Annual Report 2003 Library Council of New South Wales
Front cover design Southern Cross Sculpture
Inspired by a wood engraving of the earliest description of the stars of the Southern Cross from the rare Lettera di Andrea Corsali, printed in Florence in 1516, designer Jon Hawley created this sculpture for the Mitchell Vestibule. The work fills a space created more than 70 years ago for an artwork that would complement the fine architectural features of the building and refer to the records of our history and culture housed in the Library. Dr Bruce Reid, AM, collector, bibliophile and Life Benefactor of the State Library of NSW Foundation, funded the work.
< Details from the installation of the sculpture Our vision Our history and legislation
Libraries for life – your place, your time The State Library of NSW is one of the oldest libraries in Australia, with a history tracing Our values back to the establishment of the Australian Subscription Library in 1826. Respect for knowledge In 1869 the NSW Government took Commitment to learning responsibility for the Library, forming the Integrity and efficiency of service Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library service for the people of NSW. In 1895 Our mission the name was altered to the Public Library of To promote, provide and maintain library and New South Wales. information services for the people The historic Mitchell Wing opened to the public of New South Wales through the State Library in 1910 after David Scott Mitchell bequeathed and through cooperation with his large private collection. Today the Mitchell local libraries and other libraries and Wing is linked below ground and by a glass information agencies. atrium to the contemporary Macquarie Street Wing, opened in 1988. The Library Council of New South Wales is the governing body of the State Library. The objectives of the Library Council, as defined in section 4A of theLibrary Act 1939 (as amended in 1975) are to: ● promote, provide and maintain library and information services for the people of New South Wales through the State Library and through cooperation with local libraries and information agencies ● advise the Minister, local authorities and, when the Minister so approves, other bodies, on matters of policy and administration relating to library services and information services that are or may be provided through local libraries and other libraries, and ● advise the Minister on the provision of assistance to local libraries or other libraries. Contents
ii Letter of submission iii From the State Librarian Letter of submission iv Corporate objectives to 2005 and 2002/2003 results vi Highlights from 2002/03 vii Organisational structure viii Library Council of New South Wales ix President’s overview October 2003
The Hon. Bob Carr MP 1 Achievements in 2002/03 Premier, Minister for the Arts, NSW community and Minister for Citizenship 1 Parliament House 12 NSW public library network Macquarie Street 16 NSW Government Sydney NSW 2000 24 State Library partners and advocates
Dear Premier, 31 Additions to the collection We take pleasure, in accordance with the Library Act 1939, 31 Deposits and donations in submitting the Annual Report and Financial Statements of 33 Major purchases the Library Council of New South Wales for the year ending 36 Additions to the collection 30 June 2003 for presentation to Parliament. These documents have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Annual Report (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, 39 Public Library grants and subsidies and the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983, as amended. 39 Allocation of Public Library grant funds 2002/03 Submitted on behalf of the Library Council of New South Wales. 40 Library development grants 2002/03 Yours sincerely, 42 Public library subsidies, grants and expenditure
47 Council, staff and friends The Hon. Mahla L Pearlman AM Members of the Library Council President, Library Council of New South Wales 47 48 Standing committees of the Library Council 50 Committees of the State Library of New South Wales 52 Representation on external committees Dagmar Schmidmaier 54 Staff publications, presentations and papers State Librarian & Chief Executive Foundation members and custodians, and donors in 2002/03 Secretary, Library Council of New South Wales 56 65 State Library volunteers
67 Publications and information available 67 Publications 2002/03 68 Freedom of information statement of affairs and statistics 69 Privacy annual report 70 Index
Financial statements (separate insert held within back pocket) inside back cover Acknowledgments back cover Contact information
ii From the State Librarian
This year saw further progress in upgrading the service model has Library’s facilities and infrastructure. The Library is involved staff across the in year 3 of a 5-year program funded by the State Library and I would like Government to refurbish the historic Mitchell to thank everyone Library of the State Library of New South Wales. involved, particularly the Executive for their The well-loved Mitchell Library vestibule is near commitment and completion with the installation of a stunning glass leadership. sculpture. The genesis of the sculpture concept goes back to the 1930s, when the Mitchell Library The staff and management of the Library have again extensions were being planned. managed the Library’s resources efficiently to ensure that all financial and legislative requirements The sculpture has as its inspiration the rare were met and I would like to thank all staff for their 1516 publication, Lettera di Andrea Corsali, which commitment to this task. contains the earliest depiction of the stars of the Southern Cross. Generous funding for the sculpture The relationship with public libraries in New South was provided by a private benefactor and Wales has continued to prosper with greater bibliophile, Dr Bruce Reid, AM. The concept was involvement of public library stakeholders, developed by Jon Hawley. specifically the Country Public Libraries Association, Metropolitan Public Libraries The new vestibule display case opposite the Association and LGov, in the work of the Public sculpture was made possible through the generosity Libraries Consultative Committee. of Library supporters Dr Alex Robertson, Ms Dorothy Peake and Mrs Zeny Edwards. I would like to thank Justice David Levine and members of the Friends Committee for their The words ‘The Mitchell Library’ were inscribed ongoing enthusiasm and support, as well as our over the sandstone entrance to the Mitchell Library wonderful team of Volunteers. through the kind support of Mr E. J. Merewether. To the many supporters of the State Library of New An update of the Library’s Space Utilisation Plan South Wales Foundation who have given was begun, with a particular focus on planning for generously throughout the year, a heartfelt thank the Library’s long-term offsite book storage capacity you. The opening of the Nelson Meers Foundation and the development of a facilities master plan. Heritage Collection has allowed us to display the Work to meet occupational health and safety wonderful treasures held by the Library in both the requirements, including the refurbishment of three real and virtual dimensions. lifts and a much needed replacement of the air- conditioning system in the heritage Mitchell Wing, I would like to extend my personal thanks to retiring was completed. For the first time since the members of Council Dr Veronica Lunn, Professor completion of the original building in 1910, a Wendy Brady and Ms Jennifer Lindsay. To the new complete review and refurbishment of the twenty members of Council, I extend a very warm Mitchell Library roofs has been completed. I would welcome and to continuing members, my gratitude like to acknowledge the leadership role of Jim for their wisdom and encouragement. Sinclair, Facilities Manager, in managing this work and also commend his staff. The Library Council signed off on the Library’s Corporate Plan 2003/05. In order to facilitate the implementation of the key strategic directions the Library embarked on a service improvement program to develop a new model for service delivery, encompassing the challenges and Dagmar Schmidmaier dynamics of the e-environment. Work on the State Librarian & Chief Executive
iii Corporate objectives to 2005 and 2002/03 results
NSW community
1. Outcome Results
Increased access to ● 76% of clients are ‘extremely satisfied’ /‘very satisfied’ with the Information Request Service information for clients ● 92% of participants in the Nestlé Write Around Australia creative writing workshops rated the overall quality as ‘excellent’ / ‘very good’ ● 70% of visitors rated exhibitions ‘excellent’ / ‘very good’ ● 125% increase in requests for website pages
Objectives
1.1 Simplify and streamline Responses within agreed timeframe services to improve client Items retrieved from stack 89% access to information Information inquiries 99% Interlibrary loans completed 97% Documents supplied 99%
1.2 Develop an integrated Significant heritage and current resources in electronic form information service, Pages and pictorial images digitised 15 763 real and virtual Web publications preserved 421 Live links to e-resources in WEBCAT 20 235 Full text electronic journal titles held 4 953
1.3 Ensure staff have the Staff hours in formal learning activities 6 744 skills to meet our strategic priorities
1.4 Extend the reach Number of uses of the collection (onsite and offsite) of the collection Inquiries responded to 3 539 204 Uses of collection items 2 174 922 Exhibition visits 153 177 Public program participants 37 825 Requests for State Library website pages 16 490 166 Number of citations of the collection Applications for reproduction of State Library material 601 Collection items approved for reproduction 1 938
NSW public library network
2. Outcome Results
A stronger identity and State Library and public library satisfaction with the network relationship increased effectiveness of the The Public Libraries Consultative Committee developed new strategic plan NSW public library network Wollondilly Library Service, Macquarie Regional Library and Marrickville Library Service awarded Law and Justice Foundation of NSW Centre of Excellence Awards for legal information services to the community
Objectives
2.1 Maintain and support an Shared service delivery enhanced across NSW integrated network to NSW.net continues to expand access to online content through new databases for public libraries deliver shared services State Library, through Rural Link, connects 68 sites in 29 small NSW towns to fast and across NSW affordable Internet access
2.2 Support the legislative Review of the Library Act completed environment in which Library Council completed its submission to the review of the Library Act 1939 and forwarded NSW public libraries and recommendations to the Ministry for the Arts. the State Library operate
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3. Outcome Results
Effective and efficient library Net cost of services and information services Net cost of services lower than budgeted
Build and maintain the NSW The State Library’s collection is valued at $1.5 billion library of record
Objectives
3.1 Continuously improve the IT projects achieve time or cost savings targets management of our implementation of infrastructure for digitisation, including storage and backup resources Oracle to INNOPAC interface to link the Library’s main database with the financial system Occupational Health and Safety requirements are met dedicated OHS position created OHS Risk Assessment is first step towards ongoing OHS improvements Variance from budget Returned an actual neutral result
3.2 Increase control of Electronic records created for our collection at each Heritage (Mitchell) collection material 605 870 stage of the information Current (all other) collection material 817 989 life cycle
3.3 Improve our Targets in the HR Plan are met working environment code of conduct revised and reissued to staff pilot mentoring program implemented by the Spokeswomen’s Program new EEO Plan for 2003/04 completed
3.4 Use information and the Staff participate in cross divisional project teams 319 knowledge of staff for the benefit of the Library
State Library partners and advocates
4. Outcome Results
Mutually satisfactory Satisfaction of partners and advocates partnerships and ‘There have been two particular highlights in the Nelson Meers Foundation’s partnership with the Library relationships which in the Heritage Collection – firstly, being able to share in the Library’s passionate commitment to recognise contributions and ensuring that Australia’s cultural heritage is preserved and accessible to present and future Australians; and secondly, witnessing the consummate skill of all of its staff in bringing the impossible dream of the shared values Heritage Collection to life.’ Samantha Meers, Executive Director, Nelson Meers Foundation ‘Special thanks must go to the staff of the State Library of New South Wales, without whose hard work and dedication this important program could not exist’ Rob Murray, Managing Director, Nestlé Australia
Objectives
4.1 Implement collaborative Ventures meet agreed targets ventures and services ● a record 36 600 primary school students entered the Nestlé Write Around Australia creative writing program ● page requests for information on drugs from the Di@YLL website increased by more than 800% ● the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection displays Library treasures.
4.2 Strengthen personal Retained Foundation memberships affiliations Foundation membership shows a net increase of 43% from 2001/02
v Highlights from 2002/03
NSW community NSW Government 15 763 high-quality digital images were created Net cost of services lower than budgeted. The Mitchell Bequest Project creates online Online page requests totalled 16.5 million access to items from David Scott Mitchell’s original The Library handled three million inquiries bequest. this year Preservation treatments completed for 25 920 items 2000 new records were added to INFOKOORI, the Library’s online index to the Koori Mail State Library partners and advocates The Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage A record 36 600 primary school students entered Collection, showcasing a changing display of rare, the Nestlé Write Around Australia creative famous and significant items from the Library’s writing program collections, was launched and applauded 170 Volunteers contributed 12 019 hours of their More than 110 000 people visited State Library time in support of the State Library exhibitions, a further 45 000 visiting travelling shows around Australia Ask Now, a national collaborative online information service, was piloted with the National NSW public library network Library and other State libraries More than $3 million was allocated to 61 library State Library of NSW Foundation supports the development projects Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection $8.5 million in additional funding was made and the digitisation of iconic resources available for public libraries over the next four years
NSW.net receives ongoing funding to continue online services throughout NSW
Allocation of recurrent resources to programs Sources of income
34% Public library services — 43% NSW Government — including public library grants recurrent allocation and subsidies
28% Collection management
31% NSW Government — Public libraries grants and subsidies allocation
18% Library & services
15% NSW Government — 8% Education & client liaison capital allocation
7% Strategy & CIO 4% Grants, donations and contributions 4% Commercial revenue 5% Resource Management 3% Investment income
vi Organisational structure
Library Council of New South Wales
Ministry for the Arts State Librarian & Chief Executive
Mitchell Librarian Library & Information Strategy Division Education & Client Resource & Collection Services Division & Chief Information Liaison Division Management Division Management Division Officer
● Original Materials ● Reading Room Services ● Network Services ● Education & Training ● Finance ● Collection Services ● Specialist Services (including ILANET) ● Community Programs ● Human Resources ● ● ● Preservation (legal, health, disability IT Support Events & Exhibitions ● Facilities ● Digital Library access services) ● IT Infrastructure ● Merchandising ● Imaging Services ● Document Delivery ● Enterprise Information ● Publications & Design Service ● Policy & Research ● Special Projects ● NSW.net ● Web Development ● Media Unit ● Public Libraries Branch ● Building & Planning Advisory Service ● Multicultural Service
Reporting directly to the State Librarian: State Library of New South Wales Foundation, Friends of the State Library, Glasshouse Cafe/ Cafe Trim/Functions/Venue Hire Contract Management, Director, Organisational Review (from November 2002)
State Library of New South Wales Executive Members From left: Dagmar Schmidmaier, Paul McKinnon, Elizabeth Ellis, Therese Lake, Colin Bradley, Wilma Norris, Bronwyn Coop, Jennifer Peasley, John Lechner, Chris Williams, Ray Wing-Lun, Graham Williams
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The Hon. Justice Mahla Dr John Barclay Pearlman BA, DipEd, DipLib, MEd, PhD, AM, BA, LLB (Hons) GradDipEmpRel President Director, Personnel Relations, Australian Catholic University
Ms Belinda Hutchinson Mr Robert Purves BEc, FCA BCom Deputy President Chairman, DCA Group Consultant, Limited/President, Macquarie Bank Ltd WWF (Australia) Limited
Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier Mr Paul A. Murnane BA, DipLib, MLib, BEc, MBA Hon DLitt, FALIA Executive Director, State Librarian & Chief JBWere Limited Executive and Secretary to the Library Council
Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley Mr David Sherbon BA (Hons), PhD BA Econ (Hons) ARC Queen Elizabeth II Executive Chairman, Fellow in Modern History The Synthesis Consulting and Politics, Macquarie Group Pty Ltd University
Mr Wal King Mr Robert Knight AM, BE, MEngSc, Hon DSc, BA Hon FIEAust, CPEng, FAIM, Manager, Recreation FAIB, FTSE and Cultural Services, Chief Executive Officer, Wagga Wagga City Council Leighton Holdings Limited
viii President’s overview
In January 2003 Her Excellency Professor Marie establishment of The Bashir AC, Governor of New South Wales, opened Library Society in 1983. the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection He was the Society’s first exhibition. Over the next 10 years, leading to the Chairman and a well- centenary of the Mitchell Library in 2010, the respected author and Heritage Collection will showcase a changing Sydney literary identity display of some of the rare, famous and most who made extensive use significant items from the Library’s collections. of the Mitchell Library As part of the Library’s commitment to making collections for historical its collections accessible to all, the items and literary research. displayed in the Nelson Meers Foundation Legislative review Heritage Collection can also be viewed at
ix organisational structure to support the Corporate NSW.net provides Internet connections, terminals Plan and commends the State Librarian and the and online services to local government, councils, Executive for their work. libraries and community facilities throughout NSW. Its success has been recognised through the Public library services provision of ongoing State Government funding Library Council is pleased to note the commencing in 2003. Government’s pledge of additional funding for public libraries of $8.5 million over the next Public library projects, submitted by local four years. This funding will enhance services authorities, are awarded Library Development and resources (including electronic) to local Grants through a competitive process. This communities including those in regional and year more than $3 million was allocated to rural NSW. 61 projects. Of these, 14 were awarded for collection improvements, eight supported building The strong relationship between the State Library improvements, six were for improvements to and local authorities continues to ensure the multicultural services and eight focused on ongoing success of the NSW public library services for children and young people. network through the 99 library services across the state. An example of this relationship in the The promotion of public library services for a area of regional and rural service delivery is the culturally diverse community was a priority in development of BHP Billiton NSW Skills.net — 2002. This was achieved by working with the part of the Commonwealth funded Rural Link NSW Multicultural Group to devise cost-effective program. This program provides Internet training promotional material for shared use by public and support through the public library network. libraries at local community events.
Detail from world map, Lisbon, Joseph da Costa e Miranda, 1706, manuscript, handcoloured on vellum, ML 857
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Building restoration and maintenance of the community. The Library enjoys a significant Funds provided by Treasury under the Total Asset relationship with the NSW Attorney General’s Management Plan were expended on priority Department through the joint commitment to projects including improvements to disabled supporting the Legal Information Access Centre access; replacement of the ceiling and flooring (LIAC), a community legal information service in Dixson Gallery 1; upgrading Mitchell Wing air provided throughout NSW via public libraries conditioning and construction works to ensure and the State Library. Library buildings complied with requirements of The Health Information Service (HIS) is provided the Building Code of Australia. The refurbishment in partnership with NSW Health and the NSW of the State Library bookshop was undertaken Nurses’ Association. It offers information on health as part of the Minor Works Program. and wellbeing issues to the NSW community, A refurbishment of existing staff accommodation again through public libraries. in the State Reference Library was completed in The Library is working on a new project with 2002 to allow the co-location of staff responsible NSW State Records to enable seamless public for servicing both the State Reference Library and access across the image databases of both the Mitchell Library reading rooms. institutions. This exciting and innovative The Heritage Stonework Project is part of a five- project will be completed by June 2004. year program undertaken by the Department of Virtual collections Commerce (formerly Public Works & Services) to Through the Library’s digitisation program, 15 763 repair and restore the heritage Mitchell building. high-quality digital images of original letters and This year work on the western side of the building diaries, photographs and paintings have been has been completed, with scaffolding moving to made available via the website this year. This is the north-western corner of the building for the an increase of nearly 8000 images over 2001/02, next phase. bringing the total number of digital images State and national cooperation accessible online to more than 310 000. Digital The State Librarian is the Chair of the Council images are available through catalogue records of Australian State Libraries (CASL), the peak and through websites dedicated to special projects body representing the State and Territory such as the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage libraries throughout Australia. CASL continues Collection and exhibitions. Clients may order to promote joint projects and provides a copies to use in publications, exhibitions and coordinated approach to service development research. The digitisation program helps preserve and management issues as well as strong leadership to the profession. One of the cooperative projects is Ask Now, an innovative ‘chat’-based reference service which was piloted during the year in collaboration with the National Library and other state libraries. Ask Now is similar to an online interactive library visit and is available through state libraries’ websites, extending the reach of their reference services for remote clients. Initial client response has been enthusiastic and CASL is undertaking a formal evaluation of the program to be completed by December 2003. The Library has further developed its relationships Nelson Meers, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC, AO, and the Hon. with other government agencies to meet the needs Justice Mahla Pearlman, AM
xi original heritage items, while making them more including, most recently, the Bradman letters in readily available to remote clients. 2002. She also supported other Library projects such as the major publication, Conrad Martens: This year the State Library’s website was Life and Art, by Elizabeth Ellis in 1994. redesigned to be more user-friendly, easier to Mrs Simpson’s contribution to the Library has been navigate and searchable. More content has been recognised by a display in the foyer of the Mitchell digitised, including all significant new acquisitions. Library Reading Room. Clients have commented favourably on the new website and web traffic has increased significantly. Library Council committees Significant purchases The five committees of Library Council continue to play an important role in enabling Library Council Among the many items of significance acquired to meet its responsibilities. The committees are: during the year was a letter from Captain Arthur the Finance Committee, chaired by Mr David Phillip, first Governor of NSW, to the Marquis of Sherbon from March 2003 and by Ms Belinda Lansdowne, dated 3 July 1788. In the letter Phillip Hutchinson to February 2003; the Public Libraries explains his reasons for preferring Port Jackson Consultative Committee, chaired by Mr Robert over Botany Bay. The letter also provides evidence Knight from March 2003, and by Dr Veronica that NSW was seen as a strategic settlement for Lunn to November 2002; the Grants Committee, trade in the South Pacific as well as a convict chaired by Mr Robert Purves; the Currey and colony. The letter is available at Keesing Fellowships Committee, chaired by
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State Library patrons enjoying the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection delivery of services to the community. leadership and support for the activities of Library The generous support received from a large Council and the public library network. number of individuals and organisations Library Council would also like to congratulate her throughout the year is also gratefully on receiving a Centenary of Federation medal for acknowledged. The dedication and interest of the community service through library services this Friends of the State Library of NSW Committee year, as well as Paul Brunton, Senior Curator, and the Foundation Trustees is also acknowledged Mitchell Library, and Gabrielle Avery, Team and appreciated. Leader, Workplace Development, who also During the year Dr Wendy Brady, Ms Jennifer received awards. A number of Volunteers and Lindsay and Dr Veronica Lunn ended their terms others associated with the Library (including two as members of Library Council and Council would members of Library Council, the Hon. Justice like to acknowledge their contribution, especially Mahla Pearlman, AM and Ms Belinda Hutchinson) Dr Lunn for her significant contribution to the also received this prestigious award, illustrating Public Libraries Consultative Committee. the community esteem the Library enjoys. Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley was appointed to Library Council for one year from 1 January 2003, Mr Wallace King, AM was appointed from 12 August 2002 to 31 December 2004 and Mr Robert Knight and Mr Paul Murnane were appointed to Library Council for three years from 1 January 2003. Library Council would like to thank the State The Hon. Mahla L Pearlman AM Librarian, Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier, for her President, Library Council of New South Wales
xiii The Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection For the first time in the Library’s history, unique objects from the past are displayed together in a major, changing exhibition in the new Heritage Collection. This image, from a lavish natural history book produced by adventurer François Le Vaillant in the early nineteenth century, was showcased.
Le Pignancoin ou Toucan à gorge jaune, from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Paradis, Paris, vol. 2, 1806, engraving, colour-printed and handfinished, 09:F598.8/15
xiv Achievements in 2002/03 1. NSW Community
Objective 1.1 Simplify and streamline services to improve client access to information Corporate performance indicator 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 Responses delivered within agreed timeframe: Items retrieved from stack 82% 86% 89% 1 Information inquiries 99% 99% 99% Interlibrary loans completed n/a 97% 97% Documents supplied 99% 99% 99%
For the people of New South Wales the Library’s Faster, more reliable access to information on CD- corporate plan identifies increased access to ROM has been achieved with upgraded hardware. information as a key outcome. Each of the following Interlending and document supply services to priority strategies has been developed from our remote clients are provided in accordance with client research. the national Inter Lending Resource Sharing (ILRS) Streamline and simplify access code. The service continued to meet ILRS turnaround times for the supply of loans In 2002/03, the Library concentrated on two and copies. strategies to simplify access for clients: integrating service points in the State Reference Library In September 2002 simplified access to reference reading room, and increasing electronic resources. and research services was provided through Ask This focus on simplifying access to information is a Now, a new service available via the State Library response to research findings that clients seek more website. Ask Now provides answers to information independence in their use of Library services. inquiries for offsite clients, through live access to professional expertise, web links, online resources, Access to information services and research guides. It is a cooperative venture of Document copying and request services were the Council of Australian State Libraries. integrated to create a single inquiry point for In 2002 a guaranteed response time of 48 hours document supply, copyright and printing services. was established for information inquiries received Public access catalogue PCs in both reading rooms via email. Deadlines for complex inquiries are were upgraded and printing facilities improved. negotiated individually.
Access to collections Provision of quicker and easier access to the collections was the result of a major project to upgrade computer catalogue records. More than 68 000 subject references were added to the catalogue, giving greater consistency in search terms and improved cross-referencing. Access to overseas publications was improved with the addition of enhanced descriptions for more than 6 000 catalogue records. This additonal information came from data purchased by a consortium of 14 Australian libraries, including the State Library. New technologies and better management Librarians Kathi Spinks and Elise Edmonds live online strategies have also increased client access to
1 Lifts underwent major maintenance between August and November 2002 affecting stack retrieval capability
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information, including a major upgrade to include the Westlaw legal database. Two other INNOPAC, the integrated library management online database products, Books 24X7 and system for book and journal acquisitions. Tracking Timebase, were offered for trial. Training was collection material housed offsite was automated provided for 82 members. this year, reducing time taken to locate resources requested by clients. Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) LIAC is an initiative of the State Library of NSW Access to electronic resources and the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, and is Client use of PICMAN images continues to grow, jointly funded by the Public Purpose Fund and the with a 36% increase in page requests this year Library. Established in 1990 to provide access to reflecting the increased number of available legal information, LIAC supports NSW public resources. libraries with training and collection development, enabling public librarians to provide consistent Forty three percent of images delivered to Library access to quality information about legal issues. staff and clients are now digital, up from 11% in 2001/02. A total of 7444 products, both Improvements to LIAC’s web pages increase photographic and digital, were supplied in 2002/03. autonomy for clients through sophisticated search Turnaround times have been reduced from six to and selection tools. The site is enjoying strong three weeks. Clients may order copies (now made growth. Page requests totalled 346 867 in from copyright cleared digital masters, reducing 2002/03, and staff responded to 16 651 requests handling of originals) to use in publications, for information, an increase of 3% over the exhibitions and research. previous year.
Access through improved skills Education programs continue to improve independent use of Library collections and services, with more than 1000 clients participating this year. Programs are designed for specific target groups including students, first-time Library users and senior citizens. Getting Started, a range of free Library guides, was expanded. These guides help clients begin their research at the Library. Twenty one new or revised titles were published in 2002/03, including Australian Company Information and Pictures Research. Half-hour QuickStart sessions on using Library resources were held regularly and proved an excellent way to educate clients about family history and original materials resources.
Access through targeted services ILANET ILANET provides information professionals with affordable access to commercial databases online, as well as support and training for their effective use. There are more than 400 ILANET members, and 1527 subscriptions to the service’s electronic A Darling River native, Kerry, Sydney. One of the many AIM newsletter, elogon. New ILANET services this year photographs made available through PICMAN
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Hot Topics is an issues-based publication about Library’s Internet links, with 29 210 page requests this changes in the law. Themes addressed this year year. During 2002/03 HIS continued expanding the include courts, intellectual disability and criminal scope and relevance of HealthLinks and developing law, discrimination, consumers and money (in training for information services staff. collaboration with ASIC) and terrorism. LIAC distributes Hot Topics to all 382 NSW public Drug Information at Your Local Library (Di@YLL) libraries. The publication is also for sale; see The Di@YLL website, providing information on p 67 for details. illicit drugs for families and young people, has been redesigned for a diverse community. The site now Services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait provides easy access to full text information in no Islander Peoples more than three clicks of a mouse. Following Library skills and resources were made available launches in public libraries, the site, through a range of regional and specialist activities.
Health Information Services (HIS) HIS provides community information on health and well being. It is a State Library initiative supported with funding from NSW Health and the NSW Nurses’ Association. Quality-assured online health information via HealthLinks at
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Improvements in physical access to the Library Guarantee of service continue. Tactile maps of Library facilities and ● Timely, relevant and accurate information upgrades to several lifts improved access for provided from anywhere in the world to people with a visual disability. anywhere in the state Services for women ● courteous, friendly and efficient staff The Library’s services, products and programs ● requests for information and advice responded support the Government’s Action Plan for Women, to within negotiated deadlines with a focus on the policy areas of family and community, and education and training. ● resources held in the State Library’s collections are able to be located easily Reading room services are heavily used by people involved in private research and study, lifelong ● services and resources meet the needs of learning, adult and community education, school Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and tertiary students. Women are well represented ● services and resources meet the needs of clients among Library clients. from non-English speaking backgrounds
The annual Anne Conlon Memorial Lecture was ● services and resources meet the needs of clients held in December 2002, a collaborative event with with disabilities the NSW Department for Women that commemorates the contribution made by Anne ● appropriate and well-maintained equipment Conlon to social change and the advancement of and facilities are available women. For more information about the Library’s ● training courses provide participants with contribution to the Action Plan for Women, see appropriate skills pp 6, 22, 28. ● fee-based services provide value for money. Consumer response The State Library received 561 written appreciations, mostly about the quality and timeliness of services. The collections and quality of staff assistance were acknowledged in several publications, films and television programs. The Library received 30 written complaints, including 20 about facilities including air conditioning and provision of rubbish bins, and two about staffing issues. All complaints have been investigated and addressed as appropriate.
Participation by women 2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/03 % % % Mitchell Library onsite 46 46 46 State Reference Library onsite 54 54 54 Offsite information services 62 55 55 Visitors to exhibitions 59 60 61
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Objective 1.2 Develop an integrated information service, real and virtual Corporate performance indicator 2001/02 2002/03 Significant heritage and current resources in electronic form: Pages and pictorial images digitised 7854 15 763 Web publications preserved 176 421 Live links to e-resources in WEBCAT 7300 20 235 Full text electronic journal titles held n/a 4953
Electronic publications Major new content that showcases recently available Links from the Library’s online catalogue, WEBCAT, resources includes
Integrated online access Improved search facilities and more user-friendly The Jean Garling public interfaces to catalogues and databases Performing Arts were highlights of an upgraded website launched Project — in September. The upgrade has also resulted in improving access content being published more quickly. to collections and a model for describing Web page requests complex collections. The 18 16 490 166 Collection Guide 16 to Dance tests 14 new, simplified 12 search abilities 10 that span WEBCAT and PICMAN catalogues. 8 The Office of Information and Communications millions 7 321178 6 Technology, through connect.nsw, contributed funding for the project, and the guide will be 4 available online in 2004. 2 2 534 470
0 Paul Petrov in L’Oiseau de Feu, 1940, photo by Max Dupain 2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/03
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Objective 1.3 Ensure staff have the skills to meet our strategic priorities Corporate performance indicator 2002/03 Staff hours in formal learning activities 1 6744
Skills to meet strategic priorities Spokeswomen’s program Library-wide staff training and support has focused The Spokeswomen’s Program continued to on developing expertise and addressing learning provide referral, advice and support to all Library needs across the organisation. staff. A successful mentoring program was piloted with five pairs of staff. A Library-wide mentoring The Code of Conduct was revised and reissuedd to program will be implemented in 2004. staff to ensure compliance with the model Code of Conduct, and to establish links with related The 2003/04 program of activities, in keeping policies. Mandatory reporting requirements under with wider objectives of the Spokeswomen’s the Library’s Child Protection Policy were fully Management Committee and the strategic implemented and recruitment procedures revised to objectives of the State Library, will continue accommodate child protection to focus on: legislative requirements. ● identifying and acting on matters affecting Targeted training women in the workplace Information and communications technology skills ● increasing all staff opportunities for training is a priority and this year included an professional development assessment of staff skills in word processing and ● encouraging and assisting individuals to aspire spreadsheets. Training has ensured staff have to career excellence. appropriate skill levels for their position. More than 50 Information Services staff were trained in issues and resources related to Aboriginal family history research.
Executive women’s development program Six senior women attended the Stephenson Partnership’s Executive Women’s Development program. The program aims to develop the leadership potential of women managers, providing a structured framework for exploring management and leadership strategies. More staff will participate in a similar program in 2003/04.
