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unusual facts about Bess Thomas


Bess Thomas

After moving to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Thomas was employed as an assistant librarian by her local university between 1927 and 1928 and later moved back to Sydney after being influenced to do so by her cousin, Allworth and an unfluential report highly critical of Australian libraries by Ernest Pitt.


Marjorie Cotton

Marjorie worked with Bess Thomas conducting the first Australian course in Children’s Librarianship at Mosman Municipal Library, which was attended by librarians from four states in 1954.


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