December 1958 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Gramma:o· School Mag azine

.:Brisbane· Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December , l95S

Decemb,r, 1958

help of the Public Library, The University Library, the Parlia- mentary ' Library and the Library of C.S. I.R.O. and Courier-Mail. w·e have a lso obtained some interesting material from the United States Information Library. In this way g irls have learned the many sources through which information can be obtained a nd we have tried to live up to the policy we display in the reading room . . . "NO GIRL SHALL BE ALLOWED TO GO AWAY FROM THIS LIBRARY WITHOUT HAVING RECEIVED EITHER THE INFORMATON SHE CAME FOR OR THE KNOWL- EDGE WHERE SHE MAY FIND IT." The Futul'EJ : The work we have been doing this year we hope to carry on next year. That is, the work of cataloguing the Library will go ahead, the building up of the book stock- particularly the fiction-and the stimulating of an appetite among the girls for reading and research. We hope, too, to have a notice board outside the Library, a mobile book shelf to carry ready reference books, and a small step ladder in both libraries. If our furnishing fund can a fford it we hope to have some attractive decoration for the Heference Library walls. This has been a most interesting and p leasant five months for me. It has been a privilege to work in such beautiful sur- roundings and with such an excellent collection of books. I should like to thank Miss Crooks, Miss Macmillan, Mrs. Jackson and a ll members of sta ff, and you girls of the Library Com- mittee, for the help you have given me and for lhe time you have given to listening to me thinking a loud at various times in these last months." On Saturday, 7th June, 1958, the School Library was officially opened · by the Chancellor of the University of Queensland, Mr. A. E. Axon. On that occasion, the President of the Old Girls' Association, Mrs. T. G . Bain, gave the fol- lowing address: "Mr . Axon, Mrs. Axon, Mr. England, Miss Crooks, ladies and gentlemen, girls, it is my honour and privilege this after- noon to speak on behalf of the Old Girls ' Association, firstly in 62 OLD GIRLS' NOTES OPENING OF SCHOOL LIBRARY

welcoming the Chancellor of the Un iversity, Mr. Axon, and Mrs. Axon, and assuring them how delighted we were when Mr. Axon, who is well known as a prominent educationist in Q ueensland, accepted Miss Crook's invitation to open the School Library . We are fortunate to have Mr. Axon with us ihis afternoon and a s he is such a d istinguished Old Boy of Bnsbane Grammar School, I am sure he needs no introduction io his sister school. "Prior to 1952 the Old Girls bought numerous pieces of maple furniture to furnish a classroom to be used as a Library. However, by 1952, the School had grown to such a size that no room was available. "On the occasion of Miss Lilley's retirement in that year ihe members of the O.G.A., under the Presidency of Mrs. Elms, :subscribed to a fund for the purpose of making a presentation io her as a token of their appreciation of the magnificen t work she had done as Headmistress of Girls' Grammar. Miss Lilley signified that she would like a bookcase, which was duly made and presented to her as a memento, but there remained in the fund a substantial sum of money which she declined to accept. Consequently, the Old Girls asked Miss Lilley if they could sta rt a fund with this money to build a separate lib rary build ing to be called the Kathleen M. Lilley library. To this request Miss Lilley agreed. "The O.G.A. transferred a ll their available money to this l und, and a ll proceeds from the fun ctions run by them during -that year, including the first Grammar Fi.m Fair, a t which Mrs. G. Boulton organized the afternoon stall with the help of mothers of present g irls of the school. "With these helpers Mrs. Boulton formed the Parents' and 'Friends' Association which, under its first President Mrs 13oulton, and succeeding Presidents, Mrs . Clappison, Mrs.' Co~h~ :rane and Mrs. Trueman, has donated the large sum of £950 :from its funds to the library and also an untold amount of help in time and effort in connection with O.G.A. fund raising Junctions. "By 1955 we had sufficient funds to start thinking of plans -and so we approached the Trustees who consulted Mr. Rein- hold and Mr. Trapp, and the latter drew up alternative plans for our perusal and consideration. With a few modifications by the Trustees and the Old Girls the library you see to-day 63