Participants in the pilot mentoring program
1 New indicator in 2002/03 so no historical data available
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Objective 1.4 Extend the reach of the collection Corporate performance indicator 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 Number of uses of the collection (onsite and offsite) Inquiries responded to 1 846 463 3 539 2041 Uses of collection items 4 082 454 4 2 110 037 2 174 9222 Exhibition visits 192 453 223 421 153 1773 Public programs participants 31 787 34 058 37 825 Requests for State Library website pages 2 534 470 7 321 178 16 490 166 Number of citations of the collection Applications for reproduction of State Library material n/a 556 601 Collection items approved for reproduction n/a 1673 1938
Extend reach The Library’s program of exhibitions and public events aims to increase access to collections and reach new audiences. More than 110 000 people visited State Library exhibitions this year, a further 45 000 visiting the Matthew Flinders exhibition, which travelled nationally. All exhibitions have online presence and some, such as the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection are available online through digital archives. Total exhibition web page views for the year exceeded 180 000.
Exhibitions The highlight of 2002/03 was the opening of the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection in January. The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Nelson Meers Foundation and features rare collection material, with exhibits changing several times each year. Highlights this year included a lock of Captain
Cook’s hair and diaries of the First Fleet. The Red Portrait Suzanne, David Fairbairn, winner of the exhibition is linked to education programs, public Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2002 events and an accompanying digitisation program. Gallery: George Edwards Peacock and the mid- Establishment of the Heritage Collection required nineteenth century works of Frederick Garling refurbishment of Dixson Gallery 1. Mitchell whose works are being conserved through the Gallery 1 was also refurbished as part of the Jean Garling Bequest (see p 27). Lines on the Ice: Library’s building program funded through the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1914 Total Asset Management Plan, necessitating a presented diaries, logs and relics of the five month closure of the area. expedition team. An additional nine exhibitions were presented in Guest exhibitions in 2002/03 were: the Doug the Mitchell and Dixson galleries. These included Moran National Portrait Prize (June to August 2002), two outstanding presentations in the Picture Roll Up! Roll Up! Circus Photographs by Brendan
1 4 Reflects increased usage and improved data collection methods To 2000/01, inquiries and use of collection items were 2 As above combined in one ‘use of services’ indicator 3 Exhibition galleries were closed for five months 7 > NSW community
Esposito (September to December 2002), Freestyle: The Bondi Beach Cole Classic (December 2002 to March 2003), Stella Bowen: Art, Love & War (March to May 2003). World Press Photo 2003, an internationally acclaimed exhibition of reportage, enjoyed great success in May/June, and supported the Library’s EAPS commitment. See p 14 for more information on the EAPS Plan. Guest exhibitions provide opportunities for partnerships with institutions, groups, companies and events including the Sydney Festival which was a partner for the Freestyle exhibition. They also contribute significantly to attendance numbers; 19 000 visitors attended World Press Photo in Paul Brunton at Sweers Island, photo by Dusko Maric just four weeks. Matthew Flinders: The Ultimate Voyage was Taking State Library exhibitions to regional presented in metropolitan centres: Gladstone communities is an important part of extending (August to September 2002), Launceston (October the reach of the collection to the people of NSW. 2002 to February 2003) and Canberra (February to June 2003). Attendance across these three venues was 28 000. A regional touring version attracted about 20 000 visitors in ten locations in NSW, Queensland and the Northern Territory, and was supported by a Commonwealth Government Visions of Australia grant. A feature of the tour, supported financially by the Gordon Darling Foundation, Melbourne, was over 100 public presentations given by senior curator, Paul Brunton. Loans were made of 395 items to 22 local, regional, interstate and international exhibition venues, including two printed books to an exhibition at Japan’s Shoto Museum, Modernism/Japonism in Photography 1920s–1940s, and 29 items to the Museum of Sydney’s Horbury Hunt exhibition.
Project 2001–2010 Project 2001–2010 is a ten-year program leading to the centenary of the Mitchell Library in 2010. Antarctica was the theme in 2002, with highlights including an exhibition, worldwide access to unique Library resources through the 2002/Antarctica website, and a festival of Antarctic film. Celebrations in 2003 focus on sport. Significant collection materials have been digitised and may be viewed at
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Matthew Flinders: The Ultimate Voyage National Touring Schedule
Metropolitan State Library of NSW Regional 1 February 2004 Wagga Wagga City Library, NSW 9 June to 25 July 2003
Parkes Shire Library, NSW 28 April to 23 May 2003
Orange City Library, NSW 10 March to 11 April 2003 National Archives of Australia, Canberra Bowen Shire Library, Queensland 28 February to 22 June 2003 27 January to 21 February 2003
Northern Terrority Library, Darwin, Northern Terrority 24 December 2002 to 15 January 2003
Karumba Public Library, Queensland 16 November to 10 December 2002
Hibberd Library, Weipa, Queensland 19 October to 7 November 2002
Bundaberg Art Gallery, Queensland Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston 11 September to 13 October 2002 28 October 2002 to 9 February 2003
Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Queensland 30 July to 3 September 2002 Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum 2 August 2002 to 28 September 2002 Naval College HMAS Creswell, Jervis Bay, NSW 24 June to 21 July 2002
Portland Library, Victoria South Australian Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide 13 May to 9 June 2002 28 March to 23 June 2002
Warnambool Public Library, Victoria 25 March to 28 April 2002
State Library of Victoria Churchill Island Heritage Centre, Victoria 29 January to 17 March 2002 6 February to 10 March 2002
State Library of NSW State Library of NSW 1 October 2001 to 13 January 2002 1 October 2001 to 13 January 2002
State Library and Australian Rugby Union Events collections. Library events continue to highlight the collections The 2004 focus will be on literature, highlighting and their role in cultural development and the library’s significant Miles Franklin holdings. In expression in NSW. Cooperation with community 2005 photography collections will be celebrated. groups and organisations achieved a record attendance of 10 017 at public events, including 2125 who attended Movies on Macquarie, a program of free screenings from the collections.
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Event attendances are almost double the 5473 in The lecture was also presented at the State Library 2001/02, largely due to events associated with of Victoria as part of a cooperative strategy to Matthew Flinders: The Ulitimate Voyage. promote reading and literature. The Library gratefully acknowledges the support of the Sydney The Youth Events Program has enjoyed great City Council, the State Library of Victoria, Singapore success, attracting new clients between ages 20–35 Airlines and the State Library of New South Wales years. Two full-house photographic events, Foundation in staging these lectures. Photodoc, were presented by award-winning Australian photographers with assistance from The State Library thanks Taylors Wines for their Curator of Photography, Alan Davies. This new generous and ongoing support for public events. program will be developed further in 2003/04. Media coverage The David Scott Mitchell Lecture is another Research shows that media coverage attracts visitors important new initiative to be continued in 2003/04. and increases awareness of Library services. The The inaugural lecture was given by Clive James AM Media Unit contributed to increased visitation (whose papers are held at the Library) to a full through facilitating media interest in Library events house at the Sydney Town Hall in November 2002. and activities. The lecture marked the bicentenary of Australia’s first published book,New South Wales General Work promoting the Nelson Meers Foundation Standing Orders, 1803. Heritage Collection achieved record coverage
Media coverage 2001/02 2002/03
Total coverage/media hits 747 794 Favourable coverage (hits) 189 585 Coverage in regional and ethnic media (hits) 181 241
Stepping out in style The Mitchell Reading Room fostered creative expression of a new kind in May 2003 when Sydney design team Paablo Nevada reinvented the area as a catwalk during Mercedes Australian Fashion Week. The Convict Maids collection was researched in the Mitchell Library and inspired by women of the First Fleet. Singer Ali McGregor and violinist Matthew Watson, from Opera Australia, and rap artist Maya Jupiter delighted 400 fashion, media, Library and celebrity guests.
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A re-design of the Library Shop facilitated a more diverse range and greater ambience across print, radio and electronic media. An (see p 7). It can be downloaded from overview of media coverage for the Heritage
11 2. NSW Public Library Network
Objective 2.1 Maintain and support an integrated network to deliver shared services across NSW Corporate performance indicator results 2002/03 Shared service delivery enhanced across NSW NSW.net continues to expand access to online content through new databases for public libraries State Library, through Rural Link, connects 69 sites in 29 small NSW towns to fast and affordable Internet access
An integrated network NSW.net Public libraries and the State Library work together NSW.net provides increased access to electronic to provide library and information services to information through Internet connections, public people throughout New South Wales. access terminals and online services to local government councils, libraries and community A strategic priority is to create a stronger identity facilities in NSW. and increase the effectiveness of library services, focusing on the network of local libraries and During this final year of project funding under the services offered by the State Library. Through their connect.nsw strategy, NSW.net continued to public library, local communities have access to the improve services and consolidate its position as State Library’s collections and programs, which preferred provider of connectivity and online enhance local services and facilitate sharing of resources to councils and libraries. resources and expertise. Regular training in the use of the NSW.net free The Library also administers the Public Library access databases was conducted. A total of 314 Grants and Subsidies Program, provides participants took part in 37 sessions in Sydney and consultancy and policy advice to local authorities regional centres. New emphasis on promotion and and oversees compliance with the Library Act 1939. training resulted in a 112% increase in use of the These activities support the Government’s free access databases. Forty NSW libraries now Principles for Regional Programs. offer patrons the opportunity to use the databases from home. In partnership with local government In May, a client satisfaction survey was The strong relationship between the State Library commissioned to evaluate NSW.net and initial and local authorities continues to enhance the results indicate solid support. success of the NSW public library network through the 99 library services across the state. In 2002/03 Rural Link the State Government allocated $20.919 million to Rural Link is a satellite and wireless network public libraries, $2 million of which was for the providing cost-effective fast connections for small continued operation of NSW.net. rural towns not reached by NSW.net. It is Public library projects are awarded Library supported by the Commonwealth through funding Development Grants through a competitive process. from Networking the Nation, and by the NSW This year $3 273 288 was allocated to 61 projects. Office of Information and Communications Of these, 14 were for collection improvements, Technology. eight contributed to building improvements, six supported multicultural services and eight were for services for children and young people. A complete list of grants awarded is on p 40.
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Rural Link is now operational in 69 sites across 29 Six more libraries entered service agreements with towns. The project is expected to provide services LIAC, five in regional NSW and one in Western to at least 70 rural and remote NSW communities. Sydney. This brings the total number of NSW The key client base for the Rural Link network is partner libraries to 76. As a result, 84 public public libraries, shire councils and community librarians completed LIAC’s training program this technology centres. year, leading to on-training of a further 189 staff at the local level. BHP Billiton Skills.net NSW Demand for LIAC remains strong. State Library LIAC An essential element of the Rural Link strategy is the staff provided backup and support for the growing information literacy program, Skills.net. The network. Wollondilly Library Service, Macquarie program delivers free computer and Internet Regional Library and Marrickville Library Service training to rural and regional information were awarded Centre of Excellence Awards at the professionals and their communities, in a project annual Law and Justice Foundation of NSW Justice jointly funded by Rural Link and BHP Billiton. Award in November 2002. The project will roll out in 2003/04 and 30 libraries have expressed interest in being trained to present Access to health information public workshops. Project support materials and The Health Information Service (HIS) continued to workshop resources are available through the support public libraries in the provision of quality Skills.net website
Access to legal information Di@YLL, a joint project of the State Library and NSW Premier’s Department, was launched as part Access to legal information was improved of a Community Drug Information Initiative in throughout NSW public libraries via the Legal October 2002. A core collection of quality-assured Information Access Centre (LIAC) (see p 2).
The Rural Link team, back, left to right: John Telford, Charles Jago, Dave Walmsley and John Heath, front, left to right: Chris Williams, Christine Davie, Joyce Azzopardi and Anthony Estorffe.
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print resources was delivered to all 99 NSW public library services. More than 50 public libraries held local launches to promote Di@YLL from April to June 2003. To support the effective use of the Di@YLL collection, HIS and LIAC hosted a Drugs and the Law forum for public library staff across NSW, and developed training standards.
Multicultural services The State Library supports the achievement of the Government’s EAPS strategies through a range of initiatives and ongoing programs. These include the Cordula Werbelow, Subject Librarian for Recorded Music at inaugural staff exchange with the Zentral- und Berlin, spent two months on exchange at the State Library of Landesbibliothek, Berlin (the Central and Regional New South Wales Library, Berlin) which took place during 2003. Rose Bollen, State Library Research Analyst, exchanged Multicultural collections are maintained at an with Cordula Werbelow, Subject Librarian for optimum size and their currency and relevance Recorded Music, in Germany, from February to ensured through regular review. More than 4000 May 2003. The exchange program offered both new, quality items in 32 languages including Thai, participants the opportunity to gain an understanding Vietnamese and Arabic were added in 2002/03. of the work of libraries in different cultural settings. Public library research program Building on multicultural research conducted in The research program supports the evaluation, 2001, a further review was commissioned in 2003 planning and development of public library to investigate non-English speaking clients’ use and services, and incorporates the research interests of perceptions of public library multicultural services. the State Library. The program is endorsed by the Multicultural Services in Public Libraries was a Public Libraries Consultative Committee and ground-breaking project involving 232 people from approved by Library Council. the Greek, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, This year, the research committee with Korean, Vietnamese, Macedonian, Punjabi and representatives from metropolitan, country libraries Russian communities. Findings highlight a strong and the State Library developed a project which commitment to and use of these resources, and will investigate the role of public libraries in identified areas for improvement. supporting government service delivery, particularly A review was also commissioned into the in the electronic environment. The research will be Multicultural Purchasing Cooperative. The project undertaken in 2003/04. will investigate the services and management of the Cooperative with outcomes of the review expected in 2003/04.
Interlibrary loans and copies supplied to NSW public libraries 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03
Multicultural loans, metropolitan 47 283 52 111 54 978 Multicultural loans, regional 23 397 22 162 21 327 Disability collection loans, metropolitan 4 141 4 644 4 680 Disability collection loans, regional 11 974 11 651 11 211 Print loans, metropolitan 5 149 5 827 5 559 Print loans, regional 5 826 5 905 5 555 Document supply 16 715 12 444 7 0801
1 Fee-based service to NSW Department of Community Services ceased.
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Objective 2.2 Support the legislative environment in which NSW public libraries and the State Library operate Corporate performance indicator and results for 2002/03 Review of Library Act completed: Library Council completed its submission to the review of the Library Act 1939 in 2003 and has forwarded recommendations to the Ministry for the Arts for consideration.
Building and Planning Advisory Service Visits The specialist services of the Building and Planning The State Librarian & Chief Executive, Dagmar Advisory Service continue to be sought by Schmidmaier visited public libraries including authorities planning new library buildings. The Broken Hill, Lake Macquarie, Moruya, Batemans Library Building Consultant, Dr David J. Jones, Bay, Griffith, Newcastle, Kempsey, Hastings, worked on design briefs for new libraries including Forestville, Randwick and Lockhart Shire. those at Burwood, Camden, Five Dock, Glen Innes, The Director, Library & Information Services, Chris and Lithgow. The Consultant also provided Williams, and State Library staff visited libraries in assistance with library space planning or site the following areas: Upper Hunter, Eurobodalla, selection, for Canada Bay, Gundagai, Kiama, Kiama, Holroyd, Riverina, Newcastle, Singleton, Mudgee, Nambucca, Singleton, the NSW Rural Fire Cessnock, Canada Bay, Wyong, Burwood, Service and Queenwood School, among others. Wentworth, Western Riverina, Balranald, Ongoing projects included planning for new libraries Moulamein, Barham, Central Murray, Berrigan, Lake at Blacktown, Lithgow, Wallsend and Willoughby. Macquarie, Ashfield, West Wyalong, Upper Murray, Blacktown, Central Northern, Camden, Shoalhaven, Clarence, North Western, Macquarie, Willoughby, Baulkham Hills, Wingecarribee, Liverpool, Southern Tablelands, Wollongong, Glen Innes and Canterbury.
Training Training for public library staff included strategic positioning workshops for library managers and senior council staff, workshops on writing successful grant applications and on marketing, local studies, reference services and children’s services.
Turning library visions into reality, David J. Jones
Dr Jones was also engaged by the Sarawak Government to assist in planning a new library and information technology centre in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
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Objective 3.1 Continuously improve the management of our resources Corporate performance indicator and results for 2002/03 IT projects achieve time or cost savings targets implementation of infrastructure for digitisation, including Storage Area Network (SAN) for storage and backup Oracle to INNOPAC interface to link the Library’s main database with the financial system. Occupational Health and Safety requirements are met dedicated OHS position created OHS Risk Assessment is first step towards ongoing OHS improvements. Variance from budget Returned an actual neutral result.
Managing resources The average return for the short-term investments was 4.85%, compared with the NSW Treasury Efficient and effective management of resources, Corporation’s Hour-Glass Cash Facility Benchmark including the State Library collection, is a priority return of 4.97%. Investments in Treasury for the Government. Corporation’s Medium Term Growth Facility Financial management returned 4.63%, compared with its benchmark Budgetary strategies to tie funding to measurable return of 3.51%. Investments in Maple Brown outcomes were implemented with great success, Abbot’s Diversified Investment Unit Trust returned with a budget neutral result for the year. Other key -1.6%, compared with its benchmark of -3.2%. performance results were: Risk management ● 88% of accounts paid on time Internal audits were completed and ● legislative requirements met on time recommendations are being implemented for:
● funding achieved strategic objectives ● personnel/payroll within budget. ● code of conduct
An online interface between Oracle Financials and ● review of compliance with legislative the integrated library management system, and policy requirements INNOPAC, was implemented, which has improved ● integrity between the two systems and reduced the document delivery risk of delayed payments to suppliers. ● ILANET. Forward Estimates submissions in 2002/03 An Occupational Health and Safety Risk successfully sought increases in funding for NSW Assessment was also undertaken (see p 21). public libraries and the State Library’s collection. A formula for determining the funding for purchases Management of Information Technology for the collection that accounts for currency and Storage for digital images and objects has price fluctuations was approved by Treasury and increased five-fold over the last year to 1.6 will now be applied each year. terabytes. A separate dedicated network has increased speed of access to the Storage Area Investment performance Network (SAN) for storage, retrieval and processing. The investments of the Library Council are managed The Library’s digital camera has been integrated by the NSW Treasury Corporation. Maple Brown with the storage infrastructure. Abbot manages the investments of the State Library The Library’s technology infrastructure has of New South Wales Foundation. been upgraded so that the network operates ten
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times faster than previously. Seven application The State Library is committed to achieving savings servers have been upgraded to reduce downtime in energy usage and sustained energy management and improve efficiency. principles. The Library operates as one large site that purchases electricity on the contestable market, A major emphasis for ICT has been provision of 6% from renewable sources. NSW Parliament a secure environment, through development of an House supplies heated and chilled water for the IT Security Policy, Risk Analysis and revision of the Library’s air conditioning system. Disaster Recovery Plan. The Library participated in Security Penetration testing initiated by the Office The Library’s Energy Plan has been operating for of Information and Communications Technology three years and sets the mechanisms, rationale and and implemented an Intrusion Detection System on strategies so that effective energy management the network. processes are integrated into ongoing activities. The Library is revising its Information Management Between 2001/02 and 2002/03, there has been a and Technology Strategy to 2005. Whole-of-Library small increase in consumption of Black Electricity input is sought in developing the strategy, which and Green Power (+5.09%). This is due to an will complement the corporate plan, Shaping our upgrade of the heritage Mitchell Wing air Future Together, and aims to ensure consistency conditioning system to achieve the stable with corporate objectives and wider government environmental conditions (temperature and policies and business objectives. relative humidity).
Facilities management The State Library will continue to reduce energy consumption, where cost effective and feasible. The Library’s Total Asset Management Plan for 2002/03 was fully implemented, with major Waste avoidance and resource recovery achievements being: upgrades to air conditioning Recycling achievements during the year and access for people with a disability, and were as follows. construction works to ensure that State Library buildings comply with the requirements of the Reducing generation of waste: Building Code of Australia. Also completed were ● total paper purchases reduced by 5.25%. construction works to improve fire safety and reduce water penetration of the building fabric. Other major Resource recovery: upgrades were to the Heritage Gallery (Dixson ● of the total toner cartridges purchased Gallery 1) and lifts (Lift 8 upgrade completed, over 50% was recycled when disposed of upgrades of Lift 4 and Lift 5 commenced). ● 99% of waste paper was recycled Refurbishment of the State Library bookshop and replacement of the parquet floor in Dixson ● all green waste was recycled. Gallery 1 were carried out under the Minor Works Recycled content: Program. Refurbishment of the State Reference ● purchases of paper with recycled content Library staff accommodation areas was completed. dropped by 18% due to quality problems Energy Management Plan ● 50% of lever arch folders purchased contained The State Library’s Energy Performance Contract recycled content with Honeywell completed its third year of ● 41% of toner cartridges purchased had recycled operation in May 2003. Achievements include: content. This is 15% less than 2001/02, again ● replacing the air conditioning chiller coil due to poor quality. with an energy efficient system Further trials of new paper products with recycled ● installation of power saving devices content are planned. ● installation of water saving devices.
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Accounts paid on time within each quarter External consultants engaged
Quarter Actual Target Account paid Total paid % % on time Over $30 000: None Sep 02 81 90 $6 355 448 $7 846 232 Under $30 000: Two consultants were engaged Dec 02 84 90 $18 132 161 $21 549 056 for IT ($12 920) and for training Mar 03 87 90 $12 381 805 $14 177 151 ($5410) at a total cost of $18 330 Jun 03 88 90 $8 797 361 $10 029 840
Accounts payable performance – aged analysis at the end of each quarter
Quarter $ current $ less than $ between $ between $ more than (ie within due date) 30 days overdue 30 & 60 days overdue 60 & 90 days overdue 90 days overdue Sep 02 557 575 6 739 (2 180) - - Dec 02 262 320 2 609 2 305 - - Mar 03 382 665 40 715 (149) - - Jun 03 613 466 1 660 - - -
Energy consumption and costs of fuels used
State Library of NSW 1995/96 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 Energy consumption and cost % change between 2001/02 and 2002/03
Black electricity consumption (kWh) 5 085 822 4 355 040 4 544 981 4 588 820 4 822 406 5.09% Black electricity cost $508 582 $283 611 $283 590 $288 126 $314 000 8.98% Green power consumption (kWh) 0 277 981 290 105 292 903 307 813 5.09% Green power cost $0 $24 662 $24 660 $25 054 $27 304 8.98% Petrol consumption (L) 3 491 2 373 1 911 3 362 2 841 -15.51% Petrol cost $2 831 $1 793 $1 550 $2 534 $2 223 -12.27%
Compliance with the NSW Heritage Act 1977, Section 170A(4)
State Heritage inventory number 5 045 212 Name State Library of NSW, Mitchell Library Location Shakespeare Place, Sydney Level of significance (local or state) State Heritage Council endorsed CMP (yes or no) Yes * Date of Heritage Council endorsement 10 April, 2002 On State Heritage register? (yes or no & #) Yes Last inspection date April 2000 Condition (good, fair, poor) Fair Comment on condition Maintenance funding has been limited Item in use? (yes or no) Yes Item occupied? (yes or no) Yes If not in use or occupied, measures to protect? n/a Activities (repairs, alterations, re-use, occupancy change?) Maintenance and alterations Statutory Applications Heritage Act Section # Nil Approval granted (yes or no) n/a Date of commencement n/a Work progress update n/a * The Conservation Report for the State Library’s Mitchell Wing is due for review in 2007.
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Objective 3.2 Increase control of our collection at each stage of the information life cycle Corporate performance indicator 2001/02 2002/03 Electronic records created for1 Heritage (Mitchell) collection material 588 211 605 870 Current (all other) collection material 801 568 817 989
More than 750 pages were digitised and 150 new Information life cycle catalogue records published in association with the Select and acquire Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection, ensuring that this iconic material is also available via the web. A book with unique pedigree was added to the Preserve Organise electronic record from the Mitchell Library or dispose and store collection. Entitled An account of Corsica and published in 1769, the book was signed by Captain James Cook. It was presented to him by the author ‘as a small memorial of his admiration of the 2 Access and use gentleman’s most renowned merit as a navigator (signed) ... James Boswell’.
Managing the collection As part of our activities for 2003, the Year of Sport, electronic catalogue records were created for 1230 The State Library takes a life cycle approach to titles relating to the Olympics and the Paralympics. managing the collection. More than 60% of these were unique, adding to the A major focus for 2002/03 was increasing depth of the National Bibliographic Database. electronic records for collection material with The Mitchell Bequest Project is identifying and substantial historical significance. recording David Scott Mitchell’s original bequest of 61 000 items. The project, funded by the Library Select and acquire Foundation, will enable creation of an electronic A review of the Collection Development Policy record of the bequest and assessment of each item designed to highlight the Library’s research-level for preservation treatment. Project outcomes collections is underway. include:
Organise and store ● electronic records created for 7812 printed A total of 2707 new records were added to items, all contributed to the National PICMAN including records for maps, manuscripts Bibliographic Database and pictures. Significant collection material and ● 189 electronic records created for 285 original new acquisitions are now routinely digitised and items, including multi-volume sets made accessible through PICMAN. More than ● 39 000 electronic records were created and added 5457 books assessed and preserved, with to the WEBCAT catalogue, including printed treatments ranging from ten minutes to three material from the Mitchell Bequest Project hours each. (see pp 20, 27).
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Preservation treatments 2000/01 to 2002/03 Newspapers The Library’s strategic program for preservation of NSW newspapers continued as part of the National 30 000 25 920 Plan for Australian Newspapers (NPLAN), with 25 000 872 738 pages filmed. Eleven retrospective 20 000 newspapers were located and filmed, including the 18 021 Cowra Guardian, 1964–1966, and the Chinese 15 000 15 865 Times, 2000–2001. 10 000 Ten new NSW newspapers were received on legal 5000 deposit for the first time this year and include the 0 Central Coast Extra, New Spanish Herald, 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 Noticias y Deportes, Post Weekly (Goulburn), and the Punjab Times. Preserve or dispose Library catalogue users can now access 3493 Australian online resources through PANDORA, a specialist online national archive managed by the National Library of Australia. In 2002/03 the Library collected 421 online publications (285 of which originated in NSW Government agencies), bringing the State Library contribution to 597. Preservation treatments were completed for 25 920 items, an increase of 63% over last year, reflecting streamlined preservation activities and an increase in resources provided by the Library Foundation for the Mitchell Bequest Project (see p 27). Four hundred and twenty four items were preserved for Library exhibitions and displays this year.
Musical comedy star Dorothy Brunton reads from the children’s section of The Sun, 4 January 1925
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Objective 3.3 Improve our working environment Corporate performance indicator and results for 2002/03 Targets in the HR Plan are met code of conduct revised and reissued to staff pilot mentoring program implemented by the Spokeswomen’s Program new EEO Plan for 2003/04 completed
Improving the work environment Working in project teams Occupational health and safety The Industrial Relations Commission created an A major strategic focus to 2005 is improving the interim award for Librarians, Library Technicians, Library’s working environment. During 2002/03, Library Assistants and Archivists in March, 2002, an Occupational Health & Safety Audit and Risk leading to a final award in November 2002. The Assessment profile was conducted, providing two Commission confirmed the classification structure, OHS improvement plans to be implemented in adding classification descriptors to the Award. 2003/04. Preparation of new position descriptions and an evaluation methodology are being implemented. The OHS Committee’s constitution was updated in March 2003, incorporating recent legislative changes A total of 319 staff members working in cross and emphasising its strategic advice role. New divisional project teams contributed to a number of committee members were trained, and training on the Library’s achievements this year. Major project hazardous substances management was provided teams included those working on the Nelson Meers to staff in the Preservation Branch. Manual handling Foundation Heritage Collection, the Mitchell information sessions were also held for 88 staff. Bequest project and other digitisation projects.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) A new EEO Plan for 2003/04 aims to improve access by target group members to development opportunities, improve employment opportunities for EEO group members, increase awareness of EEO issues across the Library, ensure that policies and procedures provide for equitable treatment of all staff and improve the selection success for EEO groups.
Anne Jordan, Martin Bongiorno, Lisa Charlton, Guy Caron and Cathy Bartley, Preservation, working on Mitchell bequest items
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Average equivalent full-time staff members
2000* 2001* 2002* 2003* 431.79 389.8 406.05 386.8
* Calculation based on average EFT taken from Workforce Profile data
Senior Executive Service (SES) positions as at 30 June 2003
Level 2000 2001 2002 2003 4 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1* 1 2 2 2 2 Number of positions filled by women 2 2 2 2
* SES Level 2 position vacant as at 30 June 2003
Workers compensation 2001/02 2002/03
Total number of claims * 19 9 Number of claims per employee * 0.47 0.023 Average cost per claim ** $9 360 Fund average $4 790 $1 533 Fund average $5 595 Average cost per employee $438 Fund average $277 $35 Fund average $368
* Refers to new claims in the accident year reported ** Based on actual and estimated costs calculated at 31 March in the accident year reported
Trends in the representation of EEO groups % of total staff
EEO group Benchmark or target 2000 2001 2002 2003 Women 0.5 0.65 0.67 0.66 0.66 Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.01 People whose first language was not English 0.2 0 0.24 0.26 0.27 People with a disability 0.12 0.07 0.08 0.08 0.08 People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment 0.07 0 0.02 0.02 0.02
Notes: Staff numbers are as at 30 June 2003, excludes casual staff
Trends in the distribution of EEO groups Distribution index
EEO group Benchmark or target 2000 2001 2002 2003 Women 100 110 105 111 110 Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders 100 n/a n/a n/a n/a People whose first language was not English 100 - 86 90 89 People with a disability 100 94 92 85 81 People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment 100 - n/a n/a n/a
Notes: Staff numbers are as at 30 June 2003, excludes casual staff. A Distribution Index of 100 indicates that the centre of the distribution of the EEO group across salary levels is equivalent to that of other staff. Values less than 100 mean that the EEO group tends to be more concentrated at lower salary levels than is the case for other staff.
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Objective 3.4 Use information and the knowledge of staff for the benefit of the Library Corporate performance indicator 2002/03 Staff participate in cross divisional project teams 1 319
Using information & staff knowledge Organisational information Information about clients The Records Management Program is focusing The Research and Evaluation Program gathers on improved record keeping practices to support information about clients and activities to management and decision-making practices. This develop services, products and programs. process will move the Library towards compliance with the State Records Act 1998. The outcomes of The main project this year was research into an audit on implementation are being addressed Offsite Information Services which focused on the within the available budget. Information Request Service (IRS) and Telephone Inquiry Service (TIS). A new framework to facilitate internal information management and decision-making was drafted Data Collection and Analysis Training was provided in anticipation of an information audit. for staff from Information Services, Collection This is in line with Government initiatives in Services and Original Materials. knowledge management.
Members of the strategic planning project team celebrate Library Council approval for the corporate plan to 2005.
