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- Title: Unfinished Business: John Metcalfe and His Professional Association.
- Author : The Australian Library Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
Description
John Metcalfe of the Public Library of New South Wales played a leading role in founding the Australian Institute of Librarians (ALL) in 1937 and twelve years later in transforming it into a more sustainable and influential body, the Library Association of Australia (LAA). This paper describes some of the work which lay ahead for the new association, including library promotion, expanding membership, professional publications, national and international recognition and a university school of librarianship, in all of which Metcalfe figured significantly. His career after 1949 is outlined and some of his personal preoccupations, fertile ground for further research, are also described. Prologue