - the 88-metre high 'Night Companion' - now known as the 'Stefan Sky Needle', was purchased by prominent Brisbane businessman Stefan Ackerie, of the Stefan Hairdressing empire at the conclusion of the Exposition, and was moved 500m down the road to his hairdressing mecca HQ at South Brisbane, where it continues to play a prominent role as one of the only high-rise structures in Brisbane City's South Brisbane and West End districts, and, with the addition of the Stefan trademark rainbow rings at the tower's top, a prominent advertisement for Stefan, and of World Expo '88, in today's Brisbane. The slender platinum-coloured tower's copper and gold top dome and spire light up the night sky most evenings, and on special occasions, one can also view the majestic sweep of the Brisbane skies horizons as the xenon-eye beam of the tower surveys the Brisbane night sky. Stefan's website tells a bit about his empire and his purchase of the Needle. Foundation Expo '88 is lobbying Stefan, Brisbane City Council and other government and private enterprise players for a greater presence at the tower's base, including a possible Museum/Cafe. Keep watching this site for more information.
The iconic symbol tower of the Exposition - the 88-metre high 'Night Companion' - now known as the 'Stefan Sky Needle', was purchased by prominent Brisbane businessman Stefan Ackerie, of the Stefan Hairdressing empire at the conclusion of the Exposition, and was moved 500m down the road to his hairdressing mecca HQ at South Brisbane, where it continues to play a prominent role as one of the only high-rise structures in Brisbane City's South Brisbane and West End districts, and, with the addition of the Stefan trademark rainbow rings at the tower's top, a prominent advertisement for Stefan, and of World Expo '88, in today's Brisbane. The slender platinum-coloured tower's copper and gold top dome and spire light up the night sky most evenings, and on special occasions, one can also view the majestic sweep of the Brisbane skies horizons as the xenon-eye beam of the tower surveys the Brisbane night sky. Stefan's website tells a bit about his empire and his purchase of the Needle. Foundation Expo '88 is lobbying Stefan, Brisbane City Council and other government and private enterprise players for a greater presence at the tower's base, including a possible Museum/Cafe. Keep watching this site for more information.
The Japan Pond & Garden from the Japan Pavilion joins with the Nepal Peace Pagoda, the Stefan Sky Needle, and South Bank Parklands as one of the city's most significant gifts from World Expo '88. A place of quiet respite amidst the buzz of the World Exposition, the Garden was re-located to the Brisbane City Council Mt Cooth-tha Botanic Garden at the conclusion of Expo, where one can now visit every day from 8.30a.m. to 5.00p.m. The Japan Pond & Garden are also venue for the Annual Japan Culture Week in Brisbane, co-ordinated by the Japanese Consulate-General Brisbane, and held annually in August.
Click
on the"Japanese Garden" to see a 360 degree tour of the re-located
Japanese Garden from the Japan Pavilion.
The
company that brought you the opening and closing ceremonies of the
XIIth Commonwealth Games, Brisbane, 1982, as
well as of the L.A. Olympics 1984, Barcelona Olympics 1992, and Sydney
Olympics 2000. Run by entertainment wizard,
Mr Ric Birch, Birch also was the head of the Entertainment Division for
World Expo '88, administering and developing
the division's $AUD25 million budget.
Some
of the flags and banners designed for World Expo '88
A
history of car number plates in Queensland - including special editions
done for World Expo '88 and the Bi-Centenary
Visit
the designers of the USA Pavilion, World Expo '88 - The Douglas Group
Visit
Vista Arts - designers of the UN Pavilions at Expo '86 and Expo '88.
Nice photos.
Visit
the Bureau of International Expositions' (B.I.E. Paris) web-page on
World Expo '88 - from the horse's mouth
Designers
of the Queensland Pavilion, World Expo '88 can be found at this address.
This
is the Queensland Government Corporation that took over running of the Exposition
site after the expo's closure, originally as part of B.E.S.B.R.A. - the official title of the Expo Authority - the Brisbane Exposition and South Bank Redevelopment Authority. Managing the beautiful South Bank Parklands, and its diverse designer elements of tropical rainforest and formal gardens, BBQ-areas, rock pools, a magnificient man-made salt water beach, coffee shops, restaurants, at the Parklands 'eastern corridor' engagement with the Brisbane River foreshore, and leading to medium and high-rise residential, office and hotel space at the site's western corridor, parallel with the QR City Train network, the Parklands is one of the most popular parks in Queensland, and hosts, amongst other features, in a new re-situated site facing the Brisbane River, one of the only Participant-made Pavilions of the Expo still remaining at the former Expo site - the popular Nepal Peace Pagoda - a pemanent sentinel of the good will and cheer of World Expo '88 - and one of Brisbane City's most significant World Expo '88 heritage items. Visit the South Bank website, and visit South Bank today!