1 New indicator in 2002/03 so historical data not available
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Objective 4.1 Implement collaborative ventures and services Corporate performance indicator and results for 2002/03 Ventures meet agreed targets a record 36 600 primary school students entered the Nestlé Write Around Australia creative writing program page requests for information on drugs from the Di@YLL website increased more than 800% the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection displays library treasures
Collaborative ventures the University of Sydney, and the History Council The State Library works with a wide range of of NSW. partners and advocates, developing and nurturing Talks were given by C. H. Currey Fellow, mutually beneficial relationships to deliver services, Judith Godden, Phillip Adams, Robyn Kershaw, programs and strategic objectives. Patrick McClure, AO, Peter Rose, William Yang, and Drusilla Modjeska, and by noted academics Public Events Brian Fletcher, Richard Waterhouse, Ros Pesman, Partners who supported public events in Greg Dening, Rob Jordan and Clive James, among 2002/03 included the Independent Scholars’ others. International visitors included Ihab Hassan Association of Australia (NSW Chapter), the and Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty. Goethe Institut Sydney, Festival of Sydney, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, the NSW Dept for Women, Currency House,
Entrants from the Nestlé Write Around Australia program 2002
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Nestlé Write Around Australia Collaborating with other libraries A record 36 600 primary school students entered The State Library of NSW joins all other State the Nestlé Write Around Australia creative writing Libraries and the National Library in supporting the program and 18 500 participated in creative writing Australian Pictorial Thesaurus, an online thesaurus workshops at more than 50 public libraries across of 15 000 topic terms for indexing Australian images the country. Online chat sessions with authors were accessible through the Library website. Usage is successfully trialled, with a focus on encouraging growing with 111 336 page requests in 2002/3, young writers in regional and remote areas of NSW. a 32% increase on the previous year. Nestlé Write Around Australia is coordinated by the PictureAustralia, an access point to the pictorial State Library and supported by state and public collections of Australian cultural institutions, libraries throughout Australia. continues to bring many users to the website, with The partnership between Nestlé Australia Pty 37% of images viewed in the Library’s pictures Ltd and the State Library of NSW was recognised catalogue, PICMAN, coming via PictureAustralia. in the Gold Book of Business Arts Partnerships The Library contributes records to a range of 2002, published by the Australia Business Arts national databases including bibliographic records Foundation. to Kinetica, manuscript records to the Register of Working with other government and Australian Archives and Manuscripts and archived community agencies websites originating in NSW to PANDORA, the national archive of Australian online publications. The State Library has worked with the This year the Library joined MusicAustralia, Commonwealth Department of Communications, contributing electronic records and digital images of Information Technology and the Arts and the NSW 19th century sheet music to this national database. Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) to provide fast and affordable In line with the Australian Network for Information Internet access to small NSW towns, through the on Cellulose Acetate (ANICA), material originally Rural Link project. microfilmed on unstable cellulose acetate is being replaced. This year 365 reels of newspaper The Health Information Service continues to attract microfilm were remastered and duplicated. funding support from NSW Health. A duplicate negative of the Sydney Morning Herald November 2002 saw the launch of Drug dating back to 1831 was purchased to ensure the Information at Your Local Library (Di@YLL), survival of a preservation quality copy of the State’s a joint venture of the State Library and the main newspaper. Early issues of this newspaper Premier’s Department. were originally filmed on cellulose acetate film, now known to deteriorate under normal conditions. Register of War Memorials in NSW The Library’s membership of the NSW.net Content More than 22 000 names, 600 images and 266 Committee and the CASL Consortia & Licensing memorials have been added to the Register at Working Group enables participation in trials,
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Objective 4.2 Strengthen personal affiliations Corporate performance indicator and results for 2002/03 Retained Foundation memberships Foundation membership shows a net increase of 43% from 2001/021
Strengthening personal affiliations each attended 13 hours of training for their role Volunteers program in the galleries. Their warmth and expertise was recognised in the comments of many The Library’s 170 enthusiastic volunteers gallery visitors: contributed 12 019 hours of their time to undertake a multitude of tasks that would not otherwise be ‘The charm of the paintings was eclipsed done. Ten new volunteers, selected for their public by the absolute charm of the volunteer speaking experience and computer skills, joined the exhibitions guide.’ program in July 2002. ‘Personal encouragement from the attendant made us view the exhibition in more depth.’ Volunteers helped make the collections more accessible by: The Library Council, Executive and staff ● logging oral history tapes acknowledge the special contribution made to the State Library by our volunteers and thank them for ● maintaining pamphlet files their dedication and commitment. ● sorting and filing negatives
● checking images and scans for the website
● covering books for the Multicultural Collection.
Volunteers also provided support for a number of special projects: ● transcribing and proofing diaries and journals for the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
● locating items from David Scott Mitchell’s collection for the Mitchell Bequest Project Volunteers received recognition awards for 10 years service. ● identifying and locating pre-1900 sheet music Centre: Dagmar Schmidmaier and the Hon. Justice Mahla for the MusicAustralia Project Pearlman, AM. Left to right: Roz Davie, June Sommerville, Margot McKenzie, Ingrid Beeren, Berenice Evans, Nancy ● collating and sorting entries for Nestlé Write Percival, Kathy Becker and Peter Stark Around Australia. Volunteer tour guides made a positive impression State Library of New South Wales on many visitors with their warm welcome and Foundation knowledge of the Library. A team of volunteers The State Library of New South Wales Foundation developed a tour focusing on the Library’s history (the Foundation) was established in 1987 to attract and architectural features. The tour has proved individual and corporate financial support for popular and will be added to the program special projects and programs which cannot be in 2003/04. The 62 volunteer exhibition hosts funded from the annual Government allocation.
1 New indicator in 2002/03 so historical data is limited
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The Foundation actively promotes the Library Jean Garling Bequest through fundraising and sponsorship and through The Garling Conservator position, funded through its supporters, generating greater awareness of the the Foundation, provides the Library with an Library in the community. additional 1365 conservation hours per annum. Major achievements include: This has enabled:
● repositioning ‘The Library Society’ as the Friends ● conservation of 350 theatre posters of the State Library of NSW to reflect its broader ● provision of high quality enclosures for the audience and to encourage new Friends Garling papers
● reinvigorating the Bequest Program ● conservation of 14 period frames, and ● identifying a major new fundraising initiative preparation and digitisation of works by in line with the centenary of the Mitchell Library Frederick Garling. in 2010. The year ahead In 2002/03, the Foundation contributed $1.2 Key fundraising projects to be undertaken include million to the Library. Major projects undertaken Literature 2004, Photography 2005 and the Mitchell with this funding include the following. Centenary Project. A new Friends’ room in the original 1910 Mitchell Reading Room will be Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection opened in late 2003. Thanks to a gift of $1 million from the Nelson Meers Foundation, and an additional contribution Professional leadership of $475 000 from the Foundation, the Library Library staff delivered a number of education established the Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage and training programs to library and information Collection — the culmination of a long-envisaged professionals, ranging from two-hour sessions dream to permanently display Library treasures on specific information databases, to leadership (see p 7). programs over a full week. They shared Library Mitchell Bequest Project expertise, helped public library staff to better understand Library collections and services, The project will identify, catalogue, assess and and provided training in skill-specific activities. preserve (where appropriate) each of the 61 000 In 2003/04 the Library will continue to provide items in the original bequest to the Government by professional education and training programs that David Scott Mitchell. The Foundation has invested are aligned with corporate priorities. $430 000 this year and pledged a further $1 million over the next three years to complete the project (see p 19).
Digitisation For the third consecutive year the Foundation funded digitisation projects making Library collections available online to both increase accessibility, and protect original sources. A total of 15 763 high-quality digital images were created this year, almost double the 7854 made in 2001/02. There is more information on p 5.
Christine Davie, A/Manager NSW.net and UTS mentor with a group of students from Virtual Information Collections, Resources and Services 2002.
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For the fourth year, the Library delivered a postgraduate subject, Virtual Information Collections, Resources and Services, for the Department of Information Studies, University of Technology Sydney. A total of 50 students completed the subject, and 23 Library staff contributed to its delivery. Programs for Library Studies students included Information Industry Case Study sessions for TAFE Library and Information Services Associate Diploma students and presentations to Charles Sturt University and University of Technology Sydney students. A number of presentations were made to district groups of teacher-librarians.
Awards and Fellowships Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship The 2003 Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship, Dr Geoffrey Cains, National Biography Award benefactor, pictured with Gerard Windsor for a paper by a woman librarian or student of librarianship, was awarded jointly to Irene Bonella for her paper, A Century of Pay Equity: Is the end National Biography Award in sight? and Kate Burnham, for her paper, The The National Biography Award was presented to Librarian’s pay equity case 2002 — Not just a pay Peter Rose for Rose Boys and Don Watson for rise. Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. This award is C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship administered by the State Library on behalf of its benefactor, Dr Geoffrey Cains. The C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship was established under the terms of a bequest made by The State Librarian’s Metcalfe Scholarship the late Dr Charles Herbert Currey, and aims to Not offered in 2003. promote the writing of Australian history from original resources held by the State Library. This year’s Currey Fellow is Dr Sylvia Martin who is researching the life and work of Ida Leeson, second Mitchell Librarian and the first woman to hold such a senior library position in Australia.
Nancy Keesing Fellowship The Nancy Keesing Fellowship was established by former Library Council President, Dr Mark Hertzberg, AO, in honour of the late Nancy Keesing, and aims to promote the State Library as a centre of research into Australian life and culture. This year Caroline Jones won the Fellowship to research publisher George Robertson and his influence on national cultural identity.
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International affiliations Richard Neville Manager, Original Materials Overseas visitors 18–24 February 2003, France Ms Tomoko Okuda, National Diet Library, Japan Acted as a courier, returning unique resources Ms Judy Ng and Mr Lau Kai Cheong, National borrowed for the Matthew Flinders: The Ulimate Library Board of Singapore Voyage exhibition, visited cultural institutions in Paris. Overseas travel Costs met from fees paid by participating Wilma Norris tour venues. Director Education & Client Liaison Dr David J. Jones 15 August – 3 September 2002, Scotland Library Building Consultant Presented paper at the IFLA Conference, Glasgow 1–11 April 2003, Malaysia Rose Bollen Consulted on a design brief for Pustaka Sibu, Research Analyst a library project in Sarawak, Malaysia. 3 February – 3 May 2003, Germany Costs met directly by client and from International work exchange visit to Berlin and consultancy fees. Central Regional Library. Costs partially met by sponsorship from Bibliothek Information International, a scholarship from the Goethe Institut Sydney and self-funding.
Joint National Biography Award winners, Don Watson and Peter Rose in the Shakespeare Room.
29 Arthur Phillip letter, 1788 The first post was sent from Sydney Cove on 14 July 1788, and included this letter from Governor Arthur Phillip to William Petty, 1st Marquis of Landsowne, with Phillip’s most celebrated description of Sydney Harbour, ‘here a Thousand Sail of the Line may ride in the most perfect Security’. It is available in facsimile and transcript online and at ML MSS 7241. Additions to the collection Deposits and donations of collection material
The State Library’s collection is enhanced Bradman’s off-field feuds with players and every year by material received as deposits journalists, his initial unwillingness to tour England and donations: in 1948 and changes to the laws of the game. Acquired with the generous assistance of Mrs ● in 2002/03 under the provisions of Premier’s Memorandum, 00-15, NSW government Caroline Simpson, OAM. ML MSS 7211 agencies deposited 1592 books and 1453 Spirit drawings by Lady Darley. These rare ‘portrait’ journals. The Library identified and archived 285 drawings were made in Katoomba in the 1890s by electronic titles from NSW government agencies Lucy Forest Darley, wife of the NSW Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor. They reflect an interest in ● under the Legal Deposit Provisions of the Copyright Act 1879-1952 (NSW), SS 5-7, spiritualism amongst the middle classes. Presented commercial and private NSW publishers by Pamela Massie Greene. PXA 988 deposited 4336 books and 7196 journal Map of the Colony of New South Wales by Robert titles including newspapers, posters, calendars Dixon. London, Joseph Cross: 1837. This beautifully and programs engraved and hand coloured first edition shows acreages of lands granted and lands sold, August ● donors of collection material in original formats presented donations valued at $110 869. 1831 to June 1836, in the 19 counties, with the Donations given under the provisions of the names of the owners. Presented by Rhoda Onslow. Cultural Gifts Program comprised 50% of the MC 811gbbd 1837 1 total at $55 629. Donations of printed material Notebook of Australian Aboriginal vocabularies. included 61 new journal titles and 1779 books. Compiled between 1832 and 1853 by James Larmer, assistant surveyor on Sir Thomas Mitchell’s Select list of donations and deposits second inland expedition in 1835, the notebook Pastoral holdings maps. This collection of 14 maps contains lists of Aboriginal words for various NSW was exhibited in a 1914 land tax case in the NSW regions. Presented by Nyngan & District Historical Supreme Court, following an appeal by William Society. ML MSS 7213 Edward Abbott, pastoralist and politician of Moore’s map of New South Wales for 1882. Wingen, against the valuation of his property, Sydney, J. J. Moore & Co., 1882. This folded map Glengarry-Murrulla, in the Upper Hunter. showing counties, roads, railway and telegraph lines Presented by Gail Abbott. MT2 812.14 1893 1 was issued in a booklet containing a description of The Hon. George Allen and Jane Allen by James NSW. Other information included mail timetables Anderson. Painted in Sydney, 1867, these two oil to Great Britain via San Francisco and P&O mail portraits depict prominent Sydney figure and timetables to London via Brindisi. An alphabetical successful lawyer, George Allen, and his wife, Jane. key to Post Towns lists each town’s distance from Allen established a legal firm in Australia (now Sydney. Anonymous donation. MC 810 1882 1 Allens Arthur Robinson). Presented by Ruth Allen. Mort Family Papers. This extensive collection of ML 1241 and ML 1242 papers relates to pioneer colonial merchant Correspondence between Don Bradman and Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his family over 100 years E. A. ‘Chappie’ Dwyer, 1938, 1945–1957. In this from the 1850s. Presented by David Mort. collection of more than 100 letters, Bradman and ML MSS 7231 Dwyer discuss team selections, players’ abilities,
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Deposits and donations of collection material at a glance 2002/03 1592 books and 1453 journals deposited, 285 electronic titles identified and archived from NSW government agencies 4336 books and 7196 journal titles from commercial and private NSW publishers 1779 books and 61 new journal titles donated Donors of collection material in original formats presented donations valued at $110 869
Plans for Carter House, Kangaloon, by Glenn Letters from Ethel Turner. This collection of Murcutt. The Carter House at Kangaloon in the 13 letters was written by the author of Seven Little Southern Highlands is a typically sophisticated and Australians, mainly to her sister, Jeannie Rose Turner, environmentally determined response by Murcutt between 1900 and 1940. Presented by Joan to a complex site. Presented by Glenn Murcutt. Connery. ML MSS 7201 PXD 728 Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John The Premier Street Directory of Sydney and White. Ivanhoe, Vic.: Edition Renard, 2002. Suburbs, 7th edition. Sydney, H. E. C. Robinson Originally published in London by J. Debrett in Pty. Ltd. This edition of the directory completes the 1790, this limited edition is reprinted with run of copies held in the Mitchell and Dixson 65 coloured plates reproduced at enlarged scale. Libraries from the 1st edition (June 1924) to the The special edition, of which the Library’s copy is 12th edition. Presented by Nancy Tuck. Q912.9441/1 one of only ten, contains an enlarged print of the View in Port Jackson. Presented by the Kevin Richard Raxworthy collection. On his recent Weldon & Friends Benefaction for Fine Australian retirement as a professional historian, Richard Publishing. ML MRB/ F1 Raxworthy completed the deposit, commenced in 1983, of his oral history tapes. A leader in the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign records, professional oral history community, his first and 1972–1998. WAAC was an early NSW women’s best known project was interviewing Sydney liberation organisation which originally operated Harbour Bridge builders in 1982. Presented by as an abortion clinic until operational costs Richard Raxworthy. Z MLOH 473, Z MLOH 474, proved unsustainable. Presented by Margaret Kirby. Z MLOH 477, Z MLOH 478, and Z MLOH 491 ML 172/03 Sidney Riley Studios glass photo negatives. The Riley Studio was based in Rozelle. This collection is chiefly wedding portraits taken during WWII and offers a rich social history of wedding protocols and fashions. Presented by Robin Barker. ON 262 Sketches of Australian Life by Henry Dashwood Sealy-Vidal. These sketches are based on Sealy- Vidal’s experiences as a clergyman in rural NSW between 1887 and 1905. Presented by A. S. Vidal. ML MSS 7188 The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Sydney, Museum of Sydney, V1, n1, March 5, 2003. This special edition was produced in 200 copies to commemorate the first issue of Sydney’s first newspaper. The type was set in ‘hot metal’ on a Mergenthaler Linotype machine, introduced into Australia in the early 1890s. Deposited under the provisions of Premier’s Wedding portrait by the Sidney Riley Studio Memorandum, 00-15. ML MRB/ F2-F3
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Major purchases at a glance 2002/03 Letter from Arthur Phillip to the Marquis of Lansdowne, 3 July 1788 Proper objects of Botany Bay Early English Books Online Album of photographs of Neidpath, Darling Point
Collection material is purchased to meet the of artists including replication of many of their information needs of clients and to fill gaps in signatures. REF/ N709.22/ 50 SET the Library’s heritage collection. Developing the Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, MI: collection to meet these two aims supports the ProQuest, 1999+. Consists of digitised versions of Library’s dual roles of providing information to over 125 000 books published in England in English people in NSW and documenting life in the state. between 1473 and 1700. Searching is enhanced by Purchases of printed, electronic and original indexing of illustrations, portraits, maps, tables and materials for the Library’s collection during printers’ details. When complete, this online 2002/03 include the following. collection will encompass virtually the entire publishing output in English over a period of Printed and electronic resources 227 years, comprising 22.5 million pages. Aboriginal legends. [Hungarrda] by David Ask at the information desk Unaipon. Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, 1927. Encyclopedia of exploration to 1800: a Unaipon’s first separate publication and the first in comprehensive reference guide to the history and Australia by an Aboriginal man. ML 398.20994/41 literature of exploration, travel and colonisation The Breelong blacks. Australia, c 1902. Separately from the earliest times to the year 1800. issued ballad narrative telling the story of the Jimmy Potts Point, NSW, Hordern House, 2003. Governor murders of 1900. ML Q821.912/12 Historical, biographical and bibliographical information about world exploration and discovery. Butterworths Online, Chatswood, NSW, ML REF1/Q910.903/1A Butterworths, 2002+. Legal information in an online version from sources including Australian Encyclopedia of life sciences. London, Nature Current Law, Bulletins, CaseBase, Federal Statutes Publishing Group, 2002. A major reference in the Annotations, Ford’s Principles of Corporations Law, life sciences with over 2000 articles on subject Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, Victorian Reports, areas including biochemistry, diversity of life, Victorian Statutes, Annotations and Unreported ecology, genetics, microbiology, neuroscience, Judgments. Ask at the information desk plant science and virology. SRL REF NQ570.3/2 SET CDATA: Full GIS and Quickbuild versions, Encyclopedia of the United Nations and Canberra, ACT, Australian Bureau of Statistics, international agreements. 3rd ed. New York, 2002. Statistical information from the 2001 Australian London. Routledge, 2003. This extensively census. Quickbuild enables census data to be revised and expanded edition covers the work of selected for specific geographical areas and shown the UN and its agencies and includes the text of as tables, maps or graphs. Full GIS enables analysis declarations of the UN General Assembly on and integration of the information with customisable political, social and economic issues. output options. Ask at the information desk SRL REF/NQ341.2303/3 SET Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres Fitzherberts booke of husbandrie by John sculpteurs dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les Fitzherbert. London: Edward White, 1598. The first temps et de tous les pays/par un groupe edition of this work, published in 1523, is the d’écrivains spécialistes Français et étrangers. earliest practical farmer’s manual published in Nouvelle édition. Paris: Gründ, 1999. A dictionary English. This edition is considered to be the
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New Catholic encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Detroit, Thomson/Gale; Washington, DC, Catholic University of America, 2002/03. A thoroughly revised and updated edition of an encyclopedia about a major religion. SRL REF NQ282.03/6 SET Programme of concert in
Drawings of Australian Aboriginal people by Alphonse Pellion, c. 1819 aid of wounded soldiers, Albert Hall, July 3, 1915, designed, illustrated and definitive version as it is presented in a modern lettered by Lloyd Rees. Brisbane, Wotton & form of English with a simple layout. RB/2554 Boyack, 1915. Concert programme, with drawings Historia plantarum, species hactenus editas of Australian soldiers in WW1 settings such as aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & bombarding Dardenelles forts; marching to take up descriptas complectens, by John Ray. London, new positions, Antwerp; and the main hospital, Mariae Clark, 1686–1704. A botanical dictionary in Heliopolis, Australian Base. M 940.394/33 three folio volumes using Ray’s own system of Proper objects for Botany Bay. London: J. Pitt, classification to describe 7000 species of plant life, c. 1815. A rare broadside ballad about the kinds of including plants William Dampier brought back people who should be transported to Botany Bay. from the coast of Western Australia. ML MRB F4-F6 ML MRB/ Q8 Histoire curieuse des Aborigenes d’Australie, Times Digital Archive, 1785–1985. Farmington cannibales tatoues, traqueurs noirs et lanceurs Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002+. Comprehensive du boomerang, tribu male et femelle, by searchable online access to every issue of R. A. Cunningham. Brussels, Imprimerie- The Times (London) over a 200 year period. Lithographie Lhoest, 1884. A description of nine Ask at the information desk. Aboriginal people removed from North Queensland by American showman, Cunningham, in 1883 for exhibition in America and Europe by P. T. Barnum. Original Materials ML 306.08999/14 Drawings of Australian Aborigines, by Alphonse Pellion. An outstanding series of drawings and The history of the valorous and wittie knight-errant etchings depicting Aboriginal males from the Don Quixote of the Mancha, parts one and two, Nepean and Springwood area in 1819. Pellion was by Miguel De Cervantes (translated by Thomas a midshipman aboard the French vessel L’Uraine on Shelton, 1612). Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1927– expedition around the Pacific.PXD 923 1928. A leader in the 19th-century revival of fine English printing, the Ashendene Press set all of its Album of photographs of Neidpath, Darling Point, editions by hand and issued only 40 titles in the by Harold Cazneaux. This beautiful album of 39 years from 1895–1915 and 1920–1935. RB/F428-9 photoprints, taken in 1927, documents the splendid home of woolbroker James McGregor. PXE 900 Life support program. Wantirna South, Vic., Nightingale Productions, 2002. A first aid teaching King family portrait, by Robert Dighton. This program endorsed by the Ambulance Employee’s watercolour portrait was painted in 1799 just prior Association of Victoria, including 12 videos to the King family’s departure for the colony and covering specific first aid topics and associated features the third Governor of NSW, Philip Gidley class handouts. R VB12465-12476 King, with his wife, Anna Josepha, and their three
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children, Phillip Parker, Anna Maria and Elizabeth. experiences at the mission and his voyage back to ML 1244 England in 1843, a year before the mission was abandoned. ML MSS 7239 View of George Street, by Jacob Janssen. This unusual watercolour view of Sydney Cove from Deas Thomson Family Letters, 1829-1837. Edward above Campbell Wharf was probably painted in the Deas Thomson became NSW Colonial Secretary in early 1850s, and is particularly interesting for its 1837, and this collection includes 67 letters to his depiction of Rocks architecture and surprisingly father and brother, detailing colonial life in early multicultural street life. XV/67 19th century Sydney. ML 712/66 Henri de Saules de Freycinet, by unknown artist. Letterbook of George Johnston, 1803-1807, This pastel portrait, dated by family tradition to containing copies of letters written by Johnston 1794, depicts the elder brother of Louis de and several letters received by him. Lieutenant, Freycinet. The Freycinet brothers accompanied later Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston, sailed Nicolas Baudin on his exploration of the Australian with the marine detachment of the First Fleet and coastline between 1801–1804. It is said that Henri played a leading role in the suppression of the revolt was the first member of the expedition to step onto by armed Irish convicts at Vinegar Hill in 1804. He Australian soil. ML 1247 achieved fame as a key figure in the Rum Rebellion, the uprising that led to the overthrow of Governor Drawings by Roy Dalgarno. A fine draughtsman, William Bligh. ML MSS 7199 active in left-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s, Dalgarno enjoyed depicting workers and work. This Asia ex magna orbis terrae descriptione Gerardi collection of 37 drawings concentrates on portraits Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G. M. of union officials, stockmen at Tibooburra and Iunioris, map by Gerard Mercator, the younger. miners at Broken Hill. PXD 939 First published in Mercator’s Atlas sive Cosmographicae in 1595, this popular map was Digital photoprints of NSW judges and based on the famous world map of 1569 by Gerard prosecutors, by Mark Tedeschi. These perceptive Mercator. It shows all of Asia, East Indies, Nova portraits of legal figures are enhanced by the Guinea and Terrae Australis Pars. M2 400 1595 1 photographer’s personal knowledge of his subjects as a co-worker and Crown Prosecutor. PXA975 Kankyo Shinkan Yochi Zenzu. World map by Sato Masayoshi, Edo: [1862]. This rare and important Letter from Arthur Phillip to the Marquis of ‘newly edited map of the whole world’ is the first Lansdowne, 3 July 1788. This letter is one of the Japanese large and rectangular world map on the earliest sent from the newly established colony at Mercator’s projection. Sato Masayoshi’s 1861 Sydney Cove. It includes Phillip’s impressions of preface to this hand-coloured woodblock print the Eora people who inhabited the region around states that the map was based on an 1857 Dutch Port Jackson and his famous description of Sydney world map. MAQ 100 1862 1 harbour: ‘Here a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security’. ML MSS 7241 Interviews with eminent Australian women scientists. Nessy Allen conducted these carefully Letters from Patrick White to Ingmar Bjorksten. researched interviews with 20 prominent women A collection of 33 letters and postcards written scientists born between 1900 and 1930. Included between 1962 and 1985 to the Swedish critic and are Dr Joan Freeman, a nuclear physicist, and the novelist Ingmar Bjorksten, whose efforts were only woman to win the Rutherford Medal for instrumental in securing White’s Nobel Prize for physics; Dr Isobel Bennett, one of Australia’s Literature in 1973. ML MSS 7246 foremost marine scientists; and Dr Ruth Sanger, Journals of William Porter, 1838-1843. In 1837 haemotologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and William Porter was appointed agriculturist at the a pioneer in blood transfusion. Z MLOH 471/1-31 Wellington Valley Mission, established in 1832 to introduce Christianity to the Indigenous people west of the Great Dividing Range. The journals record his
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Additions at a glance 2002/03
Number or items added this year (excluding manuscripts) 80 874 Linear metres of manuscripts acquired this year 127.44 Current serial titles (physical formats) 14 519 Full-text online serial titles 4953 Web publications preserved 421 Pages, pictorial images digitised 15 763
The Library’s collection contains over 5 million items, including books, journals, newspapers, government publications, maps, pictures, manuscripts, ephemera, oral histories and audiovisual materials. Special format materials for people with a disability, and resources in 42 community languages are also acquired.
STATE REFERENCE LIBRARY Additions Additions Additions Total as at 00/01 01/02 02/03 30.6.03 Monograph volumes 13 926 13 216 11 825 916 008 Bound serials 4 297 4937 6 152 458 357 Newspaper volumes 272 537 547 52 100 Microfilm reels 3 462 4 185 5 596 95 556 Microfiche 11 457 9 360 11 343 890 919 Computer files 494 449 430 7 656 Audio tapes and disks 614 164 177 9 094 Kits 23 27 25 456 16 mm film 0 0 0 13 064 Video cassettes and disks 259 282 259 10 718 Vertical file material 0 0 0 25 440 Rare Books and Special Collections Monograph volumes and bound serials 30 41 35 25 150 Donald Macpherson Collection Monograph volumes and bound serials 0 0 0 4 643 Shakespeare Tercentenary Library Monograph volumes and bound serials 2 6 30 5 529 Multicultural Service Monograph volumes 1 910 1 898 -2 097 59 707 Talking books 34 126 147 878 Kits 0 0 0 400 Disability Access Service Large print books 55 52 106 5 545 Talking books 832 844 899 12 415 Reading development material 4 -59 -698 1 197 Captioned videos 8 -6 -2 1 285
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MITCHELL LIBRARY Additions Additions Additions Total as at 00/01 01/02 02/03 30.6.03 Monograph volumes 8 901 12 663 8 642 358 083 Bound serials 1 816 2 775 2 166 165 144 Sheet music 6 39 52 22 174 Microfilm reels 44 461 714 41 663 Microfiche 1 781 413 3 264 110 419 Computer files 43 73 60 355 Audiovisual material 0 0 0 590 Posters 361 175 344 8 026 Bookjackets 360 481 462 21 140 Ephemera 1 344 409 1 377 103 802 Manuscripts Manuscripts (in linear metres) 660m 83.56m 127.44 10 497m Oral history (in hours) 450hr 602 335 7 473hr Maps Individual 540 295 310 19 076 Series sheets 466 280 165 78 450 Aperture cards 0 0 0 71 831 Pictures Paintings 54 72 20 2 025 Prints and drawings 2 636 2 628 1 075 123 318 Realia 34 149 190 2 849 Photographs and negatives 35 323 20 601 26 534 1 075 773 Architectural plans 10 322 7 642 725 105 229
DIXSON LIBRARY (a closed collection) Monographs and bound serials 0 0 0 20,970 Manuscripts (in linear metres) 0 0 0 42.9m Pictures Portfolios 0 0 0 205 Single items 0 0 0 1 581 Maps 0 0 0 1 082 Realia 0 0 0 268 Coins, tokens, medals 0 0 0 8 156 Paper currency 0 0 0 800 Postage stamps 0 0 0 9 707
37 Riverina mobile library launched The Riverina mobile library is a true ‘library on wheels’ and offers all the services of a conventional library, including a technology centre, children’s services and more than 10 000 books, magazines, videos and DVDs. The library was supported by a 2001/02 Library Development Grant of $150 000. Public library grants and subsidies Allocation of public library funds 2002/03
In 2002/03, the Minister for the Arts approved the Additional funding allocation of subsidies for local government The Minister for the Arts approved the allocation authorities according to the Library Regulation 2000 of funding to: and the following formula: 1. NSW.net Base grant — 5% Statewide connectivity for public libraries — Allocated equally to all councils that comply with $2m the Library Act, 1939. 2. Library development grants Population grant — 69.5% In addition to (c) above — $1.25m Allocated to councils according to population 3. Special Purpose Grants. figures as published each year by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as Preliminary Estimates. The Minister approved the Library Council’s recommendation that Local Special Project funding Disability loading — 4.5% ($808 500) and Collections funding ($250 000) be Allocated according to each council’s weighted combined with additional 2002/03 State population derived from the Grants Commission Government funding ($1 249 000) to form Special disability factors for: Purpose Grants. The Local Special Project and ● isolation 1.5% Collections funding continued to be equally allocated to all local authorities providing public ● population distribution 1.5% library services. ● demographic composition 1.5%. The Minister approved the allocation of the Local special projects — 5% additional $1.249m using the base, population In 1995/96 the Minister approved the Funding and disability components of the 1990 Funding Formula Review Committee’s recommendation that Formula. Special Purpose Grants were made to the Contribution Incentive be replaced by Local local authorities providing library services under Special Projects. Local Special Projects were the following categories: available under the following categories: ● Technology ● Building ● Technology ● Building ● Collections ● Research ● Collections ● Research ● Promotion ● Promotion Cooperative and networking activities The funding was allocated equally to all eligible ● Multicultural Purchasing Cooperative ($62 000) councils. ● email and website support ($6000) Library development grants — 16% ● interlibrary loan van subsidy ($20 000) Allocated by the Minister for the Arts upon the recommendation of the Library Council for the ● statewide network ($80 000) following purposes: ● continuing education ($65 000) a) Cooperative and networking activities ● research projects ($89 200). supported by the Library Council up to a maximum of 2% of the total funds b) Royal Blind Society ($150 000) c) Library development grants available on application for the purpose of improving library services to the people of NSW.
