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The Australian Library Journal the Australian Library Journal Is the Flagship Publication Volume 58 No The Australian Library Journal The Australian Library Journal is the flagship publication Volume 58 No. 2 May 2009 of the Australian Library and Information Association. It supports the Association’s Objects by documenting progress in research and professional practice and stimulates discussion on issues relevant to libraries and librarianship. The Australian Library Journal Australian Library and Information Association Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association PO Box 6335 Kingston ACT 2604 Australia http://www.alia.org.au/ ISSN 0004-9670 Vanishing collections: special issue on cultural heritage Movable heritage in libraries: an introduction to heritage and what it means for managing library collections Meg Quinlisk An audible voice of the past: the rare printed collections of the State Library of New South Wales Maggie Patton Collecting against the tide: building a new collection of rare books in the digital age Megan Martin An enduring presence: special collections of the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide Cheryl Hoskin Heritage book collections in Australian libraries: what are they, where are they and why should we care? May 2009 Matthew Stephens Guest editor: Matthew Stephens Australian Library Journal Volume 58 No. 2 May 2009 Contents 127 Editorial Vanishing collections: special issue on cultural heritage 129 Guest editorial 131 Movable heritage in libraries: an introduction to heritage and what it means for managing library collections Meg Quinlisk 138 An audible voice of the past: the rare printed collections of the State Library of New South Wales Maggie Patton 147 Collecting against the tide: building a new collection of rare books in the digital age Megan Martin 160 An enduring presence: special collections of the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide Cheryl Hoskin 173 Heritage book collections in Australian libraries: what are they, where are they and why should we care? Matthew Stephens 190 Book reviews 228 Guidelines for authors The Australian Library Journal May 2009 The Australian Library Journal Editor Ian McCallum, FALIA PO Box 4057 Ainslie ACT 2602 Australia Phone +61 2 6257 9177 [email protected] Editorial adviser Sherrey Quinn, FALIA Book reviews editor Professor G E Gorman, FCLIP, FRSA, AALIA School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington 6140 New Zealand [email protected] Editorial Board Dr Marianne Broadbent, Dr David Jones, Dr Neil Radford, Ian McCallum The Australian Library Journal is published quarterly by the Australian Library and Information Association Ltd ACN 090 953 236 PO Box 6335 Kingston ACT 2604 Australia Phone +61 2 6215 8222 Fax +61 2 6282 2249 [email protected] http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/alj/ ISSN 0004-9670 Set in Swiss 721 BT 9.5/14.25, original design by Brian Sadgrove. Typeset by Spectrum Graphics, printed by CanPrint Communications Pty Ltd. Subscriptions: Current prices are available at http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/subscriptions.html Enquiries and claims: Please contact [email protected] Advertising: Please contact ALIA, +61 2 6215 8231 The Australian Library Journal is indexed in Australian Education Index, Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), ERIC: Education Resources Information Center, Library Literature and Information Science, LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts, and Social Sciences Citation Index. The Australian Library and Information Association reserves the right to reproduce in any form material which appears in The Australian Library Journal. Microfilm edition available from National Archive Publishing Company PO Box 998, 300 N Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor MI 48106-0998 USA Phone 0015 1 800 420 6272 or 0015 1 734 302 3500; http://www.napubco.com © Copyright in The Australian Library Journal is owned by the Australian Library and Information Association Ltd 2009 and vested in each of the authors in respect of his or her contributions 2009. 126 The Australian Library Journal May 2009 Editorial If you were the editor of a professional journal you would want authors to want to submit papers and be published in your publication. You would also want your journal to be attractively designed, with a physical appearance inviting readers to come inside to enjoy interesting articles across the range of interests of Australian librarians. And you would want your readers to feel pride in belonging to a profession which produced such a reputable publication. We’re nearly there. The re-design began in 2007, and thanks to some generous assistance from one of Australia’s foremost designers (www.sadgrove.com), our journal’s ‘look’ has been refined issue by issue into the elegant object you are holding right now. The only change we now make is to the colour of the ALIA star on the front cover. Red becomes black when we carry an obituary. We have also been working on ALJ’s academic credentials. On the second page of each issue