The Australian Women's Register

MS 8993 comprises training manuals used for professional and para-professional staff development in the National Library of Australia in the 1970s, and correspondence. The manuals include: System Development Appreciation Course (undated); A Report on [a] Course in Catalogue Searching [for] Clerical Assistants 4 (Feb. ’71); and, Continuing Education Programme, [National Library of Australia], series 1, sessions 1-40 [1972-75?]. Correspondence in the collection includes letters from Dymphna Clark, Honor Thwaites, Ruth Niland (Park), Rosemary Dobson, Barrett Reid, Stephen Murray-Smith, Joan Phipson and others. There are also invitations, press cuttings and memorabilia, mainly of Dymphna or Manning Clark, including two photographs, one showing Dymphna and Manning Clark, the other showing Dymphna (3 boxes). The Acc13.017 instalment comprises correspondence, cuttings and typed notes pertaining to Lister George Hopkins and his wife Edna Hopkins, assembled by Richardson whilst writing a tribute to Lister Hopkins at the time of his death in 2008 (1 packet).