State Library of NSW Foundation - 2013-14 Annual Report · Dina Coppel, Sally Herman, Samantha Meers, Tony O’Sullivan, Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz, Rob Thomas AM, Kim Williams

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S T A T E L I B R A R Y O F N S W F O U N D A T I O N 2013–14 Annual Report 1

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CONTENTS

2 From the State Librarian

3 Chairman’s report

4 From the Executive Director

5 Highlights of 2013–14 Foundation funded Library projects

6 Governance • Foundation Board • Trustees

9 The State Library of NSW Foundation (1989–2014) – 25 Years on – The Mitchell Campaign

10 Supporting exhibitions onsite & online • Artist Colony: Drawing Sydney’s Nature • Centenary of World War 1 commemorative program • Voyages of Discovery: The Great South Land

14 Building and preserving the collection • The Rose de Freycinet archive • A rare map • Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project • Conservation: – Jean Blaeu: Le Grand Atlas – Macarthur family papers – Wentworth family papers – Rose de Freycinet letterbook – Purchase of portable XRF equipment – Conservation of the Tal & Dai-Ichi Life Derby Collection – Synnot Album

21 Educational outreach • Far Out! Treasures to the Bush • WordExpress • Bus Subsidy

23 Building Loyalty • Custodians • Library Visionaries • The Library Circle • Bequests • Friends • Volunteers

27 Awards & Fellowships • 2013 Ashurst Business Literature Prize • National Biography Award • Fellowships

29 Events

30 Foundation members, Custodians & Donors

34 Trustees’ report & financial statements

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FROM THE STATE LIBRARIAN CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the State Library of NSW Foundation we acknowledge the forethought of those who established it – the first among NSW cultural institutions – and the sustained support it has received over those years. Not only have more than 30 million dollars been raised since its formal establishment but we have also enjoyed the support of so many individual and corporate donors, foundations and sponsors which have been inspired to support this great Library by so many dedicated members of the Foundation’s Board.

The Foundation continues this strong tradition of benefaction from our Friends, Custodians, and Library Visionaries, Foundation members, Library Circle, partners and sponsors. This year they have been joined by our Ambassadors, who freely give of their time and expertise to promote this great Library. The State Library is fortunate to have so many loyal and longstanding benefactors who assist us in collecting, preserving and interpreting the history of our nation and people.

Marking this anniversary year has been the initiation of the Mitchell Campaign to restore and transform the historic Mitchell building, including the magnificent Mitchell Library Reading Room and expanded galleries on the upper floor. Many thanks to Rob Thomas AM and his team who have tirelessly invited donors to ‘sponsor’ a chair or study table in the grand heritage space of the Mitchell Library Reading Room. And our deepest thanks to that diverse group, from captains of industry to parents of library users, who have so enthusiastically taken the opportunity to record their own or their family’s affection for that important space.

Through our Foundation this year we have also been able to establish tremendous partnerships and opportunities for collaboration. Continued support — from key partners the Vincent Fairfax Family

Foundation together with the Caledonia Foundation — has allowed us to extend for another three years our Far Out educational outreach program to remote communities in NSW. This year sees the conclusion of the flagship Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project supported by Rio Tinto. This vital work will be built on by our new Indigenous Unit. The Bruce and Joy Reid Foundation partnership has enabled us to continue the important online story Voyages of Discovery: The Great South Land.

Following our successful partnership with major supporter the Belalberi Foundation for the Lewin: Wild Art exhibition in 2012, we were delighted to collaborate again to produce another landmark exhibition, Artist Colony: Drawing Sydney’s Nature. Featuring our unique TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of watercolours from the dawn of the European colonisation of Australia, this important exhibition presented new research by curator Louise Anemaat, assisted by conservator Kate Hughes, which showed that art was being produced in that first decade at Sydney Cove, just down from the Library.

This year we are delighted to announce that News Corp Australia has joined us as a major partner to commemorate the centenary of the First World War over the next four years. This project of national significance will make our rare collection of personal diaries and papers available through digital and print media, tours to regional NSW communities and curriculum based learning resources. It will demonstrate the far-reaching personal and social impacts of that war and how it forever changed Australia. A key to this program has been the work of our volunteer transcribers of manuscripts, who have worked for many years to transcribe the precious First World War diaries. I thank them for their dedication, which makes it possible for us to share these items locally and internationally.

I also thank the members of the Foundation Board and the Trustees whose commitment and advocacy have been so very important to the Library this year. I pay tribute to the time and skills so generously donated to our work. I particularly acknowledge the important role of the Chairman of the Foundation, Peter Crossing. Peter’s role has been important this year in building partnerships with far-sighted companies and individuals.

I look forward to your continued support and advocacy for this great Library as we enter another exciting year, advancing the Library as a world leading library and centre of digital excellence.

DR ALEX BYRNE

NSW STATE LIBRARIAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE

I am delighted to report that in the financial year 2013–2014 the State Library of New South Wales Foundation experienced a continuing high level of financial support from its supporters and benefactors. This is particularly gratifying given that it is our Foundation’s 25th anniversary. I wish to sincerely thank all supporters for your loyalty and valued patronage.

For the year ending June 2014 the Foundation’s total income (including investments) was $3,779,000 compared with $4,398,000 for 2013. Income from donations, sponsorships, partnerships and bequests (excluding investments) was $2,567,000, compared with $2,911,000 for 2013. The Foundation contributed $2,223,000 towards Library projects, compared with $2,386,000 in 2013.

The value of the Foundation’s capital investments was $14,501,000 as at 30 June 2014 and the return on our investment was $1,107,000. Foundation investments are mostly composed of tied funds.

This year, the Foundation provided over $2,223,000 to the Library for a diverse range of projects including support for major restoration of the Mitchell Wing, key exhibitions and acquiring historically important acquisitions.

Our major highlights were:• stage 1 of the Mitchell Campaign• the significant acquisitions of the

19th century Rose de Freycinet archive and the 16th century Dutch map by Willem Lodewijcksz

• the landmark exhibition Artist Colony:Drawing Sydney’s Nature

• the exciting partnership to deliver our WW1 program.

It has been a great pleasure to work with our State Librarian, Dr Alex Byrne, who is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Foundation. He has been inspirational in providing focus for the Foundation and has assisted me in fostering a closer relationship between the Foundation and the Library.

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of the Foundation Board and the Trustees. I would like to personally thank the Foundation Board members: John Atkin, Patty Akopiantz, Graham Bradley AM, Dina Coppel, Sally Herman, Samantha Meers, Tony O’Sullivan, Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz, Rob Thomas AM, Kim Williams AM and Dr John Vallance. Their expertise, experience and generous assistance — both to me as Chairman and to the Foundation Executive Director — have been invaluable. This year we said farewell to Sally Herman and welcome John Atkin, Dina Coppel and Kim Williams AM, who have joined us as new members. The Foundation team, led by our Executive Director Susan Hunt, has worked hard to consolidate the activities of the Foundation and made considerable progress.

There is still much to be done and next year promises to be a big year. We look forward to your continuing support for the Foundation as we deliver on the Mitchell Campaign and the refurbishment of level one of the Mitchell building.

PETER CROSSING

CHAIRMAN



FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION

The 2013–2014 year has been another successful one for the State Library of NSW Foundation. We have seen extraordinary examples of personal generosity as well as innovative public–private partnerships in support of Library initiatives.

With the assistance of key supporters we have provided critical funding for strategic Library projects this year contributing to major new acquisitions, commissioning another landmark exhibition, as well as assisting with conservation and access to our collections through online and regional outreach. In many cases without the support of the Foundation these key projects may not have happened.

This year we acknowledge the generosity of new donors Maureen and Tony Wheeler (through Planet Wheeler Foundation) and the Roussel family who have made significant gifts towards the acquisition of the Rose de Freycinet journal and letters (1817–1820). These far-sighted philanthropists appreciate the value and cultural significance of these rare manuscripts. As one of the most amazing exploration and travel stories of the early 19th century and the first record of circumnavigating the globe by a woman, these donors have ensured public access to a critical part of the history of our nation.

Our Library Custodians made another major contribution to the Library this year, enabling the acquisition of the extraordinary 16th century Dutch map by Willem Lodewijcksz. This is a vital complement to our already significant map collection.

Support for our expert conservators as they preserve our collections for future generations has also been an important feature of our work this year.

In particular, private funds have fully supported innovative conservation work on important Australian colonial manuscript collections including the Macarthur family papers (1789–1930), the Wentworth family papers (1783–1827) and a rare 17th century publication, The Grand Atlas by Jean Blaeu.

We thank the Foundation Board and Trustees for their guidance and support throughout the year. My personal thanks go to Peter Crossing for his leadership as Chairman of the Foundation this year. His commitment and enthusiasm have been instrumental in the continuing success of the Foundation.

I would like to acknowledge the imaginative and dedicated support of so many colleagues throughout the Library – because of them the Foundation is able to deliver such spectacular results year after year. Special thanks must go to our Foundation team: Kay Payne, our Partnerships Manager; Helena Poropat, our Memberships Coordinator; Emily Mierisch, Volunteer Coordinator and Jane Mulock, our Executive Assistant. Their dedication and commitment to the Library and our work have been critical in achieving so much this year.

Thank you to all our supporters for making this year so successful. With your assistance we look forward to new opportunities in the coming year.