39 Library development grants 2002/03
Council Project Amount Recommended $ Armidale Video collection enhancement 57 718 Auburn The YES Program: A vision 4 the youth of Auburn 30 457 Baulkham Hills Discover Reading Collection 13 000 Berrigan Barooga library development 87 222 Bingara Acquisition of microfilm reader/printer 22 210 Blacktown Dreamweaver kits 43 889 Blacktown Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu collections 53 064 Blue Mountains Book Express Service – operating from two major railway stations 18 847 Boorowa Boorowa library refurbishment 7 964 Broken Hill Outback Letterbox Library 86 900 Byron Mullumbimby access project 4 190 Camden Library marketing strategy 23 481 Canterbury Multicultural services improvements 144 837 Carrathool Books in the Outback 20 000 Coffs Harbour Indexing the Advocate 58 857 Dubbo Refurbishment of Dubbo Branch 127 823 Dubbo Enhancement of Large Print Collection 33 440 Eurobodalla In the Picture: developing a video and DVD collection 15 300 Fairfield Visual Image Project: Libraries in tune with retail technology 45 989 Gosford Decentralised toy library project 13 353 Goulburn Southern Tablelands audio CD service 57 028 Grafton Resources – adult fiction 42 000 Great Lakes Enhancement of marketing/promotional skills for NSW public libraries 39 558 Great Lakes Literature enhancement program 27 825 Greater Taree Formats for the future: DVD collection 14 077 Gundagai Pilot Gundagai project 24 000 Gunnedah Gunnedah past to present 12 874 Gunning Extension of Gunning Library 163 000 Hastings A Place for U-TH 23 768 Holroyd Multilingual word processing software 10 916 Hume Mobile library telecentre 200 000 Inverell Large print and audio book collections 31 175 Kempsey Early reading resources 16 266 Kogarah Local studies and family history enhancement 38 527 Ku-ring-gai Access to Chinese fiction 10 000 Kyogle A New Mobile Library – providing a better service 152 818
40 > Public library grants and subsidies
Council Project Amount Recommended $ Lake Macquarie Technology and training facilities – Toronto Library 11 372 Lismore Relocation and refurbishment of Lismore library 200 000 Liverpool User and non-user needs survey 32 000 Manly DVDs for Manly: All for one and one for all 20 570 Murray New resources for new service 32 500 Nambucca Macksville Library extensions 187 600 Narrandera Outback and on the Road – A shared access technology acquisition 8 953 Narromine Access to Narromine Shire history 34 436 Oberon Equitable and improved access to library services 22 058 Parkes Re-sparking the child’s imagination 45 153 Randwick From Vertical to Virtual 15 960 Richmond Valley Air conditioning at Casino and Evans Head libraries 23 120 Ryde A fit out for the new West Ryde Branch Library 200 000 Shoalhaven More pots in the cupboard – redesigning to improve 34 711 Singleton Refurnishing of children’s area 3 681 Tamworth It’s a web world 200 000 Tenterfield Keeping abreast of technology: DVDs 7 018 Warren Connecting the libraries of the north west 195 376 Waverley Russian Resources: A centre of excellence 30 452 Waverley (MPLA) Multilingual campaign to promote public library services to the multicultural community of Sydney (Stage 2) 71 830 Weddin Captivating kids and tempting teens: upgrading junior services 10 903 Willoughby Establishment of AV collection: DVD and CD format 24 835 Woollahra Replacement of textbased library management system with Windows GUI based system 45 000 Yallaroi Know thyself 32 000 Young New shelving and signage 11 387
Remote but reading! Broken Hill Library’s Outback Letterbox Library delivers the goods!
41 Public libraries subsidies, special purpose grants and voted expenditure 2002/03
Council Subsidy Special purpose grant Total expenditure voted 2002/03 2002/03 July 2002 to June 2003 per head $ $ $ $ Albury 80 136 14 057 1 177 690 27.62 Armidale Dumaresq 48 522 10 881 783 164 32.12 Ashfield 80 019 14 036 1 130 342 # 26.68 Auburn 113 846 17 325 2 196 900 37.12 Ballina 72 841 13 288 809 104 21.56 Balranald 11 743 7 174 64 956 22.97 Bankstown 322 111 37 857 4 702 487 27.01 Barraba 9 194 6 950 72 532 33.97 Bathurst 57 966 11 863 925 803 30.19 Baulkham Hills 267 384 31 785 4 719 378 32.65 Bega Valley 64 614 12 320 528 890 18.08 Bellingen 30 834 9 038 258 550 20.67 Berrigan 23 016 8 255 678 310 84.21 Bingara 9 037 6 929 28 000 14.49 Blacktown 491 076 54 581 6 058 281 23.19 Bland 19 328 7 893 221 411 36.04 Blayney 16 694 7 698 114 385 18.07 Blue Mountains 147 020 20 600 1 446 181 18.80 Bogan 12 196 7 223 132 919 42.01 Bombala 10 895 7 103 151 481 56.29 Boorowa 9 705 7 000 40 175 16.68 Botany 69 976 13 034 1 443 755 39.31 Bourke 15 096 7 467 163 100 44.44 Brewarrina 11 473 7 128 62 768 28.57 Broken Hill 47 244 10 610 826 734 41.14 Burwood 59 646 11 999 1 774 373 57.55 Byron 59 041 11 902 724 500 24.51 Cabonne 28 168 8 811 178 506 14.90 Camden 85 469 14 559 1 278 207 28.47 Campbelltown 278 135 33 594 8 827 700 58.72 Canada Bay 114 941 17 398 1 313 000 21.13 Canterbury 263 155 32 109 4 135 971 29.52 Carrathool 13 054 7 287 166 631 53.65 Cessnock 90 817 15 044 948 900 20.33 Cobar 19 282 7 862 277 500 51.01 Coffs Harbour 112 661 17 285 1 133 400 18.61 Conargo 13 357 13 410 70 300 39.88 Coolah 13 157 7 319 85 423 22.97 Coolamon 12 768 7 298 71 550 18.16 Cooma-Monaro 23 238 8 317 425 526 46.45 Coonabarabran 19 792 7 948 207 379 31.44 Coonamble 16 134 7 589 125 573 26.69 Cootamundra 19 701 7 970 143 760 19.59
42 > Public library grants and subsidies
Council Subsidy Special purpose grant Total expenditure voted 2002/03 2002/03 July 2002 to June 2003 per head $ $ $ $ Copmanhurst 13 332 7 350 30 431 7.34 Corowa 22 138 8 199 153 160 18.37 Cowra 29 150 8 910 242 100 19.26 Crookwell 12 927 7 325 178 065 41.30 Culcairn 13 004 7 318 105 829 26.54 Deniliquin 22 976 8 252 195 000 24.23 Dubbo 73 389 13 349 809 705 21.31 Dungog 20 014 8 020 168 092 21.11 Eurobodalla 69 836 12 847 798 188 24.68 Evans 13 992 7 444 61 984 11.92 Fairfield 361 576 41 802 4 130 452 21.49 Forbes 24 857 8 476 166 700 16.63 Gilgandra 13 913 7 411 138 584 30.53 Glen Innes 17 062 7 704 120 000 20.75 Gloucester 14 649 7 480 168 068 34.72 Gosford 300 094 35 834 3 820 232 23.55 Goulburn 40 478 10 102 589 207 28.82 Grafton 36 859 9 677 384 577 22.84 Great Lakes 67 926 12 676 773 425 24.37 Greater Taree 84 741 14 479 643 500 14.53 Griffith 51 889 11 135 572 718 23.63 Gundagai 12 379 7 258 68 475 18.53 Gunnedah 28 845 8 879 276 627 22.36 Gunning 9 121 6 949 49 505 21.81 Guyra 13 373 7 356 81 072 19.29 Harden 12 546 7 271 77 657 21.04 Hastings 120 585 18 032 1 692 128 26.51 Hawkesbury 123 593 18 229 1 762 620 28.00 Hay 14 074 7 386 86 182 23.92 Holbrook 9 716 7 004 75 666 30.57 Holroyd 166 720 22 433 1 982 832 22.00 Hornsby 279 716 32 965 3 545 601 23.45 Hume 19 277 7 939 90 515 12.25 Hunters Hill 29 027 8 959 426 200 30.38 Hurstville 137 318 19 608 4 026 515 54.25 Inverell 34 056 9 376 511 550 34.74 Jerilderie 8 761 6 904 49 367 26.93 Junee 15 976 7 622 108 434 18.57 Kempsey 55 234 11 514 650 270 23.88 Kiama 39 698 10 009 680 690 34.67 Kogarah 100 370 16 041 1 344 105 24.77 Ku-ring-gai 202 122 25 639 3 377 300 30.91
43 > Public libraries subsidies, special purpose grants and voted expenditure 2002/03
Council Subsidy Special purpose grant Total expenditure voted 2002/03 2002/03 July 2002 to June 2003 per head $ $ $ $ Kyogle 24 169 8 406 161 106 16.79 Lachlan 22 689 8 190 268 650 38.08 Lake Macquarie 345 855 40 341 6 426 349 34.55 Lane Cove 60 026 12 077 1 935 665 60.44 Leeton 29 904 8 945 230 541 19.23 Leichhardt 117 064 17 522 2 079 903 32.87 Lismore 80 261 14 075 893 100 20.84 Lithgow 40 555 10 086 966 398 48.56 Liverpool 294 395 35 123 4 435 668 28.61 Lockhart 11 796 7 200 65 569 19.57 Maclean 39 132 9 859 288 686 16.99 Maitland 102 294 16 270 1 981 690 35.84 Manilla 11 063 7 137 88 534 27.58 Manly 72 505 13 327 2 172 023 # 55.42 Marrickville 146 866 20 601 3 675 518 46.30 Merriwa 9 450 6 972 61 034 27.84 Moree Plains 39 433 9 808 594 714 39.29 Mosman 54 340 11 507 1 960 000 ## 68.13 Mudgee 39 669 9 948 643 323 35.38 Mulwaree 16 328 7 674 81 256 12.62 Murray 18 776 7 846 103 001 17.13 Murrumbidgee 10 959 7 109 18 712 # 6.93 Murrurundi 9 008 6 934 70 400 33.43 Muswellbrook 33 776 9 373 302 773 19.94 Nambucca 38 056 9 791 548 100 31.55 Narrabri 33 453 9 287 260 437 19.05 Narrandera 19 118 7 897 201 483 30.33 Narromine 17 658 7 779 176 107 27.10 Newcastle 262 785 31 506 6 207 098 43.70 North Sydney 109 701 16 842 2 087 267 35.20 Nundle 7 355 6 776 14 060 10.48 Oberon 13 842 7 413 176 572 37.26 Orange 69 223 12 965 2 011 500 55.20 Parkes 34 277 9 404 513 625 34.24 Parramatta 274 614 32 902 4 621 328 31.13 Parry 26 718 8 690 133 941 11.38 Penrith 325 750 38 363 4 238 645 24.07 Pittwater 104 481 16 424 2 185 303 38.69 Port Stephens 114 924 17 353 1 159 487 20.06 Pristine Waters 27 775 8 726 98 155 9.23 Queanbeyan 61 055 12 129 945 449 30.15 Quirindi 14 137 7 437 122 800 25.84 Randwick 235 758 29 018 3 808 398 29.88
44 > Public library grants and subsidies
Council Subsidy Special purpose grant Total expenditure voted 2002/03 2002/03 July 2002 to June 2003 per head $ $ $ $ Richmond Valley 46 894 10 593 300 500 14.78 Rockdale 171 219 22 990 2 610 610 28.21 Ryde 182 127 23 872 4 661 673 47.35 Rylstone 11 964 7 224 83 262 22.92 Scone 23 420 8 341 152 432 16.17 Severn 10 903 7111 75 000 26.28 Shellharbour 109 655 16 984 1 199 940 20.42 Shoalhaven 170 498 22 727 2 219 249 26.20 Singleton 42 746 10 286 1 921 140 ** 92.93 Snowy River 20 146 7 973 141 800 21.61 South Sydney 163 781 22 019 1 647 981 18.61 Strathfield 56 399 11 677 793 840 27.33 Sutherland 397 012 44 346 4 503 790 20.99 Sydney 52 300 11 275 2 518 862 93.60 Tallaganda 9 951 7 028 91 330 34.78 Tamworth 67 210 12 774 924 145 25.98 Temora 16 851 7 692 155 812 26.47 Tenterfield 19 631 7 932 288 000 44.18 Tumbarumba 12 579 7 266 84 784 24.15 Tumut 26 972 8 684 315 769 28.41 Tweed 147 153 20 450 1 576 430 21.61 Uralla 15 580 7 583 85 999 15.30 Urana 8 019 6 833 41 744 27.98 Wagga Wagga 103 408 16 365 1 389 189 25.09 Wakool 17 594 7 702 114 115 24.19 Walcha 11 475 7 168 55 210 17.29 Walgett 26 281 8 506 194 064 24.22 Warren 12 034 7 215 163 755 50.03 Warringah 251 210 30 323 2 759 128 20.32 Waverley 120 109 17 898 3 557 279 54.79 Weddin 12 448 7 258 130 047 36.47 Wellington 21 230 8 133 183 405 21.71 Wentworth 20 549 8 024 649 682 92.35 Willoughby 117 697 17 689 2 423 600 38.09 Wingecarribee 80 729 14 072 1 337 000 31.92 Wollondilly 74 343 13 370 733 015 19.97 Wollongong 348 311 40 199 5 167 211 27.44 Woollahra 101 883 16 149 2 364 896 42.94 Wyong 253 383 31 164 2 743 868 20.27 Yallaroi 11 921 7 198 96 150 31.33 Yarrowlumla 22 852 8 319 112 109 11.24 Yass 22 978 8 316 200 419 20.78 Young 27 477 8 729 141 853 12.59
# Excluding depreciation ## Including depreciation 45 ** Includes $1 098 975 for new library building First Fleet Journals transcribed by volunteers The Library’s 170 volunteers contributed 12 019 hours of work on projects ranging from hosting events nights and free tours, to transcription of rare materials, cataloguing and the Mitchell Bequest program.
Broken Bay, New South Wales, William Bradley, March 1788, drawing from the First Fleet journal titled ‘A Voyage to New South Wales’ Council, staff and friends Members of the Library Council of NSW as at 30 June 2003
The Library Act 1939, as amended by the Cultural Institutions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1989, provides that there shall be a Library Council of nine members nominated by the Minister and appointed for a three-year term by the Governor.
The Hon. Justice Mahla Pearlman Mr Robert Knight AM, BA, LLB (Hons) BA President Manager, Recreation and Cultural Services Appointed 1996; current term ends December 2004 Wagga Wagga City Council Appointed 2003; current term ends December 2005 Ms Belinda Hutchinson BEc, FCA Mr Paul A. Murnane Deputy President BEc, MBA Consultant, Macquarie Bank Ltd Executive Director, JBWere Limited Appointed 1997; current term ends December 2003 Appointed 2003; current term ends December 2005
Dr John Barclay Mr Robert Purves BA, DipEd, DipLib, MEd, PhD, GradDipEmpRel BCom Director, Personnel Relations Chairman, DCA Group Limited/President Australian Catholic University WWF (Australia) Limited Appointed 2002; current term ends December 2004 Appointed 2000; current term ends December 2005
Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier BA (Hons), PhD BA, DipLib, MLib, Hon DLitt, FALIA ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in Modern History State Librarian & Chief Executive and Politics, Macquarie University and Secretary to the Library Council Appointed 2003; current term ends December 2003 State Librarian from 1995
Mr Wal King Mr David Sherbon AM, BE, MEngSc, Hon DSc, Hon FIEAust, CPEng, BA Econ (Hons) FAIM, FAIB, FTSE Executive Chairman Chief Executive Officer, Leighton Holdings Limited The Synthesis Consulting Group Pty Ltd Appointed 2002; current term ends December 2004 Appointed 1997; current term ends 2003
Council attendance record Ten meetings were held in 2002/03 The Hon. Justice Mahla Pearlman, AM, President 10 Ms Belinda Hutchinson, Deputy President 9 Dr John Barclay 9 Professor Wendy Brady (to December 2002) Nil Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley (from January 2003) 4 Mr Wal King, AM (from August 2002) 3 Mr Robert Knight (from January 2003) 4 Ms Jennifer Lindsay (to August 2002) 1 Dr Veronica Lunn (to December 2002) 4 Mr Paul A. Murnane (from January 2003) 4 Mr Robert Purves 10 Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier, Secretary 10 Mr David Sherbon 9
47 Standing committees of the Library Council of NSW as at 30 June 2003
Finance Committee Library Act Review Committee In accordance with the Library Act 1939, Section Reviews and makes recommendations for the 7B, the Finance Committee is delegated Council’s amendment of the Library Act 1939 powers of investment, makes decisions concerning Members the management of Council and Library Foundation The Hon. Justice Mahla Pearlman, AM (Chair) funds, and refers them to Council for information. Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier Members Ms Bronwyn Coop, Manager, Policy & Research Mr David Sherbon (Chair) Ms Kathleen Bresnahan Ms Belinda Hutchinson Mr Wal King, AM Public Libraries Consultative Committee The Hon. Justice Mahla Pearlman, AM Provides a consultative framework for the Mr Robert Purves Library Council, the State Library and key Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier stakeholders in local government concerning State Librarian & Chief Executive public library services. Mr Paul McKinnon Members A/Director, Resource Management, in attendance Mr Robert Knight (Chair) Grants Committee Library Council of NSW Mr Noel Baum, the Local Government Association Assesses applications for Library Development of NSW & the Shires Association of NSW Grants received from local authorities in NSW; Mr John Cumberford, Secretary, defines priority areas for grants and makes Country Public Libraries Association (CPLA) recommendations to the Council about the Councillor Beverley Giegerl, the Local allocation of these grants, for approval by the Government Association of NSW & the Shires Minister for the Arts. Association of NSW Members Ms Anne Hall, Secretary, Metropolitan Public Mr Robert Purves (Chair) Libraries Association (MPLA) Dr John Barclay Councillor Kath Knowles, Chairman, CPLA Mr Chris Williams Mr Paul A. Murnane, Library Council of NSW Director, Library & Information Services Ms Jan Richards, CPLA Ms Kathleen Bresnahan Ms Susan Roberts, MPLA Manager, Public Libraries Branch, in attendance Mr Greg Smith, Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA), NSW Division C. H. Currey Fellowship and Nancy Keesing Councillor Robyn Whelan, President, MPLA Fellowship Committee Ms Kathleen Bresnahan, State Library of NSW Assesses applications for the Currey and Keesing (SLNSW) Fellowships, and makes recommendations to the Ms Bronwyn Coop, SLNSW Council about the award of the Fellowships. Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier, SLNSW Members Mr Chris Williams, SLNSW Dr John Barclay (Chair) Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley Ms Elizabeth Ellis, Mitchell Librarian and Director, Collection Management
48 > Council, staff and friends
State Library of New South Wales Friends of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation Board Committee At its meeting on 22 July 2002 Library Council The committee plans a program of fundraising resolved to approve the implementation of the activities and functions for members of the Friends proposals set out below based on the Constitution of the State Library of NSW, and manages and and to seek legal advice in regard to conforming promotes Friends’ memberships. to the terms of the Constitution: Members ● the members of Library Council are the The Hon. Justice David Levine, RFD (Chair) Trustees of the Foundation Mr Arthur Easton Captain John Faulkner, AM ● the Trustees adopt the dual role of Trustee Emeritus Professor Brian Fletcher and member of the Foundation Board Mrs Maureen Fry ● the Trustees and Foundation Board comprise Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley the members of the Finance Committee of Ms Roslyn McDonald Library Council and any other members of Ms Margot McKenzie Library Council who wish to participate. Associate Professor Adrian Mitchell The remaining Foundation Board members have Mrs Margaret Whitlam, AO been notified and legal advice has been received In attendance confirming that no further action is required in Mr John Lechner regard to the Constitution.
State Library of New South Wales Foundation Trustees The Trustees were established by resolution of the Library Foundation Board, with a role to provide strategic direction, policy and financial management of the Foundation funds. Members The Hon. Justice Mahla Pearlman, AM (Chair) Ms Belinda Hutchinson Mr Paul A. Murnane Mr Robert Purves Mr David Sherbon Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier In attendance Mr John Lechner Executive Director State Library of New South Wales Foundation Mr Paul McKinnon A/Director, Resource Management Volunteer Terry Walker transcribing the Johnston letters of 1811 and 1812
49 Committees of the State Library of NSW as at 30 June 2003
Executive Committee Architectural Honorary Advisory Committee Strategic policy development and corporate-level To promote and advise on appropriate additions Library management. to the State Library’s architectural collections. Convened by Elizabeth Ellis, chaired by Members 2002/03 Emeritus Professor Neville Quarry, AM ● Dagmar Schmidmaier BA, DipLib, Mlib, Hon DLitt UNSW, FALIA Copyright Committee State Librarian & Chief Executive (Chair) To provide expert advice to Executive on copyright ● Bronwyn Coop issues, including advising on copyright law reform BA (Hons) initiatives and developing Library policies A/Director Strategy & CIO (until February 2003) on copyright. Chaired by Elizabeth Ellis Manager, Policy and Research Disaster Response (from February 2003) To maintain awareness of potential threats to the ● Elizabeth Ellis collection and IT issues associated with business BA, DipLib continuity, and update counter disaster plans. Mitchell Librarian & Director, Convened by Heather Mansell, Manager, Preservation Collection Management ● Wilma Norris Electronic Resources Networking Initiative BA, AALIA To advise on requirements for electronic resources Director, Education & Client Liaison in the Library and plan for the effective ● Paul McKinnon management of, and access to, electronic resources. MBA CPA Convened by Karen Small, Senior Librarian, A/Director, Resource Management Information Services ● Chris Williams BCom, AALIA Exhibitions Advisory Committee Director, Library & Information Services Planning the Library’s exhibition program and ● Graham Williams developing related policies, procedures and BCom (Merit) promotion strategies. Executive Officer: Avryl MICAA, Member of Institute of Chartered Whitnall, Curator of Exhibitions; chaired by Accountants in Australia Dagmar Schmidmaier A/Manager, Financial Services Expert Reference Group for Di@YLL ● Colin Bradley To provide strategic advice on the development BBus, Grad Dip Org Dev, Grad Dip Comp, MHA, and implementation of access to quality information MAITD, AFAHRI, AFAIM, AFCHSE, CHE on illicit drugs. Convened by Kate O’Grady; chaired A/Manager, Human Resources by Leanne Perry, Manager, HIS ● Therese Lake BA (LibSc), Grad Dip Comm Mgmt External Exhibition Loans Committee Manager, Information Services To review requests, policy and procedure ● Jennifer Peasley for external loans to institutional exhibitions. BA, Dip Teach, Grad Dip Teacher Librarianship, Convened by Richard Neville, Manager, MBA Original Materials Assistant Director, Information Technology Health Information Service Advisory Committee ● John Lechner MFIA, MALIA To provide advice and support on strategic Executive Director, State Library of NSW Foundation directions of the HIS. Chaired by Chris Williams, Director, Library & Information Services ● Ray Wing-Lun BA (Hons), MA (Marketing) Director, Organisational Review (November 2002 to May 2004, temporary position)
50 > Council, staff and friends
Heritage Collection Exhibition Working Party PICMAN Management Committee To provide direction and planning for the Nelson To ensure ongoing effective management of Meers Foundation Heritage Collection project. PICMAN. Convened by Richard Neville Convened by Rosemary Moon, Manager, Events & Exhibitions; chaired by Wilma Norris, Director, Preservation Microfilm Steering Committee Education & Client Liaison To raise awareness, resolve issues and make recommendations about preservation microfilming. INNOPAC Management Committee Convened by Heather Mansell Ensuring effective management of the INNOPAC library management system. Project 2001–2010 Steering Committees Convened by Christine Edwards, Systems Librarian To develop Project 2001–2010 and advise on planning, development and implementation of LIAC Advisory Board each year of the program. Executive Officer: To guide LIAC’s strategic development. Anne Doherty, Project Coordinator; chaired by Executive Officer: Elizabeth McKibbin, Wilma Norris Manager, LIAC; chaired by the Hon. Justice Mahla Pearlman, AM Public Library Research Committee To inform the promotion, planning and development Mentoring Pilot Project Team of libraries with quality research and evaluation. To promote and support the pilot mentoring Convened by Kerrie Burgess, Research Coordinator program. Convened by Nadyne Eggleton, State Library Spokeswoman Stack Management Committee To plan and implement stack management Mitchell Operations and Planning Group including offsite storage. Convened by Grazyna Coordinating operational matters for the Mitchell Tydda, Leader, Offsite Information Services Reading Room and collections between Information Services and Original Materials Branches. State Library Building Committee Convened by Therese Lake, Manager, To plan and coordinate Library building projects, Information Services whilst ensuring continued service for clients. Convened by Dagmar Schmidmaier Newsbreak Editorial Group To plan and schedule content for Newsbreak, State Library Industrial Consultative Committee the fortnightly staff newsletter. Convened by Forum for discussion of industrial relations issues Marion Roubos-Bennett, Senior Project Officer, within the Library. Chaired by Chris Williams, Publications & Design Director, Library & Information Services and Karen Ryles, State Library Workplace Committee, Occupational Heath & Safety Committee alternately. To identify and implement programs and monitor outcomes according to the Library’s OH&S Upfront Committee Strategic Plan. Convened by Jason Pacey, Planning for Upfront, the journal of the friends Information Officer, Education & Client Liaison and supporters of the State Library. Chaired by Wilma Norris OPAC Committee Developing the computer catalogue’s interface and Volunteer and Staff Council content, improving access to the collections both in To coordinate and promote the State Library the Library and through the website. Volunteer Program. Convened by Valerie Noake, Convened by Mark Hildebrand, Dixson Librarian Manager, Community Programs
51 Representation on key external committees as at 30 June 2003
Australian Drug Information Network Consortium Book Industry Assistance Plan Management Committee Wilma Norris, Director Education & Client Liaison Leanne Perry, Manager, Health Information Service representing the Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL) AGSL Metadata Reference Group (NSW Government) Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL) Jim Tindall, Librarian, Collection Services Dagmar Schmidmaier (Chair)
AusHeritage Ltd Board of Directors CASL Working Groups Heather Mansell, Manager, Preservation State Library staff are represented on all CASL working groups. Australian Academic and Research Libraries Editorial Board CISH (International Congress of Historical Dagmar Schmidmaier, State Librarian Sciences) 2005 Conference Organising Committee & Chief Executive Elizabeth Ellis, Mitchell Librarian & Director, Collection Management Australian Dictionary of Biography NSW Working Party Community Technology Centre Program Regional Warwick Hirst, A/Curator of Manuscripts IT Advisory Group Charles Jago, Principal Project Coordinator, Australian Digital Alliance NSW.net Dagmar Schmidmaier (Director) Exhibition Advisory Group: Treasures from Australian Institute for the Conservation of Australia’s Great Libraries Cultural Material Inc (AICCM): NSW Committee Richard Neville Heather Mansell Catherine Thomson, Senior Conservator (Treasurer) Geographical Names Board of NSW Cheryl Evans, Curator of Maps Australian Libraries Copyright Committee Dagmar Schmidmaier History Council of NSW Management Committee Elizabeth Ellis Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Expert Group on Government Publications INNOPAC Users’ Group (Australia) Cheryl Grant, Senior Librarian, Collection Services Christine Edwards, Systems Librarian Susanne Moir, Coordinator, Bibliographic Access, ALIA Research Committee Collection Services Kerrie Burgess, Research Coordinator Justice Sector Metadata Standards: Australian Pictorial Thesaurus Thesaurus Working Group Management Committee Sue Walden, Coordinator, LIAC Network Allison Kingscote, Thesaurus Coordinator; Richard Neville, Manager, Original Materials; Kinetica Advisory Committee Deborah Stumm, Manager, Digital Library Strategy Elizabeth Ellis (Convenor) Kinetica Users’ Group (NSW) Australian Standards IT 21/9 Records Susanne Moir Classification Sub-Committee LIDDAS Management and Development Group Stephen Bedford, Records Management Coordinator (to March 2003) Angela Yam, Document Delivery Service
52 > Council, staff and friends
Local Government Association of NSW and the NSW Public Libraries Marketing Working Group Shires Association of NSW Library and Victoria Anderson, Consultant, Information Services Reference Group Public Libraries Branch Kathleen Bresnahan, Manager, NSW Public Libraries Evaluation Group (PLEG) Public Libraries Branch Chris Williams, Director, Sue Parkinson, Consultant, Public Libraries Branch Library & Information Services Nita B. Kibble Literary Awards for Women Local Government Association of NSW and the Judging Panel Shires Association of NSW Community Planning Paul Brunton, Senior Curator, Mitchell Library and Services Committee Online Legal Information Network (OLIN) Kathleen Bresnahan Elizabeth McKibbin, Manager, LIAC
Local Government Association of NSW and the Oral History Association of Australia Shires Association of NSW Cultural Agencies Rosemary Block, Curator of Oral History, Steering Committee Original Materials (President) Kathleen Bresnahan PANDORA Consultative Committee Metropolitan Public Libraries Association (MPLA) Deborah Stumm Kathleen Bresnahan (observer) Chris Williams (observer) PictureAustralia National Participants Committee Richard Neville Metropolitan Public Libraries Association (MPLA) Deborah Stumm Working Group on Multicultural Library Services Oriana Acevedo, Consultant, Public Libraries Branch Quong Tart Centenary Commemoration Shauna Miller, Senior Library Technician, Committee Multicultural Purchasing Cooperative (Secretary) Jennifer O’Callaghan, Librarian, Original Materials
Miles Franklin Literary Award Judging Panel Sydney Curatorial and Custodial Institutions Dagmar Schmidmaier Disaster Preparedness Group Heather Mansell Museums Australia Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group Tourism New South Wales Working Forum Kerrie Burgess (Vice President) Rosemary Moon, Manager, Events & Exhibitions
Museums Australia, Performing Arts Special University of New South Wales Information Interest Group Management Program Advisory Committee Jerelynn Brown, Manager, Collection Services Dagmar Schmidmaier
National Museums and Galleries Association University of Technology Sydney Faculty Avryl Whitnall, Curator of Exhibitions Advisory Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences National Plan for Australian Newspapers Dagmar Schmidmaier Jerelynn Brown (Convenor) Women’s Information Referral Service National Resource Sharing Working Group and Reference Group Policy Committee Leanne Perry Therese Lake, Manager, Information Services (CASL representative)
NSW Law Week Committee Sarah Condie, Senior Library Technician, LIAC
53 Staff publications, presentations and papers
Publications ‘Mysteries of the Patrick White manuscript’, The Library Society, April and May Fernandez, J. 2003 ‘Australian virtual libraries for Crocodile Dundee and the sheilas’, Online ‘William Bligh: fine art and rough words’. Australian March/April, vol. 27, n 2, pp. 27–31 Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Chatswood, June Kallenberger, N. & Noake, V. 2002 ‘State Library ‘Matthew Flinders: Indomitable explorer’, 104 of NSW: a commitment to learning’, Connections, presentations across Queensland, Northern issue 44, 2002, pp 6, 8 Territory, Tasmania, NSW and ACT Larkin, M. 2003 ‘Sutherland Shire: shaped ‘The diaries of Miles Franklin’, Friends of Strathfield by history’, in Jacqui Goddard, ed., Suburbia. Library; Jean Arnot Memorial Lecture, Sydney A conference, Sydney, National Trust of NSW Carr, A. 2003 ‘Discovering the history of the McKibbin, E. 2002 ‘Access to the Law: public Central West in the State Library of New South libraries and legal information’, Scottish Libraries Wales’, at ‘From Coal to Gold’ Local Studies Journal, vol. 17, n 1, pp 14–17 Information Seminar, Bathurst City Library, March Moir, S. 2002 ‘Collection digitisation at the State ‘Finding local history in the sporting collections of Library of NSW’, INNTouch, vol. 16, n 3, p 11. the Mitchell Library’, Local Studies Librarians’ December Workshop, State Library, May Neville, R. 2002/03 ‘George Edwards Peacock’, Condie, S. 2003 ‘Pathways to the Law’, Legal The World of Antiques and Art, July-December Studies Association Annual Legal Studies Conference, Sydney, April Frederick Garling in the Picture Gallery [exhibition gallery guide], SLNSW Curr, A. 2003 Chaired, ‘Web Development’, Online 2003 Conference, Sydney ‘Colour Sergeant Milton by William Reay’, in Lola Wilkins, ed., Artists in Action from the collections of Davies, A. 2003 ‘The fabric of photographs’, ALIA the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australian Local History Group seminar, Lismore, February War Memorial, 2003 Ellis, E. 2002/03 ‘The Villas of Darlinghurst’, Presentations and conference papers Queen’s Club; Australian Garden History Society Sydney, August Anemaat, L. 2003 ‘The Heritage Gallery’, Royal Sydney Golf Club, March ‘Recollections of some women associated with early white settlement of Australia’, Women’s Club, ‘First Fleet Journals’, Australian National Maritime Sydney, January Museum, June Grant, C. and Greiss, C. 2002/03 ‘Kinetica training Block, R. 2002/03 Oral history presentations to course’ 10 sessions, State Library associations, societies and clubs in Sydney and regional NSW Greiss, C. and Wong, W. 2003 ‘Transliteration training for Public Libraries’, two sessions, State Brown, J. 2003 ‘NSW Newspapers, NPLAN Library, May and the State Library of NSW’, The Australian newspaper press bicentenary symposium, Jones, D. J. 2002/03 ‘The new public library Sydney, March building’, School of Architecture, University of Newcastle, July Brunton, P. 2002/03 ‘The papers of George Bass’, Royal Sydney Golf Club, October ‘Pustaka Sibu: a world-class IT Library’, Sibu Municipal Council and Sibu Rural District Council, ‘The editing of Henry Lawson’s manuscripts’, Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia, April Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, January ‘Pustaka Sibu: planning issues’, Pustaka Sibu Design The Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection, Team, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, April Wooden Boat Association; Beecroft History Group
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‘Library and IT centre planning: implications for ‘The Donald MacPherson Collection of Art and Pustaka Sibu’, Pustaka Sibu Coordinating Literature’, State Library of New South Wales, Committee, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, April September ‘The Civic Place Project and Willoughby Library’, New acquisitions presentation to members of the four presentations to community groups, State Library Foundation, November and June Willoughby Town Hall, May and June ‘Using web-based resources’, OTEN, Kallenberger, N. & Nunn, B. 2002 ‘Infocus and Strathfield, May iSELECT: Online services from the State Library of ‘The Nelson Moore Richardson and Helen New South Wales for schools’ Australian School Morewood Richardson collection of bibles and Library Association (NSW) Conference, early printed books’, State Library Foundation, Wollongong, October Sydney, June Kingscote, A. 2003 ‘Australian Pictorial Thesaurus’, Schmidmaier, D. 2002/03 The Women’s Club, Australian-New Zealand Dublin Core Metadata Sydney, August. Conference, February Introduction to The Nortel Networks’ Canadian Larkin, M. 2003 ‘Manuscript collections of Studies Lecture by Roch Carrier, National Librarian interest to the local historian’, ALIA Local History of Canada, Wollongong, September Group, May Introductory address to the Metropolitan Public Lawn, M. 2003 ‘Music resources of the State Libraries Association Conference, Red Hot & Library of New South Wales’, Conservatorium of Organic: Libraries – the essential ingredient, Manly Music, March Occasional address at Graduation Ceremony, McKibbin, E. 2003 ‘The role of public libraries College of Arts, Education & Social Science, in legal information provision’, joint Australian University of Western Sydney Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Law and Justice Foundation seminar, Tasker, A. 2003 ‘The role of the Field Librarian’, Sydney, February ALIA Local History Group, May LIAC presentation to Indonesian judges, Federal Thomson, C. 2002/03 ‘De-dramatising disasters’, Court of Australia Judicial Education Program, State Records Authority, Kingswood and State Sydney, April Library of New South Wales, November and May Neville, R. 2002/03 ‘Making sense of digital ‘Counter Australian Museum’, Sydney, June collections: turning expectations into reality’, ‘Preserving your family history’, ALIA Local History Australian Registrars Conference, December Group, May ‘Colonial faces and colonial portraits’, University of Verner, P. 2003 ‘Moving On! A user’s guide to the Third Age, February travelling exhibitions’, Museums Australia seminar, Norris, W. 2002 ‘Inspire, educate, inform and Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, June entertain’, IFLA General Conference and Council, Walker, S. 2003 ‘Exploring the Pictures Collections Glasgow, Scotland, August at the State Library’, ALIA Local History Group, May O’Callaghan, J. 2003 ‘Discovery, research Williams, C. S. 2003 ‘Public Libraries; a vital part of and display – Private Lives’ ALIA Local History a community’s infrastructure’, Merriwa, Group, May Muswellbrook, Scone Councils and Kiama Library, Patton, M 2002/03 ‘Illuminated manuscripts May and June and early printed books’, Sydney Medieval and Renaissance Group, State Library of New South Wales, July
55 Foundation members & custodians and donors in 2002/03
The State Library of New South Wales Foundation (the Foundation) was established in 1987 to attract individual and corporate financial support for special projects and programs which cannot be funded from the annual Government allocation. The Foundation actively promotes the Library through fundraising and sponsorship and through its supporters, generating greater awareness of the Library in the community. In 2002/03, the Foundation contributed $1.2 million to Library collections.
