The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library
4th National Conference - Simply the Best: Reflections of women through records
10-12 October 2007
- Program
- Pre-conference symposium: The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library and ALIA Acquisitions Symposium: The Acquisition of Cultural Artefacts
Keynote Speaker
Lena
Tornqvist, Astrid Lindgren Collection, National Library of Sweden: 'From
a box in the attic to a Memory of the World - Astrid Lindgren's remarkable
archives at the National Library of Sweden'
Lena Törnqvist, Librarian responsible for the Astrid Lindgren Archives will present her keynote address on this significant national and international collection. Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and writer of Pippi Longstocking - one of the most famous children's books in the world. - holds a unique position in Swedish society during the second half of the last century. Renowned both for her support for children’s and animal rights, and for her opposition to corporal punishment she received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 1993. Her books have been translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries.
The Astrid Lindgren Archive is a comprehensive collection of more than 130 shelf metres containing original manuscripts, notebooks, letters and press clippings and the archive has been classified by UNESCO for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register and has thus been deemed important to preserve for the whole of humankind. The centennial of the author’s birth will be celebrated in November this year.
Keynote speaker sponsored by Gale - Australia and New Zealand:
