Save Mitchell Library
- af: Geordie Williamson
- mottagare: Dr Alex Byrne, State Librarian, State Library of NSW
We're deeply concerned by what is happening at the State Library of NSW – especially the conversion of the Mitchell Reading Room – and shocked that it has all gone ahead so quickly, without more public consultation.
We realise that the Chief Librarian may be acting on orders, and on the advice of others whose deliberations have led to this proposal. But we have a right, as potential users of the library and as citizens concerned with our shared culture, and with the Mitchell as one of its most valuable and loved national institutions, to have our questions answered, and in public.
These questions are:
What exactly is proposed and on what grounds?
Who determined those grounds?
On whose decision and order is this proposal made?
What/whose interest does it serve?
We, the undersigned, call upon the Chief Librarian to convene a public meeting where our concerns can be aired and our questions answered.
Phillip Adams
Stephen Adams
Robert Adamson
Deb Adamson
Adam Aitken
Blake Ayshford
Murray Bail
Barbara Ballantyne
Haig Beck
Joel Becker
Judith Beveridge
Anne Bickford
Neal Blewett
Rosie Block
Dennis Bluth
James Bradley
Doris Brett
Loma Bridge
Barbara Brooks
Jane Burns
Joanne Burns
Donata Carrazza
Brian Castro
Mridula Chakraborty
Mieke Chew
Lucy Chipkin
Stephen Chipkin
Anna Clark
Grace Cochrane
Joanna Collard
Sam Cooney
Jackie Cooper
Miriam Cosic
Anna Couani
Jen Craig
Chris Currey
Satyajit Das
Peter Doyle
Robyn Dryen
Stephen Edgar
Martin Edmond
Ben Etherington
Kate Fagan
Delia Falconer
Suzanne Falkiner
Michael Farrell
Heather Foster
Denis Gallagher
Helen Garner
Juno Gemes
Nikki Gemmell
Hal Ginges
Alan Gold
Eva Gold
Lisa Gorton
Pat Grant
Kate Grenville
Ferry Grunseit
Hannah Grunseit
Carl Harrison Ford
William Heyward
Kris Hemensley
Barry Hill
Ivor Indyk
Shelley Indyk
Antoni Jach
Linda Jaivin
John Jenkins
Gail Jones
Shar Jones
Mireille Juchau
Ben Juers
Evelyn Juers
Tessa Kenway
Louella Kerr
Robert Kenny
Nick Keys
Tess Kloot
Margaret Knight
Sara Knox
Konrad Kwiet
Carolyn van Langenberg
Anna Lanyon
Sylvia Lawson
Josef Lebovic
Tom Lee
Mary Leunig
Jenny Long
Astrid Lorange
Diane Losche
Yixu Lu
Mungo MacCallum
Craig McGregor
Hilary McPhee
Humphrey McQueen
David McRuvie
David Malouf
Diana Marks
David Marr
Sylvia Martin
Alex Miller
Peter Minter
Hilik Mirankar
Drusilla Modjeska
Sam Moginie
Rachel Morley
Stephen Muecke
Sallie Muirden
Jade Novakovic
Colin Oehring
Penny Olsen
Mary O'Sullivan
Stefano de Pieri
Felicity Plunkett
Jeffrey Poacher
Andrew Riemer
Nina Riemer
Julie Rigg
Judith Rodriguez
Jacqueline Rose
Julie Rose
Jennifer Rutherford
Toly Sawenko
Kaye Schofield
Katrina Schlunke
Rosie Scott
Bailey Sharp
Rosemary Shepherd
Alex Skovron
Jennifer Slatyer
Sybille Smith
Vivian Smith
Jennifer Strauss
John Stubbs
Romey Stubbs
Matthew Thompson
Imants Tillers
Isidore Tillers
Sam Twyford-Moore
Anthony Uhlmann
Maria Veber
David Walker
Don Watson
Alan Wearne
John Weiley
John Wentworth
Michael Wilding
Evan Williams
Geordie Williamson
Harry Williamson
Gerard Windsor
John Wolseley
Allan Woodley
Alexis Wright
Fiona Wright
Dear Dr Byrne
We're deeply concerned by what is happening at the State Library of
NSW – especially the conversion of the Mitchell Reading Room – and
shocked that it has all gone ahead so quickly, without more public
consultation.
We realise that the Chief Librarian may be acting on orders, and on
the advice of others whose deliberations have led to this proposal.
But we have a right, as potential users of the library and as citizens
concerned with our shared culture, and with the Mitchell as one of its
most valuable and loved national institutions, to have our questions
answered, and in public.
These questions are:
What exactly is proposed and on what grounds?
Who determined those grounds?
On whose decision and order is this proposal made?
What/whose interest does it serve?
We call upon the Chief Librarian to convene a
public meeting where our concerns can be aired and our questions
answered.
The Save the Mitchell petition has now been live for a fortnight. In that time, it has garnered over seven thousand signatories – some of them household names, many more simply concerned citizens. We are awed by the response, as well as being deeply grateful. We did not imagine that there would be such depth and breadth of response.
Stay posted; more news to come.
Geordie Williamson
Evelyn Juers
David Malouf
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