Foundation Members Mr John B Fairfax AM Miss Phyllis Arnott Mr A G Lee AM & Mr Edward Gilly Ms Lucy Bantermalis Mrs Judy Lee Philanthropist Mrs Maurine Goldston- Mr Jim Barrett Lend Lease Corporation Miss Jean Garling Morris OAM Dr J M Bennett Mr D G Lesnie Nelson Meers Foundation Mimi B Hurley Mr William D Blackshaw Mrs Angela Lind Nestlé Australia Macquarie Bank Mr W & Mrs Nan Blanshard Lady J Loewenthal Mr George Maltby AO & Life Governor Mrs Alice & Mr Conrad Dr Kevin F Bleasel AO & Oppen Mrs Marianne Bleasel Mrs Mary Maltby Mr & Mrs EPT Simpson Ms Dorothy Peake & Mr Julian & Mrs Rosemary Mr Robert & Mrs Susan Life Benefactor Dr Alex Robertson Block Maple-Brown Ms Meg Stewart Graham and Charlene Bradley Mr Frank Markovic Mr James O Fairfax AO The Late Miss Mary Strettles Bridge Oil Dr Alan Matthews Ian & Helen McLachlan Trust Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Mr W I Burrows Mayne Nickless Dr R W B Reid AM Corporation Mr Mark D I Burrows Ms Anne McCormick & Mr Harold Schultz Wesfarmers Dalgety Caltex Oil (Australia) Mr Derek McDonnell St George Bank Mr and Mrs Peter Willcox Father Edmund Campion Ms Roslyn G McDonald Vincent Fairfax Family Mr Michael Canavan Mr Robert McDougall QC Foundation James & Elaine Wolfensohn Mrs Margaret D Cayzer Mr John & Mrs Tempe Mr Milton & Mrs Helen Senior Fellow Dr Alison Crook AO Merewether Whitmont AMA Charitable Foundation Mr Peter & Mrs Sally Crossing NCR Australia Ms Tania Nesbitt Governor Benefactor Mr W R Arnott Mrs Barbara & Mr John Dalton Ms Marion & Mr Ray Anonymous Black & White Committee Mr Colin & Mrs R Dean Nicolson The Hon Franca Arena AM Ms Yvonne D Buchanan May Mr Michael S Diamond Optus Communications Mr J K Bain AM & Mrs Wendy E Clarke AM MBE OzEmail Mrs Janette Bain Mr Ray & Mrs June Cooper Mrs Zeny Edwards Mr J L Parker BHP Billiton CSC Australia Lady (Vincent) Fairfax OBE Mr T C Powell Brambles Industries Mr Sam & Mrs Janet Cullen Mr Brian C France AM & Mr Guha Prasad Medical Benefits Fund of Mrs Rowena Danziger & Mrs Philippa France Mr Alan Rees Australia Mr Ken G Coles AM Friends of the State Library Miss Ruth G Robertson Moran Health Care Group Mr Ian W Dickson of New South Wales Mrs Susan Robertson Mr David & Mrs Tricia The Hon Mr Justice Rae Mr Anthony Gan Miss E J G Russell Sherbon Else-Mitchell CMG QC Mr J A Gilbert AM Mrs Lyndall S Russell The Synthesis Consulting Dr David Gates Mr Malcolm & Mrs Margaret The Adolph Basser Trust Group GIO Australia Goldfinch Ms Marian Seville Major Benefactor Neville & Leila Govett Mr David M Gonski AO Mr John L Sharpe Mr Laurence Halloran Mr Brian Sherman Andrew Thyne Reid Mr Geoffrey R Graham Howard Smith Limited Mr Laurance A Sidari Charitable Trust Mrs Marie J Gray Ms Annette Macarthur- Mr Kenneth G Smith Mr Ian & Mrs Hanne Angus The Hon Justice Ian V Gzell Onslow The Hon J Spigelman QC Dr Geoffrey & Mrs Sarah Cains Mr Ian Harper AM & Media Monitors Australia & Mrs A Spigelman Coles Myer Mrs Rosemary Harper Mr James S Millner AM Mr David & Mrs Beverly Mr Martin Dickson Harper Collins Publishers Miss Helen Morgan Staples Esso Australia Mr John Heydon QC NSW Nurses’ Association Mrs Warwick Stening James Hardie Industries Mr Michael & Mrs Julia The Hon Justice Mahla Mr Robert Strauss MBE McDonald’s Australia Hodgetts Pearlman AM Mr Alfred & Mrs Street Reader’s Digest (Australia) Dr John & Mrs Mary Holt The Cox Group Dr Douglass G Seaton Perpetual Trustees Australia Mr Max Hooper Mr Sidney Thistleton Mr Harry Seidler AC & Reckitt Benckiser (Australia) Mr Francis M Hooper Trust Company of Australia Mrs Penelope Seidler Mr John B Reid AO Mr Stanley Howard Mr Malcolm B Turnbull Sydney Mechanics’ School Mrs E Sternberg Mrs Barbara E Hudson Mr James Walker of Arts Taylor’s Wines Ms Belinda Hutchinson Mr William D T Ward QC Sir Arthur Weller CBE & Ms Sue Thomas Mr Ray Hyslop & Mrs Carolyn A Ward Lady Weller Mr Leo & Mrs Heather Tutt Lady Joel Mr Michael & Mrs Vashti Mr Bret Walker SC Mr & Mrs M M Johnson Waterhouse Benefactor Mrs Sarah M Walters Mr Ian Johnston Wattyl Aust Mrs Sibilla E Baer Westpac Banking Corporation Mrs Jana Juanas Mr Robert J White AO Sir Ron Brierley CSR Mrs Nathalie Kulakowski & Mrs J A White Mr Hugh & Mrs Patricia Fellow Mr Peter Larcombe RFD & Mr Norton J Whitmont Dixson Alexander Tzannes Associates Mrs Judith Larcombe Mr John B Whittle
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Mr Ken W Wilder OAM Ms Elizabeth A R Bishop Mrs Ronela Chisholm Dr Andrew Dowe Mr Claude Wright Mr John H Blattman Dr John Christian AO & Mr Tom Downes Mr Richard E T Blaxland Mrs Helen Christian AM Mr Murray Doyle Member Mr Dennis Bluth City Rail John A Dunlop Mrs Heather Adams Dr Richard W Boden AM Mr H R Clark Professor Dexter Dunphy Mrs Roslyn Airs & Mrs Jan Boden Mr S S Clark Mrs Jayati Dutta Mr David Aitken Mr John Bolas Dr Elizabeth Clark Mr Hubert & Mrs Dorothy- Ms Jan Aitkin Mr Douglas Booker Dr Frederick B Clarke Joy East Mrs Shirley Alder Miss Michelle L Books Dr Christopher W Clarke Dr Bruce Edelman OAM Ms Toni Alexander Dr Ninette Boothroyd Mrs Margaret Clarke Mrs Jean Edgecombe OAM Ms Rosemary Allen Dr Michael R Bowden Mrs Kathryn Clennell Mr Richard Edmonds SC Mr Timothy Allen Mr Alexander Boyarsky Dr John Cleverley Mr John Eldershaw Hon Justice James Allsop Mrs Beverley Boyd Clive Lucas Stapleton & Mr Geoff Elliott Ancher Mortlock & Woolley Ms Pamela A Boyne Partners Mrs Kondelea Elliott Ms Marcelle Anderson Dr Peter Bradhurst Walter John Coatsworth Energee Entertainment Mr R & Mrs R Anderson Mr John D M Bradshaw Mr Tullio Cofrancesco Mr W I B Enright Mr Andrew Andersons Mr Arthur W Bragg Ms Shirley A Colless Mr Peter J Evans Mr Mark E Andrews Mr Tom Breaden Columbus Line Australia Elizabeth Evatt AC Mrs P R Andrews Mrs A B Britton Dr David Cooper Mrs Judith Evill Ms Judith H Andrews Ms Maxine Brodie Mr Phillip Cornwell Mr Michael Eyers AM Anonymous Mrs Andra G Brooks Corrs Chambers Westgarth Mr David G Fairlie Anonymous Ms Ann Brown Mr P J Costa Ms Suzanne Falkiner Anonymous The Hon Bob Brown Miss Marjorie Cotter Mrs Corrie Falkingham Anonymous Mr Malcolm C Brown Mr Ron J Cotton AM & Ms Ruby Faris Anonymous Mrs Ann Christine Brown Mrs Wendy Cotton J W Farley & J Farley Anonymous & Mr J Russell Brown Mr Brett Courtenay Mrs Jessie Farley Mr Kevin J Apthorpe Mr Kenneth S Brown Mrs Alison Cox OAM Mr Paul Fast Archigraph Ms Noeline Brown & Mrs Kay Cox Captain John Faulkner Mrs Lynette Arcidiacono Mr Tony Sattler Ms Louise Cox AM AM FRAeS Ms Marlene Arditto Mr Ernest L Browne Ms Ruth Cracknell AM Mr Andrew B Fegent Mrs Joan T Armstrong Garry & Robyn Browne Mrs Dorothy Craig Mr Kevin T Fennell PSM Mr Christopher Arnott Mr Jim Bryant Ms Debby Cramer & Mr Rob Ferguson Asher Joel Media Group Ms Betty Buchanan & Mr Bill Caukill Dr Marijan Filipic Dr Margaret Ashwell Mr C Rowles Mr Clive H Craven Mr John Fisher Miss Frances T Aspinall Mr Kenneth Buckley Mrs Kylie L Cregan-Attwell Dr John H Flak Mr Malcolm Atkinson Mr Anthony Buckley AM Mr Peter L Crozier Dr G A Fletcher Shirley J Atkinson (Miss) Mr V G Bulteau Mr C Curran AO & Mr Peter J R Forbes Mr Arthur W Austin Mrs Barbara E Burgess Mrs E Curran Dr Jill M Forrest Mr Lionel M Austin Mrs Joyce Burnard Ms Janelle Cust Ms Jennifer J Forster Mr Henry Badgery & Mr Patrick R Burnett Mrs Naomi Cuthbert Mr Allan W J Fowler Mrs Peta Badgery Burns Philp & Company Mr Maurice & Mrs Fran Cutler Ms Joyce Fowler Ms Lesley Baker Mr Gregory K Burton Mr Jeffrey R d’Albora Professor D J Fraser Mrs Helen Bantermalis Ms Mercia Bush Mrs Patricia A R Dale Freehill Hollingdale & Page Mrs Marlene Barclay Mrs B N Butler Miss Marie Therese Daley Mrs Marion Freidman Ms Norma Barne Mr Perce & Mrs Jane Miss Winifred H Danby Dr Herbert Freilich Mr Frank Barnes Butterworth Richard d’Apice AM Mrs Jan French Dr Charles S Barnes & Mr John Byron Mr Rowan Darke Mrs Judith Fritz Mrs Beverly Barnes Mrs Stephanie R Caddies Mrs Lynette M Davenport Mr Ray Frost Dr Keith Barnes AM Mr Donald Caldwell David Jones (Australia) Dr Judith Fryer Mrs Margaret E Barter Mr Peter R Callaghan SC Mr Ian E Davidson Mrs Judith Fuller Mr Colin J Baskerville Mr Ian & Mrs Carolyn Ms Rebecca Davies Mrs Wilma Furlonger Ms Marcia A Bass Cameron Mr David G Davis & Miss Sabina G Gallard Professor A Basten AO FAA FTSE Mr Alan J Cameron AM Mrs Clare Davis Mrs Ruth Gangemi Ms Josephine Bastian Ms Joan M Campbell Mr Thomas Dawson Mr Emlyn N Garland Hon Dr Jack G Beale AO Hon Justice Joe Campbell QC Dr Richard O Day Dr John Garrett Mrs Jill Beith Mr Donald Campbell Dr Marie M de Lepervanche Mr David Gaunt Dr David S Bell & Mr Stewart Campbell Mr Albert B De Quincey Mr James Geddes Mrs Judith Bell Dr Barry R Cant Mrs Valmai De Torres George Weston Foods Ms Jane Beniac Mr Phil R Carey Ms Patricia Degens Sir Harry Gibbs Mr Keith L Bennett Mr D M Carment Mrs Connie Demer Professor Donald & Mrs Rosita Dr Rosemary Berreen Ms Georgina Carnegie Mr John R Dempsey Gibson Mr John & Mrs Jennifer Ms Rosemary Carrick Mr Richard J Dinham Professor G L Gilbert Berryman Mr Mark Caruana Mrs Jean Dixon Mr John A Gilmour AM Mrs Dorothy E Betty OAM Mr Barry Casey Mr Daryl A Dixon Dr Allan R Glanville Mr Rowan Bieske Mr Joseph Catanzariti Dr Hugh & Mrs Frances Dixson Mrs Margery Glanville Mr John Bilmon & Mr Edgar E Chaffer RD JP Mrs B H Dolman Ms Libby Gleeson Ms Mairaed Bilmon Mr and Mrs Arthur Charles Mr John P Donoghue Mr A D Glover Ms Barbara Bird Fred Chilton Miss Anne M Doran
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Foundation Members Howard Mr Domenico La Rosa Mrs Rosemary McCullough Howard Tanner & Associates Dr Paul P Laird John McDonagh & Helen Member cont. Ms Diana Howlett Mr Milton Lalas McDonagh Dr George Gluck Mr Bruce Hudson Mr R J Lamble AO Ms Roslyn G McDonald Mr Angus Gluskie Dr Bernard Hudson Mr Jack & Mrs Nan Lancken Mrs Mary-Rose & Dr Colin Mr Lawrence J Gluskie David Edward Hunt Dr William Land McDonald Dr Lewis Gomes Ms Leone Huntsman Mrs Anne Lane Mrs B McEwin Dr B N & Mrs E M Goodman Mr I M Jackman Ms Jaqui Lane Mrs Cherie McGlynn Mr James N Gordon John Wybergh Jacob & Mr David G Lane Ms Gai McGrath Dr Jill Gordon Naomi Jacob Dr P D Lark Mr Michael McHugh Mr Allan Gosper Mrs Cheryl Anne Jacob Miss Joy Laurence Mr Angus McInnes Mr Jeffrey A Goss Emeritus Professor Marjorie Mr James E Layt AM Mr A W D McIntyre Mrs Jock Gosse Jacobs Mr Richard Legg The Hon T S McKay BA LLB Mr Vanda R Gould Ms Anita Jacoby Mr Alan Legge Mrs Elaine M McKinnon Dr Stanley J M Goulston Mr David M James Mrs Rosemary E Leitch Dr Robin C McLachlan Judge Geoffrey J Graham Mrs Mildred V Jenkins Mr Denis Lenihan Mr Bruce D McLaren Mr Kevin Grant Mr Vincent Jewell Mr Colin J Lennox His Honour Judge Ms Janet Grant Mrs Jeanette A Jewell Mrs Joan M Levi Ray P McLoughlin SC Mr Peter Gray Charnock Mr John & Mrs Judith Ley Mr T McMurray Dr David Green Mr Philip A Joannou Mr Barrie Lindsay Mr S D McNamara Dr John M Greenaway Mr Warren T Johns Dr Hilarie Lindsay MBE Dr Stephen McNamara Mr Brian P J Greig Ms Beverley Johnson Mrs Barbara McNulty Miss Pauline M Griffin AM Mrs A Lipson Mr Peter Johnson SC Dr John McPhillips Margot and Neville Gruzman Mr John D Love Mr Geoffrey E Johnson Ms Sally K Mendel Mr Robert Hadler Mr David G Lovehill Dr Robert Johnston Mr Raymond E Menmuir Mrs Margaret Hadley Mr Arthur V Loveless Ms Amanda Johnston Mr Paul Menzies Mr Graeme Haigh Mr Alan Loxton AM Miss Yvonne Jones Mr E Merewether Mr T W Haines AO Mr Ric Lucas Mrs Clare B Jones Miss Mary A Miles Professor V B & Mrs E N Hall Mr Peter W Lucas Miss June B Jones Mrs Jane Miller Dr G M Halliday The Hon J T Ludeke QC Mr Paul Jones Mr Justin Miller Ms Pix Halloran Mr Ernest Luthard Ms Margaret Jones Mr Anthony D Milligan Professor John Ham Ms Mary J Lynch Ms Despina Kallinikos & Ms Barbara Millons Mrs Etta G Hamilton Dr Norm Lyons Ms Iphygenia Kallinikos Miss Millie Mills The Hon Justice Miss Dorothy Maber Mr Laurence Kalnin Mr Neville H Milston EM John P Hamilton Miss Ann Macansh Captain M T Kaminski Ms Sophie J Mirkva Mrs Miriam Hamilton RAN (Retd) Mrs Marjory R Macdonald Dr Anthony S Mitchell Mr Bruce V Hamon Mr Anton Kapel Ms Anne MacDonald Mrs Barbara Mobbs Mr Justice & Mrs K R Handley The Hon Justice Leslie Katz Dr John M Mack Mrs Audrey A Moore OAM Hanimex Mr William Kazaglis Ms Doune MacNaught The Hon Justice Michael Sister Jill Harding Mr David R Keenan Ms Margery E MacPherson Moore Mr Malcolm R Hardwick QC The Hon W G Keighley OAM Ms Flora MacRae BEM JP Mr Neil J Moore Mrs Norma Hardy Mr Gabriel P Keleny Mrs Carol A Madge Mr E J Moran & Mrs J L Moran Ms Jennifer Harris Ms Marilyn J Kelly Mrs M P Manley Ms Shirley Morris Julian V W Hart Mr James & Mrs Susan Kelly Maple-Brown Abbott Multiplex Constructions Ms Jean Hart Mr Tom Keneally AO & Mrs Joy Marchant Dr Gordon Myall Jacquelyn C Hart Mrs Judy Keneally Margot and Thorvald Dreyers Mr Hal Myers Mr David N H Hassall Ms Narelle A Kennedy Fond Miss Patricia J Nargar Mr David Hattersley Dr John W Kenny Dr Helen Markiewicz Mr Kenneth Neale Dr Valerie Havyatt Ms Patricia Kerr Mr Ken Marks Ms Penelope Nelson Hon Bob Hawke AC Dr Ruth Kerr Mr Richard N Marsh New South Wales Heritage Bill Hayward Mr Richard S Keyworth Dr Harold G Marsh Office Mr Derek A D B Heath & Mr Vikas Khetarpaul Mrs Margaret J Mashford Ms Pauline Newell Mrs Prudence Heath Dr Russell Kift Ms Deirdre Mason Dr Lisa Newling Mrs G E Henchman Mr Jeffrey F Kildea The Hon Sir Anthony Mason Mr Richard O Newman Mr Aaron Hendler Kimian Edwards Mr James Nicholls Dr Marc Heyning AC KBE Mr Larry King Dr Rowan Nicks Mr J S L Hill Mr Peter Mason AM & Mrs Mr Richard King Mr Graham Nock OBE Mr Michael J Hinshaw C Mason Mr George King Mr William M Nolan Mrs Isabel M Hiscock Mrs Robin Mathews Mr Malcolm Kinnaird AO Reverend Kevin Nolan Ms Lynne Hodge Mr Terry G Matthews Professor Judith Kinnear Mrs Susan F Norman Miss E Holland Mrs Shirley J McBride Mr Peter M Kite SC Mr Alexander F Norwick Mr Bryan Holliday Mr John McCarthy QC Mrs Sylvia Klineberg NSW Cricket Association Miss Kathleen E Holmes The Hon Justice Ruth McColl Mr Ian & Mrs Gay Knop Mrs Marie G O’Brien Mr John & Mrs Maria Teresa Mr W R McComas Emeritus Professor Dame Mr Brian D O’Brien Hooke Mr Tim McCormick Leonie Kramer AC DBE Rachel & Geoffrey O’Conor Mrs Joan M Hooper Mrs Margaret H McCredie Mr Gilles T Kryger Mrs Ursula Old Mr Andrew L Horsley Miss Kathleen L McCredie Mr John Kuner Mrs Margaret J Oliff Mr John J & Mrs Patricia F Dr Ian D McCrossin
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Mr Felix Oppen Mr Joseph M Riordan Mr Alan Stannard Mr Chris Wetherall Orica Mr Lionel P Robberds Mrs Beverley Stanton The Hon John & Mrs Judith Mrs Anne O’Sullivan Mr Peter Roberts Mr Ian Stapleton Wheeldon Ms Fortunee Ovadia Mrs Deanne Roberts Ms Susan Steedman Mrs Margaret C White P&O Australia Mr Bill Roberts Mrs Beverly Steggles Mr Geoff White AO Mr Viktor Paar Miss Wendy L Robinson Miss Alison Stephen Mrs E M Whitehead Mr Graham L Pack Mr Philip A Robinson Mr Richard J Stevens Sarah and Robert Whyte Lady Packer Mrs Jeanne Rockey Ms Joy Storie Ms Jenny Williams Miss Valerie P Packer Mr Imants Ronis Mr Allan Sturgess Mr Rex Williams Helmut Otto Paidasch Mr Joseph G Rooney The Hon Mr Justice Brian Dr Judith A Williams Mr Timothy L Paine Mr Robert W Rose Sully Dr Robert B Williams Dr Peter B Paisley Mr R I Rosenblum Mr C R Sundstrom Dr Katherine Williams Mr Henry N H Pan OAM Rotary Club of Sydney Inc Colonel Ralph Sutton LVO Mr Graham J Wilson & Ms Prudence Parkhill & Catherine Rothery Mrs Dawn Swain Mrs Helen Wilson Mr Geoffrey Board Mr John Rownes Ms Wendy Swinburn Donald Elliott Wilson Ms Janette Parkinson & Reverend Doctor Alan Sydney Cricket & Sports Mr Ed Wilson Mr Roy Fernandez AO G Russell Ground Trust Ms Jone B Winchester Mrs Kerrin Parry Ms Ann Ryan Sydney Harbour Foreshore Mr Keith Windschuttle Mr Paul & Mrs Valerie Parv Mr Alan Rydge Authority Dr Richard Wing Ms Margot Paterson Dr Krisnaphong Sae Lee Dr John L Symonds Mr Richard J B Wingate Miss Jill Paton Mr Alek Safarian Mrs Margaret H Talacko Mrs Janine Pattison Ms Carole Saint Mr Anthony Tarleton Mr Robert Winkworth Dr Gregory Pauline Mr S G Salisbury Mr Mark R Tarmo Mrs Joan Winston Ms Lesley Payne Mrs Elizabeth Salkeld Mrs Mildred Teitler Mr G L Winter Mr and Mrs Doug G Salomon Smith Barney The Regent of Sydney Mr Christopher R Wokes Peacocke Dr Antoine Joseph Sanki FRCS Mrs E M Third Mr Derrick F Woodhouse Mrs Gwenneth M Pearson (Eng) Mrs Valerie Thomas Dr David Woods Mr Paul & Mrs Cecilia Mr Gordon Sanson Mr Mark A Thomas Miss Helen Woodward Pemberton The Hon Justice GFK Santow Mr Ted Thomas Mr Ken F Woolley AM Mr M A Pembroke SC OAM Mr Albie Thoms The Hon Hal Wootten AC QC Ms Catherine G Percy Mr Stephen Sasse Ms Debra Thoms Ms Jill Wran Dr Bruce H Peterson Mr Garry Scarf Mrs Joyce P Thorpe Professor Barry G Wren AM Mr G W Pettigrew Mrs Margaret Schonell Mr Bruce Thurn Dr Donald I Wright Mrs Margaret Phelan Dr Rodney Seaborn AO OBE Time Australia Mr Gerald S Wronker Miss E M Philpot Mr Basil Sellers AM Dr D S Tindal Dr Diana Wyndham Photographic Library of Mrs Wendy B Selman Ms Susan Tompkins Mr William J Youll Australia Mrs Elizabeth Sheard Mr T A Tonkin Julie Anne Young Dr Marjorie J Pink Mr Ron Sheen Mr Reg Torrington Ms Debra Pinkerton JP Ms Margaret Sheppard Mr Paul Tracey Custodians Mrs Bessie M Pitman Miss Annie Sherbon Mr Paul Trainor Custodian Commander Mr V J Plummer Master Will Sherbon Mr John Trathen Mr Robert O Albert AO RFD Mr Peter & Mrs June Poland Dr Kevin V Sheridan AM Ms Diana V H Treatt RD & Mrs Elizabeth Albert Mr Benjamin Politzer Dr Margaret R Sheridan Mrs Joan M Tribe Mr Bryce Courtenay Mr Adrian & Mrs Philippa Mr Beresford E Shipley Mr Kenneth W Tribe AC Mr Hubert & Mrs Dorothy- Poole Dr Jeffrey A Siegel Mr Richard H Trousdale Joy East Dr Donald C Price Mr Peter Simon Mr John H Tunbridge Mr Derek & Mrs Prudence PricewaterhouseCoopers Mr & Mrs Timothy Sims Mr Ian Tunstall Heath Mr Robert Pryke Mrs K R Sinclair Dr Russell Vandenberg Mrs Barbara E Hudson PTW Mr William J Sinclair Dr Ian R Vanderfield OBE The Hon Justice David Levine Mrs Gladys E Pugh Ms Jane Singleton Mr Christopher M P Vassall RFD Mrs Eva E Purnell Mrs Elizabeth Skeoch Mrs Jan L Vecchio Mr Robert Maple-Brown Mr Robert E Purves Mr Joseph Skrzynski AM The Hon T W & Mrs Thea Rachel & Geoffrey O’Conor The Hon Justice Rodney Miss Rose T Smith Waddell Mr Robert E Purves N Purvis QC Ms Patricia Smith Mr Kenneth A Waight Mr John L Sharpe Mrs Colleen M Quinton Mr Robert Smith Dr David G Walker AM & Miss Rosaline Tam Mr Paul A Quoyle Mr Charles R Smith Mrs Leonie Walker Mr Robert J White AO & Miss Wilma Radford Mr John Sneeder Dr James C Walker Mrs J A White Miss Dorothy Ramsay Mr Robert D Somervaille AO Mr Robert B Wallis Mr Norton J Whitmont Ms Patricia G Rankin Richard Townshend Mr John S Walton AM Mr Claude Wright Dr Robert B M Ravich Somerville Mrs Sheila Warby Mr Graham J Rawlings Mr Gavin & Mrs Ngaire Catherine Anne Warne Custodian Principal Mrs Angela Raymond Souter Professor Elizabeth Webby Dr Charles & Mr John F Reading Dr Velencia Soutter Mr Anthony Webster Mrs Beverly Barnes Dr Malcolm Reed Spicers Paper Dr Kevin F Bleasel AO & Mr Oliver Richter AO Mr Jeremy D St John Mr Peter Weiss AM Mrs Marianne Bleasel & Mrs Joy Richter Mr David Staehli Jean Clifton West Rider Hunt Mr Conrad G Staff Dr Janet E West
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Custodians Mrs Dorothy Craig Custodian Guardian Reverend Kevin Nolan Dr Helen Crane Mrs Susan F Norman Mr R & Mrs R Anderson Custodian Principal cont. Mr Ian E Davidson Justice Barry S J O’Keefe AM Ms Marcelle Anderson Mr Dennis Bluth Mrs Jean Dixon Mrs Ursula Old Anonymous Ms Suzanne Campbell Mr J T Dominguez CBE AM Mrs Margaret J Oliff Anonymous Mr Jon Cleary Mr Richard Edmonds SC Mr Timothy L Paine Anonymous Ms Shirley A Colless Mr John Eldershaw Dr Peter B Paisley Miss Frances T Aspinall Mr Michael S Diamond AM Mr Angus Gluskie Margot Paterson Mr Arthur W Austin MBE Mr Peter Gray Mr M A Pembroke SC Dr Stephen Barratt Professor Dexter Dunphy Dr David Green Ms Catherine G Percy Dr David S Bell & Dr Bruce Edelman OAM Ms Victoria A Hartstein Mr T C Powell Mrs Judith Bell Ms Suzanne Falkiner Mrs Isabel M Hiscock Dr Donald C Price Mr Ron Beslich Mrs Judith Fritz Mrs Cheryl Anne Jacob The Hon Justice Rodney N Mr John Bilmon & Mr Anthony Gan Mr Paul Jones Purvis QC Ms Mairaed Bilmon Mr Malcolm & Mrs Margaret Mr Tom Keneally AO & Ms Patricia G Rankin Ms Barbara Bird Goldfinch Mrs Judy Keneally Dr Malcolm Reed Mr John H Blattman Mr Geoffrey R Graham Mr Larry King Mr Joseph M Riordan Mr John F Booth AM Mrs Marie J Gray Professor Judith Kinnear Lionel P Robberds Mr Phillip Boulten Mr Ray Hyslop Gilles Kryger Mrs Christine L Robertson Ms Rachel Boyd Mrs Mary Ifould Mr R J Lamble AO Ms Ann Ryan Mrs Stephanie R Caddies Mr & Mrs M M Johnson Ms Jaqui Lane Reverend Denis C Shelton Mr Donald Caldwell Mr Ian Johnston Mr James E Layt AM Mr Beresford E Shipley Fred Chilton Mrs Jana Juanas Mr David G Lovehill Mr Alan Stannard Mrs Ronela Chisholm Ms Despina Kallinikos & Mr Ramsay D Low Mr Ian Stapleton Professor Richard Clough AM Ms Iphygenia Kallinikos Ms Mary J Lynch Mr Allan Sturgess Mr John D Corney Mrs Nathalie Kulakowski Miss Ann Macansh Dr Lorelle Swan Mr Brett Courtenay Lady J Loewenthal Mr Pierre S J Malherbe Mr Anthony Tarleton Mrs Benita Courtenay The Hon Justice Ruth McColl Dr Helen Markiewicz Mr Mark R Tarmo Mr Clive H Craven Mr Robert McDougall QC Deirdre Mason Mr Mark A Thomas Ms Janet Cromb Ms Tania Nesbitt Miss Kathleen L McCredie Mr Albie Thoms Janelle Cust Mrs Gwenneth M Pearson Ms Gai McGrath Mrs Joyce P Thorpe Mrs Wendy De Meryick Mrs Bessie M Pitman Mr Michael McHugh Ms Diana V H Treatt Richard J Dinham Mrs Sandra M Plowman Mr A W D McIntyre Eleanor Vardanega Dr Andrew Dowe Mr Guha Prasad Mrs Elaine M McKinnon The Hon T W & Mrs Thea Mrs Jayati Dutta Miss E J G Russell Dr Stephen McNamara Waddell Mr Geoff Elliott Mr Harold Schultz Mrs Barbara McNulty Dr P R C Wakeford Hon P G Evatt DSC QC Mr Brian Sherman Mrs Barbara Mobbs Dr James C Walker Mrs Judith Evill Mr Spencer Simmons Mr Neil J Moore Professor Elizabeth Webby Mr David G Fairlie Mr William J Sinclair Kenneth Neale Dr Judy White AM PhD Dr John H Flak Alison Stephen Dr Lisa Newling Mr Graham J Wilson & Mr Peter J R Forbes Mr Robert Strauss MBE Mr Brian D O’Brien Mrs Helen Wilson Mrs Judith Fuller Mr Peter Weiss AM Mr Graham L Pack Mr Christopher R Wokes Mr William Garrett AM Mr Milton Whitmont Dr Marjorie J Pink Professor Barry G Wren AM Dr Lewis Gomes Mr Kim Williams Ms Debra Pinkerton JP Mr Jeffrey A Goss Mr V J Plummer Custodian Member Custodian Leader Mr Kevin Grant Mr Adrian & Mrs Philippa Heather Adams Emeritus Professor Derek J The Hon Justice John P Poole Mrs Roslyn Airs Anderson Hamilton Mrs Margaret Radford Mr David Aitken Mrs P R Andrews Professor D J Handelsman Miss Ruth G Robertson Ms Jan Aitkin The Hon Franca Arena AM Ms Jennifer Harris Mrs Elizabeth Salkeld Shirley Alder Mr Henry Badgery & Mrs Norma Hart The Hon Gordon J Samuels Mr Campbell Alexander Mrs Peta Badgery Mr Bruce Hudson AC CVO QC & Mrs Samuels Ms Rosemary Allen Professor A Basten Mr Richard S Jenkins Mr Garry Scarf Dr Gae Anderson AO FAA FTSE Warren Johns Dr Rodney Seaborn AO OBE Ms Judith H Andrews Mr Keith L Bennett Ms Beverley Johnson Mr Joseph Skrzynski AM Mr Mark E Andrews Mr Alexander Boyarsky Mr Anton Kapel Dr Velencia Soutter Anonymous Mr Peter E Brigden Ms Patricia Kerr Mr Jeremy D St John Anonymous Mr John R Broadbent Dr Ruth Kerr Dr Elizabeth J Torrance Anonymous Ms Maxine Brodie Mr Alan Legge Turner Freeman Solicitors Anonymous Ms Noeline Brown & Mr Colin J Lennox Mr William D T Ward QC & Anonymous Mr Tony Sattler Ligare Mrs Carolyn A Ward Anonymous Mr Alan J Cameron AM Mrs M M Macarthur Dr Judith A Williams Anonymous Dr John Christian AO & Dr John M Mack Dr Phillip J Baird Anonymous Mrs Helen Christian AM Mrs Joy Marchant Miss Michelle L Books Anonymous Dr Christopher W Clarke Mr John Masters Mr Noel Keen Anonymous Dr Frederick B Clarke Dr Patrick J Meaney Mr William Lynch Anonymous Raymond E Menmuir Alison Cox OAM Anonymous Mrs Ethel M Murray Ms Louise Cox AM Anonymous
60 > Council, staff and friends
