Abstract
The recurring question of ‘what is a librarian?’ was of as much interest in the new Colony of Victoria in the nineteenth century as it is in the 21st century. From 1854 to 1864, during a protracted endeavour to convince the colonial government to include in its civil establishment, and thus pay for, a librarian for the Supreme Court Library, the designation ‘librarian’ was applied expediently to various people performing a variety of tasks in the Library, depending on the arguments being presented to the Government by the Library Committee, which included Sir Redmond Barry, or by the Government in response.
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