Libraries

Discusses the 'process whereby the Library built up its Richardson collections [the only surviving papers directly assembled and kept by Richardson during her lifetime] over…

Scholars of Australian literature are more likely than most to recognise the name Ida Leeson and to connect it to that venerable institution, Sydney's Mitchell…

A visitor to a typical major public library in Australia prior to the Second World War would have found it difficult to locate more than…

The catalogue of Clarke's library, a valuable source of information on Clarke's tastes as a reader and techniques as a writer, has been hitherto largely…

‘Much of the evidence used in researching the history of individuals’ reading preferences and practices is elusive and transient. Most individuals do not leave material…

This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to approach a body of fiction that has been given…