Mr Kevin J Apthorpe Ms Joan M Campbell Mr Tom Downes Mr Philip Hallen Mrs Lynette Arcidiacono Mr Michael Canavan Mr Murray Doyle Ms Pix Halloran Mr Stephen N Armstrong Barry R Cant John A Dunlop Professor John Ham Mr Graham Ashton Mr Phil R Carey Mr John V Egan Mrs Etta G Hamilton Dr Margaret Ashwell Dr Enid Carey Mrs Kondelea Elliott Mr Bruce V Hamon Mr Lionel M Austin Ms Rosemary Carrick Mr Brian J Emanuel Mr Jack Hannes Mr Peter G Bailey Mr Brian D Cartledge Miss Deborah J England Ms Linda Hansen Mr John Baker Mr Mark Caruana Mr Peter Evans AM & Sister Jill Harding Ms Lesley Baker Mr Barry Casey Mrs Shirley Evans Mr Malcolm R Hardwick QC Mr John Baker Mr Joseph Catanzariti Mr Michael Eyers AM Mrs Norma Hardy Mr John Ball Mrs Margaret D Cayzer Mrs Corrie Falkingham Mr Bruce Harris Dr Barbara Ballantyne Mr Edgar E Chaffer RD JP Miss Joyce Fardell Mr Rolf Harris AM, OBE Mrs Marlene Barclay Mr Noel C Chalson J W Farley & J Farley Ms Jean Hart Mrs Anne C Baring Ms Betty Chu Mr Gregory A Farmer Ms Gaye Hart Mr Theo Barker Mr Milton Churche Mr Andrew B Fegent Mr David N H Hassall Mrs Angela Barker Mr S S Clark Mr Kevin T Fennell PSM Dr Valerie Havyatt Mr Frank Barnes Mrs Kathryn Clennell Mrs Robin Ferris Mr Aaron Hendler Mrs Margaret E Barter John Cleverley Dr Marijan Filipic Dr Marc Heyning Mr Colin J Baskerville Ms Pamela Clifford Mr Peter M Finlayson Mr Michael J Hinshaw Ms Josephine Bastian Walter John Coatsworth Mrs Audrey E Flower Ms Lynne Hodge Mrs Brooke A Beal Mr Tullio Cofrancesco Ms Julie-Anne Ford Dr John & Mrs Mary Holt Mr Julian Beaumont Mr Reg Cole AM Ms Jennifer J Forster Mrs Joan M Hooper Mrs Jill Beith Mr Ken G Coles AM & A/Professor Hamish C M Mr Andrew L Horsley Ms Maria Benachi Mrs Rowena Danziger Foster Mr and Mrs M Hupalo Ms Jane Beniac Mr A B Colvin Mr George Foster Mr I M Jackman Mrs Jennifer A Benjamin Mr Ausilio Confalonieri Allan Fowler John Wybergh Jacob & Dr Rosemary Berreen Mr Warwick Coombes Mr Paul Franklin Naomi Jacob Mr Alfred J Berry Dr Peter J Cooper Professor D J Fraser Emeritus Professor Marjorie Mr A & Mrs Marie Berry Miss Rosemary A Cork Mrs Marion Freidman Jacobs Mrs Dorothy E Betty OAM Mr Phillip Cornwell Dr Herbert Freilich Ms Anita Jacoby Ms Elizabeth A R Bishop Miss Marjorie Cotter Mr Ray Frost Mr David M James Miss J Blackman Mrs Kay Cox Miss Elizabeth M Fry Mr Vincent Jewell Mr Richard E T Blaxland Mr Malcolm Craig QC Dr Judith Fryer Mrs Jeanette A Jewell Mr Ken Bloxsom Judge Rodney G Craigie & Mrs Joan M Furber Charnock Dr Richard W Boden AM Mrs Mary Craigie Mrs Wilma Furlonger Mr Peter Johnson SC & Mrs Jan Boden Ms Debby Cramer & Mrs Ruth Gangemi Dr Robert Johnston Mr John Bolas Mr Bill Caukill Mr Emlyn N Garland Mrs Doris (Yau-Chong) Jones Mr Douglas Booker Mrs Kathleen Cronin Mr David Gaunt Miss Yvonne Jones Dr Ninette Boothroyd Mr Peter & Mrs Sally Crossing Mr James Geddes Miss June B Jones Dr Michael R Bowden Mr Peter L Crozier Sir Harry Gibbs Mrs Clare B Jones Mrs Beverley Boyd Mrs Naomi Cuthbert Professor G L Gilbert Mrs Aldyth Jones Ms Pamela A Boyne Mr Jeffrey R d’Albora Mr John Gillespie Captain M T Kaminski RAN Mr John D M Bradshaw Mrs Patricia A R Dale Mr John A Gilmour AM (Retd) Mr Arthur W Bragg Marie Therese Daley Mr John Gissing Mr David R Keenan Mr Tom Breaden Miss Winifred H Danby Mrs Margery Glanville Mr Gabriel P Keleny Mr Graham Brindell Richard d’Apice AM Dr Allan R Glanville Ms Narelle A Kennedy Mrs Andra G Brooks Mr Rowan Darke Ms Libby Gleeson Dr John W Kenny Mrs Ann Christine Brown Ms Rebecca Davies Miss Catherine J Glover Mr Richard S Keyworth & Mr J Russell Brown Mr David G Davis & Mr A D Glover Paul Kiem The Hon Bob Brown Mrs Clare Davis Mr Richard J Glover Dr Russell Kift Mr Kenneth S Brown Mr Thomas Dawson Dr George Gluck Dr Virochna Kijvanit Mr Malcolm C Brown Mr Alan Dawson Mr Erhard P G Gohl & Mr Richard King Garry & Robyn Browne Dr Richard O Day Mrs Christa H Gohl Mr Gordon King Mr Ernest L Browne Dr Marie M de Lepervanche Mr James N Gordon Ms Megan Kingham Mr Jim Bryant Mr Albert B De Quincey Dr Jill Gordon Mrs Sylvia Klineberg Ms Betty Buchanan & Mrs Valmai De Torres Allan Gosper Mrs Daphne Kok Mr C Rowles Ms Patricia Degens Mr Vanda R Gould Emeritus Professor Dame Mr Anthony Buckley AM Mrs Connie Demer Dr Stanley J M Goulston Leonie Kramer AC DBE Mr Kenneth Buckley Mr John R Dempsey Judge Geoffrey J Graham Mr John Kuner Mr V G Bulteau Mrs Mavis J Denholm Janet Grant Mr Domenico La Rosa Mrs Joyce Burnard Mr Nicholas Dettmann Mr Barry T Gray JP Dr Paul P Laird Mr Patrick R Burnett Mrs Enoe Di Stefano MBE John Greenaway Mr Milton Lalas Mrs B N Butler Dr Hugh & Mrs Frances Brian P J Greig Dr Paul Lancaster Mr Perce & Mrs Jane Dixson Miss Pauline M Griffin AM Dr William Land Butterworth Mrs Clare H Docker Mr Greg Growden Mrs Anne Lane Mr John Byron Mr Denis W Doherty Ms Rosemary Grundy Dr P D Lark Mr Peter R Callaghan SC Mrs B H Dolman Mr Robert Hadler Dr John Lawrence Hon Justice Joe Campbell QC Miss Anne M Doran Mrs Margaret Hadley Mr Richard Legg
61 > Foundation members & custodians, and donors in 2002/03
Custodians Mr Richard O Newman Dr Krisnaphong Sae Lee Mr John Vale Mrs Olivia Nicholls Mr S G Salisbury Mr Ernest W Vale Custodian Member cont. Dr Rowan Nicks Mr Martin Schliebs Mrs Joy van der Poorten Mrs Rosemary E Leitch Mrs Margaret Niehus Ms Janine Schmidt Dr Ian R Vanderfield OBE Denis Lenihan Dr B P and Dr D C Nolan Mrs Margaret Schonell Mr Christopher M P Vassall Mrs Joan M Levi Mr Walter Norris Dr Peter Schweitzer Mrs Jan L Vecchio Mr John & Mrs Judith Ley Dr Marlene J Norst Dr Brian W Scott Ms Vicki Vivian Miss Valerie A Lhuede Mr Alexander F Norwick Mrs Wendy B Selman Mr Kenneth A Waight Mrs Angela Lind Mrs Janice Nudd Ms Marian Seville Dr David G Walker AM Mr Barrie Lindsay Mrs Marie G O’Brien Mrs Elizabeth Sheard & Mrs Leonie Walker Ms J Linklater Ms Carole O’Brien Master Will Sherbon Mr Robert B Wallis Mrs A Lipson Mrs Clarice O’Gorman Miss Annie Sherbon Mrs Sheila Warby Mr Arthur V Loveless Mr Felix Oppen Dr Kevin V Sheridan AM Mr Alan J Ward Mr Peter W Lucas Ms Fortunee Ovadia Dr Jeffrey A Siegel Mrs Richard J Watson Mr Ric Lucas Dr Morris Owen Mrs K R Sinclair Mr Anthony Webster Mr Ernest Luthard Mr Viktor Paar Mrs Elizabeth Skeoch Jean Clifton West Mr Thomas R Lyle Miss Valerie P Packer Mr A H Slater QC Dr Janet E West Mrs Marjory R Macdonald Helmut Otto Paidasch Mr Bernard P Sloan Dr Judy White AM PhD Ms Margery E MacPherson Mr A F Pain Mr Robert Smith Mrs Margaret C White Ms Flora MacRae BEM JP Mr F H Palmer Ms Patricia Smith Mrs Margaret Wiesener Professor Kenneth Maddock Mr Henry N H Pan OAM Mrs Marie Smyth Dr Dianne Wiley Ms Eva Madl Ms Prudence Parkhill & Mr John Sneeder Dr Robert B Williams Mrs M P Manley Mr Geoffrey Board Mr Boris A Sokoloff & Mr Rex Williams Mr Ken Marks Kerrin Parry Mrs Sue Sokoloff Mr David Williams AM Dr Harold G Marsh Paul and Valerie Parv Richard Townshend Mr Dudley Williams Mr Richard N Marsh Miss Jill Paton Somerville Ms Jenny Williams The Hon Sir Anthony Mason Janine Pattison Mr Gavin & Mrs Ngaire Donald Elliott Wilson AC KBE Dr Gregory Pauline Souter Mr Brooks Wilson Mr George Masterman QC Senator Marise Payne Mr David Staehli Ms Jone B Winchester Mrs Robin Mathews Mr and Mrs Doug G Mrs Beverley Stanton Mr Richard J B Wingate Miss Isabel McCalman Peacocke Mr James H Staunton Mr Robert Winkworth Mr John McCarthy QC Dr Glenda Peel AO CBE QC Mr G L Winter Mr Tim McCormick Dr Bruce H Peterson Susan Steedman Mr Giles G Woodgate Mrs Margaret H McCredie Mr G W Pettigrew Mr Richard J Stevens Mr Hubert O Woodhouse Dr Ian D McCrossin Miss E M Philpot The Hon Mr Justice Brian Dr David Woods Mrs Rosemary McCullough Mrs Margaret Polglase in Sully The Hon Hal Wootten Mrs Gabrielle I McDonagh honour of the late William Mr C R Sundstrom AC QC Mrs B McEwin Polglase Colonel Ralph Sutton LVO Dr Yosef Wosk Mrs Cherie McGlynn Mr Benjamin Politzer Mrs Yolande Suttor Dr Donald I Wright Angus McInnes Mr Christopher Poullaos Mrs Dawn Swain Hon Justice Frederick L The Hon T S McKay BA LLB Robert Pryke Mr William P Sweeney Wright (Sydney) Mrs Gladys E Pugh Ms Wendy Swinburn Mr Neil E Wykes Dr Robin C McLachlan Mrs Eva E Purnell Dr John L Symonds Mr Bruce D McLaren Mrs Barbara Quigley Mrs Margaret H Talacko Custodian Donor Mr Lawrence F McManus Mrs Colleen M Quinton Ms Monica E Tankey Mrs Jean Edgecombe OAM Mr T McMurray Miss Dorothy Ramsay Mr Velion M Tanner Dr Alfred Liebhold Mr S D McNamara Mr Eric Rawlings Mr L Taylor Miss Dorothy Maber Dr John McPhillips Mr Graham J Rawlings E M Third Mr William J Youll Mr Robert J McWilliams Mrs Angela Raymond Dr Jeanette R Thirlwell Crewing for Flinders Sally K Mendel Mr John F Reading Mr Ian Thom Mr J N Miles Dr Con S Reed Mrs Valerie Thomas Banksian Patron Mrs Jane Miller Mr Brian Regan Mr Mark Thompson & Mr James O Fairfax AO Miss Millie Mills Mrs Patricia Reid Miss Maureen Ryan Miss Kerry F Mills Dr Mary T Rickard Mr Raymond D Thomsett Master Mr Gregory G Milton Professor John Ritchie AO Mr Bruce Thurn Mrs Maurine Goldston-Morris Mr Jack Mitchell Mrs Deanne Roberts Dr D S Tindal OAM Dr Anthony S Mitchell Mr Peter Roberts Mr T A Tonkin Mr and Mrs Peter Willcox The Hon Justice Michael Mr Charles W Robinson Mr W K Tootill Moore Miss Wendy L Robinson Mr Simon Touma Artist Mr E J & Mrs J L Moran Mr Philip A Robinson Mr Paul Tracey Mr Ian Angus Mr Graeme W Morgan Mrs Jeanne Rockey John Trathen Mrs Alice & Mr Conrad Ms Shirley Morris Mr Imants Ronis Trippas White Catering Oppen Dr Bhaskar Mukherjee Mr Robert W Rose Mr Richard H Trousdale The Hon Justice Mahla Mr Robert W Murray Catherine Rothery Mrs Jeanette J Tsoulos Pearlman AM Dr Gordon Myall Mr Mark Roufeil Mr John H Tunbridge Mr Hal Myers Mr Richard T Routley Mrs Pauline Tyrrell Lieutenant Miss Patricia J Nargar John Rownes Mrs Patricia Ulrichsen Mr Adrian & Mrs Philippa Mrs Rosemary Neville Reverend Doctor Alan G Poole Ms Pauline Newell Russell
62 > Council, staff and friends
Midshipman Miss Euffrosine Ellul Ms Noni Dart-Kelly Mrs Elizabeth White Ms Ruby Faris Lynette M Davenport Mrs E M Whitehead Mr Julian & Mrs Rosemary Ms Pamela Garlick Mrs Vera F Deacon Ms Robyn Whitehouse Block Mr Geoffrey J Gibbs Mrs Margaret Droulers Mrs Beryl Whiteley Mr Peter & Mrs Sally Crossing Mr Lawrence J Gluskie Ms Patricia Dunn Dr Judith A Williams Neville & Leila Govett Mrs Margaret Green Dr Mary Dwyer Dr Helen Woolnough Miss Margaret Kirkpatrick Mr Robert Haynes Mr Mark Elrick Ms Edith Ziegler George and Mary Maltby Mrs Patricia M Holden Mr W I B Enright Mr Terry G Matthews Miss Kathleen E Holmes Miss Aline Fenwick OBE Foundation Donors Anonymous Diana Howlett Mrs J B Fitzhardinge Volunteers – State Library of Anonymous Mr Malcolm Kinnaird AO Ms Lorna Ford NSW Mrs Sibilla E Baer Mrs Angela Lind Ms Heather Garnsey Mr Michael & Mrs Vashti Mr Geoff Brunsdon Mr Roderick G Matheson Mr Lionel & Mrs M Gilbert Waterhouse Ms Yvonne D Buchanan May Mr Robert McCuaig Ms M Godfrey Ms Roslyn Burge Trim Associate (Cat) Audrey A Moore OAM Ms Trish Greville Mr Richard & Ms Marlene Arditto Mr E J & Mrs J L Moran Harper Collins Publishers Mrs Rhona Butler Ms Norma Barne Mr John Negus Mr Robert Hart-Jones Father Edmund Campion Ms Josephine Bastian Mr Richard Oppen Mrs Jean Hogden Mrs Wendy E Clarke Ms Ann Brown Captain John W Pickhaver Mr Glenn Horne Alison Cox OAM Ms Roslyn Burge Mrs Diana Pockley Mr C P Hornsby Ms Dawn Daniel Mr Perce & Mrs Jane Mr Peter & Mrs June Poland The Hon W G Keighley OAM Mr Colin & Mrs R Dean Butterworth Mr Alex Ramsay Miss Wendy Kells Dick Smith Foods Ms Joan M Campbell Dr Peter D Shaughnessy Mrs E Kennard Mrs Margaret Droulers Justice Michael Campbell Mr Ron Sheen Mrs Christina Kennedy Dr Mary Dwyer Mr Michael Canavan Mr Kenneth G Smith Mrs Pamela Kline Mrs Zeny Edwards Mr Charles I Champion Miss Marjorie Smith Mr Stephen S H Kwik Lady (Vincent) Fairfax OBE Ms Suzanne Falkiner Mr Peter Stone Mr Richard F LaGanza Mr John B Fairfax AM Mrs Jan French Reg Torrington Mrs Helen Law Ms Suzanne Falkiner Mr Edward Glanville Dr Russell Vandenberg Lady Leonard Mrs Jan French Anonymous Mr Christopher M P Vassall Mr Dean Lockhead Mr Lionel A Gilbert & Ms F J Ma Mr Martin Hastings Trim Club Mrs M M Gilbert Mrs Joan M Hooper Miss Dorothy Maber Ms M Godfrey Miss Margaret Brewster Ms Margaret Jones Mr John A MacArthur Mrs Maurine Goldston-Morris Master Leo Bryant Dr Ruth Kerr Ms Nancy Manefield OAM Mrs Betty Butlin Miss Joy Laurence Mrs Suzanne Maple-Brown Mrs Norma Hardy Mrs Karen Carmichael Ms Anne MacDonald Mrs Ann McCallum Bill Hayward Mrs Lois W Caw Associate Professor Carmel Mrs Lois McEvoy Mr Max Hooper Mr Brian Coleman Maguire Ms Sally McInerney Ms Belinda Hutchinson Ms Anne Conway Mr Zachary Marceau Mrs Raye McKaye Dr Peter Kyle Ms Patricia Crakanthorp Angus McInnes Mrs P Mertens Miss Valerie A Lhuede Mrs Margaret Duffy Dr Marjorie J Pink Mr Kenneth Murchison Mr John A MacArthur Ms Miriam Harris Miss Dorothy Ramsay & Mrs J Murchison Associate Professor Carmel Mrs Maureen Holz Mrs Lorraine Rook Mr Phillip Newey Maguire Mrs Joyce Jones Ms Joy Storie Ms Sally O’Connell Mr Frank Markovic Mrs Ann McKechnie Mrs Judith Svars Ms Rella Oser Dr Alan Matthews Miss Mary A Miles Joan M Tribe Mr Roger Pierce Ms Roslyn G McDonald Emeritus Professor Timothy Dr David G Walker AM & Ms Fran Prior Ian & Helen McLachlan Trust Murrell Mrs Leonie Walker Ms Pat Quiggin Miss Mary A Miles Ms E Olsson Mr James Walker Mrs M Richardson Mrs Wilda Moxham Mr Andrew Pardoe Mrs Sarah M Walters Mrs Susan Robertson Mrs Ethel M Murray Mrs Beth Pooley Wooden Boat Association Mr James Roche Nelson Meers Foundation Mr Tom Sandow of NSW Mr David & Mrs Helen Rohr Mrs Eileen Nisbet Ms Alison Storey Ms Jill Wran Mr M R Rolfe Rachel & Geoffrey O’Conor Ms Val Street Mr Hans Rosenthal Ms Dorothy Peake & Crew Miss Charlie T Venables- Ms Rosie Satchell Dr Alex Robertson Shirley J Atkinson (Miss) Sriber Mr & Mrs EPT Simpson Ms Fran Prior Mrs Patricia Ball Mrs Pauline Walsh Miss Joyce H Skyring Dr R W B Reid AM Her Excellency Professor Donor Commodore John Snow RAN Mrs M Richardson (Rtd) & Mrs Brinnie Snow Marie Bashir AC Allen & Unwin Mr John S Robertson & Mr Allan Sturgess Mr Thomas W Battle Mrs Jocelyn Barker Mrs J Robertson Mr Bruce E Svenson Mr Jason Billings Miss Barbara J Barnes The Royal Sydney Golf Club Mrs Kay Sweeney Mr John & Ms Mairaed Mr A & Mrs Marie Berry Mrs Judith Saunders Mrs Winifred Von Heiszen Bilmon Mrs Betty W Briggs Mr & Mrs EPT Simpson Mrs Angela Walker Ms Barbara Briggs Mr David Burke Miss Joyce H Skyring Mrs Marjorie Ward Mr Jim Bryant Miss Louise Burney Miss Rose T Smith Mr W J Watson Canon Dr Rex Davis Mrs Frances Coll Mr Bruce E Svenson Mr John T Webber Mr Murray Doyle Dr Gabrielle I Cusack Ms Sue Thomas Mrs Jean Edgecombe OAM Wendy Wheelwright Mrs Winifred Von Heiszen
63 > Foundation members & custodians, and donors in 2002/03
Mrs Angela Walker Mrs G Persse Mr Allan Sturgess McCredie Richmond Mr James Walker Mrs Alcyonic Deacon Ms Pamela Taylor & Partners Mrs Sarah Walters Mr Alec Dickins Mrs S Teo Mr John & Mrs Tempe Mrs Marjorie Ward Mrs Sarah M Dingwell Theatre Of Image Merewether Mr White Ms Olive Dunk Ms Helen Thompson Mitchell Brandtman Miss Kathleen Dunn Ms Susan Tompkins & Partners Cricket Club Mr Arthur Easton Dr Peter Tyler Multiplex Constructions Honorary Members Ms Catherine M Evans Mr Alan Ventress Nettleton Tribe Partnership Elizabeth Evatt AC Professor Elizabeth Webby NSW Heritage Office Sir Ron Brierley Mr George Feher Mrs E M Whitehead Ove Arup & Partners Mr Robert E Horsell Mrs Robin Ferris Mr Milton Whitmont Page Kirkland Partnership Mr Brian Hughes Associate Professor Mark Mrs Madeleine Wilkinson Peddle Thorp & Walker Mr Noel Neate Ferson Dr George Wilson Mr Orwell Phillips Mr James Nicholls Mrs Jacqueline H Field Miss Hazel Woolston OAM Rider Hunt Members Dr Don E Fifer & Mrs Dorothy Hon Justice Frederick L 2UE Mr David W Anstice Fifer Wright Taylor Thompson Whitting Mr John Atkinson Mrs Janice Foster Haynes Dr Diana Wyndham Technoprint Mr Alan Behan Dr John Garrett The Ladies Committee of the Mrs Philip L Gibson Antarctica Conservation Sydney Opera House Mr John Benaud Auction Mr Michael Callen Mr Lionel A Gilbert & Appeal Fund Mr Keith Cheeseman Mrs M M Gilbert Mrs Sibilla E Baer The Library Society Mr Geoffrey Chubb Dr Stanley J M Goulston Graham & Charlene Bradley Tonkin Zulaikha Architects Ms Pamela Clifford Mrs Danella N Gunner Foundation Upper North Shore Architects Mr Neville Cush Mr Peter Haneman Sir Ron Brierley Network Mr Peter S Duffy Ms Brenda Heagney Mr Peter E Brigden Velux (Australia) Mr Geoffrey Dunstan Professor Donald Horne & Mr Geoff Brunsdon Widnell Services The Hon Mr Justice Rae Mrs Myfanwy Horne Rohan Congues Woolacott Hale Corlett & Else-Mitchell CMG QC Miss Hazel Hoss The Hon Justice Dennis A Jumikis Consulting Mr Michael Fahey Mr Anthony H Houghton Cowdroy & Mrs Jennifer Engineers Mr Lionel Fowler Dr S M Kelly Cowdroy Woods Bagot Mrs Helen Kenny Mr Stephen Gibbs Alison Cox OAM Weldon Benefaction Mr Craig Hambleton Ms Patricia Kerr Mr Maurice & Mrs Fran Cutler Ms Margaret Hammond Ms L Kerr Ms Jennifer Gillott Mr Neil & Mrs Diane Mr Alfred James OAM Mrs Margaret Knox Mr John & Mrs Maria Teresa Balnaves Mr David Jenkins Mr M Lain Hooke Hon. Bob Hawke AC Mr Chris Jurd Mrs P R Lemaire Mimi Hurley Scholastic Australia Mr Peter G Maiden The Hon Justice David Levine George and Mary Maltby Mr Ted Thomas Ms Lois McCutchan RFD The Hon Justice Mahla Mr Howard & Mrs Beryl Pearlman AM Project 2001–2010 Mr M McDermott Sponsors Mr Patrick McQuaid Lewis Mr Paul & Mrs Cecelia Andrew Thyne Reid Charitable Mr Malcolm Mear Dr Alfred Liebhold Pemberton Trust Mr James Nicholls Lady J Loewenthal Perpetual Foundation Mr John B Fairfax Mr W H Norton Mrs Joy Marchant Mr Harold Schultz Focus Publishing Mr Jack Pollard OAM Mrs Margaret J Mashford Penelope Seidler George Weston Foods Mrs A Purkis Ian & Helen McLachlan Trust Anonymous Hanimex Corporation Mr Simon Rice Mrs Leigh L McLeod Foundations for Merril Lynch (Aust.) Mr Nigel H Scott-Miller Dr Stephen McNamara Architecture Moran Health Care Group Mr William D T Ward QC Dr K Merten Nestlé Australia & Mrs Carolyn A Ward Miss Mary A Miles Alexander Tzannes Associates Rural Press Mr George Wardell Mr Neville H Milston EM Ancher Mortlock & Woolley The Synthesis Consulting Mr Robert J White AO Audrey A Moore OAM Mr & Mrs E Bagot Group & Mrs J A White Ms Suzanne Mourot Mr Phillip Bennett Ms Penelope Nelson Bruce Hill & Associates Sponsors Ben Haneman Mr Garth Nicholson Clive Lucas Stapleton & The Australian Memorial Fund Mrs Ena Noel Partners Reverend Kevin Nolan BHP Billiton Mr Ian & Mrs Hanne Angus Cox Richardson Architects Mr Andrew Pardoe Canon Australia Mr David Badham & Planners Dr E Perman Duke Energy International Dr Kathrine Becker Currie & Brown Miss Wilma Radford Getty Images Mrs Stephanie Beggs Denton Corker Marshall Mrs Cecile Ramsay-Sharp Ladies Committee of the Dr Brian Billington Dreyers Foundation Denmark Mrs P B Reed Sydney Opera House Mrs Rosemary Block Mrs Zeny Edwards Mrs Patricia Reid Appeal Fund Ms Margy Burn Fisher’s Old Fine Ms Patricia Ryan Nestlé Australia Mr A Cameron & D Kelly & Rare Books Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier & Network Seven Mr Frank Casadesus Gazzard Sheldon Architects Mr Horst Schmidmaier Radisson Plaza Hotel, Mr Steven Cateris Harry Seidler & Assoc. Ms Diane Shteinman AM Sydney Dr Elizabeth Clark Howard Tanner & Assoc. Miss Joyce H Skyring Singapore Airlines Dr Helen Crane Leighton Holdings Miss Rose T Smith Taylor’s Wines Mr J W de B Persse & Lend Lease Development Ms Joy Storie Dr Alan Matthews
64 VolunteersState Library in 2002/03 volunteers in 2002/03 > Council, staff and friends
Mr Alan Anderson OAM Ms Nancy Essex Mrs Gwen Kemmis Mrs Nancy Percival Mr Malcolm Atkinson Miss Berenice Evans Mrs Wilma Kerville Mr Kelvin Perks Mrs Mimi Bailey Ms Ruby Faris Mrs Ji-Yeon Kiddle Mrs Beth Pooley Mrs Patricia Ball Mr Maurice Farrell Mrs Mona King Mr Ian Porteous Ms Judith Banwell Mrs Sandra Faulkner Mr Raymond King Mrs Lorna Puflett Mrs Joan Barr Mr Robert Fawcett Mr David Lambert Mr Wallace Raisin Mrs Helen Bashir Crane Dr Don Fifer Mrs Vera Lang Mr Alex Ramsay Ms Marcia Bass Miss Marie Flanagan Ms Olive Lawson Miss Dorothy Ramsay Mr Leslie Bassett Mrs Beth Forman Ms Carolyn Leafe Mrs Cecile Ramsay-Sharp Dr Kathrine Becker Mrs Elizabeth Franklin Mrs Thelma Long Mrs Joan Reed Mrs Ingrid Beeren Mrs Dorothy Gibson Mrs Jean Lyall Miss Susan Remington Mrs Mary Bennett Miss Judy Gimbert Mrs Betty MacLean Mrs Lorraine Rook Mrs Helen Breekveldt Mrs Jane Gray Ms Elise Malcolm Ms Margaret Russell Mrs Margaret Broadfoot Dr Ken Gray Mrs Mary Maltby Ms Patricia Ryan Mrs Gwen Brunton Mr Basil Griffin Mrs Margaret Mandeno Mr John Ryrie Mrs Mercia Bunting Ms Els Groenewegen Mrs Joy Marchant Mr Harold Schultz Mrs Mary Clark Miss Helen Halse-Rogers OBE Mrs Robin Mathews Mrs Billie-Jean Scoppa Mrs Jeannette Clarke Mrs Paula Hand Mrs Betty McGregor Mrs Allison Sharpe Mrs Robyn Clarke Mrs Joan Hansell Mr Douglas McKay Mrs Tonny Silvestro Mrs Shirley Cohen Ms Jane Harris Ms Margot McKenzie Mrs Norma Simes Mrs Margaret Conlon Mrs Eileen Harrison Mrs Shirley McLachlan Mrs Gwendoline Skewes Mr William Coupland Mrs June Harvison Mr John Merewether Mrs Beverley Smith Mr Eric Cousley Mrs Joyce Havyatt Mrs Jackie Mewing Mrs Betty Smith Miss Rosemary Cox Mr Peter Hayman Mrs Zoë Middleton Mr John Smith Mrs Joyce Crooks Mrs Sylvia Hayman Mrs Juanita Minter Mrs Mary Smith Ms Carmel Cummins-Bezzina Mrs Elizabeth Heffernan Mr Rex Minter Miss June Somerville Mrs Gwyn Curran Mr Kevin Hewitt Miss Elizabeth Mitchell Miss Dorothy Spratt Mrs Moya Daly Mr James Hillier Mrs Helen Monaghan Mrs Barbara Stacey Mrs Janice D’Ambra Mrs Jennifer Hindmarsh Mrs Joy Moran Mrs Betty Stark Mrs Rosalind Davie Ms Evelayne Hoctor Mrs Lottie Mottram Mr Peter Stark Mrs Enid Davis Mrs Jean Hogden Mrs Joan Murphy Miss Sylvia Stone Mrs Judith Dawson Miss Hazel Hoss Mr Otto Neumann Mrs Margaret Suthers Mrs Marjorie Day Mrs Edna Hutton Miss Judy Nicklin Mrs Berry Symons Mrs Diane Douglas Miss Heather Icely Mrs Nancy Nineham Ms Angela Thompson Mrs Mary Driver Miss Wendy James Mrs Phyllis Oakes Mr Colin Thompson Mr Brian Dymock Ms Murial Jardine Mrs Pauline Ongley Ms Lilla Towie Mrs Mina Elron Mrs Elizabeth Jewsbury Mr Jack Owens Miss Nancy Tuck Ms Gaenor Vallack Mr George Verey Mrs Norma Wales Dr David Walker AM Mrs Leonie Walker Mrs Peggy Wallis Mrs Pauline Walsh Mrs Charmian Warden Mrs Nance Watson Mrs Wendall Watt Miss Peg Webster Ms Wendy Wheelwright Mrs Marcia Whibley Mrs Margaret Whitlam AO Mr Milton Whitmont Mrs Coral Williams Mrs Eve Wurth Mrs Sylvia Yeates
Volunteer tour guides Sandra Faulkner & Ken Gray with TAFE students
65 2003, our year of sport Celebrations leading to the centenary of the Mitchell in 2010 have focused each year since 2000 on a theme from the library’s collections. In 2002 the rich Antarctica holdings inspired a program of exhibitions and special events. In 2003 an exhibition of Australian sporting champions was an outstanding opportunity to showcase items from the sports collections and increase Library holdings of materials in this area. Football at Melbourne Oval, June 1875 Publications and information available Publications 2002/03
Annual Report Library Development Grants Guidelines 2002/03 First copy free, also available at: Also available at: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/annual/ http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/pls/development/ Corporate Plan 2002/2005: Shaping our Public Library News published in July, November Future Together and March. Also available at : Free, also available at: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/pls/publications/plnews/ www.sl.nsw.gov.au/publications/pdf/shaping.pdf Public Libraries News Update (electronic) Free gallery guides were published for the published monthly at: following exhibitions: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/pls/publications/plnewsupdate/ ● Lines on the Ice: Australasian Antarctic expedition Public Libraries in New South Wales 1911–1914 Directory, 2002 ● Roll up! Roll up! Circus photographs by $27.50, or free to NSW local government Brendan Esposito organisations. Also available at: ● Freestyle: the Bondi Beach Cole Classic http://pls.sl.nsw.gov.au/dir/directory.cfm ● Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection Public Library Statistics 2000/01: public library ● Frederick Garling in the Picture Gallery services in New South Wales, 2002 Free to NSW local government organisations Getting Started with Crime: Also available at: $11 (inc GST). Provided free of charge to public http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/pls/statistics/statistics.cfm libraries. A guide to finding information about ‘well known’ crimes that have gone to court – designed Upfront: Journal of the Friends and Supporters as a resource for HSC Legal Studies students. of the State Library of New South Wales Free Hot Topics: legal issues in plain language Three issues annually Five per year at $17.60 an issue (incl. GST) Provided free of charge to all NSW public libraries. Volunteers’ Voices Titles published in 2002/03: Courts, Intellectual Free Disability and Criminal Law, Discrimination, Newsletter of the State Library Volunteers Consumers and Money (in collaboration with ASIC) Three issues annually and Terrorism. What’s On Infocus: Linking people and information Free quarterly Topic List Guide to State Library public programs Infocus membership is by subscription of and exhibitions $75 pa + GST. Quarterly A listing of HSC resources. Also available at: ● A range of brochures and flyers is also published www.infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/search.cfm to support specific programs and services. LIAC Newsletter Three issues per year. Current news relating to access to information about the law for public librarians. Incorporated in Public Library News.
