July 2017

Friends unite to create University Librarian’s new teaching space Message

‘I thank Alumni Friends deeply for the Thank you so much to donation of $50 000 toward this project. our valuable circle of It will be a place where we can incorporate friends and donors for your support. rare treasures into hands-on teaching, whilst also utilising digital technologies in It was a wonderful discovery and assessment outcomes. end to the year with our staff, ‘We are currently working with Senior Lecturer students and friends in English Literature, Dr Jennifer Clement celebrating at our from the UQ School of Communication and inaugural Awards and Arts, on her course, The Text in Time, that will Acquisitions Evening. incorporate our rare books, many of which This memorable occasion allowed us the opportunity Alumni Friends have helped us acquire over the to honour our 2016 award winners, pictured on UQ student Marcella Fox looking at an album years. page 5 of this report. We were also very pleased to of original 19th century photographs as part of ‘The space will provide the perfect setting for announce two new Fellowships for 2017, the Rae MSTU2140, Studies in Photography. object based learning,’ he said. and George Hammer Memorial Visiting Research Fellowship, established by Dr Margaret Hammer in The study space will be themed around memory of her parents Rae and George Hammer, Alumni Friends of The University of architecture, and will include large, interactive and our Creative Writing Fellowship, funded through Inc. have donated $50 000 to launch the digital screens that will allow students and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. Taylor and Library’s fundraising project to create a dedicated researchers to access digitised collections, Francis Group are also providing a prize that will teaching space within the Fryer Library. including plans, in their original size. Adjacent to recognise a high achieving research student. The Library is aiming the room will be an outdoor terrace, overlooking This year we celebrate a number of significant to raise $210 000 to create the Fryer Library the Great Court, to facilitate networking events. anniversaries for the Library. It is the 50 year Collection Teaching Space. This will transform Thank you to our alumni, friends and anniversary of the Father Edward Leo Hayes part of the reading room and allow for greater bequest. In its day Fr Hayes’ hoard of treasures use of special collections in support of teaching members of the community who have was considered the largest private collection of and learning. already supported this project. Australiana in the Commonwealth. Receiving this gift of manuscripts and rare books was The cheque was presented at Fifty Years Manager of the Fryer Library, Mr Simon Farley, transformational for the Fryer Library. It is also 90 expressed gratitude to Alumni Friends for their of Friendship, an event to celebrate Alumni years since the Fryer Library was established in 1927. support. Friends’ Golden Jubilee. Our very good friends and supporters Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland Inc. are also celebrating their Golden Jubilee this year and we enjoyed a morning tea and exhibition showcasing what they have helped us acquire. You will also see in the cover story that they have generously donated $50 000 to help us create a dedicated teaching space in our Fryer Library. We are fundraising to make this project a reality and we are excited about the opportunities it will unlock to embed our special collections in teaching across all disciplines at UQ. Your support has allowed us to do more for our students and researchers, continually providing them with access to the information and resources they need to excel. I hope you enjoy reading about the amazing impact your gifts are having on our community.

UQ Alumni Friends Bookhouse volunteers with the Manager of the Fryer Library, Mr Simon Farley, in the proposed teaching space. It is the hard work of these volunteers, organising the UQ Alumni Book Fair® BOB GERRITY which raises money that they invest back into UQ to support students, educators and researchers. University Librarian

www.facebook.com/uniofqldlibrary www.library.uq.edu.au

twitter.com/uqlibrary www.library.uq.edu.au/blog 1 Education – the greatest gift of all

