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The editor, in her Foreword, remarks that although the advertisement soliciting contributions for this volume 'did not stipulate that the stereotype of libraries and librarians was to be contested, it is interesting to note that many of the writers - particularly those who have worked in libraries - do, in fact, project a very different image of libraries and library personnel' (vii).
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Perth,
Western Australia,:Curtin University of Technology. Library
, 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Watching a Film of Borges Narrated in Spanishi"The deliberate camera looks", single work poetry (p. 1)
- A Rich Fantasy Life, single work short story (p. 2-16)
- She Flings It Back at Mei"To be old before you are young", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Bendigo Library, 1984i"Moving the library", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Moving On, single work short story (p. 22-31)
- Wollahra Libraryi"That soapy marble chill", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Chris and the Library Ghost, single work short story (p. 35-43)
- Upon Not Working in a Technical Libraryi"Here? I can't work here.", single work poetry (p. 44-45)
- Tell Tale, single work short story (p. 46-51)
- Searching the Shelvesi"My finger walks these finite pages", single work poetry (p. 52)
- Flowing on from Heraclitusi"You cannot step into the same library twice", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Complaints and Suggestionsi"Here I sit enriching the cortex", single work poetry (p. 54)
- The Snare, single work short story (p. 57-61)
- The Library in the Loo, single work short story (p. 65-66)
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A Library in the Thirties,
single work
short story
Mollie Hildyard describes her work at the Tasmanian Public Library in the 1930s. She mentions working in the Walker Collection of Australiana. She also mentions her access to novels of Norman Lindsay that had been banned.
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Wages of Virtue (Novel by P. C. Wren),
single work
prose
Frank McMahon recalls his receiving a scholarship which allowed him a year's free membership at the Burra Institute library, where among other works he found a whole shelf of books by P. C. Wren, author of Beau Geste.
- Fifty Years Ago, single work short story (p. 73-75)
- Our Library, single work prose (p. 76-78)
- Upstairs and Downstairs at Woburn Square, single work prose (p. 81-83)
- Melbourne Municipal : The Way We Were, single work prose (p. 84-89)
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