MOUwlilte______17 August Page 14 BACK TO BASICS - Invitation to attend General Literary Guide to FACT OR FICTION? Council (An occasional correction The General Council of the Association Australia will be meeting in Brisbane on Friday of a wrong assumption) A very substantial undertaking is at present 24th and Saturday 25th August, prior to underway — The Oxford Illustrated Literary The comment has been made that member­ the Conference. Guide to Australia, for which the material is ship of the LAA has fallen drastically while Members of the Association are most being gathered by the Association for the the staff of the LAA has expanded welcome to attend Council as observ­ Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). enormously. ers, either for all or part of the meeting. The finished book will contain 200,000 FACT: This is not true, although it may be If you wish to attend, would you please words with place entries on more than 600 true to say that the staff of the LAA has risen notify Angela Brommann on (02) localities, biographical information on nearly enormously since 1937 when the Australian 692 9233 as soon as possible. Notifi­ 1000 writers as well as maps and photographs. Institute of Librarians began! cation is only required for catering pur­ A substantial amount of material has In fact, in the last ten years the number of poses and to ensure there is adequate already been received and a printout of staff has dropped from twelve to eleven. As seating. around 90,000 words produced, but more en­ well, there has been a change in emphasis in Councillors hope that as many mem­ tries are required! staffing from clerical to professional staff, so bers as possible will take advantage of If you would like to contribute to this pro­ that with one less staff member the Associa­ the opportunity to see the Associa­ ject in supplying information about particular tion is in fact able to provide more service to tion’s governing body at its second areas and their literary connections, contact members. meeting for 1984. the co-ordinator for your state. The staffing for 1975 and 1984 is as follows:

1975 1984 NEW SOUTH WALES: Executive Director Executive Director State Co-ordinator: Executive Assistant Assistant Executive Director Dr. Shirley Walker Industrial Information Industrial Information English Department Officer Officer Library Association of Australia University of New England Publications Officer Continuing Education Armidale. 2351 New South Wales Officer STUDY GRANT Assistant Publications Publications Officer NORTHERN TERRITORY: Officer AWARD Co-ordinator: Executive Director’s Assistant Publications The Library Association of Australia will Dr. David Headon Secretary Officer make funds available each year to sup­ Darwin Community College Examinations Clerk Executive Director’s port practising librarians wishing to Secretary undertake a study project on a selected : Membership Clerks Membership Clerk library/information issue or problem of Co-ordinator: -2 present or future relevance to the de­ Elizabeth Perkins Membership Clerk Bookkeeper velopment and improvement of library English Department — receipting and information services in Australia. James Cook University Bookkeeper Typist For further information see InCite Vol 5 Townsville. Typist Receptionist No lO. Application forms are available from : Jenny Adams LAA House and applications for an Co-ordinator: Executive Director award in 1985 should reach the Assistant Andrew Taylor Grandmothers were humanity's first Executive Director LAA House, 376 Jones English Department information storage and retrieval sys­ Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 by 31 August University of Adelaide tem - Tom Stonier 1984. TASMANIA and ANTARCTICA: Co-ordinator: Dr Margaret Scott National Library ^jj% Recent English Department University of Tasmania of Australia publications : State Co-ordinator: Towards a Manual of Australian Hospital Buying Books in Other Languages: Library Practice. Report of a Feasibility A Handbook for School and Public Val Kent Study Networks Study No. 23 Libraries English Department ISBN 0 642 99305 X ISBN 0 642 99297 5 Monash University 250 X 176 mm74p. 250 X 176 mm 198p. Clayton. 3168 $5.75 $7.95 WESTERN AUSTRALIA: The National Library of Australia and its Newspapers in Australian Libraries: Readers: Report of the Reader Profile A Union List Part I Overseas Co-ordinator: and Opinion Survey, 1982 Networks Newspapers, 4th edition Bruce Bennett Study No. 24 ISBN 0 642 99298 3 English Department ISBN 0 642 99306 8 297 X 210 mm212p. University of Western Australia 250 X 176 mm54p. $10 $5.75 Guide to the National Union Catalogue, Here is a sample entry from the Guide: Marketing of Information Services: 5 th edition CHINKAPOOK (VIC.) UNESCO Regional Workshop, Canberra, ISBN 0 642 99304 1 Wheat-farming town in the Malice region of NW Victoria, near the Murray River and the NSW bor­ December 1983 Proceedings (joint 297 X 210 mm 136p. der, 70km W of Swan Hill, and 408km N of NLA/UNESCO imprint) $7.50 . ISBN 0 642 99315 7 John Shaw Neilson’s father, John Neilson, farmed 250 X 176 mm256p. for a time at Chinkapook. When the mice plague of $10 1017 dest royed 50 bags of seed wheat, lost also were a number of Shaw Neilson’s notebooks. Douglas Visit the National Library Stand at the LAA Conference exhibition Stewart lamented this occurrence in his poem ‘The Orders and inquiries to: Sales and Subscriptions Section Mic e of Chinkapook’: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600 They hit their way through field and crop, They ate the haystack to its top, Publications in Print (as at January 1984) is available free on request. They crept into the house and took Telephone: (062) 621 646 The poet's notebook slice by slice, The nibbling mic e of Chinkapook.