Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2013
Department 1
Library
Abstract
American Librarian Ralph Munn's historic tour of Australian libraries in 1934 is well documented. Along with Ernest Pitt, Chief Librarian of the State Library of Victoria, he spent nearly ten weeks travelling from Sydney and back again, visiting libraries in all the state capitals and many regional towns throughout the country. Munn's trip was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was then, through its Dominions fund, turning attention to philanthropic opportunities in the Antipodes. The resulting report, Australian Libraries: A Survey of Conditions and Suggestions for their Improvement (commonly referred to as the Munn-Pitt Report) is often credited with initiating the public library movement in Australia. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Robin Wagner (2013). What Munn Missed: The Queensland Schools of Arts. Queensland Review, 20.2, pp 187-202.
Required Publisher's Statement
Original version is available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2013.20