67 Freedom of information statement of affairs 2002/03
Structure and functions of the State State Library services are evaluated and monitored Library of New South Wales through a comprehensive program of surveys and performance measurement. Client satisfaction The State Library is the major public reference and surveys and qualitative research are conducted in information service for the people of New South all major service delivery areas. These indicate a Wales, with over five million items in its collection high level of satisfaction with Library services, and and instant access to electronic information services help to inform ongoing improvements in service around the world. Its origins date back to 1826, with delivery. Services are provided directly to people the opening of the Australian Subscription Library, who visit the State Library in Macquarie Street, which the NSW Government took over in 1869 and Sydney, and to remote clients who make contact via created the Sydney Free Public Library. From 1895 telephone, mail, fax, email, or through the Library’s to 1975 the Library was known as the Public Library website. The Library also provides services to clients of New South Wales. It was renamed the State of the New South Wales public library network, Library of New South Wales in 1975. including document delivery services. The Library The Library Council of New South Wales is the manages NSW.net, an electronic information governing body of the State Library of New South network linking public libraries and councils Wales. The Library Act, 1939 and Library Regulation, to the Internet. 2000 define the powers, authorities, duties and functions of the Library Council. Arrangements for the public to participate in policy development The State Library is managed by an Executive comprising the State Librarian & Chief Executive, The Library Act, as amended by the Cultural and five directors responsible for Collection Institutions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1989, Management, Library & Information Services, provides that there shall be a Library Council of Strategy & Chief Information Officer, Education nine members of the public, nominated by the & Client Liaison, and Resource Management. Minister for the Arts, and appointed for a three-year An organisation chart appears on p vii. term by the Governor of New South Wales. The Library’s key objectives are set out in Corporate The Public Libraries Consultative Committee and Plan 2002/2005: Shaping our Future Together the Grants Committee of Library Council enable copies of which are available from the Library’s representatives of local government to participate in website
68 > Publications and information available
Categories of documents held by the Applications for access to documents under the State Library provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 1989 should be directed in writing to: Documents relating to the exercise of the State Library’s diverse functions are housed at the Library Freedom of Information Officer in Macquarie Street. These include documents State Library of New South Wales relating to administrative, personnel and financial Macquarie Street matters common to most NSW government SYDNEY NSW 2000 organisations. Other records relate to the provision Tel: (02) 9273 1796 of library and information services to members of Fax: (02) 9273 1268 the community, services and support provided by Email: [email protected] the Library to New South Wales public libraries, and the management of the Library’s collections. A list of publications and information available from the State Library of New South Wales appears on Documents containing personal information are p 67 of this Annual Report. described in the Library’s Privacy Management Plan, a copy of which is available from the Privacy The State Library received no requests for Contact Officer (see contact details below). information in either 2002/03 or 2001/02 under the NSW Freedom of Information Act, 1989. Sections B-L of the statistical reporting forms are therefore not applicable to the Library during this period.
Privacy annual report 2002/03
In June 2000, the State Library undertook a A copy of the Privacy Management Plan can comprehensive audit of its personal information be obtained by contacting: sources to ascertain what personal information is Privacy Contact Officer held and how it is managed in accordance with the State Library of New South Wales Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act, Macquarie Street 1998. This information was analysed to prepare the SYDNEY NSW 2000 Library’s Privacy Management Plan, required under section 33 of the Act. The plan consists of: Tel: (02) 9273 1796 Fax: (02) 9273 1268 ● privacy protection strategy Email: [email protected] ● education strategy for State Library staff, The Library did not receive any applications volunteers, consultants and contractors for internal review in the period 2002/03. ● privacy management action plan The State Library’s published collection is not ● description of major collections of personal covered by the Privacy and Personal Information information Protection Act, 1998. However, the Library’s collection of unpublished material including ● procedures for public access to own information manuscripts, pictures, and oral history is covered by ● internal review procedures for privacy the Act, causing compliance difficulties. The Library complaints. has sought to be covered by the Draft Privacy Code of Practice for Research, which was developed in consultation with the Library and other NSW Ministry for the Arts agencies.
69 Financial Statements 2003 Library Council of New South Wales Independent audit report
GPO BOX 12 SYDNEY NSW 2001
INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT LIBRARY COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES
To Members of the New South Wales Parliament Audit Opinion In my opinion, the financial report of the Library Council of New South Wales: (a) presents fairly the Library Council’s financial position as at 30 June 2003 and its financial performance and cash flows for the year ended on that date, in accordance with applicable Accounting Standards and other mandatory professional reporting requirements in Australia, and (b) complies with sections 41B and 41BA of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 (the Act). The opinion should be read in conjunction with the rest of this report.
The Council’s Role The financial report is the responsibility of the members of the Library Council of New South Wales. It consists of the statement of financial position, the statement of financial performance, the statement of cash flows, the summary of compliance with financial directives and the accompanying notes.
The Auditor’s Role and the Audit Scope As required by the Act, I carried out an independent audit to enable me to express an opinion on the financial report. My audit provides reasonable assurance to Members of the New South Wales Parliament that the financial report is free of material misstatement.
My audit accorded with Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards and statutory requirements, and I: • evaluated the accounting policies and significant accounting estimates used by the Council in preparing the financial report, and • examined a sample of the evidence that supports the amounts and other disclosures in the financial report.
An audit does not guarantee that every amount and disclosure in the financial report is error free. The terms ‘reasonable assurance’ and ‘material’ recognise that an audit does not examine all evidence and transactions. However, the audit procedures used should identify errors or omissions significant enough to adversely affect decisions made by users of the financial report or indicate that Council members had failed in their reporting obligations.
My opinion does not provide assurance: • about the future viability of the Council, • that the Council has carried out its activities effectively, efficiently and economically, • about the effectiveness of its internal controls, or • on the assumptions used in formulating the budget figures disclosed in the financial report.
Audit Independence The Audit Office complies with all applicable independence requirements of Australian professional ethical pronouncements. The Act further promotes independence by: • providing that only Parliament, and not the executive government, can remove an Auditor-General, and • mandating the Auditor-General as auditor of public sector agencies but precluding the provision of non-audit services, thus ensuring the Auditor-General and the Audit Office are not compromised in their role by the possibility of losing clients or income.
G J Gibson FCPA, Director of Audit 27 October 2003
2 3 Year ended 30 June 2003
Pursuant to Section 41C (1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act, 1983, and in accordance with a resolution of the members of the Library Council of New South Wales, on recommendation of the Finance Committee, we declare on behalf of the Library Council of New South Wales, that in our opinion:
(a) the accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with applicable Australian Accounting Standards and other mandatory professional reporting requirements, the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act and Regulations, and the Financial Reporting Directions published in the Financial Reporting Code for Budget Dependent General Government Sector Agencies or issued by the Treasurer under section 9(2)(n) of the Act.
(b) there are no circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial statements to be misleading or inaccurate.
The Hon. Justice Mahla L Pearlman AM Dagmar Schmidmaier President State Librarian & Chief Executive
2 3 Statement of financial performance for the year ended 30 June 2003
Notes Actual Budget Actual 2003 2003 2002 $’000 $’000 $’000 Expenses Operating expenses Employee related 2 (a) 25,257 24,237 25,058 Other operating expenses 2 (b) 11,026 13,223 9,940 Maintenance 2 (c) 4,476 1,170 1,855 Depreciation and amortisation 2 (d) 9,674 10,382 10,031 Grants and subsidies 2 (e) 20,913 20,920 20,373 Borrowing costs 2 (f) 32 38 35 Other costs 2 (g) 66 - - Total Expenses 71,444 69,970 67,292
Less: Retained Revenue Sale of goods and services 3 (a) 2,432 1,971 2,830 Investment income 3 (b) 1,772 1,864 1,807 Grants and contributions 3 (c) 3,403 4,005 4,977 Other revenue 3 (d) 183 - 430 Total Retained Revenue 7,790 7,840 10,044
Loss on disposal of non-current assets 4 (5) - -
NET COST OF SERVICES 23 63,659 62,130 57,248
Government Contributions Recurrent appropriation 6 47,194 47,194 43,672 Capital appropriation 6 10,349 10,349 5,709 Acceptance by the Crown Entity 7 3,620 2,507 3,129 of employee benefits and other liabilities Total Government Contributions 61,163 60,050 52,510
SURPLUS / (DEFICIT) FOR THE YEAR FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES (2,496) (2,080) (4,738)
NON-OWNER TRANSACTION CHANGES IN EQUITY Decrement on revaluation of investments 20 (727) - (690)
TOTAL REVENUES, EXPENSES AND VALUATION ADJUSTMENTS RECOGNISED DIRECTLY IN EQUITY (727) - (690)
TOTAL CHANGES IN EQUITY OTHER THAN THOSE RESULTING FROM TRANSACTIONS WITH OWNERS AS OWNERS (3,223) (2,080) (5,428)
The accompanying notes form part of these statements.
4 5 Statement of financial position as at 30 June 2003
Notes Actual Budget Actual 2003 2003 2002 $’000 $’000 $’000 ASSETS
Current Assets Cash 9 2,742 1,054 2,751 Receivables 10 1,198 602 602 Inventories 11 221 205 205 Other financial assets 12 (a) - 551 551 Other 14 151 26 26 Total Current Assets 4,312 2,438 4,135
Non-Current Assets Other financial assets 12 (b) 14,004 14,396 14,396 Property, Plant and Equipment - Land and Buildings 13 167,570 168,696 168,428 - Plant and Equipment 13 2,047 4,658 934 - Collection Assets 13 1,498,331 1,496,345 1,500,370 Total Property, Plant and Equipment 1,667,948 1,669,699 1,669,732 Total Non-Current Assets 1,681,952 1,684,095 1,684,128
Total Assets 1,686,264 1,686,533 1,688,263
LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities Payables 16 2,074 1,045 1,460 Interest bearing liabilities 17 76 69 69 Provisions 18 2,157 2,716 1,951 Total Current Liabilities 4,307 3,830 3,480
Non-Current Liabilities
Interest bearing liabilities 17 383 459 459 Provisions 18 473 - - Total Non-Current Liabilities 856 459 459 Total Liabilities 5,163 4,289 3,939
Net Assets 1,681,101 1,682,244 1,684,324
EQUITY
Reserves 20 58,095 59,333 59,333 Accumulated funds 20 1,623,006 1,622,911 1,624,991
Total Equity 1,681,101 1,682,244 1,684,324
The accompanying notes form part of these statements. 4 5 Statement of cash flow for the year ended 30 June 2003
Notes Actual Budget Actual 2003 2003 2002 $’000 $’000 $’000 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Payments Employee related 21,821 22,470 22,021 Grants and subsidies 20,913 20,920 20,370 Borrowing costs 32 38 35 Other 16,516 14,173 14,762 Total Payments 59,282 57,601 57,188
Receipts Sale of goods and services 2,431 1,967 3,174 Interest received 1,009 1,864 1,153 Other 4,526 4,139 7,330 Total Receipts 7,966 7,970 11,657
Cash Flows from Government Recurrent appropriation 47,194 47,194 43,170 Capital appropriation 10,349 10,349 5,709 Cash reimbursements from the Crown Entity 897 740 790 Net Cash Flows from Government 58,440 58,283 49,669
NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 23 7,124 8,652 4,138
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Proceeds from sale of investments 5,922 - 1,590 Purchase of Land and Buildings, Plant and Equipment and Collection Assets (7,895) (10,349) (5,016) Purchase of investments (5,091) - (823) NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES (7,064) (10,349) (4,249)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES Repayment of borrowings and advances (69) - (46) NET CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES (69) - (46)
NET INCREASE / (DECREASE) IN CASH (9) (1,697) (157) Opening cash and cash equivalents 2,751 2,751 2,908 CLOSING CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 9 2,742 1,054 2,751
The accompanying notes form part of these statements.
6 7 Summary of compliance with financial directives for the year ended 30 June 2003
- - -
Fund
$’000 5,709 5,709 5,709 5,709 5,709
Expenditure Consolidated Consolidated
Net Claim on Claim Net
- - - -
$’000 5,723 5,723 5,723 5,723 5,723 5,723 Capital Capital
Appropriation
-
- Fund 2002 2002 1,120 1,120 1,120 1,120 $’000
43,170 43,170 42,552 42,552
43,672 43,672 42,552
Expenditure
Consolidated Net Claim on Claim Net
-
1,120 1,120 1,120 1,120 $’000 42,552 42,552 43,672 43,672 42,552 42,552
Recurrent Recurrent
Appropriation
- - - - Fund $’000 10,349 10,349 10,349 10,349 10,349 10,349
Expenditure Consolidated Consolidated Net Claim on Claim Net
- - -
$’000 10,349 10,349 Capital 10,349 10,349 10,349 10,349
Appropriation
- - - - - Fund 2003 2003 $’000 47,194 47,194 47,194 47,194 47,194 47,194 Expenditure Consolidated Consolidated
Net Claim on Claim Net
- - - - -
$’000 47,194 47,194 47,194 47,194 47,194 47,194
Recurrent
Appropriation
BUDGET ORIGINAL APPROPRIATION/EXPENDITURE Act - Appropriation OTHER APPROPRIATIONS/EXPENDITURE advance - Treasurer’s for - expenditure 22 - Section services and works certain Appropriations Total Expenditure/Net on Claim Fund Consolidated against down Amount drawn Appropriation Fund Consolidated to Liability Note: or prescribed). identified otherwise where (except first spent are moneys Fund Consolidated that assumption the on based is Compliance of in Summary The However, spent. been fully has and works miscellaneous minor for appropriation capital the from appropriated was $0.8 million) (2002 million $2.7 statements. financial the in as expense been reclassified have expenditures these standards, accounting with accordance
6 7 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
1. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (a) Reporting entity The Library Council of New South Wales (hereafter called Library Council), as a reporting entity, comprises all the entities under its control including the activities of the State Library of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales Foundation. In the process of preparing consolidated financial statements for the Library Council (an economic entity which is comprised of both controlling and controlled entities) all inter-entity transactions and balances have been eliminated. The Library Council is consolidated as part of the NSW Total State Sector Accounts.
(b) Basis of accounting The Library Council’s financial statements are a general purpose financial report which has been prepared on an accrual basis and in accordance with: • applicable Australian Accounting Standards (AAS); • other authoritative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB); • Urgent Issues Group (UIG) Consensus Views; • the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act and Regulations; and • the Financial Reporting Directions published in the Financial Reporting Code for Budget Dependent General Government Sector Agencies or issued by the Treasurer under section 9(2)(n) of the Act.
Where there are inconsistencies between the above requirements, the legislative provisions have prevailed. In the absence of a specific accounting standard, other authoritative pronouncements of the AASB or UIG Consensus Views, the hierarchy of other pronouncements as outlined in AAS 6 “Accounting Policies” is considered. Except for certain investments, land and buildings, and collection assets, which are recorded at fair value, the financial statements are prepared in accordance with the historical cost convention. All amounts are rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars and are expressed in Australian currency.
(c) Administered activities The Library Council does not administer any activity on behalf of the Crown Entity.
(d) Revenue recognition Revenue is recognised when the Library Council has control of the good or right to receive it, it is probable that the economic benefits will flow to the Library Council and the amount of revenue can be measured reliably. Additional comments regarding the accounting policies for the recognition of revenue are discussed below. (i) Parliamentary appropriations and contributions from other bodies Parliamentary appropriations and contributions from other bodies (including grants and donations) are generally recognised as revenues when the Library Council obtains control over the assets comprising the appropriations / contributions. Control over appropriations and contributions is normally obtained upon the receipt of cash. An exception to the above is when appropriations are unspent at year end. In this case, the authority to spend the money lapses and generally the unspent amount must be repaid to the Consolidated Fund in the following financial year. As a result, unspent appropriations are accounted for as liabilities rather than revenue. No such liability existed at the end of the financial year. (ii) Sale of goods and services Revenue from the sale of goods and services comprises revenue from the provision of products or services i.e., user charges. User charges are recognised as revenue when the Library Council obtains control of the assets that result from them.
8 9 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
(iii) Investment income Interest revenue is recognised as it accrues. Rent revenue is recognised in accordance with AAS 17 “Accounting for Leases”. Royalty revenue is recognised on an accrual basis in accordance with the substance of the relevant agreement. Dividend revenue is recognised when the right to receive payment is established. (iv) Non-cash gifts Library Council receives non-cash gifts of collection items that are valued under the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP) of the Department of Communications and the Arts. These items are not taken to account as income or assets the year of acquisition but are disclosed by way of this Note. Each five years collection assets are revalued and the gifts acquired during the interim period are incorporated in the overall valuation. During the year non-cash gifts received by Library Council were valued under the CGP at $55,629 (2002: $271,203).
(e) Employee benefits and other provisions (i) Salaries and wages, annual leave, sick leave and on-costs Liabilities for salaries and wages (including non-monetary benefits), annual leave and vesting sick leave are recognised and measured in respect of employees’ services up to the reporting date at nominal amounts based on the amounts expected to be paid when the liabilities are settled. This year certain ‘on costs’ on long service leave have been accrued as a result of a change in method of calculation of the liability as shown at item (e) (iii) below. Unused non-vesting sick leave does not give rise to a liability as it is not considered probable that sick leave taken in the future will be greater than the benefits accrued in the future. The outstanding amounts of payroll tax, workers’ compensation insurance premiums and fringe benefits tax, which are consequential to employment, are recognised as liabilities and expenses where the employee benefits to which they relate have been recognised. (ii) Accrued salaries and wages – reclassification As a result of the adoption of Accounting Standard AASB 1044 “Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets”, accrued salaries and wages and on-costs have been reclassified to “payables” instead of “provisions” in the Statement of Financial Position and the related note disclosures, for the current and comparative periods. On the face of the Statement of Financial Position and in the notes, reference is now made to “provisions” in place of “employee entitlements and other provisions”. Total employee benefits (including accrued salaries and wages) are reconciled in Note 18 “Provisions”. (iii) Long service leave and superannuation The Library Council’s liabilities for long service leave and superannuation are assumed by the Crown Entity. The Library Council accounts for the liability as having been extinguished resulting in the amount assumed being shown as part of the non-monetary revenue item described as “Acceptance by the Crown Entity of employee benefits and other liabilities”. Long service leave is measured on the present value method. The present value method (which was introduced in the current financial year and was changed from the short-hand method) requires that long service liabilities that are expected to be settled more than 12 months after reporting date, must be measured at the present value of the estimated future cash out flows. This method also takes into account expected future increases in remuneration rates. The superannuation expense for the financial year is determined by using the formulae specified in the Treasurer’s Directions. The expense for certain superannuation schemes (i.e., Basic Benefit and First State Super) is calculated as a percentage of the employees’ salary. For other superannuation schemes (i.e., State Superannuation Scheme and State Authorities Superannuation Scheme), the expense is calculated as a multiple of the employees’ superannuation contributions.
8 9 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
(iv) Other provisions Other provisions exist when the Library Council has a present legal, equitable or constructive obligation to make a future sacrifice of economic benefits to other entities as a result of past transactions or other past events. These provisions are recognised when it is probable that a future sacrifice of economic benefits will be required and the amount can be measured reliably.
(f) Borrowing costs Borrowing costs are recognised as expenses in the period in which they are incurred (except where they are included in the costs of qualifying assets). (g) Insurance The Library Council’s insurance activities are conducted through the NSW Treasury Managed Fund Scheme of self insurance for Government agencies. The expense (premium) is determined by the fund manager based on past experience.
(h) Accounting for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except where: • the amount of GST incurred by the Library Council as a purchaser that is not recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of an asset or as part of an item of expense • receivables and payables are stated with the amount of GST included.