SUSAN HUNT

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR


HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013–14

FOUNDATION FUNDED LIBRARY PROJECTS

• Renewing the Mitchell building through the Foundation’s 25th anniversary Mitchell Campaign

• Acquiring the extraordinary Rose de Freycinet archive and 16th century Dutch map

• Supporting the Artist Colony: Drawing Sydney’s Nature exhibition

• Partnering with News Corp to deliver our centenary of WWI program

• Inspiring a new generation through educational outreach

EXHIBITIONS 28.6%

CONSERVATION 16.1%

VOLUNTEER / MEMBERSHIP SERVICES 6.9%

DIGITISATION 6.2%

ACQUISITIONS 33.9%

EDUCATION / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS 8.3%


SAMANTHA MEERS

Ms Meers is Executive Deputy Chairman of Property and Investment Group, the Nelson Meers Group, and co-founder and trustee of the Nelson Meers Foundation. Ms Meers’ current non-executive directorships include: Deputy Chairman of Creative Partnerships Australia; a Trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW; a Director of the Climate Institute; and a Member of the Advisory councils of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and the Centre for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales. Previously, Ms Meers practised as a corporate lawyer, subsequently holding senior management positions in the media sector.

TONY O’SULLIVAN

Mr O’Sullivan has over 25 years’ experience as a corporate adviser, lawyer and corporate executive and is currently Executive Chairman of Bvrlington Investment Advisors, based in London. Prior to this, Mr O’Sullivan was Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Lazard, the NYSE-listed leading investment bank, in Sydney. In September 2012, Lazard acquired O’Sullivan Partners, a corporate advisory firm, which Mr O’Sullivan founded in 2005. Prior to returning to Australia, Mr O’Sullivan spent seven years as a London-based corporate adviser, specialising in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He is also a Founding Member of the Australian Architecture Association.

STEVEN SCHWARTZ AM

Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz AM is Executive Director of the Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, an Hon. Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, a Senior Advisor to Nous Group, a Board Member of Teach For Australia, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Independent Studies and a NATO Fellow. Prior to that, he was Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney; Brunel University, London, and Murdoch University, Perth.

ROB THOMAS AM

Mr Thomas is President of the Library Council. He has over 35 years’ experience in the securities industry. Mr Thomas is Chairman of TAL, Starpharma Limited, Aus-Bio Pty Ltd and Grahger Capital Securities Pty Ltd. He is a Director of Heartware International Ltd, Virgin Australia Ltd, O’Connell Street Associates Pty Ltd, REVA Medical Limited and Biotron Ltd. He is on the advisory Board of Inteq.

DR JOHN VALLANCE

Dr Vallance is the Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School. Previously he was a Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and taught in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Dr Vallance is a member of the Library Council and a Director of the National Art School.

KIM WILLIAMS AM

Kim Williams has had a long involvement in the arts, entertainment and media industries. He has held various executive leadership positions since the late 1970s including as Chief Executive at each of News Corp Australia, Foxtel, Fox Studios Australia, the Australian Film Commission, Southern Star Entertainment and Musica Viva Australia, and was also a senior executive at the ABC. Mr Williams was the Chief Executive of Foxtel for the decade up until November 2011.

He was chairman of the Australian Film Finance Corporation (which he founded in 1988), the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva Australia and, most recently, the Sydney Opera House Trust from 2005 to 2013. Mr Williams is a current board member of the University of Western Sydney Foundation, the Myer Foundation and a Commissioner of the Australian Football League.

GOVERNANCE

Membership of the Foundation Board follows.PATTY AKOPIANTZ

Non-executive Director of AMP Limited and AMP Bank and previously a Director of AXA APH, Coles Myer, Ausgrid and Wattyl. Ms Akopiantz has over 25 years’ consulting and senior management experience primarily in consumer-related industries.

JOHN ATKIN

After a 30-year career in legal and financial services, John Atkin is now pursuing a career as a professional director. Mr Atkin is a director of Aurizon Holdings Limited and the Australian Outward Bound Foundation and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Previously, Mr Atkin served as the CEO of the Trust Company Limited from 2009 to 2013, was the managing partner of Blake Dawson from 2002 to 2008 and before that had 15 years’ experience as a mergers and acquisition and equity capital markets partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

GRAHAM BRADLEY AM

Graham Bradley is a professional company director and is currently Non-executive Chairman of Stockland Corporation, EnergyAustralia Holdings and HSBC Bank Australia. He also chairs junior gas explorer Po Valley Energy, Virgin Australia International Holdings and the Anglo American Advisory Board and is a director of GI Dynamics. In July 2013 he was appointed Chairman of Infrastructure NSW. Mr Bradley was previously managing director of Perpetual Limited, national managing partner of law firm Ashurst and partner of McKinsey & Company. Mr Bradley was President of the Business Council of Australia from 2009 to 2011 and Deputy President of the Takeovers Panel from 2006 to 2013. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Australian School of Business at the University of NSW and a director of the European Australian Business Council.

DR ALEX BYRNE

Dr Alex Byrne is the NSW State Librarian and Chief Executive. He was previously the University Librarian and a Vice President and Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Technology, Sydney. Before this he was Chief Librarian and subsequently Pro Vice Chancellor at Charles Darwin University. From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the world organisation for libraries and information services, IFLA.

DINA COPPEL

Mrs Coppel has over 25 years’ experience building professional and retail services businesses in management and entrepreneurial roles, including Andersen Worldwide and Allens Arthur Robinson. Mrs Coppel has also worked extensively with not-for-profit organisations in strategy and fundraising roles. A non-executive director of Ku-ring-gai Financial Services and the Education Chairperson of the JCA, Mrs Coppel is also the author of a blog on the challenges for women seeking to become non-executive directors.

PETER CROSSING

Mr Crossing is Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Australasia, UBS, and has over 34 years of experience in investment banking in Australia and Asia – the past 24 years with UBS. As a collector, he has a particular interest in the conservation of, and access to, the records of European first contact with Australia, especially those relating to natural history. Mr Crossing is Chairman of the Foundation Board.

SALLY HERMAN

Ms Herman has over 25 years of experience in international and Australian financial services. Her most recent executive role was at Westpac and previously with Macquarie Bank. Currently the Chairman of Urbis Pty Ltd and a non-executive director of Premier Investments Ltd, ME Bank and FSA Group Ltd, Breville Group, as well as several not-for-profits.

FOUNDATION BOARD

PATTY AKOPIANTZ

DINA COPPEL

JOHN ATKIN

DR ALEX BYRNE GRAHAM BRADLEY AM

PETER CROSSING SAMANTHA MEERS

TONY O’SULLIVAN STEVEN SCHWARTZ AM

ROB THOMAS AM

KIM WILLIAMS AM

The State Library of NSW Foundation is managed by the State Library and governed by a Board established under the constitution with the trust safeguarded by trustees.

DR JOHN VALLANCE

SALLY HERMAN

FOUNDATION BOARD


The Trustees of the Foundation during the financial year: MAXINE BRENNER

(NEWLY APPOINTED CHAIR)

Ms Brenner is a non-executive director currently serving on the Boards of Origin Energy, Qantas, Orica and Growthpoint Properties Australia. As an executive, she worked in investment banking, law and academia, particularly in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures and general corporate and finance activity. Ms Brenner was formerly a member of the Takeovers Panel and has served on a number of other corporate and government boards. Ms Brenner is currently a member of the Library Council.

GRAHAM BRADLEY AM

(RETIRED TRUSTEE)

SUSAN DOYLE (NEWLY APPOINTED)

Ms Doyle currently is a Guardian of the Future Fund, on the the Boards of SEGC, Lawcover Insurance Pty Ltd, Lawcover Pty Ltd, Australasian College of Dermatology and the Barbara May Foundation. Ms Doyle’s executive career was in the funds management industry and she is a member of the Library Council.

RICHARD FISHER AM

(RETIRED CHAIR)

Mr Fisher is General Counsel to the University of Sydney and an Adjunct Professor in its Graduate School of Government. Prior to this appointment at the University Mr Fisher was a partner of Blake Dawson and its immediate past Chairman of Partners. As a commercial lawyer for many years, he specialised in the areas of corporate reorganisation and insolvency and was an International Consultant to the Asian Development Bank, conducting projects on the development and harmonisation of insolvency laws in the Asian region. Mr Fisher is also a member of the Library Council.

ROB THOMAS AM (RE-APPOINTED)

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DR JOHN VALLANCE (RE-APPOINTED)

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THE STATE LIBRARY OF NSW FOUNDATION (1989–2014)

Our 25th anniversary is an important opportunity to reflect on the history of our Foundation which has raised over $30 million for the Library. While this figure is impressive in itself, it is also important to acknowledge the tremendous contribution the Foundation has made to the profile of the State Library as a landmark cultural institution, nationally and internationally.

The constitution of the State Library of NSW Foundation was signed in June 1989. This was a critical time in the history of the nation, and of the Library. It was just after the bicentenary of European settlement, and the new Macquarie Street wing had been opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in May 1988.

Led by the energetic inaugural chairman Jim Bain AM (1989–1994), State Librarian Alison Crook AO (1987–1995), and President of the Library Council Dr Mark Hertzberg AO (1986–1989), a distinguished group of Foundation directors — among them Rowena Danziger AM, David Gonski AC and David Sherbon — set the ambitious aim of raising a capital sum of $10 million over five years. Over $2 million was raised in the first year.

