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SL Magazine Winter 2019 SL Magazine –Winter 2019 Living Language Message Long ago and far, far away I found myself in a governing body meeting at my old college. The Fellows were engaged in a tough debate about the future of their library. The World Wide Web (as it was called) had just been invented, and a near majority of my colleagues felt that libraries would probably not survive its spider-like approach. In the end, the pro-library lobby (just) won the day, and the building is now open 24 hours a day. We are seeing similar things here in New South Wales. Public libraries across the state are being renewed and reinvigorated by enthusiastic communities. This year marks the 80th birthday of one of our most important pieces of civil legislation — the Library Act of 1939. You can easily consult it (via the web of course), and if you do you will see that one of the State Library’s core statutory obligations is to support, advise and be an advocate for public libraries. The Library Act grew out of a report prepared by the Libraries Advisory Committee in 1939. Here is a brief taste of what that report said: Public library service is a national necessity. Without libraries the education of the citizen cannot be carried beyond the school or lecture room. Research is essential to commerce and industry, and to the spread of amenities through the country. Without libraries its results cannot be communicated, and research itself is without an essential tool. Without libraries the citizen has no check on indoctrination and propaganda. Public libraries may supply reading for recreation. There is every reason why they should supply the better type of recreational reading, but their essential purpose is the supply of literature and information necessary to the progress and prosperity of the community as a whole. The rise of the internet has, if anything, assisted libraries in their work, which remains, in essence, as it was described in 1939. In the end, arachnoid e-encroachment has made libraries stronger. This in turn is making our living communities stronger. Good examples of happy marriages between the human and the digital, the old and new, will be found in two forthcoming exhibitions at the Library this winter — Living Language and Dead Central — which you can read about in this issue of SL. The futures of libraries have never been more positive. Please come and share them with us. DR JOHN VALLANCE FAHA State Librarian Contents Winter 2019 4 READING LIST 32 PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION 6 NEWS Experiments Special Award in colour Coral Thomas Fellowship 36 FEATURE UNESCO seven Everything Laughing matter 40 COLLECTION SL Capturing time SPOTLIGHT SL magazine is published STATE LIBRARY OF NSW Interrobang River dreams quarterly by the Library Macquarie Street Council of NSW. Sydney NSW 2000 ASK A LIBRARIAN TAKE 5 44 Winter 2019 Phone (02) 9273 1414 8 Vol 12 No 2 Tickets Detective work ISSN 1835-9787 (print) Fax (02) 9273 1255 ISSN 1836-1722 (online) enquiries.library@ PHOTOGRAPHY E&D-5330-5/2019 sl.nsw.gov.au 10 NEW ACQUISITION 46 Print run 3500 www.sl.nsw.gov.au Streeton in Sydney A colourful past COVER EDITOR Melissa Jackson and BUILDING A STRONG Cathy Perkins 12 EXHIBITION 48 cathy.perkins Marika Duczynski with FOUNDATION @sl.nsw.gov.au projection of Sydney Living Language Language, photo by Remembering Ruby DESIGN & PRODUCTION Joy Lai, see Living Dominic Hon Language exhibition, 16 EXHIBITION page 12 50 FELLOWSHIPS PHOTOGRAPHY Dead Central Introducing our Unless otherwise stated all photographic work 20 FEATURE Fellows is by Digitisation and Imaging, State Library A mythical country of NSW. 52 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY 24 FEATURE 54 FOR OUR FRIENDS Printed in Australia The Feminist Club by Rawson Print Co using Spicers Paper at war 55 Q&A Monza Recycled Satin 250 gsm and Revive Michael Mohammed Laser 110 GSM. Revive 28 FEATURE Ahmad Laser is Australian made, carbon neutral and FSC® The cabin in 100% recycled certified. the woods Reading list Books shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. sl.nsw.gov.au/pla Special Award At the glittering NSW Premier’s Literary Award ceremony in the Mitchell Library Reading Room on 29 April the audience was moved by Behrouz Boochani’s acceptance speech from Papua New Guinea, through a phone held by his translator. Boochani received the Special Award for No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, which, according to the judges, ‘adds a vital voice to Australian social and political consciousness, and deserves to be recognised for its contribution to Australian C cultural life’. Coral Thomas Fellowship The biennial Coral Thomas Fellowship has been increased to $100,000 to enable scholars to engage in deep and focused research into Australian culture, history and society. The Fellowship honours Coral Kirkwood Thomas nee Patrick UNESCO (1920–1996), and was first awarded