(i) Acquisitions of assets The cost method of accounting is used for the initial recording of all acquisitions of assets controlled by the Library Council. Cost is determined as the fair value of the assets given as consideration plus the costs incidental to the acquisition. Assets acquired at no cost, or for nominal consideration, are initially recognised as assets and revenues at their fair value at the date of acquisition. An exception to this practice is with gifts of collection items valued under the Department of Communications and Arts Cultural Gift Program. See Note 1 (d) (iv). Fair value means the amount for which an asset could be exchanged between a knowledgeable, willing buyer and a knowledgeable, willing seller in an arm’s length transaction. Where settlement of any part of cash consideration is deferred, the amounts payable in the future are discounted to their present value at the acquisition date. The discount rate used is the incremental borrowing rate, being the rate at which a similar borrowing could be obtained. The salaries and wages of staff only directly involved in the preservation and conservation of original materials, such that they become available and ready for use by the Library, are capitalised as part of collection assets and are being depreciated in accordance with the Library’s depreciation policy (refer to note 1. (m) (iii)). In prior years all salaries and wages were expensed in the Statement of Financial Performance in the year in which they were incurred. During the current year employee related expenses of $0.983 million have been capitalised under this change in accounting policy. Comparative Figures have not been restated as the salaries and wages of staff undertaking these functions in prior years is not readily identifiable.
(j) Plant and equipment Plant and equipment costing $5,000 and above, individually, are capitalised.
(k) Revaluation of physical non-current assets Physical non-current assets are valued in accordance with the “Guidelines for the Valuation of Physical Non- Current Assets at Fair Value” (TPP 03-02). This policy adopts fair value in accordance with AASB 1041 from financial years beginning on or after 1 July 2002. There is no substantive difference between the fair valuation methodology and the previous valuation methodology adopted in the NSW public sector.
10 11 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
Where available, fair value is determined having regard to the highest and best use of the asset on the basis of current market selling prices for the same or similar assets. Where market selling price is not available, the asset’s fair value is measured as its market buying price i.e. the replacement cost of the asset’s remaining future economic benefits. Although the Library Council has some cash generating operations, it is a not for profit entity whose service potential is not related to its ability to generate net cash inflow. Collection assets are valued on a deprival basis as a surrogate for fair value (i.e., using current market buying price where the asset can be replaced and current market selling price when the asset cannot be replaced). Each class of physical non-current assets is revalued every 5 years and with sufficient regularity to ensure that the carrying amount of each asset in the asset class date does not differ materially from its fair value at reporting date. As a result of the size and nature of the Library Council’s assets, this revaluation is conducted over a 5 year period. The last revaluations were completed on 30 June 2000 for land and buildings and 30 June 1999 for collection assets and were based on independent assessments. Non-specialised assets with short useful lives are measured at depreciated historical cost, as a surrogate for fair value. When revaluing non-current assets by reference to current prices for assets newer than those being revalued (adjusted to reflect the present condition of the assets), the gross amount and the related accumulated depreciation are separately restated. Otherwise, any balances of accumulated depreciation existing at the revaluation date in respect of those assets are credited to the asset accounts to which they relate. The net asset accounts are then increased or decreased by the revaluation increments or decrements. Revaluation increments are credited directly to the asset revaluation reserve, except that, to the extent that an increment reverses a revaluation decrement in respect of that class of asset previously recognised as an expense in the surplus / deficit, the increment is recognised immediately as revenue in the surplus / deficit. Revaluation decrements are recognised immediately as expenses in the surplus / deficit, except that, to the extent that a credit balance exists in the asset revaluation reserve in respect of the same class of assets, they are debited directly to the asset revaluation reserve. Revaluation increments and decrements are offset against one another within a class of non-current assets, but not otherwise. Where an asset that has previously been revalued is disposed of, any balance remaining in the asset revaluation reserve in respect of that asset is transferred to accumulated funds.
(l) Assets not able to be reliably measured The Library Council holds certain assets that have not been recognised in the Statement of Financial Position because they cannot be reliably valued. These assets are: • vertical file material, a closed collection of print material • 21,140 bookjackets for Australian imprints from 1880 to date • 10,497 linear metres of manuscripts which include original personal papers and private archives related primarily to NSW with significant collections on Antarctica and the Pacific, and other smaller holdings • 7,473 hours of original oral history and sound recordings on reel to reel, and cassette tapes, accompanied by transcriptions and logs, covering all aspects of life in NSW • original personal papers and private archives related primarily to NSW bequeathed to the Library by Sir William Dixson. The cost of maintaining these assets is expensed as incurred and has been estimated at over $315,000 in the financial year ending 30 June 2003 (2002: $300,000).
10 11 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
(m) Depreciation of non-current physical assets (i) Depreciation is provided for on either a straight-line or reducing balance basis for all depreciable assets (except heritage assets which include the Mitchell Library building and the major part of the collection) so as to write off the depreciable amount of each asset as it is consumed over its useful life to the Library Council. Land is not a depreciable asset. (ii) All material separately identifiable component assets are recognised and depreciated over their shorter useful lives, including those components that in effect represent major periodic maintenance. The following estimated useful lives are used in the calculation of depreciation: Buildings 50 years Plant and equipment 7 years Computer equipment 4 years Library IT system 4 years Collection assets see below
(iii) Collection assets, other than heritage, are depreciated under both the double declining balance (DDB) and straight line bases according to the following major asset groupings: Monographs, bound serials, microfilm reels and microfiche 60 years DDB Multicultural materials 3 years straight line Audio visual/electronic resources 7 years straight line Heritage not depreciated
The use of DDB for monographs, bound serials, microfilm reels and microfiche is based on studies showing that usage is highest when an item is newly acquired and decreases over time, more rapidly in the earlier years than in the later, but never reaches the point of having no information value. Even if rarely used there is utility in being able to refer to an historical item for a piece of information missing from other sources, or to use a particular item as part of a longitudinal survey or contextual data. Items in this asset group have a particularly long service life and DDB reflects their pattern of use over their useful life. The straight line depreciation method is for collection asset groups with much shorter service lives. Multicultural materials have continuing high levels of usage which impact service life and audio visual/electronic resources can incur, in addition to regular wear and tear, technical obsolescence. In both these two asset groups usage is more evenly distributed across their service life. Heritage assets will continue to provide service well in excess of 200 years provided they are adequately maintained. These assets are not depreciated.
The following table reflects the book value of the various collection asset groups at 30 June 2003. Monographs, bound serials, microfilm reels and microfiche $220.1 million Multicultural material $1.0 million Audio visual/electronic resources $1.6 million Heritage $1,275.6 million
(n) Maintenance and repairs The costs of maintenance are charged as expenses as incurred, except where they relate to the replacement of a depreciable asset component, in which case the costs are capitalised and depreciated.
(o) Leased assets A distinction is made between finance leases, in which there is an effective transfer from the lessor to the lessee of substantially all the risks and benefits incidental to ownership of the leased assets, and operating leases, under which the lessor effectively retains all such risks and benefits.
12 13 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
Where a non-current asset is acquired by means of a finance lease, the asset is recognised at its fair value at the inception of the lease. The corresponding liability is established at the same amount. Lease payments are allocated between the principal component and the interest expense. Operating lease payments are charged to the Statement of Financial Performance in the periods in which they are incurred.
(p) Receivables Receivables are recognised and carried at the original invoice amount less a provision for any uncollectable debts. An estimate for doubtful debts is made when collection of the full amount is no longer probable. Bad debts are written off as incurred.
(q) Inventories Inventories are stated at the lower of cost and net realisable value. The cost is calculated using the weighted average cost or first in first out method.
(r) Other financial assets Other financial assets are generally recognised at cost, with the exception of TCorp Hour- Glass investment facilities and managed fund investments, which are measured at market value. For non-current other financial assets, revaluation increments and decrements are recognised in the same manner as physical non-current assets. For current other financial assets, revaluation increments and decrements are recognised in the Statement of Financial Performance.
(s) Trust funds The Library Council holds no monies in a trustee capacity.
(t) Other assets Other assets including prepayments are recognised on a cost basis.
(u) Equity transfers There have been no transfers of net assets between the Library Council and other agencies.
(v) Payables These amounts represent liabilities for goods and services provided to the Library Council and other amounts, including interest. Interest is accrued over the period it becomes due.
(w) Interest bearing liabilities All loans are valued at current capital value.
(x) Budget amounts The budgeted amounts are drawn from the budgets as formulated at the beginning of the financial year and with any adjustments for the effects of additional appropriations, s 21A, s 24 and/or s 26 of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983. The budgeted amounts in the Statement of Financial Performance and the Statement of Cash Flows are generally based on the amounts disclosed in the NSW Budget Papers (as adjusted above). However, in the Statement of Financial Position, the amounts vary from the Budget Papers, as the opening balances of the budgeted amounts are based on carried forward actual amounts i.e., per the audited financial statements (rather than carried forward estimates).
12 13 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
2. EXPENSES 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
(a) Employee related expenses comprise the following specific items Salaries and wages (including recreation leave) 19,386 20,085 Superannuation 2,104 1,883 Long service leave 1,624 1,129 Workers’ compensation insurance 414 357 Payroll tax and fringe benefit tax 1,608 1,602 Redundancy 115 - Study assistance 4 - Meal allowance 2 2 25,257 25,058 Employee related expenses of $0.983 million have been capitalised as part of Collection Assets during the year (2002: $nil).
(b) Other operating expenses Auditor’s remuneration - audit or review of the financial reports 59 52 Cost of Sales 195 252 Bad and doubtful debts 4 105 Operating lease rental expense 692 676 Insurance 746 718 Other Advertising & promotions 358 287 Consumables 95 159 Courier, freight and postage 239 295 Electricity 565 405 Software licences 108 72 Fees 2,485 2,317 Fees - information retrieval 306 438 Cleaning services 556 539 Telephone and other telecommunication costs 896 652 Printing 491 541 Travel and accommodation 167 207 Offsite storage 679 652 Exhibition fees production 682 447 Computer software 396 202 Stationary & consumables 362 331 Purchases - Multicultural Co-Operative 351 198 Other operating expenses 594 395 11,026 9,940
(c) Maintenance Repairs and maintenance 3,764 1,801 Maintenance undertaken free of charge - see Note 3(c) 712 54 4,476 1,855
14 15 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
2003 2002 $’000 $’000
(d) Depreciation and amortisation expense Computer equipment 107 65 Plant and equipment 113 51 Library information technology system 257 373 Collections 8,161 8,506 Buildings 1,036 1,036 9,674 10,031
(e) Grants and subsidies Base grants 809 809 Population grants 11,347 11,300 Disability loading grants 728 728 Additional special purpose funds 1,249 - Local special projects grants 809 809 NSW.net 2,000 3,002 Co-operative and statewide projects 321 273 Resources 250 249 Royal Blind Society grant 150 150 Library development grants 3,250 3,053 20,913 20,373
(f) Borrowing costs Interest 32 35 32 35
(g) Other costs Decrement on revaluation of non-current investments 56 - Decrement on revaluation of current investments 10 - 66 -
14 15 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
3. REVENUES 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
(a) Sale of goods and services Sale of goods Gross sale Library Shop 428 577 Other sales 625 669 Rendering of services Fees 996 1,184 Admissions 72 64 Subscriptions 311 336 2,432 2,830
(b) Investment income Interest and Unit Distribution 1,423 1,343 Rent 306 341 Royalties 43 123 1,772 1,807
(c) Grants and contributions BHP Community Programs 100 9 Bruce & Joy Reid Foundation 83 - Commonwealth Dept of Communications, Information Technology and Arts - 129 Duke Energy International - 35 Gordon Darling Foundation 12 - NSW Premiers’ Department 37 190 Law Society of NSW Public Purpose Fund 568 500 National Library of Australia 10 - Nelson Meers Foundation 200 - NESTLE Australia Ltd 521 493 NSW Department of Health 80 80 NSW Nurses’ Association 5 5 NSW Office of Information Technology 703 - Commonwealth Grant - Rural Link - 3,250 Other donations 335 192 Other grants 37 40 2,691 4,923 Services provided at no charge - see Note 2 (c) 712 54 3,403 4,977
(d) Other revenue Other 183 430 183 430
16 17 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
4. GAIN / (LOSS) ON DISPOSAL OF NON-CURRENT ASSETS 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
Gain / (loss) on disposal of fixed assets: Proceeds from disposal - - Written down value of fixed assets disposed (5) - Gain / (loss) on disposal of non-current assets (5) -
5. CONDITIONS ON CONTRIBUTION Residual balances of conditional contributions received during the year that were not spent at the end of year amounted to $2.4 million (2002: $2.8 million). This amount has been carried forward into 2003/04 in the cash and other financial asset balances at the end of the year.
6. APPROPRIATIONS Recurrent appropriations Total recurrent drawdowns from Treasury (per Summary of Compliance) 47,194 43,170 47,194 43,170
Comprising: Recurrent appropriations (per Statement of Financial Performance) 47,194 43,672 Less: Repayment of Liability to Consolidated Fund - 502 47,194 43,170
Capital appropriations Total capital drawdowns from Treasury (per Summary of Compliance) 10,349 5,709 10,349 5,709
Comprising: Capital appropriations (per Statement of Financial Performance) 10,349 5,709 10,349 5,709
7. ACCEPTANCE BY THE CROWN ENTITY OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND OTHER LIABILITIES The following liabilities and / or expenses have been assumed by the Crown Entity Superannuation 2,104 1,883 Long service leave 1,433 1,129 Payroll tax 83 117 3,620 3,129
16 17 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
8. PROGRAMS / ACTIVITIES OF THE AGENCY The State Library operates as one program under the Minister for the Arts. The program objective is to provide library and information services to the people of New South Wales through the State Library, the statewide network of public libraries and information agencies.
9. CURRENT ASSETS - CASH 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
Cash at bank and on hand 1,125 380 TCorp - at call 1,617 2,371 2,742 2,751 For the purposes of the Statement of Cash Flows, cash includes cash on hand, cash at bank and cash at call with TCorp.
10. CURRENT ASSETS - RECEIVABLES Sale of goods and services 905 385 Other debtors - accrued interest 137 55 GST receivable 207 223 1,249 663 Less: Provision for doubtful debts (51) (61) 1,198 602
11. CURRENT ASSETS - INVENTORIES Finished goods (Library Shop) - at cost 221 205 221 205
12(a). CURRENT ASSETS - OTHER FINANCIAL ASSETS Other loans and deposits - 551 - 551
12(b). NON-CURRENT ASSETS - OTHER FINANCIAL ASSETS TCorp - Hour-Glass investment facilities 5,175 9,402 Maple-Brown Abbott diversified trust 8,829 4,994 14,004 14,396
12(c). RECONCILIATIONS FOR NON-CURRENT ASSETS–OTHER FINANCIAL ASSETS
TCorp Hour Maple-Brown Other Total -Glass Abbott loans and investment diversified deposits 2003 facilities trust $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Carrying amount at start of year 9,402 4,994 - 14,396 Additions 922 4,850 - 5,772 Disposals (4,723) (658) - (5,381) Net revaluation (decrement) (426) (357) - (783)
Carrying amount at end of year 5,175 8,829 - 14,004
18 19 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
13. NON CURRENT ASSETS - PROPERTY PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
Land At Fair Value 43,100 43,100
Buildings At Fair Value 136,978 136,800 Less Accumulated Depreciation (12,508) (11,472) 124,470 125,328
Total Land and Buildings 167,570 168,428
Computer Equipment At Fair Value 995 866 Less Accumulated Depreciation (667) (670) 328 196 Library IT Systems At Fair Value 1,650 1,674 Less Accumulated Depreciation (1,509) (1,341) 141 333 Plant and Equipment At Fair Value 1,906 1,036 Less Accumulated Depreciation (763) (850) 1,143 186
Work in Progress (WIP) At Fair Value 435 219
Total Plant and Equipment (including WIP) 2,047 934
Library Collection At Fair Value 1,532,387 1,526,265 Less Accumulated Depreciation (34,056) (25,895) 1,498,331 1,500,370
Total Property, Plant and Equipment at Net Book Value 1,667,948 1,669,732
18 19 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
13(a). RECONCILIATIONS FOR NON-CURRENT ASSETS - LAND AND BUILDINGS, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, AND COLLECTIONS
Reconciliations of the carrying amounts of each class of property, plant and equipment and collection assets at the beginning and end of the current and previous financial years are set out below.
2003 Computer Library IT Plant & Library Work in Land Building Equipment System Equipment Collection Progress Total At Fair Value $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000
Balance 1 July 2002 43,100 125,328 196 333 186 1,500,370 219 1,669,732 Additions - 178 243 65 1,071 6,122 216 7,895 Retirements book value - - (116) (89) (199) - - (404) Retirements accumulated depreciation - - 112 89 198 - - 399 Depreciation expense - (1,036) (107) (257) (113) (8,161) - (9,674) Balance 30 June 2003 43,100 124,470 328 141 1,143 1,498,331 435 1,667,948
14. CURRENT ASSETS - OTHER 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
Prepayments 151 26 151 26
15. RESTRICTED ASSETS The Library Council has assets valued at $9.5 million received from bequests and funds. They are under different levels of restriction according to the conditions stipulated in the bequest and fund documents. These assets have been invested in Maple-Brown Abbott Diversified Investment Trust and with NSW Treasury Corporation Hour-Glass Investment Facility Trusts. The revenue from the investments is being used for the enrichment of the Library collection and for the enhancement of Library services. In addition, as at 30 June 2003, the Library had $2.4 million in cash and other financial assets of unexpended conditional grants and contributions, received during 2002/03.
16. CURRENT LIABILITIES - PAYABLES Trade creditors - operating expenses 615 136 Sundry creditors 227 - Accruals - other operating expenses 354 486 Accrued salaries and wages 644 607 Accrued payroll tax 147 149 Accrued fringe benefit tax 8 9 Income received in advance 11 12 Reid Charitable Trust 68 61 2,074 1,460
20 21 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
17. CURRENT / NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES - INTEREST BEARING LIABILITIES 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
Current Liabilities - Borrowings Treasury advance repayable - SEDA 76 69
Non-Current Liabilities - Borrowings Treasury advance repayable - SEDA 383 459
Repayment of Borrowings Not later than one year 76 69 Between one and five years 383 459 Later than five years - - Total borrowings at face value 459 528
18. CURRENT / NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES - PROVISIONS Employee benefits and related on-costs Recreation leave 1,986 1,837 Payroll tax on recreation leave 119 114 Long service leave on-costs 191 - Payroll tax on long service leave liability 334 - Total Provisions 2,630 1,951
Aggregate employee benefits and related on-costs Provisions - current 2,157 1,951 Provisions - non-current 473 - Accrued salaries, wages and on-costs (Note 16) 799 765 3,429 2,716
20 21 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
19. COMMITMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE Capital Commitments Aggregate capital expenditure contracted for at balance date and not provided for: Not later than one year 1,032 92 Total (including GST) 1,032 92
Other Expenditure Commitments Aggregate other expenditure contracted for at balance date and not provided for: Not later than one year 3,548 4,292 Later than one year and not later than 5 years 130 358 Total (including GST) 3,678 4,650
Operating Lease Commitments Future non-cancellable operating lease rentals not provided for and payable: Not later than one year 772 813 Later than one year and not later than 5 years 703 1,015 Total (including GST) 1,475 1,828
Goods and Services Tax Commitments disclosed above include input tax credits of $0.56 million that are expected to be recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office (2002: $0.6 million)
22 23 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
20. CHANGES IN EQUITY Accumulated Asset Revaluation Total Funds Reserves Equity 2003 2002 2003 2002 2003 2002 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000
Balance at the beginning of the financial year 1,624,991 1,629,613 59,333 60,139 1,684,324 1,689,752
Changes in equity - other than transactions with owners as owners Surplus / (deficit) for the year (2,496) (4,738) - - (2,496) (4,738)
Increment / (decrement) on revaluation of non-current investments - - (727) (690) (727) (690)
Total (2,496) (4,738) (727) (690) (3,223) (5,428)
Transfers within equity Transfer from asset revaluation reserve following disposal of investments 511 116 (511) (116) - -
Total 511 116 (511) (116) - -
Balance at the end of the financial year 1,623,006 1,624,991 58,095 59,333 1,681,101 1,684,324
Note: The asset revaluation reserve is used to record increments and decrements on the revaluation of non-current assets. This accords with the Library Council’s policy on the ‘Revaluation of Physical Non-Current Assets’ and ‘Investments’, as discussed in Note 1.
22 23 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
21. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND CONTINGENT ASSETS The Library Council is not aware of any contingent liabilities or contingent assets relevant to its activities as at 30 June 2003.
22. BUDGET REVIEW Net cost of services The actual net cost of services was $1.5 million higher than budget primarily due to increases of $1.0 million in employee related expenses and $3.3 million in maintenance expense as well as decreases of $2.2 million in other operating expenses and $0.7 million in depreciation.
The increase in employee related expenses was primarily due to a new method of recognition and measurement of employee benefits. This was offset by a higher acceptance by the Crown Entity of employee benefits and other liabilities.
The increase in maintenance expense is due to Treasury capital funded projects being treated as expenses in the financial statements and building works undertaken by the Department of Commerce . The increase in maintenance expense has been partly offset by the decrease in the depreciation figure.
Other operating expenses were lower than budget due to a delay in the Rural Link project. This is offset by a reduction in grants received from the Commonwealth Government.
Assets Actual current assets were higher than budget at year end by $1.9 million. This was due to $1.7 million of unspent money relating to the Rural Link project.
Actual non-current assets were lower than budget by $2.1 million due primarily to $2.7 million capital funded projects treated as maintenance expenses in the financial statements. This was offset by a lower depreciation expense
Liabilities Liabilities increased primarily due to increases in Accounts Payable.
Cash flows Net decrease in cash was $1.7 million less than budget. Contributing to this result was the unbudgeted cash surplus for the Rural Link project, offset by a higher than budgeted cash movement in debtors and creditors.
24 25 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
23. RECONCILIATION OF CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO NET COST OF SERVICES 2003 2002 $’000 $’000
Net cash provided by operating activities (7,124) (4,138) Cash flows from Government / Appropriations 58,440 49,669 Acceptance by the Crown Entity of employee benefits and other liabilities 2,723 2,339 Depreciation 9,674 10,031 (Decrease) / increase in provision for doubtful debts (10) 12 Unit Distribution (681) (772) Loss on disposal of non-current assets 5 - Decrement on revaluation of investments 66 - Increase in provisions 679 317 Increase / (decrease) in payables 614 (670) (Increase) in prepayments and other assets (125) (16) (Increase) / decrease in debtors (520) 359 (Increase) in GST receivable 16 26 (Increase) / decrease in accrued income (82) 119 (Increase) in inventory (16) (28)
Net cost of services 63,659 57,248
24. NON-CASH FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES Material assistance provided at no cost to the Library:
The Library Council received services free of charge from the Department of Commerce (formerly the Department of Public Works and Services) for the restoration and maintenance of the Mitchell Library Building. These contributions have been valued as at the date of provision of services with the amount of the valuation recognised in the Statement of Financial Performance as revenue under Grants and Contributions and as an expense under Maintenance
25. THE STATE LIBRARY OF NSW FOUNDATION The principal activities of the Foundation, which is a registered charitable trust in New South Wales, are to: (a) assist the Library to gain, maintain, improve and develop its collection of literary and historical artefacts and materials (b) to attract and encourage donations, gifts, bequests, and other forms of financial assistance to or for the benefit of the Library (c) to raise finance for the acquisition and preservation of materials for the collection.
At 30 June 2003 the Foundation had $9.4 million in net assets (2002: $10.4 million). During the year the Foundation made a contribution of $1.2 million to the Library Council (2002: $1.3 million).
24 25 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
26. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Cash Cash comprises cash on hand, bank balances and at call deposits. Interest is earned on daily bank balances.
Receivables All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. Collectability of trade debtors is reviewed on an ongoing basis. Debts which are known to be uncollectable are written off. A provision for doubtful debts is raised when some doubt as to collection exists. The credit risk is the carrying amount (net of any provision for doubtful debts). No interest is earned on trade debtors. The carrying amount approximates net fair value. Sales are made on 30 days terms.
TCorp Hour-Glass Investment Facilities Library Council has investments in TCorp’s Hour-Glass Investment Facilities. The investments are represented by a number of units of a managed investment pool, with each particular pool having a different investment horizon and being comprised of a mix of asset classes appropriate to that investment horizon. TCorp appoints and monitors fund managers and establishes and monitors the application of appropriate investment guidelines. Total rate of return on Library Council’s Investment over the year was 4.6% comprising 13.8% interest earned and a negative 9.2% market drop in unit prices which was debited to investment revaluation reserve. 2003 2002 $’000 $’000 Medium Term Growth Facility 5,175 9,402
Trust Investments The Library Council has investments with Maple-Brown Abbott an investment management company specialising in managing wholesale funds. The investment is by way of a unit trust with a portfolio of Australian and overseas equities, property trusts, fixed interest and cash. Total rate of return on Library Council’s investment over the year was a negative 1.6% comprising 4.1% interest earned and a 5.7% market drop in unit prices which was debited to the Investment Revaluation Reserve. 2003 2002 $’000 $’000 Maple-Brown Abbott Diversified Investment Trust 8,829 4,994
These investments are generally able to be redeemed with up to five business days notice (dependent upon the facility). The value of the investments held can decrease as well as increase depending upon market conditions. The value that best represents the maximum credit risk exposure is the net fair value. The value of the above investments represents the Library Council’s share of the value of the underlying assets of the facility and is stated at net fair value.
26 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
Authority Deposits Library Council has placed funds on deposit with several institutions. At call deposits are with TCorp, which has been rated “AAA” by Standard and Poors. These deposits are similar to money market or bank deposits and can be placed “at call” or for a fixed term. The interest rate payable by TCorp is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit.
2003 2003 2002 2002 Carrying Net fair Carrying Net fair amount value amount value $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 At call 1,617 1,617 2,371 2,371 Less than one year - - 551 551
Total 1,617 1,617 2,922 2,922
The deposits as at 30 June 2003 were earning an average interest rate of 4.7% (2002: 4.4%), while over the year the weighted average interest rate was 4.7% (2002: 5.3%) on a weighted average balance during the year of $6.5 million (2002: $5.2 million).
Bank Overdraft The Library Council does not have any bank overdraft facility.
Payables The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in the future for goods and services received, whether or not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set out in Treasurer’s Direction 219.01. If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the month following the month in which an invoice or a statement is received. Treasurer’s Direction 219.01 allows the Minister to award interest for late payment. No applications for the payment of interest on late payment were received during the year.
27. AFTER BALANCE DATE EVENTS There are no material after balance date events.
END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
26 27 Budget outline for year ending 30 June 2004
Budget Sources of Income 2003/04
39% NSW Govt – Recurrent Allocation
30% NSW Govt – Public Library Grants Allocation
18% NSW Govt – Capital Allocation
8% Grants, Donation & Contributions 3% Commercial Revenue 2% Investment Income
Allocation of Recurrent Resources to Programs 2003/04
28% Public Library Services
26% Collection Management
18% Reader Services
15% Electronic Library Services
8% Education & Client Liaison
5% Corporate Services
28 29 Index to notes of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2003
Acceptance by the Crown entity of employee Revenues benefits and other liabilities 17 Sale of goods and services 16 After balance date events 27 Investment income 16 Appropriations 17 Grants and contributions 16 Budget review 24 Other revenue 16 Changes in equity 23 State Library of NSW Foundation 25 Commitments for expenditure 22 Summary of significant accounting policies Conditions on contributions 17 Accounting for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) 10 Contingent liabilities and contingent assets 24 Acquisitions of assets 10 Current / non-current liabilities – interest bearing liabilities 21 Administered activities 8 Current / non-current liabilities – provisions 21 Assets not able to be reliably measured 11 Current assets – cash 18 Basis of accounting 8 Current assets – inventories 18 Borrowing costs 10 Current assets – other 20 Budget amounts 13 Current assets – other financial assets 18 Depreciation of non-current physical assets 12 Current assets – receivables 18 Employee benefits and other provisions 9 Current liabilities – payables 20 Equity transfers 13 Expenses Insurance 10 Employee related expenses 14 Interest bearing liabilities 13 Other operating expenses 14 Inventories 13 Maintenance 14 Leased assets 12 Depreciation and amortisation expense 15 Maintenance and repairs 12 Grants and subsidies 15 Other assets 13 Borrowing costs 15 Other financial assets 13 Other costs 15 Payables 13 Financial instruments 26 Plant and equipment 10 Gain / (Loss) on disposal of non-current assets 17 Receivables 13 Non-cash financing and investing activities 25 Reporting entity 8 Non-current assets – other financial assets 18 Revenue recognition 8 Non-current assets – property plant and equipment 19 Revaluation of physical non-current assets 10 Programs / activities of the agency 18 Trust funds 13 Reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities to net cost of services 25 Reconciliation for non-current assets – land and buildings, plant and equipment, and collections 20 Reconciliation for non-current assets – other financial assets 18 Restricted assets 20
29 Index
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Services for 3 Library Council
Access – addresses and contact numbers back cover Attendance record 47 Accounts payable performance 18 Committees 48
Annual Report – cost of printing inside back cover Members 47 Bequests 27 President’s Overview ix BHP Billiton Skills.net NSW 13 Mission i
Budget outline for 2003/04 see Financial Statements Mitchell Library Centenary (Project 2001 – 2010) 8 C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship 28 Multicultural Services 14 Code of Conduct 6 Nancy Keesing Fellowship 28 Collaborative initiatives xi, 1, 2, 20, 24 National Biography Award 28 Collections – Deposits and donations 31 Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection iii, ix, 7, 27 Collections – Additions 36 Nestlé Write Around Australia 25 Committees – Key internal 50 NSW.net 12 Committees – Representation on external 52 Occupational Health and Safety 21, 22
Consultants, Use of 18 Opening hours back cover Consumer response 4 Organisation chart vii Corporate governance i Overseas travel 29 Corporate objectives iv, ix Privacy Annual Report 69 Corporate performance indicators iv Public library grants and subsidies 39 Di@YLL Drug Information at Your Local Library 3, 13 Publications 67 Disability Services 3 Regional service delivery x, 8, 12 Duke Energy International 11 Research and Evaluation 23 Energy Management 17 Risk Management 16 Ethnic Affairs Priority Statement Report 14 Rural Link 12 Equal Employment Opportunity 21, 22 Service Improvement iii Fellowships and Awards 28 Skills.net 13
Financial statements inside back cover Spokeswomen’s Program 6 Freedom of Information 68 Staff numbers 22 Friends of the State Library of New South Wales iii, 27 State Library of New South Wales Foundation 26 Gordon Darling Foundation, Melbourne 8 Members & Custodians, and donors 56 Guarantee of Service 4 Total Asset Management Plan xi, 17 Health Information Service 3, 13 University of Technology, Sydney 28 Heritage Act, Compliance with 18 Volunteers 26, 65 Human Resources 6, 21, 22 Waste Recycling and Purchasing Policy 17
Internal Audits 16 Web address back cover Investment management performance 16 Women, Action Plan for 4, 6, 21, 28 Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship 28 Legislation i, ix, 15 LIAC Legal Information Access Centre 2, 13
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