So began one of the most vibrant and successful Foundation models of business and private partnerships in the NSW cultural sector. The Foundation contributed to making the Library more outward-looking and socially aware. It also transformed its potential for acquiring new material. This model was successfully continued by subsequent chairs: the late Ian Angus OAM (1996–1998), Belinda Hutchinson AM (1998–2006), Rob Thomas AM (2007–2011) and currently Peter Crossing.

Over the past 25 years, the Foundation’s greatest legacy has been in supporting the Library through significant acquisitions, amazing exhibitions, innovative access (the atmitchell.com campaign), conservation, education — especially outreach programs — research, scholarships, fellowships and literary awards.

The history of the State Library of NSW Foundation is defined by passionate individuals, families and civic-minded corporations which have given generously of both their time and money. During this quarter century the Foundation has been

fortunate to have inspiring leaders and committed board members who appreciate the significance of libraries. We have seen extraordinary gestures of personal generosity and innovative public–private partnerships, which have produced results previously thought unattainable. Above all, the history of philanthropy at the State Library is grounded in respect and love for our collections and the important role they hold as the nation’s intellectual capital for future generations.

The Mitchell CampaignTo mark the 25th Anniversary of the Foundation, the Mitchell Campaign was launched during the year. Through the Mitchell Campaign, the Foundation will assist with refurbishment of the Mitchell building, delivering specialist galleries and innovative education spaces to share more of our collections with scholars, visitors, Friends and volunteers.

Our iconic Mitchell building was built in four stages between 1910 and 1964 and many areas are in need of maintenance. The process of renewing the State Library began with the 2011 refurbishment of the Macquarie Street building’s reading room areas and the 2012 revitalisation of the Library Shop and cafe provided more inviting public areas. The renewal of the Mitchell building is the next phase in developing the State Library into a world leading library.

The Mitchell building plans were announced in December 2013. These plans were later revised to incorporate feedback from the community and address the needs of researchers and readers in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.

The first stage of the Mitchell Campaign has focused on support for the interior furnishings of the Mitchell Library Reading Room. To date we have raised a staggering $900,000 in donations and pledges. The opportunity to sponsor a study table or chair in this beautiful space, with a named plaque in perpetuity, has proven to be very popular. The next stage of the Mitchell Campaign will focus on the refurbishment of the level one spaces of the Mitchell building.

01 PHOTO BY ANITA KRIVICKAS, HERITAGE SERVICES, NSW PUBLIC WORKS, 2011

ROB THOMAS AM

FOUNDATION TRUSTEES

GRAHAM BRADLEY AM

MAXINE BRENNER

DR JOHN VALLANCE

RICHARD FISHER AM

SUSAN DOYLE

Twenty-five years on


SUPPORTING EXHIBITIONS: ONSITE & ONLINE

The Artist Colony: Drawing Sydney’s Nature exhibition, held from 1 March to 11 May 2014, featured the TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby Collection — acquired from the 19th Earl of Derby by the State Library in 2011 with the generous support of TAL & Dai-ichi Life and the NSW Government.

Comprising six volumes of natural history drawings, compiled during the 1790s by English botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), these 745 striking drawings feature hundreds of Australian birds and plants, several fish and a small number of animals.

Artist Colony featured the TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby Collection and other unique Library materials, showcasing 100 rich and evocative natural history drawings, delivering an intriguing story of obsession and thirst for knowledge.

The exhibition revealed the extraordinary artistic culture that emerged in the first years of the colony despite the Antipodes’ harsh and unforgiving environment. The excitement

Europeans felt about Australia’s natural world sparked a creative outpouring that provided evidence of the abundance of new and exotic species. These first visual impressions in turn inspired a wave of drawing and collecting throughout the world.

This most successful exhibition, accompanied by an illustrated scholarly publication by curator Louise Anemaat, attracted 30,000 exhibition visits with average daily visits of 415 people. Total online visits were 9828. An interesting feature of this exhibition was that mobile traffic accounted for 27% of all Artist Colony website visits.

This exhibition was generously supported by exhibition partner the Belalberi Foundation and collection partners TAL & Dai-ichi Life and the NSW Government.

01 PETER CROSSING, MR GEORGE SOURIS MP FORMER NSW MINISTER FOR THE ARTS, LOUISE ANEMAAT, CURATOR OF ARTIST COLONY AND HER DAUGHTER ANTONIA, SALLY CROSSING AM AND DR ALEX BYRNE AT THE OPENING OF ARTIST COLONY

01 ‘TURDUS’: GROUND THRUSH (CINCLOSOMA PUNCTATUM), 1792, SYDNEY BIRD PAINTER, WATERCOLOUR PXD 226, F. 4

02 GRASS TREE (XANTHORRHOEA), 1790s, UNKNOWN ARTIST, WATERCOLOUR PXD 1098, VOL. 5, F. 45

03 UNIDENTIFIED, 1790s, UNKNOWN ARTIST, WATERCOLOUR PXD 1098, VOL. 4, F. 25

04 BLACK SWAN (CYGNUS ATRATUS), 1790s, UNKNOWN ARTIST, WATERCOLOUR PXD 1098, VOL. 4, F. 86

05 EASTERN BLUE GROPER (ACHOERODUS VIRIDIS), 1790s, UNKNOWN ARTIST, WATERCOLOUR PXD 1098, VOL. 4, F. 26

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Sharing our collections is the focus of the Library’s four-year program to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

The strength of these collections lies in the evocative first-hand accounts found in the personal diaries that were acquired at the end of the war. With great foresight, good money was offered for good material, with the knowledge that the diaries – and supporting maps, photographs, objects, artworks and posters – would be invaluable to our understanding today of Australia’s experience of the war.

These diary collections date from late 1918 when the Library began acquiring descriptive material that expressed the feelings and observations of men and women at war. The aim of the European Collecting Project was to capture the authentic voices of service men and women undiluted by the passage of time, and to permanently preserve the records ‘ever connected with the history of the Commonwealth’ in the Mitchell Library and ‘available to students for all time’.

The World War I Commemorative Program, launched in late 2013, reflects this original intent by making these records and stories available online. Support for the commemorative program has been provided through a three-year sponsorship agreement with News Corp Australia announced in April 2014.

Through innovative storytelling techniques, this sponsorship will see a selection of the Library’s content made available to 15 million readers of News Corp mastheads in print, online and across all digital channels. Media partners Foxtel’s History Channel produced four short programs on the Library’s WWI collections, which aired in April 2014. Staff interpreted original materials for regional programs as part of Tony Robinson’s Tour of Duty series on the History Channel.

News Corp Australia launched their partnership with the State Library on Tuesday 15 April. The Library has made 50 diarists’ stories available for the News campaign, which will also include contemporary stories from the Afghanistan conflict. News launched a dedicated WWI online section and a 24-page lift out appeared in the major mastheads on 23 April 2014.

Additionally, the Library has commissioned a play script based on the WWI diary collection through the Australian Theatre for Young People. The play will demonstrate the powerful and personal stories told through our collections, engaging a broad audience, particularly the young, with the experiences and reality of the war. The first rehearsal reading is due in September 2014.

01 TREVOR ANDERSON, NEPHEW OF HECTOR BREWER, SHOWS HIS UNCLE’S DIARY TO ST VINCENT’S COLLEGE YEAR 9 STUDENTS ISABELA SUCKLING, GEORGIA ST LEON, OLIVIA CROKER AND ANNA BLACKLEDGE, PHOTO BY TOBY ZERNA, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA

02 CAMPBELL REID, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA SPEAKING AT THE LAUNCH OF THE NEWS CORP STATE LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP IN APRIL 2014

03 GEIZAH TRAM STOP (DETAIL), HENRY CHARLES MARSHALL (1890–1915) KENSINGTON TO CAIRO AND FROM CAIRO TO GALLIPOLI: ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 1914–1915 PXA 1861

The online story of Voyages of Discovery, proudly supported by the Bruce & Joy Reid Foundation, is one of the Library’s most intriguing digital collections and an important history curriculum resource for schools and teachers.

The collection is based on the Library’s significant holdings of journals, log books, maps, letters, paintings and drawings, capturing the adventurous voyages to the Great South Land of daring explorers such as Abel Tasman and James Cook. Shipboard life, cultural insights and encounters with Indigenous peoples, discovery of new and strange flora and fauna are all extensively covered.

Topics detailed in this year’s research and online content encapsulate the fanciful notions that were common in the European imagination from the early 17th century until the late 18th century. Until the true extent of the region was uncovered and speculations were put to rest after James Cook’s second voyage of 1772–1775, long-held ideas inspired authors to write about a mythical land and imaginary voyages set in the uncharted Terra Australis Incognita.

A fascinating selection of printed works that promoted this strange and often disturbing concept of ‘monsters’ of the southern world, includes Italian writer Giovanni Botero (1540–1617) with his Le Relationi Universali (1618) reference guide. This contains 32 woodcuts depicting Monsters and Customs of the Indies; Joseph Hall’s Mundus alter et idem (1643), an exaggeration and mockery of these widely held views; Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines, or, A late discovery of a fourth island near Terra Australis incognita (1676), depicting the tales of a shipwrecked castaway; and a continuation of this theme in Gabriel Foigny’s La Terre Austral connue (1676).

