ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection

HMSS 0003 Jenny Gleeson Papers

Scope and Content Notes

Call Number	HMSS 0003
Collection	Jenny Gleeson Personal Papers
Date Range	1983-1988
Quantity	0.56m (4 Manuscript boxes)
Access Conditions	Available for reference
File Number	-
Related Collections	-

Jenny Gleeson trained as a librarian and worked in the National Library from 1963 to 1972 and as Librarian-in-Charge of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs Libraries from 1973 to 1983. In 1984 she acted as Librarian-in Charge of the libraries of the Department of Home Affairs and Environment, and also became convenor of the Australian Federal Libraries Committee within the Department of Arts, Heritage and Environment.

Gleeson joined the Library Association of Australia in 1963 and the ACOA in 1968. The papers in this collection relate chiefly to her period as Vice-President of the ACT Branch of the Library Association of Australia, 1985, and President, 1986.

Box List

BOX NO.	SERIES NO.	FILE NO.	DESCRIPTION	DATE RANGE
1	1	1	Personal file: correspondence (LAA/ACT Vice-President	1985
1	1	2	Correspondence LAA/ACT Vice-President and President	1985, 1986
1	1	3-6	Minutes and related papers	1985-1986
1	1	8-10	LAA 50^th Anniversary	1987
2	1	11	LAA 50^th Anniversary	1987
2	1	12	Third National Library Technicians’ Conference, Canberra (see also Box 3 Series 22)	1985
2	1	13	LAA Conference, Darwin	1986
2	1	14	Special Libraries Conference on User Education, Canberra	1980
2	1	15	Special Librarians’ Conference, Melbourne	1985
2	1	16-18	Australian Federal Libraries Committee
2	1	19	LAA Corporate Plan and Review Committee
2	1	20	Special Libraries Section	1983 - 1985
3	1	21	Library Technicians Survey	1985
3	1	22	Library Technicians’ Conference, Canberra (see also Box 2 Series 12)	1985
3	1	23	Industrial Award for Library Technicians, Report	1985
3	1	24	“Our National Heritage” by Robert Sharman. Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. Drafts on FOI	1986
3	1	25	Paper presented to Tasmanian branches of LAA, Speech at Barbara McDonough’s farewell Speech at 5^th Birthday Celebration, Belconnen Town Centre Library	1985-1986
3	1	26	AACOBS 33^rd meeting of National Council	1986
3	1	27	Proposed national headquarter, Deakin, ACT
3	1	28	Election as Vice-President, Miscellaneous papers, “A National Plan for Document Supply and Delivery”- report of LAA’s Working Party on Document Delivery in Australia	1984-1985
3	1	29-30	LAA Industrial Forum	1988
3	1	31	LAA Work Level Standards	1984
4	1	32	Paper on standards for special librarians	1985
4	1	33	Australian War Memorial
4	1	34	Incite, Vol. 5	1984
4	1	35	Incite, Vol. 6, Nos 1-21	1985
4	1	36	Incite, Vol. 6, Nos 1-21	1985
4	1	37	Incite, Vol. 7	1986
4	1	38	Incite, Vol. 7	1986
4	1	39	Incite, Vol. 8	1987
4	1	40	Incite, Vol. 8	1987
4	1	41	Incite, Vol. 9	1988
4	1	42	Miscellaneous printed items