• Title
  Australian Institute of Librarians' inaugural meeting at Canberra, August 20, 1937 / photographer A. Collingridge, Canberra
• Creator
  A. (Alexander) Collingridge, d. 1942
• Call number
  SPG/141
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  August 20, 1937
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs
• Reference code
  944014
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver, on mount - image 15.9 x 21.1 cm, mount 24.8 x 30.4 cm
  1 p. - typescript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  "In August 1937 fifty-five librarians meeting at the Albert Hall in Canberra formed the Australian Institute of Librarians. The Great Depression had elevated social and political awareness, especially as issues such as censorship and repression of free expression emerged. Our founding fathers believed that the development of appropriate standards of education for librarians and the development of policies to combat the erosion of individual rights to access information (largely through the promotion of free library services) could best be achieved through the foundation of a national body. They believed in access to 'the best that has been and is being thought and said, pictured and played, written and read by our people, and throughout the world, just so that we can turn upon stock notions and habits a stream of thought that is fresh, and free," [John Metcalfe, 'Cultural Institutions in the Australian Community: 'To Hell With Culture.' Australian Quarterly 17 (March 1945)]
  
  For more information, see: The Canberra Times [newspaper], Thursday 5 August 1937, p. 3, column 4
• Scope and Content
  Back row, left to right:— Miss C. K. Irvine, Mr. J. V. Flannery, Miss M. Barrington, Mrs. N. H. E, Robb, Miss Z. B. Bertles, Miss P. Mander Jones, Mr L. C. Key, Miss A. M. Turkington,
  Miss M. M. Lafferty, Miss E. Lambert, Mr. W. C. Baud, Miss J. M. Begg, Mr. N. S. Lyng.
  
  Second row, left to right:- Miss L. M. Foley, Mr. L. Scott, Miss E. M. G. Flower, Miss M. I. Hulme, Miss I. A. M. Fraser, Miss E. S. Hall, Mr. B. B. Levick, Miss N. A. Fraser, Ms Joyce Hunter, Miss B. C. Wines, Mr. J. J. O'Brien, Miss E. Stanley, Mr. A. L. G. McDonald, Miss B. J. Whitelaw.
  
  Third row, left to right:— Mr E. L. Frazer, Miss H. E. Mackay, Miss M. M. Thompson, Miss M. U. O'Connor, Miss N Armstrong, Mrs E. I. Cuthbert, Miss N. G. Booker, Miss J. F. Arnot, Mr. K. W. Burrow, Miss E. Clapham.
  
  Fourth row, left to right:— Miss I. E. Leeson, Mr. L. F. Fitzhardinge, Mr. W. C. Quinton, Miss E. E. Small, Miss E. A. Sims, Miss D. M. Flynn, Mr. K. A. Lodewyckx, Miss E. L. M. Gallagher, Mr. I. A. Mair, Mr. H. L. White, Mr. A. B. Foxcroft, Mr. J. W. Metcalfe.
  
  Fifth row, left to right:- Mr. J. J. Quinn, Mr. K. Binns, Mr. E. R. Pitt, Sir Percival Meadon, Mr. I. L. Kandel, Mr. Frank Tate, Mr. E. Salter Davies, Dr J. S. Battye, Professor E. Morris Miller, Mr. W. H. Ifould, Mr. H. R. Purnell.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from SPG/Australian Institute of Librarians, 1937 (BM), September 2011
  Digital order no:a5231001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Contents list from typescript on the reverse
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Ms Joyce Hunter identified by Sir Harold White, National Librarian
• Date note
  
  The first Conference of the Australian Institute of Librarians was held June 11th to 13th, 1938
• Name
  Australian Institute of Librarians
  Mander-Jones, Phyllis, 1896-1984
  Leeson, I. (Ida)
  White, H. L. (Henry Luke), 1890-1977
  Cork, Merle
  Ifould, W. H. (William Herbert), 1877-1969
  
• Subject
  Arnot, Jean Fleming, 1903-1995.
  Librarians, Australian--20th century.
  Associations, institutions etc.--Australia.
  Portraits, Group.
  
• Place
  Albert Hall (Canberra, A.C.T.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3321014

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