Online content featuring the Dalrymple charts has also been added to the Voyage’s story. Seven volumes of maps and charts compiled by Alexander Dalrymple have been digitised and made available on this Discover Collections site as well as via the Library’s online catalogue.

Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808) was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty, from his appointment in 1795 to his death in 1808. He is credited with developing the Admiralty Charts issued by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. He produced thousands of nautical charts, mapping a remarkable number of seas and oceans for the first time. These nautical charts were constantly

reviewed and updated in order that comprehensive and accurate maps of the world’s oceans exist, many of which are held in the Library. Dalrymple was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita.

Digitisation of the seven large volumes (over 850 charts) has been completed. It will be a wonderful educational and historic resource and will be updated to the Voyages of Discovery online story.

VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY: THE GREAT SOUTH LAND

CENTENARY OF WORLD WAR I COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM 01 DE JODE, NOVÆ GUINEÆ

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02 SCREENSHOT OF VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY – THE GREAT SOUTHERN LAND. SEE ONLINE AT WWW.SL.NSW.GOV.AU/DISCOVER_COLLECTIONS

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A rare mapThe Foundation supported the acquisition of an extraordinary Dutch map, Nova Tabula, Insularum Iavae, Sumatrae (1598), by Willem Lodewijcksz. The map, an engraved copperplate print measuring 38 x 54 cm, is so rarely available on the market that it was considered virtually unobtainable. Printed in Amsterdam, it is an account of the voyage of the Dutch fleet to the East Indies under Cornelis de Houtman (1595–1597). This critical voyage opened up the Indonesian islands to the European spice trade, later giving rise to the Dutch East India Company. In 1598 Willem Lodewijcksz published an account of this voyage, D’eerste boeck: Historie van Indien waer inne verhaelt is de avontueren die de Hollandtsche schepen bejeghent zijn. Willem Lodewijcksz was a clerk on board the ship Mauritius.

David Scott Mitchell collected various editions of the Lodewijcksz book, but was never able to obtain the ‘missing’ map. In acquiring the map the Library fills an important gap in Mitchell’s collection of material

relating to early European contact, trade and exploration in the Pacific.

The Dutch expedition under de Houtman carried with it a manuscript detailing trading information and sailing routes by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, who had travelled in the region while in the employ of the Portuguese. Linschoten’s experiences advised the de Houtman expedition to enter the region via Sunda Strait, rather than the Malacca Strait, in order to avoid detection by the Portuguese. The Dutch were the first to use this route.

Nova Tabula is the first to accurately depict the north coast of Java and a recognisable Bali. It is the first printed map to show this area of the East Indies in such detail – hence its importance as a commercial document. The map also shows the Duyfken — the smallest of the ships in the Dutch fleet — which played a significant role in the early European history of Australia.

01 NOVA TABULA INSULARUM IAVAE, SUMATRAE, ... 1598 BY WILLEM LODEWIJCKSZ M2 471/1598/1

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BUILDING & PRESERVING THE COLLECTION

The Rose de Freycinet archiveThe State Library Foundation has underwritten the acquisition of the Rose de Freycinet journal and letters documenting her epic voyage around the world from 1817 to 1820. The acquisition was a rare opportunity as the archive has not come onto the market before. Although known to have existed since the 1920s, held in the Freycinet family archives, the original manuscripts have not been seen since the 1960s.

Aristocratic French naval officer Louis de Freycinet, bound for one of the 19th century’s most

important Pacific expeditions, but unable to contemplate the separation from his young wife Rose, hatched a plan for her to stow away on the Uranie. Thus it was that Rose de Freycinet — dressed as a man — embarked on an extraordinary and dangerous circumnavigation of the world between 1817 and 1820.

Rose kept two records of the expedition. One was her journal, that she wrote for her dear friend Caroline, the other was a series of letters written to her mother. The journal comprises three volumes and a total of 40,000 words. The letter book is a folio of about 30,000 words and 15 letters. This rare, first-hand account of the world of Pacific exploration is unique given that it is a woman’s insights into the fascinating societies and cultures encountered.

This acquisition was made possible through the extraordinary benefaction of Tony and Maureen Wheeler, through Planet Wheeler Foundation, and the Roussel family.

The substantial gift by Mrs Carole Roussel is on behalf of the Roussel family and made in memory of Carole’s late husband Pierre Roussel. It honours his services to the French communities in Australia and the South Pacific, and his unwavering commitment to the historic ties between France and Australia, resulting in the realisation of the La Perouse Museum as a Bicentennial Project (1984–1988).

This important acquisition complements the Mitchell Library’s rich 19th century French collections.

01 THE INTERIOR OF A TIMORESE HOUSE, KUPANG, HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVING FROM LOUIS DE FREYCINET, VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE … 1825 DL F82/1

02 THE ROUSSEL FAMILY ATTENDING THE FRIENDS OF THE LA PEROUSE MUSEUM EVENT CELEBRATING THE ACQUISITION OF THE ROSE DE FREYCINET ARCHIVE

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Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project One of the Library’s strategic priorities is to build our Indigenous collections, improve access and develop services for the interest and needs of Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

Rio Tinto has been an exemplary, long-term supporter of the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project. This flagship project has been crucial in enhancing our understanding of the extent and value of our Indigenous materials. The nearly completed project focuses on language lists hitherto hidden in our collections, yet critical tools for language revitalisation programs.

This project has involved in-depth research of the Library’s collections to identify and catalogue items not previously noted or documented. Additional research, involving community consultation, has helped to determine the language groups of these Indigenous language lists.

The project has highlighted the importance of collaborative community liaison. The Indigenous Unit meets regularly with Aboriginal community groups to discuss how the Library will engage appropriately with relevant language lists. This engagement not only allows the Library to connect with communities but also increases awareness of the lists as a resource to community groups. There have been discussions with elders from communities in Wellington, Newcastle, Walgett and Moree, as well as in the far west of NSW at Wilcannia and Menindee.

In August 2013 the Library hosted Hidden Gems — a symposium which explored the role of libraries and archives in revitalising Indigenous languages and culture — generating a great deal of community interest. The Library’s Indigenous Unit contributed to the 2014 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference held in Canberra as well as participating in the annual Indigenous cultural festival Corroboree, in 2013. The two-week festival brought together Sydney’s premier cultural organisations to celebrate the richness of Indigenous cultures. The Library

hosted the ‘Elders Lounge’ as a community hub for talks, out-of-the-vaults sessions, family history talks and films.

To coincide with Corroboree in November 2014, the Library will host the launch of the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages website which will reveal, in a culturally appropriate way, the rich content of our Indigenous language lists and associated material. Educational products will reflect the online content for use by students and teachers.

01 JOY CARDONA, MANAGER, LIBRARY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT RESOURCE AT NORTHERN LAND COUNCIL, NORTHERN TERRITORY PRESENTING AT THE HIDDEN GEMS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2013

Conservation Without the invaluable support of donors, specialised conservation work and the purchase of selected equipment would not have been possible. The Foundation thanks donors for their ongoing passion for this critical support.

JEAN BLAEU: LE GRAND ATLAS

With the continued support of Mr John Lamble AO, this year has seen the completion of the important conservation project of the rare, 17th century, French language, 12-volume edition Le Grand Atlas.

In the 1620s, using their extensive range of contacts in the cartographic world, Willem and Jean Blaeu embarked on the production of a multi-volumed grand world atlas, known variously as Atlas Maior, Cosmologie Blaviane and Geographie Blaviane. An ambitious production, this atlas was an attempt by the Blaeus to outclass the competition and dominate the map printing business. By the 1660s, the Blaeu printing business was the largest in Europe.

The 12-volume set is hard bound in full vellum with gold edge decoration, fine bindings, lavish hand-coloured maps and detailed engravings. Blaeu’s ambition was for the atlas to be world class. In the seventeenth century it was the most expensive set of printed books on the market.

The preservation work included the humidification and flattening of folded maps and pages in three

volumes using Gore-Tex and blotters, consolidation and protection of the green silk ties with nylon net on the foredges and minor paper repairs throughout. Additionally, every page of the textblocks was lightly dusted with a soft bristled brush and the vellum covers of all three volumes were dry cleaned using a vinyl eraser to remove in-ground surface dirt on the edges and corners of the maps and text block.

The vellum covers were flattened using a combination of humidification in a chamber and drying underweight. The missing areas from the front and back covers were repaired with inlaid vellum that had been sanded and toned to match. All spines were cleaned and lined and the top and bottom end bands reattached with Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste. To complete the project, custom-made clam shell boxes were constructed in matching Cannapetta book cloth with leather panels and gold blocking for the title and call number.

01 COMPLETION OF CONSERVATION TREATMENT OF THE JEAN BLAEU LE GRAND ATLAS, 1667

02 GRAHAM BRADLEY AM, CHARLENE BRADLEY, SUZANNE KELLY AND JOHN LAMBLE AO CELEBRATING THE COMPLETION OF THE JEAN BLAEU GRAND ATLAS PROJECT

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MACARTHUR FAMILY PAPERS

This is the fifth year of major work on the Macarthur family papers (1789–1930). The collection features the papers of Elizabeth and John Macarthur and sons, key colonial figures in the establishment of the Australian wool industry.

Conservation treatment and rehousing was performed on Volumes 5 and 6, totalling over 800 items. Items conserved included letters, correspondence, logbooks, ledgers and accounts. Through methodical treatment, each item was removed from the acidic, library bindings and brush-cleaned with a soft bristled brush. Where required an aqueous solution was used to clean discoloured items. Torn pages, repaired with lightweight Japanese tissue paper and wheat starch paste, were hinged into new acid-free fascicules.

