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- Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Annual General Meeting 2024
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Annual General Meeting 2024
Part of Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection series
Thursday 20 June 2024, 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 picture books added to the Dorothy Neal White and the National Children’s Collections in the past year.
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection AGM
You are invited to the annual general meeting of the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection.
The event will start at 5:30pm with a presentation from Mary Skarott, Research Librarian Children’s Literature, sharing a selection of picture books added to the Dorothy Neal White and the National Children’s Collections in the past year.
Drinks and nibbles will be served at 6pm, followed by the AGM.
Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection
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 support the work of this, and other children’s literature collections held in the National Library of New Zealand.
Researching children's literature
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.
Cover of The Alphabet, Set Forth in Six and Twenty Pictures by Monro S. Orr. Published by Collins, 1931 (reprinted 1937). Copy held in the Dorothy Neal White Collection, National Library of New Zealand.