Parks and Recreation Collection

The Parks and Recreation Collection is a structured, open-access repository of contemporary and historical knowledge about parks and leisure in Australia, New Zealand and the western Pacific Islands.

The Collection has two main elements:

Document repository

PaRC includes a document library housed on the website of the peak industry body Parks and Leisure Australia.

Narratives

PaRC includes textual narratives explaining key themes in parks and leisure, news items and snippets of information worth recording. This element has been nick-named “An Australasian Wikipedia of Parks and Leisure”.