The completed fascicules are now housed in custom-made, archival clam-shell boxes. The small logbooks and ledgers underwent repairs, localised humidification and rehousing in custom-made folders and clam-shell boxes, all of which were finished with gold tooling on the spine.

A special thank you to the Maple-Brown Family Charitable Foundation for their ongoing generosity in supporting this project.

WENTWORTH FAMILY PAPERS

The Library holds three collections of the Wentworth family papers, including the correspondence of D’Arcy Wentworth, son William and daughter Sarah. The most significant collection, 17 volumes of various size and thickness, has original or library bindings (possibly from 1940 to the 1950s). The bulk of the manuscripts are guarded into volumes.

The Foundation has been delighted that an anonymous donor will be supporting this project for four years.

Extensive work has been completed on Volumes 1 and 2, including the old guards removed from the verso of each manuscript item and several items with brittle ink areas have been supported using re-moistenable tissue and adhesive. Tears and losses were repaired using Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste. Items in Volume 1 have been hinged into new custom-made, acid-free archival fascicules and the completed fascicules were housed in a custom-made, archival, clam-shell box finished with gold tooling on the spine.

01/02 ROSE DE FREYCINET LETTERBOOK BEFORE TREATMENT

03 USE OF THE PORTABLE XRF FLUORESCENCE SPECTROPHOTOMETER

ROSE DE FREYCINET LETTERBOOK

Rose Marie de Saulces Freycinet circumnavigated the world accompanying her husband, Louis de Freycinet, between 1817 and 1820.

The letterbook of Rose Marie de Saulces Freycinet is a hard bound volume that is quarter bound in vellum with light brown sponge and marbled paper sides with library style vellum corners. The spine label appears original with gold lettering on a red skiver label. The paper stock features fleur de lys watermarks. The manuscript ink, probably ‘blue black’ when freshly prepared, has discoloured with age to a rusty brownish appearance. There are numerous pencil graphite inscriptions, made as notes, throughout the volume.

This volume is part of a two-part treatment proposal. The first stage is before digitisation, where the case and textblock were separated to expose the laced-in linen tapes, which were then released from the front and backboards. The aged and discoloured animal glue along the spine was softened using a wheat starch paste poultice and removed manually. While the spine was soft from the poultice, the original sewing was loosened and each page or letter was carefully separated. The holes created from the original side sewing were repaired with a lightweight Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste.

PURCHASE OF PORTABLE XRF EQUIPMENT

Through a supportive network of benefactors, a portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrophotometer (XRF) was purchased for the conservation facility. This equipment is essential for the accurate, non-destructive, multi-elemental identification and analysis of inks and pigments during conservation treatments and research. The equipment is specifically designed for quantitative art and conservation applications, and since its acquisition it has been used to analyse metallic media present in the TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection watercolours.

Analysis of the pigments used in this collection has provided an insight into the artists’ methods. For instance, metallics such as gold, brass and silver were used to create iridescent effects in either the eye or wing area of the birds and fish. Furthermore, the procurement of the XRF equipment has enabled identification of the choice of palette used by First Fleet artists (and their contemporary natural history artists back in the United Kingdom) such as the use of highly refined gold leaf, mercury red pigment and extensive use of iron-based pigments. All staff who use this equipment have been trained in its safe operation.

01 / 02 DURING CONSERVATION WORK ON THE MACARTHUR PAPERS

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CONSERVATION OF THE TAL & DAI-ICHI LIFE DERBY COLLECTION

The Jean Garling project provides further support for conservation work. This year the support enabled in-depth materials research and treatment of the TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby Collection. The collection represents the Library’s most significant acquisition of early colonial material since the 1930s. The collection is comprised of 745 natural history watercolour illustrations in six volumes compiled by well-connected naturalist Aylmer Bourke Lambert in the late 1790s and early 1800s. The collection includes contributions from Governor Arthur Phillip, Surgeon General John White, Colonel William Paterson, Major Robert Ross, Major Francis Grose and Philip Gidley King. Natural history illustrations were essential to the work of naturalists and were widely circulated, copied and discussed.

Over 1000 watercolours from the TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby Collection and related collections were condition reported, including ultra violet examination of pigments and transmitted light photography of the watermarks. Extensive treatments were undertaken on over 50 items for the exhibition Artist Colony: Drawing Sydney’s Nature. Research of the watermarks of the paper stock revealed unknown connections between significant First Fleet collections held within the Library. For example, a strong connection was discovered between Derby Volume 4 and the Sydney Bird Painter Collection. The results from the research

were submitted to the National Archives of Australia Watermark Database. This, along with other studies, provides invaluable assistance for both the conservation and curation of these collections.

SYNNOT ALBUM

Offering a unique insight into time and place, this nineteenth century scrap album of the Synnot family is a full bound notebook album in black leather with heavy blind embossing.

Walter Synnot served in the British Army, retired to South Africa, and returned to Ireland before sailing to Tasmania in 1836 with his third wife, Mary-Jane, and eight of the surviving children from his second marriage. Mary-Jane Macarthur’s album is distinctive in the quality and historical significance of its pictures and the associations with its contributors, including Mary-Jane who remarried, to pastoralist Charles Macarthur, after Synnot’s death in 1851. The album was presented to the Library by her granddaughter Polly Tilly in 1983.

Treatment on the album included a complete dis-bound by manually removing the leather spine from the text block. Loose items such as watercolours and hair samples were rehoused in Mylar enclosures. A new spine was created with a similar goatskin leather and, to complete the project, a black Canapetta cloth, custom-made clam-shell box was constructed to house the album and the loose items.

01 GEOFFREY McCOSTNER FROM ASHFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL VISITS THE MITCHELL LIBRARY 2014

02 MEGAN PERRY, MANAGER OF LEARNING SERVICES, PRESENTING TO STUDENTS AT KATOOMBA PUBLIC SCHOOL

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

Far Out! Treasures to the BushIn 2014 the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation joined the Caledonia Foundation in a philanthropic partnership to support Far Out! Treasures to the Bush for a further three years.

This educational outreach program is delivered to schools in rural and regional NSW by State Library educators who are all trained teachers. The program enables selected original materials from the Library’s vast collection to be shared with students and teachers in remote areas.

In this past year educators presented interactive workshops engaging students with the stories of Indigenous heritage and British colonisation, foundation topics of the new state syllabus. Teachers also experienced educators modelling how to teach history with artefacts, a component of the new syllabus.

Students were enthralled with the extraordinary stories of Mary Reibey, James Cook, Newton Fowell and Johnny Kangatong, as they dressed in period costumes and imagined a world very different to their own. As a result, they gained an understanding of the extraordinary length of the Indigenous occupation of Australia and the challenges faced by early Australian explorers and convicts.

The Learning Services team included a member from the Indigenous Services Unit and on each tour an Indigenous word list, relevant to the local area, was used. The Indigenous Librarian facilitated the

conversation around Indigenous languages, building important links with the communities visited. Students and teachers were intrigued to discover what languages remain and what has disappeared from their community.

This outreach program has had an extraordinary impact in many NSW communities. One example of this was the visit of Geoffrey McCostner from Ashford Central School. Geoffrey participated in a FAR Out! workshop in Ashford in November 2013 and was so impressed with the experience that he visited the State Library with his family when he was in Sydney. His parents were delighted that the Library had left such an impression on Geoffrey, and suggested that he would be a friend of the Library forever.

01 PAPER STOCK WATERMARK REVEALED BY TRANSMITTED LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

02 DERBY VOLUME 4, BEFORE TREATMENT

03/04 SYNNOT ALBUM BEFORE AND AFTER REPAIR, HOUSED IN A CUSTOM-MADE CLAM-SHELL BOX

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Bus Subsidy Due to the high cost of transportation, especially from regional areas and western Sydney, some primary school students do not have the opportunity to visit the State Library for unique educational excursions and programs. Schools from areas which are geographically isolated or which have students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds can receive assistance to visit the Library.

The program commenced in 2013 and since its introduction staff can donate to this project. The Bus Transportation Subsidy Program encourages

students to broaden their understanding of Australian history and literature, fulfilling NSW Board of Studies outcomes while engaging with a world-leading Library.

With donations generated by the Workplace Giving Program and with the generous support of Mr Tony O’Sullivan and an anonymous donor, the Library has assisted 12 schools and their students.

This socially inclusive program works on the principle that early exposure to cultural material helps students to reach their educational potential.

CustodiansThe Foundation had the opportunity this year to assist the Library in acquiring an extraordinary Dutch map, Nova Tabula, Insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, 1598, by Willem Lodewijcksz.

This map, an engraved copperplate print measuring 38 x 54 cm, is so rarely available on the market that it was considered virtually unobtainable. Printed in Amsterdam in 1598, it is an account of the voyage of the Dutch fleet to the East Indies under Cornelis de Houtman (1595–1597). David Scott Mitchell collected various editions of the Lodewijcksz book, but was never able to obtain the ‘missing’ map. In acquiring the map the Library fills an important gap in Mitchell’s collection of material relating to early European contact, trade and exploration in the Pacific.

