Libraries and Life in Changing World: The Metcalfe Years, 1920-1970

Papers from the Australian Library History Forum V at the University of New South Wales, 6-7th November, 1992. Focus on the impact of John Wallace Metcalfe on the library profession in New South Wales. Papers: Reflecting on a Wider World: Metcalfe's Overseas Travels and the Creation of a Modern Library Profession in Australia / W. Boyd Rayward Tending the Sacred Flame: John Metcalfe's Contribution to Establishing Professional Librarianship in Australia / Jean P. Whyte A Dormant Commission": Ifould and the Rise of John Metcalfe / David Jones My Language is Australian English": A 1992 View of Metcalfe's Contribution to Subject Access / Ross Harvey Metcalfe, Parliamentary Libraries and the Library Profession / Grieg Tillotson The Popular Press and the Munn-Pitt Report / Jennifer Kyte Refocusing the Role of Libraries in Australia: Carnegie Corporation of New York Grants 1923-1961 / Maxine Rochester Good Librarians and Enlightened Laymen: the Free Library Movement and Children's Libraries in Western Australia / Alison Gregg Collectors and Benefactors in Australia: the Example of J. K. Moir / John Arnold Melbourne Publishing: from Depression to War / Cecily Close Sir William Dixson's Clock: A.H. Spencer and the Public Library of New South Wales / Wallace Kirsop