8 Rare Books
The Rare Books Foyer has proven to be an excellent facility for exhibitions,
presentations and functions.
8.1 Cataloguing
The priority for 1996 was to make substantial inroads into the backlog,
especially of the Australian material, which has been achieved. Most of the
Australian literature in the backlog has been catalogued, as has the 19th
century discovery and exploration and pamphlet material acquired from the State
Library in 1995. The Lindsay Shaw material has continued to be catalogued,
courtesy of casual funds from Technical Services. CAVAL has continued to work on
our pre-1801 backlog.
Significant Users
These included Professor Clive Probyn who conducted his course on Swift in the
Rare Books Reading Room throughout second semester. Kate Latimer of the ABC
brought in a TV crew to shoot an interview with Peter Naish of the English
Department on Kipling, for the television show, 'Between the Lines'. The
material referred to included correspondence and volumes from the Kipling
Society Library held in the Rare Book Collection.
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