The State Library has a significant collection of cartographic material relating to the early period of European exploration in the southern hemisphere, particularly material relating to Dutch voyages of exploration and the establishment of the Dutch East India Company.

The Foundation gratefully acknowledges the generosity and continuing support of all our generous Library Custodians. This is a longstanding and significant group of donors who pledge annual donations to support:• acquisitions for our magnificent collections, particularly the extremely rare original Australiana objects that are housed in the Mitchell Library• our significant conservation program, ensuring the urgent conservation of our cultural objects for future generations• the development of innovative free exhibitions to interpret and share our unique collections with the community.

Several special Custodians events were held this year including a special lecture on 14 May by historian Michael Flynn who spoke of his fascinating research into forgotten First Fleet documents, on the 200th anniversary of the death of Governor Arthur Phillip.

ALL PHOTOS TAKEN AT CUSTODIAN EVENTS

01 SINCLAIR AND WENDY HILL

02 MEGAN COCKLE AND BRUCE HARRIS

03 MARGARET SCHONELL AND CATHERINE BARBARA

04 IAN AND VALERIE THOM

BUILDING LOYALTY

The Young Writers Showcase was launched at the State Library on 24 June 2013. Since then the WordExpress program has been expanded to include seminars and workshops which involve HSC students and teachers in regional and rural NSW. This has provided more equitable access to the Library’s subject experts and resources for subjects such as Extension 2 English, which may attract high-performing students unable to travel to Sydney.

Funding from a Foundation donor has assisted this program and is part of our commitment to rural and regional communities. The program has been endorsed by the Board of Studies and the English Teachers Association of NSW.

An onsite seminar was held in October 2013 with over 60 students and a regional seminar in Orange in November with 68 students and teachers. Participating high schools included Blayney, Cootamundra, Mudgee, Leeton, Parkes, Orange, Red Blend Catholic College, Scots School Albury, St John’s Catholic College Dubbo, The Canobolas Rural Technology School, Denison College Bathurst, Denison College Kelso, Kinross Wollaroi and Lithgow La Selle Academy.

The full-day program of seminars and workshops was designed to assist students to embark on the English Extension 2 course with confidence and enthusiasm.

01 LAUNCH OF THE YOUNG WRITERS SHOWCASE 2013

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Library Visionaries Over $200,000 has been raised for the three-year Library Visionaries program. Created to support digital learning, this program aims to ensure that NSW students and teachers have equitable access to our history through online systems. The program concentrates on digitising significant historical documents from our collections which relate to the school history curriculum.

Some of the newly digitised items students can explore include:• the photographic album of World War II war correspondent Frederick Rainsford Peterson relating to the Pacific and New Guinea, 1942–1944 • Women’s Voice, a monthly journal dedicated to the education and advancement of women, 1905• a WWI collection of photographs and medals belonging to Louisa Augusta Hooke, a nurse in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service, 1914–1918.

In December 2013, the Library hosted a Visionaries lecture by Christopher Clark, Professor of Modern European History and Fellow of St Catherine’s College at the University of Cambridge. Professor Clark, who is one of the leading modern historians of his generation, introduced his latest book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War in 1914. His book gives a fresh perspective on the role of key decision makers at the centre of the conflict. The chain of events from the July crisis of 1914 to the outbreak of war is one of the most dramatic narratives in modern history. The event tied in with the Library’s program to digitise an extraordinary collection of personal diaries and related material from the Great War. Professor Clark’s visit was sponsored by Sydney Grammar School.

The Foundation thanks all our Visionaries for supporting this crucial program.

The Library CirclePrivate sector support plays a critical role in the financial sustainability of the Library. Bequests or planned gifts make a lasting contribution to our future collections and services, ensuring future generations will benefit from the foresight of donors. Planned gifts enable us to develop our unique collections and create services that meet the needs of students, researchers, family historians and the many others who use our services and collections each day.

We are most grateful to the people who have signalled their intention to include a bequest to the State Library in their wills. The Foundation currently has 28 Library Circle members who meet as a group and enjoy an interesting and varied program of events and exclusive functions that reflect the work of the Library and demonstrate the important role it plays in the community.

A special thank you to supporters who have joined the Library Circle and have demonstrated a deep commitment to the Library and its collections.

Bequests The Foundation has received cash gifts from the estates of Judith Navena Andrews and Bernard Rosen as well as a second and last distribution from the estate of Peter Tyler.

Friends The Friends of the State Library are passionate supporters of the Library and its collections. They play an important role in the life of the Library while enjoying the many exhibitions and events on offer. There are 1400 memberships (over 2000 individual members).

Each year our Friends enjoy a diverse program of events and activities across the Library. This year two exclusive, free Friends events provided special insights into our exhibitions and collections. Specialist curator Margot Riley introduced Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fashion Photography, a touring exhibition from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Australian Glamour: Model, Photographer, Magazine, curated by Margot with items drawn from the Library’s collections.

Louise Anemaat spoke about her landmark book, Natural Curiosity: Unseen Art of the First Fleet and the related exhibition, Artist Colony: Drawing Sydney’s Nature.

Also very popular were two sold-out lecture series, Remarkable Men: Three Victorian Novels — Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope with Susannah Fullerton; and Southern Visions: The Quest for the Great South Land, 1520–1775, presented by Emeritus Curator Paul Brunton AM.

The annual Christmas party was celebrated with high tea and music from the gospel choir Café of the Gate of Salvation.

In February the Friends Around The Domain event brought together cultural organisations for a great open day. The Library, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Museum, Sydney Living Museums, the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Lucy Osburn – Nightingale Museum and the John Passmore Museum opened their doors to members from all organisations. They offered special viewings, talks, walks and other events over the course of the day. The day was a great success thanks to our wonderful volunteers!

01 CAFE AT THE GATES OF SALVATION CHOIR PERFORM AT THE FRIENDS CHRISTMAS PARTY 2013

02 PATRICK MARCO AT THE 2014 PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS

03 EMILY MIERISCH, RUTH KLABE AND CHRISTOPHER CLARK AT THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

04 RONELLE BRADFORD AND BARRY TROLLOPE AT THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

01 PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER CLARK AND DR JOHN VALLANCE, AT THE SLEEPWALKERS LIBRARY VISIONARIES EVENT

02 THE LIBRARY CIRCLE 2013 CHRISTMAS LUNCH

STANDING: SUSAN HUNT, KEN BLOXHAM, ROB THOMAS, HELEN BREEKVELDT, ANNE EGGINS, DR DIANA WYNDHAM, LAWRENCE HINCHLIFFE, PAM CONNOR, JOY STORIE, DR ALEX BYRNE DR GAE ANDERSON, HOWARD LEWIS, LUCY MILNE, DR RUTH KERR OAM, FRANCES SIMS AND DR KEVIN HEWITT

SEATED: RICHARD LA GANZA, MARILYN ENDLEIN, JEAN ALLEN, NANCY TUCK

03 JOY STORIE, HOWARD LEWIS, DR RUTH KERR OAM, DR KEVIN HEWITT AT THE LIBRARY CIRCLE CHRISTMAS LUNCH

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2013 VOLUNTEERS CHRISTMAS PARTY

01 ANDREA STURGEON, ALLANAH JARMAN, GILLIAN GRATTON

02 WENDALL WATT AND GARY COOK

03 DAVID LAMBERT AND JUDY GIMBERT

04 TOMAS DREVIKOVSKY

05 PATRICK DODD AND CATHERINE BENNETT

06 MARGARET EVANS, ROSEMARY SHEPHERD AND PARTICIA BARNETT

07 ROSEMARY COX AND COLIN SMITH

08 GARY COOK, NANCY TUCK AND ELS GROENEWEGEN AT NANCY TUCK’S 99TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

09 MARGARET EVANS, MARILYN MYERS AND LYNNE PALMER AT A VOLUNTEER TRAINING SESSION

10 ELLIE BRASCH, EMILY MIERISCH VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR, DARREN BLUMBERG, CATHERINE BENNETT, PATRICK DODD AND JOHN RYRIE AT THE 2014 NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS WEEK EVENT

Volunteers For 30 years volunteers have supported the Library, offering dedicated service across all divisions. We are pleased to report that our 88 active volunteers have contributed a total of 11,964 hours to the Library. We also welcomed 20 new volunteers to our program.

Volunteer tasks span two main categories: front- of-house and behind-the-scenes. This year front-of-house tasks have expanded. For example tours are now offered every weekday and volunteers promote the Curio app and welcome visitors to the galleries. Ongoing tasks such as hosting the Shakespeare Room and presenting the Speakers Program continue to promote the Library both onsite and on tour.

Behind-the-scenes tasks include sorting ephemera, scanning images and a range of administrative tasks. Our transcribers make up the largest team of volunteers and since 2008 have transcribed over 500 diaries compromising more than 82,000 pages!

We have begun an initiative working with culturally and linguistically diverse volunteers.

This exciting partnership will initially assist with a promotional campaign to raise awareness of the Library in a range of community and language groups.

Volunteers continue to be the lifeblood of the Library with their rich experience, enthusiasm and knowledge, evident in each task they perform. Our volunteers are ambassadors for the Library displaying enormous passion for the collection and dedication to their work. Once again we express our appreciation for our family of enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers.

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2013 ASHURST BUSINESS LITERATURE PRIZE Launched in 2004 by Australian global law firm Ashurst and administered by the State Library of NSW, the $20,000 prize is Australia’s largest and most significant award for business literature. It was established to encourage the highest possible standards of literary commentary on Australian business and financial affairs.