Dr Margaret Hammer has donated funds They began their teaching careers in 1955 to establish a fellowship in memory of and, over the next forty years, became her parents, Rae and George Hammer, to leaders of the teaching profession in New celebrate the value they placed on education. Zealand. George Hammer retired in 1985 after 13 years as a school principal, while Rae The Rae and George Hammer Memorial Hammer retired in 1993, after 31 years as a Visiting Research Fellowship provides up to deputy principal. $2500 a year for Honours, Masters and PhD students from universities outside of After the death of her parents, Dr Hammer to use the collections held in The University wanted to do something to remember them of Queensland’s Fryer Library. and to assist young researchers. She had pursued a career in research herself and Rae and George Hammer lived their entire knew how difficult it could be for young RACHAEL HAMMER (NÉE HALL) lives in New Zealand and were both proud scholars to acquire funding to spend time Bachelor of Arts, University of Auckland (1950) New Zealanders. They pursued successful working in a library or archive. careers as secondary school teachers and Master of Arts (Honours), University of Otago (1952) believed in the transforming power of a ‘I remember having to travel to libraries university education. Dr Hammer remembers and archives all over England to complete their love of learning. essential research for my PhD. It was expensive, time-consuming and exhausting ‘My parents grew up in a very different so I thought I might be able to help others,’ age and were both children during the Dr Hammer said. Great Depression of the 1930s. The ‘I feel privileged to have the opportunity things they saw, and the experiences to honour my beloved parents through they had, shaped them and their this fellowship and to be able to assist understanding of education forever. the next generation of researchers to ‘I can remember my mother telling me how, complete their studies and achieve their as a five year old, she had been devastated dreams.’ GEORGE HAMMER to learn that she would have to wait until Bachelor of Arts, University of Otago (1950) she was six to start school because the For more information visit Master of Arts (Honours), University of Otago (1952) government had decided to raise the school www.library.uq.edu.au/about-us/awards- Master of Letters, University of Auckland (1990) entry age in an effort to save money. and-fellowships/rae-and-george-hammer- memorial-visiting-research-fellowship ‘The sense of injustice she felt never really left her, making her feel that education was a real privilege so it was important to make the A closer look at most of it while you could,’ she said. Australian poetry BANJO JAMES PhD student, The University of Adelaide Dr Margaret Hammer has established a fellowship in memory of her parents. 2017 Rae and George Hammer Memorial Visiting Research Fellowship Recipient Banjo James will visit the Fryer Library to study the John Forbes Collection (UQFL148). His project will focus on a psychoanalytic reading of melancholy theory in the work of poet, John Forbes (1950–1998). Banjo’s research will use Freud’s 1924 essay, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, which defines melancholia as a failure to mourn the lost object. He will then take the idea of the lost object (the deceased) and extend it to a broader definition of mourning: lost loves, ideas and ideologies. He will make use of the manuscripts in the collection— biographical data, correspondence, essays, reviews and the unpublished poems. The correspondence between Forbes (as editor of various small presses) and contributing authors will provide an opportunity to contextualise, and provide deeper insight into this crucial period of Australian poetry.

2 UQ architecture students UQ Library Fast Facts reignite Robin Gibson’s

Over 3.6 million visitors collection entered our libraries

1.25 million ebook titles and more than 1 million print book titles

142 000 online journals and 39 000 print journals

more than 750 online databases

Dr Janina Gosseye using the FW Robinson Reading Room to look at architectural plans with the 9.45 million journal article and Master of Architecture students. 6.87 million ebook chapter downloads

