1969.0002
PAPERS OF SIR GEORGE WHITECROSS PATON [1941-1957]
Creator(s): 
Paton, Professor Sir George Whitecross [16/08/1902-16/06/1985]

Letters concerning Paton's appointment as Chairman of the National Library Inquiry Committee, submissions by interested parties including the Commonwealth Archives Committee, H.L. White (National Librarian), John Metcalfe (Public Library of N.S.W.) and related correspondence, comments and notes; final report. Included are items for background from 1941: J. Metcalfe's paper, "Co-operation between State Public Libraries and Government Departments, 1941; brief outline on the history, government, functions etc. prepared for the Library Committee, 1951; article on the Commonwealth National Library by H.L.White, and a memorandum from J. Metcalfe concerning a dispute with White over spheres of collecting, 1953; notes for discussion with Sir John Latham, draft minutes of a meeting of the General Council at the P.L.V., June 1954.

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