Award-winning writer Malcolm Knox has won this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize for Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC (Penguin Australia). Knox received his prize from the Honourable James Spigelman AC QC, Chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and guest speaker at the special award dinner held in Sydney on 8 May 2014, hosted by Ashurst.

In Boom, Knox reveals the history of mining as the Australian story, for better or worse. Insightful, compellingly readable and full of extraordinary characters, it shows how mining and miners have shaped our history and gripped our imagination through boom and bust.

The independent judging panel of Alan Cameron AO, Richard Fisher AM and Narelle Hooper, noted that given its economic significance and impact on migration, very few historians have placed much emphasis on mining and its influence on the way Australia has evolved.

This year for the first time in its decade-long history, the $30,000 Ashurst Business Literature Prize was open to Australian authored works addressing international and global commercial life and its participants. Ashurst Vice Chairman Mary Padbury added:

In an increasingly globalising world, Australians want, and need, to be better informed about international commercial life. By expanding the scope of the prize, we hope to encourage commentary on all aspects of commercial life.

The following authors were shortlisted: • Jay Harman — The Shark’s Paintbrush (Nicholas Brealey/Allen & Unwin) • Colleen Ryan — Fairfax: The Rise and Fall (Melbourne University Publishing)• Pamela Williams — Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge (HarperCollins Publishers Australia).

NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD The National Biography Award is administered and presented by the State Library of NSW on behalf of the award’s benefactors, Dr Geoffrey Cains and Mr Michael Crouch AO.

The award was established to encourage the highest standards of writing in the fields of biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in these genres. The award’s growth and success reflects the continuing interest in stories about ordinary people with extraordinary lives.

The 2013 winner was Peter Fitzpatrick’s The Two Frank Thrings (Monash University Press), a compelling dual biography on the father and son icons of Australian film and theatre. The $25,000 first prize was announced in August 2013 at a Library reception.

A total of $30,000 was awarded in 2013. Shortlisted authors each received $1000 prize money to recognise their achievements. The shortlisted titles were: • James Button — Speechless: A Year in my Father’s Business (Melbourne University Publishing) • Robert Drewe — Montebello: A Memoir (Penguin Australia) • Jenny Hocking — Gough Whitlam: His Time (Melbourne University Publishing) • Rachel Robertson — Reaching One Thousand (Black Inc).

The judges were Dr Bernadette Brennan, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; Dr Jacqueline Kent, a writer of non-fiction and biography, fiction, general articles and literary journalism; and Professor Melanie Nolan, Director of the National Centre of Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University.

Dr Bernadette Brennan, chair of the 2013 judging panel, commented in her citation on the winner:

This is an engagingly written, brilliant, dual linked biography of father and son who, together and individually, “distinctively marked a century of Australian performing arts in film and theatre”.

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01 PETER FITZPATRICK, WINNER OF THE 2013 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD WITH DR GEOFFREY CAINS

02 MALCOLM KNOX, WINNER OF THE 2013 ASHURST BUSINESS LITERATURE PRIZE

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Fellowships The Fellowship Program is a longstanding and significant feature of the State Library’s commitment to research. The Foundation supports a number of Library fellowships.

The David Scott Mitchell Fellowship and the Merewether Scholarship (each $12,000 per annum) were established in March 2008 from the generous benefaction of the late John Merewether, a supporter, friend and donor to the Library. The Australian Religious History Fellowship ($20,000 per annum) was established in 2010 by an anonymous benefactor.

The David Scott Mitchell Fellowship encourages the research and study of Australian history using the collections of the Mitchell Library. The Merewether Scholarship encourages and supports the research and study of nineteenth century history in NSW using the collections of the Mitchell Library.

The 2013 Merewether Scholar is Dr Nancy Cushing, for The Skeleton at the Feast: Australian Animals as Food and Non-food in the Colonial Period. Dr Cushing examines how meat-eating came to define the Australian diet and how that was narrowed down to beef and mutton. A sophisticated project, it is the first discrete part of a larger idea about the impact of meat on the Australian environment and culture and is a stimulating and unusual take on the Library’s collections.

The Mitchell Fellow is Dr Gabriela Zabala for Left, Radical & Unacknowledged: The Unpublished New Theatre Plays of Jim Crawford. Jim Crawford was a prolific playwright associated with the left-wing New Theatre. This project draws on the rich New Theatre collection providing a useful counterpoint

to the archives of much better known playwrights like Mona Brand or Betty Roland (whose collections are also held by the Library).

The 2013 Australian Religious History Fellowship went to Dr Peggy James for The Shaping and Communication of Australian Buddhist Thought: The Contribution of Marie Byles. While the Marie Byles papers are a constant reference point for environmental history researchers, this aspect of her life as a leading Australian Buddhist thinker and writer has never been examined. Byles was instrumental in establishing a Buddhist Society of NSW in 1952.

This is the second year that the Library has offered the Sydney Grammar School — State Library of NSW Fellowships (established under the generous benefaction of the Sydney Grammar School). These fellowships, worth $5000 each, support the development of curriculum resources based on the Library’s collections.

Tony Britten and Maggie Anderson were the successful applicants. Mr Britten’s project is titled Digital Excellence Supporting Digital Text Creation: The Collection of the State Library of NSW and Subject English in the Context of the Australian Curriculum in NSW. It addresses a new area of curriculum design in the English curriculum: multimodal texts. This project will use Library exhibitions as core texts.

Ms Anderson’s project, Discovering Classification with Joseph Banks, proposes to develop a full unit of work on the foundational Stage 4 Science topic of classification, drawing on many strengths of the Library’s collections.

01 DR NANCY CUSHING

02 DR GABRIELA ZABALA

03 DR PEGGY JAMES

EVENTS

01 RICHARD NEVILLE, MITCHELL LIBRARIAN, WITH PAULA AND ROBERT CAMERON AT THE CUSTODIAN CURATOR LED TOUR OF THE AMAZE GALLERY

02 KIM JACOBS, PRESIDENT NSW AUSTRALIA-ISRAEL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT THE EVENT MARKING THE COMPLETION OF THE ONLINE PROJECT

03 SALLY HERMAN AND PHILLIP CORNWELL AT THE CUSTODIAN LED TOUR OF THE AMAZE GALLERY

04 PAUL BRUNTON PRESENTING AT SOUTHERN VISIONS LECTURE SERIES

05 DR ALEX BYRNE, GEOFFREY O’CONOR, JOHN FAIRFAX AO AND RACHEL O’CONOR AT THE FOUNDATION 2013 AGM

06 ROB THOMAS AM, PRESIDENT OF THE LIBRARY COUNCIL, AT THE LIBRARY COUNCIL CHRISTMAS PARTY

07 SAMANTHA MEERS AND HER DAUGHTERS, KATARINA AND ALEXANDRA KUO, AT THE ROSE DE FREYCINET EVENT

08 FRIENDS EVENT WITH CLAUDIA CHAN

09 GUESTS AT THE ROSE DE FREYCINET EVENT

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MARY STRETTLES

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THE CALEDONIA FOUNDATION

PETER TYLER

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ANONYMOUS (7)

SENIOR FELLOW

AKHTAR AZHAR

JEAN ALLEN

DAVID ANSTICE

WILLIAM R ARNOTT & SIMONE ARNOTT

JOHN ATKIN & JUDY HADDRICK

ALLEN BALDICK

FIONA BALFOUR

DR CHARLES S BARNES AND BEV BARNES

BLACK & WHITE COMMITTEE

WILLIAM D BLACKSHAW

DR KEVIN F BLEASEL AO & MARIANNE BLEASEL

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IAN BURNET

YVONNE BUCHANAN MAY

CADRY’S HANDWOVEN RUGS

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NEIL MOORE

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B P NOLAN

RODNEY O’NEIL

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SUE THOMAS

DR JOHN VALLANCE

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MICHAEL & VASHTI WATERHOUSE

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IAN WHITTON

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MARK ANDREWS

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ARTHUR W AUSTIN

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LUCY BANTERMALIS

JIM BARRETT

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JOSEPHINE BASTIAN

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RON BESLICH

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PHILLIP CORNWELL

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MARION FREIDMAN

PROFESSOR G L GILBERT

ROB & CARY GILLESPIE

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JEFFREY A GOSS

GEOFFREY R GRAHAM

BEATRICE GRAY

PETER GRAY

DAVID GREEN

THE HON IAN V GZELL QC

PROFESSOR D J HANDELSMAN

THE HON JUSTICE K R HANDLEY AO & D M HANDLEY

IAN HARPER AM & ROSEMARY HARPER

JENNIFER HARRIS

HENRY PARKES FOUNDATION

MARY HOLT

BRUCE HUDSON

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COLIN LENNOX

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ANNA MARKS

THE HON SIR ANTHONY MASON AC KBE

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KATHLEEN L McCREDIE

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MARION & RAY NICOLSON

CAROLE O’BRIEN

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THE HON M A PEMBROKE SC

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G W PETTIGREW

THE HON DR RODNEY N PURVIS AM QC

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LIONEL ROBBERDS

ROBERT W ROSE

EMERITUS PROFESSOR STEVEN SCHWARTZ AM

MARIAN SEVILLE

DR JEFFREY A SIEGEL

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EVE STENNING

ANNE SULLIVAN

WILLIAM P SWEENEY

SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL

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ANTHONY TARLETON

MARK R TARMO

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ANGUS WHITE

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JOHN B WHITTLE

KEN W WILDER OAM

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DR DERRICK F WOODHOUSE

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PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER ADAM