UQ Master of Architecture students were able ‘As some of these unrealised projects to delve into the collection of the prominent were still in the early phases of the design, Queensland architect Robin Gibson. creating a truthful 3D model of these projects was quite a challenge and required The family of the late Robin Gibson have 276 930 print book loans informed interpretation from the student. It generously donated his collection of necessitated the student to fully understand architectural plans, drawings and Gibson’s design approach,’ she said. correspondence to the Fryer Library. As part of their research selective, the course A further benefit of the collection being 24/7 asked students to create an exhibition on the housed in the Fryer Library is that it life and work of Robin Gibson using public allows the information to be preserved, 54% of our study spaces at St Lucia collections and his private collection that has catalogued and accessed by a wide are open 24/7 been donated to the Fryer Library. The course range of researchers. was coordinated by Dr Deborah van der Plaat, Dr Janina Gosseye and Adjunct Professor Don ‘So far, no comprehensive study has been Watson. done on the work of Robin Gibson so it is of the utmost importance to preserve ‘It was a rewarding experience for the students his collection, not only for Brisbane’s to search through the collection. They would 71 266 pages scanned and preserved architectural community, but for all by our digitisation team come across little ‘treasures’ in the collection, Queenslanders,’ Dr Gosseye said. either buildings that they didn’t know that Gibson had designed, or a beautiful drawing ‘Gibson had a great impact not only on the state’s architectural landscape, but also on or sketch that has been buried in the archive To support the library and be its cultural landscape. The Gibson records at for decades,’ Dr Gosseye said. involved please contact: Fryer thus document part of Queensland’s ‘Some students really succeeded in cultural history.’ ERIN PEARL bringing the archive to life. One student, UQ Library View the Utopia video created by Master of Advancement Manager for instance made a digital model of Architecture student Jonathan Chew ‘Gibson’s Utopia’; it included three www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwJPzuaeusk +61 (7) 336 53483 projects that Gibson designed, which 041 732 5312 were never realised. [email protected] www.library.uq.edu.au

3 The Library opens digital doors

Technology in our Centre for Digital Scholarship is allowing researchers from across the world to look at 3D scans of objects in our Father Edward Leo Hayes Collection, preserve and share photographs from sculptor Daphne Mayo’s collection, and create 3D models of fossils. UQ graduate Nick Wiggins knows first-hand the benefit of having access to advanced software not available on regular University computers. To complement his Honours Thesis in palaeontology he created a 3D model of a fossil wombat skull. This meant that when he had to do further analysis he didn’t need to travel back to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs in Winton where the fossil is housed. He took several 2D photographs of the skull from different angles and then used photogrammetry software to stitch together a 3D model that he used for his presentation. This allowed him to show the school a realistic model of the wombat skull. Nick Wiggins taking photographs of a wombat fossil to create a 3D model. Nick now works for our Centre for Digital Scholarship as one of our experts that provide support to students who are using the space. Information Systems (GIS) software to extract staff available daily to assist clients with using ‘An advantage of students having access to a spatial elements in historical data. It provides the software, Bookeye scanner, and the 3D wide range of new technologies is getting them a much more interesting way of analysing and printer. to approach problems in ways they haven’t then displaying history.’ done previously. It opens people’s minds to The Centre is located on Level 5 of the Duhig new ideas and encourages creativity,’ Nick said. The Centre for Digital Scholarship opened in Tower (Building 2) at St Lucia. To find out more, 2016 and is dedicated to ensuring that students contact Mr Bill Beach, Manager of the Centre ‘An example of this is sports historians in the and researchers have access to the equipment, for Digital Scholarship, email b.beach@library. School of Human Movement and Nutrition software and training they need to master new uq.edu.au or phone +61 (7) 334 64323. Sciences who are now using Geographical digital technologies. The Centre has trained

Cecil Hadgraft, Fryer Library History of the Cecil Hadgraft University of Queensland Photograph Collection, Memorial Fund remembered UQFL466, Box 8, AG/P/113

Cecil Hadgraft had a 55-year association with UQ as a student and lecturer. He was a Reader in the English Department and a prominent critic and historian of Australian literature. He passed away in 1987. To honour his legacy and celebrate his contribution to Australian literature, a group of passionate staff and alumni formed a committee to raise funds to create the Cecil Hadgraft Memorial Fund. The purpose of the Fund was to expand the collection of 19th- and 20th-century Australian literature in the Fryer Library. Donations came in from all over , as well as from the United Kingdom, America, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, India and Algeria, with many supporters including letters that spoke of their fond memories of Cecil. One student recalled Cecil’s endearing habit of keeping a stash of chocolate biscuits in his desk which he would offer to students who had dropped in for consultation or advice. The committee received 262 individual donations and raised over $13 500. At the launch of the Cecil Hadgraft Appeal, Miss Helen Murray (Alumni The funds are endowed, generating income that the Fryer Library uses to Officer), Dr Chris Tiffin (English Department), Mr Henry Bartlett (UTAH purchase items to add to the Cecil Hadgraft Memorial Collection. Foundation) and Professor Peter Edwards (Pro-Vice Chancellor Humanities). Photograph courtesy of University of Queensland Archives.

