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Article: Enduring ideas: the contribution of Margaret Trask to education for the profession.
- Article from:
- The Australian Library Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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This article acknowledges and celebrates the contribution of Margaret Trask to education for beginning professionals in library and information work. It identifies four concepts or themes which underpinned the award courses developed and taught under Margaret's leadership, and examines how these themes have evolved over thirty years. Margaret played a leading role at a time when education for librarianship was in its early phase of development in Australia. She came to prominence in the 1970s when responsibility for provision was moving from the professional association, the then Library Association of Australia (LAA), to universities and colleges of advanced education, a ...