THE ‘PRICE’ OF A PORTRAIT

THE 'PRICE' OF A PORTRAIT

  A portrait of Senator Jacinta Price almost cost the Library of NSW its CEO. Here is some background. John Vallance was appointed State Librarian  of New South Wales in  August 2017. His mission was, in his own words to, ‘Turn the Library inside out.’   By this

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THE LOVE OF LIBRARIES

THE LOVE OF LIBRARIES

Libraries (well in my opinion) are the most exciting places in the world. That’s because I was born curious. How right Eleanor Roosevelt was when she said; ‘I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most

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