Library History Conference - Program
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Thursday 25 June
State Library of Victoria Theatrette (Latrobe Street Entrance) |
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6-8pm |
Wallace Kirsop |
Welcoming Address |
Friday 26 June
Swinburne University Prahran Campus |
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9.00-9.30 |
Registration |
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9.30-9.40 |
Welcome and Housekeeping |
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Library Organisations |
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9.40-10.20 |
Edmund Balnaves |
The origins of Inter Library Loan in Australia in relation to special libraries |
10.20-11.00 |
Fiona Brown |
The Australian Law Librarians Association |
11.00-11.20 |
Morning Tea |
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Conservation of heritage collections |
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11.20-12.00 |
Peter Thompson |
Challenges and opportunities in conserving and using heritage library collections |
12.00-12.40 |
David Heardon |
‘That Brilliant Track’: Dan Deniehy, the Native-Born and the Goulburn Mechanics’ Institute |
12.40-1.40 |
Lunch |
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Library Reformers |
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1.40-2.20 |
Dr David Jones |
John’s Gospel: Metcalfe and the writing of Australian library history. |
2.20-3.00 |
Carmel Maguire |
War between the states averted: How the NSW Free Library Movement’s territorial ambitions came to little |
3.00-3.20 |
Afternoon Tea |
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Carnegie in Australia |
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3.20-4.00 |
Michael Birkner |
“Not yet ready”: Australian university libraries and Carnegie Corporation philanthropy, 1935-1945. |
4.00-4.40 |
Mary Carroll |
The role of outside agencies including the Carnegie Corporation on the development of education for librarianship in Australia |
Mechanix Restaurant |
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7.00-10.00 |
TBA |
Conference Dinner |
Saturday 27 June
Swinburne University Prahran Campus |
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Libraries in the mechanics’ institute period |
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9.40-10.20 |
Dr Peter Mansfield |
Libraries on the Bellarine Peninsula |
10.20-11.00 |
Andrew Sergeant |
To elevate the tone of moral and intellectual attainment: The Braidwood Literary Institute and its subscribers. |
11.00-11.20 |
Morning Tea |
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11.20-12.00 |
David Verran |
Government promotion of public libraries in new Zealand, 1869-1935 |
12.00-12.40 |
Robin Wagner |
Bush book clubs: Books and reading for women in outback Australia. |
12.40-1.40 |
Lunch |
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A variety of libraries |
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1.40-2.20 |
Mark Cryle |
“Sound, fascinating and elevating books”: an account of the Cosme library. |
2.20-3.00 |
Peter Pereyra |
Melbourne’s circulating libraries, 1858-1974: Their demography and geography revisited |
3.00-3.20 |
Afternoon Tea |
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3.20-4.00 |
Judith Dwyer |
The Casey collection at Berwick Mechanics’ Institute |
4.00-4.40 |
Susan Reynolds |
Characters and Conflict at the Supreme Court Library: Redmond Barry, Robert Pohlman and George Higinbotham |
4.40-4.50 |
Wallace Kirsop |
Concluding Remarks |
