FOUR FELLOWSHIPS
HONOUR FOR LIBRARIANS
Four New Zealand librarians have been awarded honorary fellowships by the Library Association (London), a body incorporated by Royal Charter and, the principal professional body among librarians in the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Ne-yv Zealand recipients of this signal honour are Dr. G. H. Schc-lefield, 0.8. E., chief librarian of the General Assembly Library; Mr. J. Norrie, who has been in charge of the Wellington Public Libraries since 1928; Mr. J. Barr, who for 25 years has been librarian and director of the Museum and Art Gallery in Auckland; and Mr, E. J. Bell, who for 25 years has been in charge of the Canterbury Public Library. Four Australian librarians have been similarly honoured, all eight recipients having had long service and occupied important positions with distinction. These honorary fellowships art the highest award open ~to the Library Association to make, In the past they have been awarded in England only on the rarest, occasions, but a precedent has now been created by awards outside Great Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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173FOUR FELLOWSHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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