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- Title: Harrison Bryan--Some Personal Recollections (In Memoriam)
- Author : The Australian Library Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The Journal's editor asked me to set down some recollections of the personal qualities of Harrison Bryan during his five years as Director-General of the National Library. Ian remembered that I had worked closely with Mr Bryan (as I always knew him at that time) in an administrative support role and he may even have been aware of how satisfying those years had been for me. Commonly, an account of someone's personal qualities will better serve its purpose if it also provides at least a brief outline of the circumstances, and particularly the main challenges, of the times. This is not to suggest that the qualities one displays are merely a response to the times; they may also indicate, especially in someone as thoughtful and knowledgeable as Harrison Bryan, the real nature of the individual. A further caveat--having been retired for more than 10 years, I have written these remarks, albeit with some prompting from former colleagues, without reference to documents other than to Harrison Bryan's memoirs, No gray profession (1994) and to An enthusiasm for libraries: essays in honour of Harrison Bryan edited by Jean Whyte and Nell Radford (1988).