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Article: E.A. Petherick and the Petherick collection.(National Library of Australia)(Biography)
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- August 1, 2009
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The Petherick Reading Room is the only reading room in the National Library of Australia named after an individual. Visitors to the Library are often heard to remark, 'What's a Petherick?' Of course, it's not a 'what' but a 'who'--Edward Augustus Petherick (1847-1917).
This year marks 100 years since the committee of the then Commonwealth Parliamentary Library signed an agreement to acquire Edward Petherick's collection of Australasian and Pacific Islands material. The collection of about 16 500 titles formed the nucleus of the Library's holdings of Australiana.
Petherick was a bookseller, ...