you will find a list of the indexing and abstracting services that make the work of our authors more widely accessible. You may have noticed that ERIC: Education Resources Information Center was recently added to the list. Ulrich’s periodicals directory already includes ALJ in its list of refereed titles. But until recently a major accolade had eluded us. No longer. Following almost two years’ of submission and discussion with Thomson Reuters we received the response we so keenly sought: beginning in calendar 2009 ALJ will be indexed in Social Sciences Citation Index. All this must be working. In the January 2009 survey (www.alia.org.au/ membersurvey2008/) of personal members ALJ ranked ninth in the 10 ‘highest importance variables’ and eighth in the 10 ‘highest performance variables’. Institutional members – easily the largest category of subscribers – ranked ALJ tenth for importance and sixth for performance. According to the survey methodology the close correlation found between importance and performance indicates no ‘areas of frustration or dissatisfaction for clients [which] represent potential improvement opportunities’. In other words, ALJ appears to be doing its job. Now to give it some new jobs. ALJ has always been our journal of record, publishing comprehensively refereed papers written by eminent members of our tribe and charting our voyages and landfalls on the seas of librarianship, and it will continue to do this. But in your editor’s view, now that we have ‘arrived’ (as it were), it is time to encourage The Australian Library Journal May 2009 127 Editorial articles from new authors on new topics reflecting the theory and practice of contemporary librarianship. There will be no changes in standards of scholarship (although more editing may be needed), but there will be a renewed intention to showcase the vitality possible when building from such solid foundations. Radical as it might seem, this special issue considers books; specifically, the formation, status and fate of our heritage collections. Arising from a chance conversation with Matthew Stephens at the Australian Library History Forum held at the State Library of NSW in September 2007 (ALJ, Vol. 56, Nos. 3 and 4 November 2007), this issue is devoted to our ‘vanishing collections’. Matthew has recruited a knowledgeable and enthusiastic group of authors; he introduces the subject and contributes one of the papers. Ian McCallum Editor May 2009 128 The Australian Library Journal May 2009 Guest editorial: vanishing collections Early nineteenth century Australian newspapers are littered with advertisements for missing books. Novels, histories, biographies, works of science and religion, all vanished faster than these valuable commodities could be shipped to the colony. Burglars, forgetful friends and lazy library patrons were publicly accused in the classifieds of ‘injuring the cause of literature’. In the fate of books there are winners and losers and often our publicly-owned libraries have come out on top. Our library collections are constantly mutating, reforming and articulating changes in community tastes, and the older these collections become the more stories they have to tell. Anyone who has been privileged to physically share rare book material with library visitors in a reading room or public program knows well the excitement that can be generated from the youngest child to those almost as old as the books themselves. And how often have I heard a researcher proclaim that they must be the only person in the world interested in the subject matter of the ‘old book’ before them? I don’t have the heart to tell them that there have been others or that there is an army of ‘niche subject’ researchers accessing material few librarians would have thought of interest to anyone only a few years ago. It seems that the facility to access information in the Google world has enabled users to explore like never before what was once considered esoteric and obscure. Often this leads to the less stereotypical researcher, sometimes quite reluctantly, seeking out library material in rare book and special collections which have not been digitised and require physical interaction. It is a paradox that information seekers are increasingly expecting to access material electronically and yet many also expect libraries to be custodians of the physical artefacts of Australia’s cultural heritage. Assuming this trend will continue, libraries face the challenge of providing increased electronic access while ensuring physical heritage collections are maintained. This tension is exacerbated by a combination of rapid technological change and limited resources and raises questions about how integrated the library profession’s approach is to these competing demands. Strategies relating to a combined approach have been articulated by such groups as the US Association of Research Libraries, whose latest report, The Australian Library Journal May 2009 129 Guest editorial Special Collections in ARL Libraries1, discusses issues relating to collecting and accessing pre-21st century formats along with managing born-digital collections.
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