Official
web-site of the formed in 1928 Bureau of International Expositions,
B.I.E., Paris.
Some
interesting archival material as well as visiting the HQ of all
expositions - it's worth a visit
.
Commemorative
home of the first Exhibition in London in 1851. Queen Victoria
presiding.
An
interesting site on Expo '58 with nice interactive map of the fair.
A
history of electricity at World's expositions
Everything
you wanted to know about the New York's World Fair of the 60s.
The
definitive guide to Vancouver's Expo 86 - well designed and a pleasure
to browse.
English
version of the Expo '92 web-site developed and run by Expo aficionado
and Expo author of "Seville Expo '92 - The Stories
Never Told" - the young and talented Mr Angel Arumburu Gordon.
Extensive links and photos.
Link
to the Wikipedia listing for Expo '93.
Another
interesting link to Taejon Expo '93 - a Japanese site with pre-opening
computer images of the Expo site - quite authentic.
Another
interesting site by Angel Arumburu Gordon - this time on Lisbon's
International Exposition of 1998 with the oceans as
it's theme.
A
veritable warehouse of Expo references from the Smithsonian Institute
intern Cathy Serafica, entitled "Revisiting World's Fairs
and International Expositions:A Selected Bibliography, 1992 - 1999."
An
excellent overview of the World exposition system by two Expo veterans.
Some in depth papers also make good reading.
Search
the photographic archives of the American National Gallery of Art. Some
excellent images, well presented. Quite nostalgic.
Well worth a visit.
Canada
at World Expositions - also a peek at Canada at 2005 Aichi Japan.
Australia's
representation at Aichi 2005 Japan.
"The
Worlds Fair and Exposition Information and Reference Guide - General
World's Fair and Exposition References" - makes
interesting surfing...
A
commemorative foundation for the 1990 International Flower Exposition
"Hana-haku", sited in Osaka, Japan
Who
could miss out on a visit to "World's Fairs", once the pre-eminent
published magazine by expo expert extraordinaire Alfred
Heller on everything in the World Exposition system, now relegated to
the Internet.
Another
excellent link to another mammoth exposition bibliography -
“International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and
World’s Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography". Viewable as a PDF
file - light summer reading!
Part
of a site on international exposition flags - features the B.I.E. flag
(and others)
A
german language site - Exposeum - the Museum of Hannover Expo 2000
http://www.expo2005.or.jp/en/index.html
Official site for Aichi 2005 Japan
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=339&m2=291
View some of the spectacular images of the B.I.E.'s collection of Expo 2005
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=310&m2=284
Read the BIE Day at Aichi 2005 page - and the Awards given for Pavilions, and adherence to the Exposition Theme
http://www.zaragoza2008.com
Official site for the 2008 World Exposition - Water and Sustainable Development - in Zaragoza, Spain
http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/EN/noticias/noticia_detalle.asp?id=819
Meet Mascot for Zaragoza Expo 2008 - 'Fluvi'! (Jan 26, 2006)
Official site for Aichi 2005 Japan
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=339&m2=291
View some of the spectacular images of the B.I.E.'s collection of Expo 2005
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=310&m2=284
Read the BIE Day at Aichi 2005 page - and the Awards given for Pavilions, and adherence to the Exposition Theme
http://www.zaragoza2008.com
Official site for the 2008 World Exposition - Water and Sustainable Development - in Zaragoza, Spain
http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/EN/noticias/noticia_detalle.asp?id=819
Meet Mascot for Zaragoza Expo 2008 - 'Fluvi'! (Jan 26, 2006)
Official site for Shanghai 2010 P.R.C.
http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/english/eu/eh/userobject1ai32754.html
Press-Release: Shanghai World Expo 2010 HQ site established (June 29, 2006)
42-story chimney toppled for the new Building
http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/english/mf/rtr/userobject1ai29516.html
View the International Communication & Promotion Plan for Shanghai World Expo 2010
http://www.expomuseum.com/2012-2013/
Who Should Get Expo 2012? The list is growing longer and longer! Tangier, Morocco; New York, U.S.A.; Trieste, Italy, amongst others line up....Visit ExpoMuseum's line-up.....
http://www.worldexpo2012.go.kr/
The official site for the Yeosu, Korea, bid for 2012
http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/english/eu/eh/userobject1ai32754.html
Press-Release: Shanghai World Expo 2010 HQ site established (June 29, 2006)
42-story chimney toppled for the new Building
http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/english/mf/rtr/userobject1ai29516.html
View the International Communication & Promotion Plan for Shanghai World Expo 2010
http://www.expomuseum.com/2012-2013/
Who Should Get Expo 2012? The list is growing longer and longer! Tangier, Morocco; New York, U.S.A.; Trieste, Italy, amongst others line up....Visit ExpoMuseum's line-up.....
http://www.worldexpo2012.go.kr/
The official site for the Yeosu, Korea, bid for 2012
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