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eg: James.Smith, jsmith88, bill-from-bourke
This will be name you use to login to the National Library of Australia's Newspapers service. It can be your name (always a good idea..), or a screen alias, or anything you like, as long as:
  • it is between 4 and 32 characters long
  • it contains only alphabetic characters, digits, dashes (-) and full stops(.)
  • it starts with an alphabetic character
  • it hasn't been used by anyone else
  • it isn't offensive or what we librarians would classify as "in bad taste"...
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