Community and other writing activities
- Component identifier:
- Series 6
- Content Summary:
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This series consists of papers relating to Libby Gleeson's other writing activities and to her role as a community activist. Gleeson's involvement includes support for the preservation of May Gibbs' home, Nutcote, participation in the Victorian Women Writers' train and in the Australia Today Indonesia Cultural Expo. She has given continuing support to the Melbourne and the Sydney Writers' Festivals and presented a paper at the First National Conference of the Children's Book Council of Australia. Gleeson was commissioned by the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) to write short, relevant dialogues and scenarios for classroom use by teachers, teaching a program to heighten awareness of gender and violence. She was a member of the Public Lending Right Committee, 1989-97.
The papers include correspondence, programs, reports, newsletters, photographs, printed matter, newspaper cuttings and minutes of various meetings.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The initial instalment of papers was purchased by the Library from Libby Gleeson in 1998. Further papers were purchased in 2014.
- Subjects:
- Youth
Literature
Contents
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1927367).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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