1 See, for example, J.A. Lee, Simple on a Soapbox, p.38.

2 Ibid., p.57.

3 J.C. Beaglehole, 'New Zealand Since the War', Landfall, no.58, June 1961, p.143.

4 M. Bassett and M. King, Tomorrow Comes the Song, p.346.

5 Recollections of an Upper Hutt train commuter.

6 NZLA, Annual Report 1958: section on regional library co-operation, NZL, v.22, Mar.-Apr. 1959, p.40.

7 H.B. Sullivan, p.c. 9 Sept. 1994.

8 'Scientific, Technical and Commercial Service: a conference session', NZL, v.21, June-July 1958, pp.73-87. Other speakers were D.B. Black, a manufacturer and city councillor, and Mary Ronnie, Chief Lending Assistant in the Dunedin Public Library.

9 Metcalf 's Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings, New York, 1965, became a major guide later.

10 K.D. Metcalf, 'Library Co-operation: some general considerations', NZL, v.21, Nov.-Dec. 1958, pp.153-8; also issued, with notes of the ensuing discussion, as document BR 58/4, DUHL, Acc. 87-020, Box 2..

11 See W.J. McEldowney, 'Keyes D. Metcalf and New Zealand', NZL, v.44, Sept. 1985, pp.197-202.

12 Collins to Alley, 17 Dec. 1957, Alley papers.

13 Information given by Mabel Howard, Minister of Social Security etc, to A.J. McEldowney, with whom she had worked in Christchurch in social welfare causes during the Depression; by him to R.D. McEldowney, who noted it in his diary on 18th June 1958; but withheld from W.J. McEldowney, since he was in 1958 on the staff of the NLS, until 1996: RDMcE to WJMcE, 27 May 1996.

14 R. Alley, Rewi Alley, p.264.

15 NZPD, v.311, p.260; v.316, p.4.

16 Well-known country towns, one actual, the other mythical.

17 McIntosh to W.W. Bishop and C.H. Milam, quoted in ch. 5.

18 Evening Post, 20 Sept.1957.

19 AJHR, 1958, H-32, p.20.

20 AJHR, 1958, H-32A, p.5.

21 NA, Le 1 1958/7, National Library Committee. Material used below relating to the proceedings of the committee is derived from this file unless otherwise noted.

22 Printed in NZL, v.21, June-July 1958, pp.90-2.

23 AJHR, 1958, I-17, National Library Committee.

24 NZPD, v.318, pp.1915-18 (19 Sept. 1958).

25 C.S. Perry, 'National Library: report of the Parliamentary Select Committee' NZL, v.21, Oct. 1958, pp.137-41.

26 NZL, v.22, Mar.-Apr. 1959, p.39.

27 F.A. Sandall, 'Presidential Address', NZL, v.22, Mar.-Apr. 1959, pp.17-26 (quote on p.18).

28 AJHR, 1959, H-22, pp.47-8.

29 AJHR, 1959, H-32A, p.5.

30 Minute added to copy of ministerial paper of 5 Oct. 1958, NA, SSC 1 W2302 20/6/7 pt 2.

31 Report on National Library Proposal, 12 Mar. 1959, NA, T1 62/9/6.

32 Alley to Minister of Education, 12 Mar. 1959, ibid.

33 Quoted from a memo, Senior Inspector (T. Clifford) to Chairman PSC, 28 July 1960, NA, SSC 1 W2302 20/6/7 pt 2.

34 Alley to Bagnall, reporting this conversation, 2 Nov. 1959, ATL, Acc. 73-160-4. (WTu = Alexander Turnbull Library.)

35 NZL, v.21, June-July 1958, pp.88-9.

36 AJHR, 1959, B-4, p.27 (reference to Municipal Association's comment on p.79). The report is dated 19 Sept. 1958.

37 AJHR, 1959, H-32A, p.4. See also M.A. Ronnie, Books to the People, pp.62-3, and A.G. Bagnall, 'Regional Library Service', NZL, v.25, Apr. 1962, pp.61-70 (esp. 61-62).

38 NZLA 1958/52, ATL, Acc. 79-042- 01.

39 Hill to Perry, 1 Sept. 1958, ibid.

40 'Activities Committee Proposals' (papers by D.M. Wylie, E.H. Leatham, and P. Havard-Williams), NZL, v.22, Dec. 1959, pp.224-34.

41 Summarized in NZLA Newsletter, no.45, Jan. 1960, pp.1-2.

42 NZLA, minutes of Annual General Meeting, 17 and 19 Feb. 1960, NZL, v.23, Apr. 1960, pp.92-6.

43 Argued (not very well) in W.J. McEldowney, 'The Branches and the Professional Section', NZL, v.22, Dec. 1959, pp.234-6.

