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In Lithuanian Studies in Australia, Algimantas P. Taškūnas has brought to his analysis the administrative experience he has acquired working at the University of Western Australia and the University of Tasmania, as well as his involvement with the Lithuanian-Australian community. This book, which is based on his Ph.D. thesis in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania, offers a precise and detailed account of the efforts made to introduce Lithuanian studies into Australian universities over the past forty years. It begins with contextual material on Lithuanian settlement in Australia and the development of tertiary education there during the twentieth century. The largest part of the book, however, considers five different attempts to bring some form of Lithuanian studies into Australian university programs, using systems theory to explain their success or failure. The book also provides basic information on Lithuania for non-Lithuanian readers, including maps and photographs related to Lithuanian culture and Lithuanian-Australian activityVytauto Didžiojo universiteta