AustLit

I am grateful to the State Library of New South Wales for awarding me the Nancy Keesing Fellowship in 2005. This provided me with unique access to the original format magazine holdings, without which this research would have been exceedingly difficult. In particular, I wish to thank the Council of the State Library, the Fellowship Committee, then Mitchell Librarian Elizabeth Ellis, the Coordinator of Bibliographic Access Collection Services, Susanne Moir, Lynne Billington from eLibrary Services, and, most importantly, Mark Hildebrand, then Acting Coordinator of Collections and Australiana, and his Mitchell Library Reading Room staff.

I am also grateful for the existence of AustLit, and for the genius and patience of those who make it work. Kerry Kilner and Carol Hetherington were my primary points of contact. They were always available to guide me cheerfully through the intricacies of turning a simple list into a virtual reality.

Jill Julius Matthews