Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from June 1998

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from June 1998

Dietrich Borchardt in retrospect.
June 1, 1998... And whom do we remember? Not a hundred. Were every memory written down : all true The tenth or twentieth name would be but blundered. It is as well to be sceptical about one's memory and our ability to be objective cocerning the achievements...

Working with DHB: a personal memoir.
June 1, 1998... Dietrich Hans Borchardt or DHB as I always referred to him in private, or Mr Borchardt as I always addressed him in public, gave me my first job in a university library. Actually, he gave me my first three jobs in university libraries....

D H Borchardt as AARL editor. (Dietrich Borchardt)
June 1, 1998... `it is undoubtedly true to say that most editors of librarianship journals are amateurs'.(1) Dietrich Borchardt contributed a great deal to librarianship in Australia, in many different areas, and it would be invidious and pointless to try...

Dietrich Borchardt and government publications.
June 1, 1998... Government Publications at La Trobe University When I joined the staff of the Library at La Trobe University in January 1967, the start of the first year of teaching, Dietrich Borchardt had been on the job as Chief Librarian for a year and...

Dietrich Borchardt-Australia's bibliographer.
June 1, 1998... Dietrich Borchardt, known as `The Chief to those of us who had the privilege to work with him, was one of the pre-eminent Australian bibliographers, certainly of the latter part of the twentieth century. The following comment by Roy Stokes is...

Dietrich as I knew him. (Dietrich Borchardt)
June 1, 1998... I first met Dietrich in 1961 when, as an Honours student at the University of Tasmania, I attended some courses he ran in bibliography and library resources for postgraduate students. These were, of course, the precursors of the regular...

D H B: an impressionist sketch.
June 1, 1998... I first met Dietrich Borchardt in 1960. He was then President of the University and College Libraries Section of the Library Association of Australia, and as Secretary of the newly formed Victorian Division, I wrote to him in Tasmania asking...

Dietrich Borchardt and education for librarianship.
June 1, 1998... Dietrich Borchardt's interest in education for librarianship stemmed from his passionate conviction that librarianship, is a scholarly profession. Its members should be educated in the same way as other professionals, in academic institutions...

Dietrich Borchardt and his overseas suppliers.
June 1, 1998... `I was always very wary for his fury was ecstatic-his refined vocabulary most unpleasantly emphatic...'--the Duchess of Plaza Toro in W S Gilbert's The Gondoliers In his winning and bristly way, with a twinkle in his eye and a pipe in his...

Dietrich Borchardt: towards a bibliography of his writings: a preamble to a third assay.
June 1, 1998... This is the third time that I have looked at the bibliography of the writings of D H Borchardt. The first was in the 1970s when under my Pearce press Processed Publications imprint I produced an initial bibliography of Borchardt and a...

Establishing the La Trobe University Library.
June 1, 1998... The Setting `... in Australia, the period that followed the Second World War and ended with the nineteen seventies must be recognised as one of distinctive importance in the formation and development of academic and research...

The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition.
June 1, 1998... The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition edited by Frank D'Andraia. New York London Haworth Press ISBN 0-7890-0320-1 $39.95US (hb) No one would deny that university libraries today, and particularly in Australia,...