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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 A Library in the Thirties
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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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    y separately published work icon Inter Alia : Library Images and Australian Writing Isla Macphail (editor), Lisa Masiello (illustrator), Perth : Curtin University of Technology. Library , 1990 Z253025 1990 anthology poetry short story prose 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). Perth : Curtin University of Technology. Library , 1990 pg. 67-69
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