Libraries - Australia

Date: 1931

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1613

Description: Album relating to journey from New Zealand to England via the Suez Canal. Includes photographs of floral tributes to Zillah prior to her departure; embarkation in Wellington July 1931; Voyage to Sydney; Sydney parks, buildings, zoos, beaches; Dixon family in Sydney; Melbourne gardens, buildings; Adelaide buildings, parks, gardens; King's Park, Perth, buildings, opening pearls, Serpentine Falls and Western Australian aboriginals; Colombo, Ceylon, catamarans, coconut palms, native quarters, rickshaws, High cast Indian girl; Aden; Red Sea; Suez Canal; Bedoin Sheik; Ismalia; Port Tewfik; Port Said; Voyage on 'Balranald'; Fancy dress and deck tennis, and lifeboat drills on ship; Australian heavyweight George Cook training on ship; Malta; Gibraltar; Spainish coast; First sight of England, Chalk cliffs of Dover. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 18 x 30 cm

Date: 1998

By: Kotani, Tetsuya, active 1998

Reference: MSY-4759

Description: Report by Kotani describing his visit to Australian and New Zealand libraries; includes Auckland City Library, Statistics of NZ, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington City Libraries, Macquarie University Library, State Library of NSW, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, AUSTRADE, Dept of Foreigh Affairs and Trade, the National Library of Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the library of ANU Language - The report is in Japanese Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr T Kotani, Japan, Jul 1998, per Mr D Harlen, National Library of New Zealand, Nov 1998

Date: 2008

By: State Library of Victoria

Reference: Eph-A-LIBRARY-NonNZ-2008-01

Description: Programme booklet lists the talks and lectures to be presented as part of this exhibition of medieval manuscripts in Melbourne, Australia. Amongst the items on display was the Alexander Turnbull Library's volume containing "De Musica" by Boethius, and "Micrologus" by Guido of Arrezzo. Dr Ruth Lightbourne of the Turnbull Library was one of the listed speakers, on Friday 28 March 2008. This collection also includes an invitation to the opening of "The medieval imagination" at the State Library of Victoria, on 27 March 2008. Also included are 2 copies of a flier promoting the 2008 Foxcroft lecture, "The hand in the machine; facsimiles, libraries and the politics of scholarship" given by Professor David McKitterick of the University of Cambridge, on 26 March 2008. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on booklet, invitation card and flier, 210 x 100 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1918

By: Shirlow, John Alexander Thomas, 1869-1936; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-070-011

Description: Night view of the great dome, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Edition: no 1 of an edition of 50 Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Mezzotint, 7 x 5.5 ins Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1996

By: National Library of Australia

Reference: Eph-E-LIBRARY-NONNZ-1996-01

Description: Shows a section of a globe of the world with Australia facing. The names of Charles Wilkes and Abel Tasman are highlighted. The logo of World 1 appears beneath. World 1 was a service operating in 1996, before the demise of the co-operative NDIS project, with the National Library of New Zealand. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 830 x 597 mm.

Date: 1978-1989

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: 2003-228-22

Description: Summary of 1978 visit to Australian libraries including the Mitchell Library, the Fisher Library (Sydney University), National Library of Australia and Department of Pacific History, ANU, Canberra, Tasmanian State Archives, museum and art gallery and trying to contact Linda Lewis; report on 1979 visit to libraries and reserch isntitutions in the United Kingdom, Aug-Oct 1979 including the British Library, Public Records Office, British Museum, India Office Library, Isle of Man Museum, Folio Society and New Zealand House; and application for a fellowship to research the life of Edward Shortland (1989) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-111-2

Description: Shows Melbourne Public Library and the Victoria Museum Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Free Public Library. Museum tc(?) Melbourne Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 135 x 185 mm

Date: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

By: Winston, Charles Edward, 1825-1893

Reference: E-043-q-083-2

Description: Shows a large double storey building in classical style with Ionic columns at the front. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title The Sandhurst Mechanics Institute and Free Library in Bendigo was established in 1859. The Mechanics Institute closed in 1904. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 125 mm stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: 1955

By: Bell, Gerda Elizabeth, 1903-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-7800

Description: Report by Bell on libraries in Sydney, London, Frankfurt Main, Freiburg im Breisgau, Cologne, Munich, Stockholm, Perugia and Rome. While in London she also reported on various schools. Source of title - Transcribed Bell went to Perugia to study Italian in 1954; on her way there she visited libraries in Sydney and London and during her stay visited various libraries in Europe Quantity: 1 folder(s) (25 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Ministry of Education, Wellington, Apr 2002

Date: 1936

By: Scholefield, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963

Reference: MSX-4925

Description: Personal notes of a tour from Mar 1935 to Jan 1936 by Scholefield, not intended for publication. Includes notes on libraries, librarians and archives in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Canada, the United States, South Africa, France, Switzerland, Ireland. Samples of materials used, bookplates, forms etc included. Photograph of Prince Edward Island book truck, samples of cataloguing styles and other matters. Index. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph corrections and printed matter