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http://books.google.com/books?id=4y8IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=GDAIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22New+South+Wales+state+libr%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gi38UJGULZOc8wTgy4GwDw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=8S5KAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Free+Public+Library+(Sydney,+N.S.W.).+Reference+Dept%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gC38UPfRJYLo8gT14IGQDw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

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It would be a helpful addition if this article contained a section about "Notable objects" under the "Collections" heading. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 11:23, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm about to add a starter list based on the website and books about the library's collections. Rubicon49bce (talk) 01:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Some suggestions below for items, photographs and manuscripts.

Items such as:

• First Fleet journals,
• Cook's waistcoat,
• Bligh's Bounty log,
• Patrick White's Nobel Prize.

Photographic collections such as:

• the Holtermann Collection,
• the Australian Consolidated Press collection.
• The collection of Eugene von Guerard's sketchbooks, and some of his paintings.

Manuscript collections such as:

• the Angus & Robertson archive,
• the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, including his Endeavour journal,
• the journals of Governor Macquarie.

Whiteghost.ink (talk) 00:41, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A list of the Mitchell librarians and an explanation of the difference in their role from the State librarians would be helpful to readers. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 01:26, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List is done - I reworked the "State Librarians" section to make it Governance and added the list there. Rubicon49bce (talk) 22:28, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also working on a brief summary of the Mitchell Librarian position and history - should be in the article soon. Rubicon49bce (talk) 03:02, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The history section is starting to look like an essay. I suggest that some of its contents be redistributed. For example, a section on "Bequests" or "Important donors" might take some of the material; a section on "Controversies" might cover more than one of them. A section on "Acquisitions" might cover some of the bequests as well policy and practice. There are a range of possibilities but the history section needs a different structure because at the moment it is difficult for a reader to find the information about these matters as they are deep within a narrative. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 23:39, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Other examples of library and museum articles eg. Library of Congress, British Library, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, British Museum all use a similar chronological structure for the history section of their articles. Acquisitions are described in the collections section, with more than 5 million items in the collection and numerous major acquisitions each year only some of the most notable collection items are listed, although more could be listed. 202.0.106.130 (talk) 03:45, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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