4 Architecture Librarian MsCathy Bauer. The collection isbeingdeveloped by research fellow DrCathy Keys, Professor Paul Memmott and environment isfor them. one oftheissues ishow friendlythe receive enoughmedicalservices and people are suffering asthey donot visit hospitalsandclinics.Indigenous access for Indigenouspeoplewhenthey ‘Our project isconcerned withequitable Memmott said. standards for disabledpeople,’ Professor lobbying for improvements inbuilding for people. Inthe1970s, hewas politically vanguard ofmakingbuildingsaccessible architecture andDrWarmington was at the ‘We are interested inissues ofequity in fighting for equity inarchitecture. said DrWarmington dedicated hiscareer to Research Centre (AERC), Professor Memmott Director oftheAboriginalEnvironments for Indigenoususers. architectural design ofhospitalsandclinics by Professor Paul Memmott to improve the an Australian Research Council project led well-being architecture, whichwillsupport build theLibrary collections inhealth and The Warmington Bequest willbeusedto with adisability. buildings for allAustralians, especiallypeople to improving theaccessibility andlivability of after anaccident in1966,dedicated hislife Dr Warmington, whobecameaparaplegic equitable architecture. continue hislife’s work offighting for architect DrRodney Warmington will The generous bequest leftby respected equitable architecture continues thefight for Warmington Bequest conversation. Pearl on+61 (7)33653483 for aconfidential the Library Advancement ManagerMsErin memorial giftinyour willpleasecontact If you too would like to leave abequest or students andresearchers at UQwithhisgift. for thewonderful impact hehasmadefor the The Library isgrateful to thelate DrWarmington course. projects they willcomplete throughout their resources to supportthedesignandresearch Master ofArchitecture students willusethenew facilities,’ hesaid. type buildings,courts, hospitalsandagedcare and create equitableaccess to institutional for hospitalsandclinics.This willflow through hoping to set new standards for thedesign ‘Our research willaddress thisandwe are complete collection thanks to hisgenerosity. Library appreciated thisideaandwe now have a Prize winningnovels. The in ourcollection ofPulitzer towards fillingany gaps idea to putthefunds Townsville, hadthe in primaryschool taught DrWarmington Mrs Violet Kuskie, who Library supporter winning novels. collection ofPulitzer Prize gifted to theLibrary his Dr Rodney Warmington also Library supporter Bright ideafrom The El-Masristory of Third States, International Awarded for hersuccessful implementation Adjudication and Enforced Disappearances Topic: Findingaccountability incomplicity:

