An australian dictionary biography

Not to be confused with Dictionary of Australian Biography.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.

Initially published by Melbourne University Press in a series of twelve hard-copy volumes between 1966 and 2005, the dictionary has been published online since 2006 by the National Centre of Biography at ANU, which has also published Obituaries Australia (OA) since 2010.

An australian dictionary biography

History

The ADB project has been operating since 1957,^[1] although preparation work had been made since about 1954 in the Australian National University. An index was formed that would be the ADB's basis.

Pat Wardle was involved in this work and in time she too was in the ADB.^[2] Staff are located at the National Centre of Biography in