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- Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Annual General Meeting 2023
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Annual General Meeting 2023
Part of Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection series
Wednesday 14 June 2023, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Free. Koha from non-members appreciated.
You are invited to the annual general meeting of the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection. Before the meeting Mary Skarott, Research Librarian Children’s Literature, will show a selection of hand-coloured books and books with hand-written inscriptions from the Dorothy Neal White Collection.
About Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection
The Dorothy Neal White Collection is a research collection of children’s books that were enjoyed by young New Zealanders before 1940. The Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection supports the work of this, and other children’s literature collections held in the National Library of New Zealand.
The Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Annual General Meeting starts at 5:30pm with a presentation of books added to the National Children’s Collection during the past year. This will be followed by light refreshments and the 2023 AGM.
Interested in finding out more about Children’s Literature collections in the National Library? Have a look at our Children’s Literature research guide.
Children's Literature research guide
About the speaker
Mary Skarott is the Research Librarian Childrens Literature at the Alexander Turnbull Library. In 2020 the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection published her Special Prize for Gardening: School and Sunday School Prizes in New Zealand during World War I — Examples from the Dorothy Neal White Collection as part of the Note-Books-Authors series.
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Illustration from Grandmamma Easy’s stories of the alphabet, published by Dean & Co, London, between 1843 and 1846. From a copy held in the Dorothy Neal White Collection, National Library of New Zealand.