AWARD WINNERSmarket inAustralia andthelong-running 2016 Australian Journalduringtheeditorship His Fellowship explored theshortstory of Ronald Campbellfrom 1926 to 1955. of anew Library services platform. UQ SchoolofBusiness (Tourism) the Husbandryof theGreater Bilby Topic: Ipswich Nature Centre and School ofVeterinary Science LIBRARY EXCELLENCE Topic: Tourism Queensland, BURSARY RECIPIENT AWARD RECIPIENTS MARGARET WAUGH TC BeirneSchoolofLaw MS STACEY VAN GROLL under International Law DR ROGEROSBORNE FRYER FELLOW MS SARAH DUNCAN MR MATTHEW TSAI Great Expectations MS YAO FANG 5 Thank-you Aleksandar Jankovic Library in their wills: Hidehiro Hosaka Lingyu Xie in memory of Emeritus Ross Johnston Dan Baker Eli Housden Professor Max Howell AO for valuing the Joan Keating Jeanette Knox Lydia Hugrass work we do. Judith Kennett Violet Kuskie Philip Jackson Organisations Eric Marson Tempe Keune and Peter James Alumni Friends of The University of The University of Robert Sneil Anonymous (3) Joan Keating Queensland Inc. Queensland Library Janice Kluck Ruth S Kerr (including Australia International Council on gratefully acknowledges Kenneth Knight AM and GIFTS IN KIND the late John Douglas Monuments and Sites its donors who generously June Knight Kerr historical Brit Andresen Conrad Gargett Riddel Ancher donated between 1 January Monika Krishna database) Mortlock Woolley Stewart Armstrong 2016 and 31 May 2017. Garry Kuhn Lynn Krisanki Department of Environment and Violet Kuskie Graham Baines Derek Lamb Heritage Protection Your support has allowed Neil Latcham Amelia Barkin Gary and Wendy Engineering Heritage Queensland us to grow and preserve Hilda Maclean Kit Barker Lambrides Foundation for Australian Literary our collections and bring Daniel Maguire Bill Beach Kay Leaf-Milham Studies much needed Library Mary Mahoney AO and Hilary Beaton Stephen Lynch AC and Half Dozen Group of Artists resources and services to Patrick Mahoney Felicity Berends Genni Lynch Land Court of Queensland our community. Francis Martin John Beston Peter Lyssiotis National Trust of Australia Mary Rose McCarthy John Birmingham and Penelope Mainstone (Queensland) DONORS Robyn McComas Magers Jane Lye Charles Manning Office of the Vice-Chancellor Maureen Aitken The Late Lorna McDonald Andrew Blythe Margaret Maynard Queensland Theatre Co Desmond and Kerry Allen OAM Roberta Bonnin David Mayocchi Queensland University Musical Alaa Alsadadi Colin McLeay Tony Booth Anne McCosker Society Eric Anderson Ian McLeod Kate Broadhurst Danny McFadden Supreme Court Library Dan Baker Cathryn Mittelheuser AM Joan Burton-Jones John McKenna QC The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum Brendan Barker and The Late Margaret Sally Butler John McNair Mittelheuser AM The University of Queensland Art Darren Barlow Peter and Marian Cahill Daniel Meek Rowland Noakes Museum Cherie Basile Ian Callinan AC QC and Andrew Miller Elizabeth Nunn Wendy Callinan University of Queensland Pauline Beames Kaye Mobsby Ruth O’Hanlon Mark Carkeet Bushwalking Club Collection Natassja Bertram Rob Morris Victoria O’Meara Rebecca Carter University of Queensland Cricket Alan Brady Judith Morrison Hwee Ong David Chapman Club Sheena Brockman Peter Myers AM Gabrielle O’Shea Neill Colledge University of Queensland Law Susan Buckley Carolyn and Peter Alumni Association and Thomson Adrian Pagan AO The Late Betty Crouchley Nolan Helen Callaghan Reuters Erin Pearl Kelly Dann Roger Osborne Ian Callinan AC QC and University of Queensland Press Wendy Callinan Noelene Pettett Christine Dauber Warwick Outram Robyn Collins Bob Reece Bruce Dawe John Pearn AO RFD SPONSORSHIP Thomas Cribb and Sylvie Cecily Roderick Janet De Boer OAM Stephanie Philip Pichelin John Ronalds Graham de Gruchy Christine Pidgeon Aldis Sources Pty Ltd Suzanne Curran Spencer Routh OAM Susanna de Vries AM Lloyd Pitcher Amazing People Library Amber-Jayne Daniels Sudarshan and Eric Delpont Nicholas Pounder Austlit Vincent Davis Surinder Saini Peter Denholm John Quantrill Cambridge University Press Graham de Gruchy Bob Schubert Valerie Dennis Michael Richards Cengage Learning Australia Pty Ltd Iris Dean Mary Seefried Samuel Dettmann Jonathan Richards Concord Infiniti Marion Dowling Maree Shay Peter Douglas Jacquie and Larry Copyright Agency Anthony and Ann Emmett J So Nick Earls Robinson EBSCO Australia Audrey Fielding and The Eric Sticklen Simon Farley Spencer Routh OAM Echo Education Services Late Derek Fielding Andrew Sugden Nicholas Fisk Marcus Schmidt Encyclopaedia Britannica Trevor Findlay Chris Tiffin Juliet Flesch Roger Scott Australia Ltd James Fitzpatrick AM Robert Turner Richard Fotheringham Thomas Shapcott AO Infobase Learning Australia Brian Foote Russell Turner Maurice French AM Colin O’Connor Ipswich City Council Robert and Janice Fortier Noel Wallis John Froggatt Belinda Spinaze Keith Harris Alex Foxton Don Watson and Judith Angela Geertsma Justin Thomas Oxford University Press – Australia and NZ David Freeman McKay Family of Robin Gibson Harry Throssell Pledger Conculting Pty Ltd Magdy Gado Richard Whittington OAM Miguel Gonzales Clem Tisdell ProQuest Information and Learning Marie-Claire Gazzard Margaret Wilson QC Hans Gottlieb in memory Ted Tow in memory of Sage Publications Asia-Pacific Carol Gerrard Kenneth Wiltshire AO of Anny and Leon his father Dr P.G. Tow and Gail Wiltshire Gottlieb Richard and Vicky von Pty Ltd The Late Gerald and Turnitin Australia Pty Ltd The Late J Gillis Daniel and Edna Winkel Jane Griely Witt in memory of Anonymous (43) Anne Griffin Dr William Stephen Stephanie Golding von Witt Dilwyn Griffiths Thank-you for your support! Lee Gregory David Wadley Organisations Jo Grimmond For further information or to Peter and Ros Gresshoff Sam Walpole Pedro Guedes advise of an error or omission Peter and Svyetlana Hadgraft Board of Architects of Rita Ward OAM Sally Hall please contact Erin Pearl by Sally Hall Queensland Don Watson Sydney Hall telephone +61 (7) 3365 3483 or Margaret Hammer and Taylor and Francis Group Lilla Watson Richard Clegg Amanda Hamilton email [email protected] Michael White OAM QC Anthony Hassall Ian Hanger UQ Bequest Society Gillian Whitlock Patricia Hembrow Jennifer Harrison Olivia Williamson Glen Ingram The following alumni and Norman and Kerry Jacinda Wilson Gregory Ivey friends have indicated their Heckenberg Jena Woodhouse Patricia Jackson intention to remember The Laurence Hergenhan AO University of Queensland Barrie Jamieson CRICOS Provider No 00025B (106733 June 17)