in 2016 to Dr Rebe Taylor. The current Fellow, Professor seven Grace Karskens, is using the Library’s collections The original manuscript for Ethel Turner’s Seven Little to tell new cross-cultural and environmental Australians, published in 1894, was included on the UNESCO stories about one of Australia’s most beautiful Memory of the World register in February 2019. The manuscript, and historically significant rivers: Dyarubbin, acquired from Turner’s granddaughter Philippa Poole in 2000, the Hawkesbury River. Applications are now shows the origins of the classic novel that gave young Australian open for the Library’s 2020 Fellowships. readers their first female hero. It’s the seventh Library item or www.sl.nsw.gov.au/fellowships collection to be inscribed by UNESCO, and one of 11 collections of national significance from around Australia added to the list Grace Karskens, photo by Joy Lai this year. Manuscript for Seven Little Australians, originally titled ‘Seven Pickles’ 6 / SL MAGAZINE Winter 2019 State Library of New South Wales Laughing matter Australia’s only prize for humour writing was awarded at the Library on 2 May as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival. The Russell Prize for Humour Writing was established through the bequest of Peter Wentworth Russell. NEWS The winner was David Cohen for his wry, eclectic collection of short stories about ‘dysfunctional men’, The Hunter and Other Stories of Men, published by Transit Lounge. The judges praised Cohen’s collection for ‘its Interrobang original and imaginative narratives, its assured The following is one of approximately evocative style, the obvious 350 questions answered each month warmth of the narrator for all by the Library’s ‘Ask a Librarian’ service. his flawed characters, and In the Sydney Gazette dated 21 May 1803, most of all, for its sustained ? there is a report of a Masonic meeting held comic vision’. in the house of Sergeant Whittle of the Awards coordinator Sara Fishwick New South Wales Corps. Do you have any with shortlist, photo by Joy Lai information about Whittle and the possible location of the house? ! The Library holds a copy of Rum Rebellion: A Study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps (1939) by H Evatt, which has many references to Whittle. He enlisted in the NSW Corps on 17 March 1791 in the UK, and arrived in the colony on 7 October 1792 on the Royal Admiral. Whittle was present at the arrest of William Bligh. An iconic illustration of the arrest is believed to have been commissioned by him and proudly hung in his house after the event. The picture’s depiction of Governor Bligh as cowardly has been controversial. Some details of Whittle’s military history and land grants can be found in A Colonial Regiment: Capturing time New Sources Relating to the New South Wales Corps, 1789–1810 (c 1992), edited by Pamela After much plotting, careful planning and collaboration among Statham. One of the grants is for a property in our Digitisation and Collection Care teams, in March 2019 the South Street (formerly South Row, and renamed Library completed the digitisation of the final volume in our O’Connell Street in 1810). This is likely to have small but spectacular collection of Books of Hours. These fragile been his address at the time of the rebellion, so volumes are extremely tightly bound, so to keep the book open could be the location of the Masonic meeting. while supporting the spine, one of our book conservators designed a custom-made cradle. Images can now be viewed www.sl.nsw.gov.au/ask through the Library’s catalogue. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/blogs/capturing-time-digitising-book-hours Digitising a Book of Hours SL MAGAZINE Winter 2019 State Library of New South Wales / 7 Take 5 TICKETS Compiled by Anna Corkhill, Curator, Research & Discovery Exhibition Membership Two years after he returned to England from Since the Sydney Cricket Ground (originally the New South Wales, Sir Edward Macarthur, Association Cricket Ground) opened at Moore Park son of pastoralists John and Elizabeth, bought in 1854, it has been used for test cricket, rugby union, this season ticket for the International Exhibition, rugby league, Australian rules football and other or Great London Exposition, of 1862. Decorative sports. Membership to the ground was established arts by William Morris and early ice-making in 1877. refrigerators were among the exhibits. A 2919/Item 5 Funeral Australian explorer, journalist, politician and author William Charles Wentworth was so popular a public figure that a ticket was required to attend his state funeral in 1873. Although he died in England, it was Wentworth’s wish to be buried at his home in Sydney. QA923.29/W479/1A1 8 / SL MAGAZINE Winter 2019 State Library of New South Wales New station Sydney’s main nineteenth-century cemetery was cleared to make way for the new Central railway station, which opened on 4 August 1906.
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