44 ATL, Acc. 79-042-01.

45 To do their colonial service, many thought.

46 Miller to members of SCUL, 31 Mar. 1958, CU, file: University Librarians.

47 Stackpole to Sandall, 9 Sept. 1958, ATL, Acc. 79-042-22.

48 Sandall to Stackpole, 8 Oct. 1958, ibid.

49 CCNY, Library Program, 1911-1961, p.106.

50 CM (58) 57, 7 Nov. 1958; NA, SSC 5, Acc. 1227, Alley.

51 Metcalf to Alley, 24 Oct. 1958, Alley papers.

52 List attached to memorandum (undated) from H.L. White to participants, McEldowney papers (home).

53 Metcalf to Seminarians, 11 Nov. 1958, ibid.

54 J. Barr, 'Australian Libraries', NZL, v.9, Nov. 1946, pp.185-7; 'Australian Libraries: Mr John Barr's Impressions Recalled', NZL, v.10, June 1947, pp.106-8. John Metcalfe should not be (but often is) confused with Keyes Metcalf – both strong characters, but very different.

55 These factors are considered at some length in W.J. McEldowney, 'Keyes D. Metcalf and New Zealand', NZL, v.44, Sept. 1985, pp.197-202.

56 Metcalf to participants, 28 July 1959, McEldowney papers (home).

57 J.P. Sage, 'Notes on Some Australian Libraries and the Canberra Seminar', NZL, v.22, Aug. 1959, pp.121-9, gives an account of both the discussions in seminar meetings and also the extraseminar investigations made by one participant.

58 H. Bryan, 'The Metcalf Seminar – 25 Years On', Australian Library Journal, v.33, Feb. 1984, pp.32-5.

59 For example, H. Bryan, p.c. 27 June 1990, and D.H. Borchardt, p.c. 16 Aug. 1990.

60 AJHR, 1959, H-32A, pp.5-6.

61 Information from various papers in Serials Librarian, v.6, spring 1982, special issue: 'Serials Librarianship as an Art: essays in honor of Andrew D. Osborn'.

62 K.D. Metcalf, Random Reflections of an Anachronism, p.3.

63 Ibid., p.26.

64 Metcalf to McEldowney, 14 Apr. 1960, McEldowney papers (home).

65 E.E. Williams, 'Keyes D. Metcalf, 1889-1983', Harvard Library Bulletin, v.31, Dec. 1983, p.397.

66 Mr Justice P. (later Sir Peter) Crisp to Alley, 12 Nov. 1962, quoting Metcalf, Alley papers.

67 J. Tait tape.

68 Stackpole (CCNY) to Sandall (President NZLA), 22 Nov. 1957, ATL, Acc. 79-042-14. The amount granted by the CCNY was $US 5,000, CCNY Review Series no.37, p.106.

69 Alley to Osborn, 19 Mar. 1959; reply, 26 Mar. 1959, ATL, Acc. 79-042-14.

70 The terms of reference for the survey, together with an account of its course and its major recommendations, are set out in McEldowney NZLA, pp.86- 9.

71 Alley to Acting Minister of Education, 1 Oct. 1959, ATL, Acc. 73-160-4.

72 A.D. Osborn, New Zealand Library Resources.

73 W.J. McEldowney, New Zealand University Library Resources … 1972.

74 A.G. Bagnall, 'Andrew Osborn in New Zealand', Serials Librarian, v.6, spring 1982, pp.115-16.

75 Bagnall to Osborn, 6 Jan. 1960, ATL, Acc. 73-160-4.

76 Alley to Bagnall, 9 Nov. 1959, reporting this conversation, ibid.

77 Alley to Rowley, 24 Nov. 1959, ibid.

78 N.Z. Committee on New Zealand Universities, Report, pp.70-2.

79 G.T. Alley, reviewing the Tauber reports on Australian libraries, NZL, v.28, Sept. 1965, pp.198-200.

80 K.D. Metcalf, 'New Zealand Library Resources', Library Journal, 15 Sept. 1960, pp.3043-6.

81 Alley PGC (Bagnall).

82 A.G. Bagnall, 'National Bibliography 1890-: a progress report', NZL, v.22, July 1959, pp.101-5.

83 NZLA, NZ Book Resources Committee, minutes, 1 Sept. 1960, BR 60/10, DUHL, Acc. 87-020, Box 2.

84 A similar scheme was more successful in the 1970s and the 1980s, when the Trustees of the National Library made funds available for several years.

85 For instance, J.K. Hunn to Minister of Education, 21 Aug. 1959, NA, SSC 1 W2302 20/6/7 pt 2.

86 K. Sinclair, Walter Nash, pp.334-5.

87 CABTA to Alley, 11 Nov. 1959, ATL, MS-Papers-0404-14.

88 J.T. Burrows to CABTA, 9 Nov. 1959, ibid.

89 CABTA, Deputation, 26 Feb. 1960, NA, Nash Papers, Bundle 1173.

90 NZL, v.23, Mar. 1960, pp.27-35.

91 M.A. Ronnie, Books to the People, p.69.

92 The accident, and details of the people involved, were reported in the Dominion, 28 Mar. 1960. Other information concerning this incident, unless otherwise noted, is from P.G. Alley (various dates).

93 J. Tait tape.

94 P.G. Alley, p.c. 20 June 2002.

95 R.M. Alley, p.c. 2 Oct. 2000.

96 Note for file, 3 May 1960, NA, SSC 5, Acc. 1227, Alley.

97 Alley PGC (Bagnall).