6 Connect students with our rare and unique collections

Help us create a dedicated teaching space within the Fryer Library to allow for greater access to our special collections for students across all disciplines of the University and our wider community.

Artist, Jane Grealy’s sketch of the proposed Thank you! Fryer Library Collection Teaching Space.

R Yes, I wish to support the UQ Library.

GIFT DETAILS I wish to make a: n One-off gift n Monthly gift n $1000 n $500 n $100 n $50 n Other $______Please direct my support to: n Fryer Library Collection Teaching Space n Library Digitisation n Library Research Collection n Cecil Hadgraft Memorial Fund n Other______

PAYMENT DETAILS n Cheque or money order payable to ‘The University of Queensland’ n MasterCard n Visa n Amex n Diners Card No Expiry Date___ /___

Cardholder Name*______Cardholder Signature______* Receipt will be issued in this name

PERSONAL DETAILS

First Name______Surname______Phone ______n Mob n Bus n Home Email______Address______

______Gifts to The University of Queensland of $2.00+ are tax-deductible in Australia. n Please do not publicly acknowledge this gift n I would like to discuss including a gift to the UQ Library in my will n I would like to discuss a donation of a rare or culturally significant item UQ respects your privacy. Please visit www.uq.edu.au/privacy for further information.

Please detach this form and return to: You can also donate online: UQ Advancement, The University of Queensland, www.uq.edu.au/giving/donations

Brisbane Qld 4072 or phone (07) 3346 3900 CRICOS Provider No 00025B (106733 June 17) UQLB1707