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1 Stephen Leacock as Exemplum B. J. McMullin , 2019 single work
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 43 no. 1 2019; (p. 34-58)

'The aim of this article is to illustrate what must be a commonplace observation: that libraries on the periphery (by which I mean those in major English-speaking countries beyond the British Isles and North America, for present purposes Australia and New Zealand) are generally neglected by analytical and descriptive bibliographers based in the centre-neglected to the extent that the holdings of peripheralist libraries are likely to be overlooked or ignored, despite the fact that they may (nay: do) contain significant collections of one kind or another (as well as significant individual items) that, were they known to the scholarly and collecting world, would serve to add to or correct the bibliographical record.' (Publication abstract)

 
1 1 Forty Years On : The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and Its Journal B. J. McMullin , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 35 no. 2 2011; (p. 99-110)
1 y separately published work icon Collections, Characters & Communities : The Shaping of Libraries in Australia and New Zealand B. J. McMullin (editor), Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2010 Z1806840 2010 selected work poetry 'Collections, Characters and Communities brings to twenty-first-century readers a kaleidoscope of the rich and varied library world of Australia and New Zealand in the 1800s and 1900s. It is a story of public and private endeavours, of co-operation and inter-state rivalry, of dominant, not to say controlling personalities, and of the reach of books into the outback as well as into the working-class suburbs of cities. There is a North American dimension in Carnegie's support for the Dunedin Public Library and in his Corporation's critical and often unflattering view of Australian universities in the 1930s. Even South America makes an appearance through the library set up in the Australian utopian colony at Cosme in Paraguay. Otherwise it is a matter of the dense network of schools of arts, athanaeums and mechanics' or literary institutes across the two countries, not to mention notable urban concentrations of commercial lending collections before public libraries came into their own in the second half of the twentieth century. Librarians' training and collaboration, under the watchful eyes of such outsize figures as Redmond Barry and John Metcalfe, are at one end of a spectrum that also encompasses the needs of people in the Queensland bush. Bringing printed matter to all Australians and New Zealanders was manifestly never a straightforward process.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 The State of the Issue B. J. McMullin , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Second Quarter vol. 13 no. 2 1989; (p. 51-56)
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