HEATHER ADAMS

JAN AITKIN

HUGH ALLEN

TIMOTHY ALLEN

ROSEMARY ALLEN

THE HON JUSTICE JAMES ALLSOP AO

JENNY ALLUM

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CHRISTOPHER ARNOTT OAM

ASHER JOEL MEDIA GROUP PTY LTD

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COLIN J BASKERVILLE

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KEITH L BENNETT

JOHN & JENNIFER BERRYMAN

BAIBA BERZINS

PAUL BINSTEAD

JOHN BLATTMAN

DAVID & NAOMI BLOCK

KEN BLOXSOM

PETER BOBBIN

JOHN BOLAS

JOHN D M BRADSHAW

ANN C BROWN

KENNETH S BROWN

THE HON BOB BROWN AM

MALCOLM BROWN

JOAN BRYANT

BETTY BUCHANAN

ANTHONY BUCKLEY AM

ROSLYN BURGE

PATRICK R BURNETT

GREGORY K BURTON SC

B N BUTLER

JOHN BYRON

HON JUSTICE JOE CAMPBELL

JOAN CAMPBELL

ROSEMARY CARRICK

MARK CARUANA

JOSEPH CATANZARITI

KATE CATO

FREDERICK CHILTON

MARILYN CHRISTIANSEN

DR ELIZABETH CLARK

S S CLARK

PROFESSOR JOHN CLEVERLEY

CLIVE LUCAS STAPLETON & PARTNERS

TULLIO COFRANCESCO

PAM CONNOR

DR WARWICK COOMBES

DINA & KEVIN COPPEL

ANNIE CORLETT & BRUCE CORLETT AM

KAY COX

DEBBY CRAMER

DR PETER CRASWELL

PETER L CROZIER

CHARLES CURRAN AC & E CURRAN


RICHARD J W d’APICE AM

ROWAN DARKE

REBECCA DAVIES

DAVID & CLARE DAVIS

DR RICHARD O DAY

DR MARIE M de LEPERVANCHE

VALMAI DE TORRES

DR JENNIFER DEW

ANNE DORAN

DR ANDREW DOWE

THE HON JUSTICE RICHARD F EDMONDS

DR ANNE EGGINS

MARIA L EVANS

MICHAEL EYERS AM

KEVIN T FENNELL PSM

LYNN M FERGUSSON

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JENNIFER J FORSTER

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ALLAN W J FOWLER

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EMLYN NORMAN GARLAND

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DAVID GAUNT

JOHN GILMOUR AM

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LIBBY GLEESON

A D GLOVER

DR JILL GORDON

VANDA R GOULD

GEOFFREY J GRAHAM

KEVIN GRANT

DR JOHN GREENAWAY AM

THE HON NICK GREINER AC

PAULINE M GRIFFIN AM

WENDY GWYN

GRAEME HAIGH

T W HAINES AO LLB

PROFESSOR JOHN HAM

ETTA G HAMILTON

DR GAYE HART AM

JEAN HART

VICTORIA A HARTSTEIN

ALEXA HASLINGDEN

DAVID N H HASSALL

DR VALERIE HAVYATT

G E P HENCHMAN

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ANDREW L HORSLEY

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RICHARD HUMPHRY

DAVID & JUDITH HUNT

MALCOLM IRVING

THE INSTITUTION OF SURVEYORS NSW (SENIORS GROUP)

I M JACKMAN

KIM JACOBS

ANITA JACOBY

MILDRED V JENKINS

KEITH JOHNSON AM

DR ROBERT JOHNSTON

JUNE JONES

PETER JOSEPH AM

CAPTAIN MICHAEL KAMINSKI RAN (RETD)

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T McMURRAY

S D McNAMARA

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BARBARA MILLONS

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HAL MYERS

PATRICIA J NARGAR

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NSW CRICKET ASSOCIATION

DR LISA O’BRIEN

O’CONNELL STREET ASSOCIATES PTY LTD

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DEBORAH SOUTHON

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BEVERLY STEGGLES

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CHRISTOPHER SUNDSTROM

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SYDNEY CRICKET & SPORTS GROUND TRUST

MILDRED TEITLER

EDWARD F THOMAS

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SALLY TREEBY

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NANCY TUCK

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JAN L VECCHIO

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SHEILA WARBY

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RICHARD J B WINGATE

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NEIL E WYKES OAM

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JULIE YOUNG

ANONYMOUS (239)

THE MITCHELL CAMPAIGN

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER ADAM

JEAN ALLEN

JENNY ALLUM

DAVID ANSTICE

WILLIAM R ARNOTT & SIMONE ARNOTT

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AKHTAR AZHAR

SIBILLA BAER

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INGRID BEEREN

GEORGE BENNETT

WILLIAM D BLACKSHAW

DAVID & NAOMI BLOCK

GRAHAM & CHARLENE BRADLEY FOUNDATION

JILLIAN BROADBENT AO

IAN BURNET

WILLIAM L CHAPMAN

ANNIE CORLETT & BRUCE CORLETT AM

PATRICK CORRIGAN AM

DR PETER CRASWELL

JENNIFER CRIVELLI


ROWENA DANZINGER AM & KEN COLES AM

SUSAN DOYLE

PROFESSOR DEXTER DUNPHY AM

DR ANNE EGGINS

LYN FERGUSSON

DON FINDLATER

JANE FULTON

ROGER GARRETT

THE GREATOREX FOUNDATION

THE HON NICK GREINER AC

ANTHONY GREY

WESLEY GRIVAS

PETER HALES

THE HENRY PARKES FOUNDATION

SALLY HERMAN

DR RONALD HOUGHTON

MICHAEL HOY

RICHARD HUMPHRY AO & ROSE HUMPHRY

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MALCOLM IRVING

KIM JACOBS

PETER JOSEPH AM AND NETTIE JOSEPH

DR RUTH S KERR OAM

DR A M HERTZBERG AO

DAVID LEVINE AO RFD QC

HOWARD LEWIS

PROFESSOR GWYNNYTH LLEWELLYN


IAN McLACHLAN

PAUL McCLINTOCK AO

SAMANTHA MEERS

CAROLINE & NICK MINOGUE

JIM & AVERILL MINTO

SHIRLEY MORRIS

ALLAN & IRENE MOSS

THE NELSON MEERS FOUNDATION

GEOFFREY & RACHEL O’CONOR

DAVID O’HALLORAN

RODNEY O’NEIL

ELIZABETH PALMER

POTTINGER

BRENT POTTS

DR CATHERINE ROGERS

JOSEPH ROONEY

ELENA RUBIN

WILLIAM & JULIA RUTLEDGE


RUTH SINCLAIR

ALISON STEPHEN

ANNE SULLIVAN

JACK SULLIVAN

TAL LIMITED

HOWARD TANNER AM & MARY TANNER

MILDRED TEITLER

ROB THOMAS AM

ANDREW TINK AM

DR JOHN VALLANCE

VICKI VIVIAN


ROBERT J WHITE AO

IAN WHITTON

CAROLINE WILKINSON

KIM WILLIAMS AM

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Trustees’ report & financial statements as at 30 June 2014

01 DETAIL OF NO. 2: ORCHID, POSSIBLY WILLIAM DAWES, WATERCOLOUR PXD 17, F. 2



BOARD REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014

STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FOUNDATION


The Board presents its report together with the financial statements of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation (the Foundation) for the year ended 30 June 2014. The State Library of New South Wales Foundation is managed by the State Library and governed by a Board established under the Constitution with the Trust safeguarded by Trustees. It is a controlled entity of the Library Council of NSW as a not for profit organisation with its accounts consolidated as part of the NSW Total State Sector Accounts. Its governance and financial affairs are conducted within the context of the NSW Public Sector and as such in accordance with requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act, 1983 and Regulation, Treasurers Circulars and Directions. It is covered for insurance through the Treasury Managed Fund Scheme; administered by the NSW Self Insurance Corporation. The Board members at any time during the financial year are listed below: • Patty Akopiantz • John Atkin • Graham Bradley AM • Dr Alex Byrne • Dina Coppel • Peter Crossing • Sally Herman • Samantha Meers • Anthony O'Sullivan • Maxine Brenner • Steven Schwartz AM • Robert Thomas AM • Dr John Vallance • Kim Williams AM The Trustees at any time during the financial year are listed below. • Graham Bradley AM • Dr Alex Byrne • Susan Doyle • Richard Fisher AM • Maxine Brenner • Robert Thomas AM • Dr John Vallance





BOARD REPORT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014 Objects

The Constitution dated 26 June 1989 established the State Library of New South Wales Foundation as a Charitable Trust which is held by the Trustees and has objects set out in clause 10:

(a) generally to assist the Library to gain, maintain, improve and develop its collection of literary and historical treasures, library artifacts and materials now held or hereafter to be held by the Library.

(b) to attract and retain for the Library the continuing interest and financial support of the community at large.

(c) to attract and encourage donations, gifts, bequests, endowments, trust and other forms of financial assistance to or for the benefit of the Library.

(d) to raise finance for the acquisition and preservation of objects of historic educational and/or social interest, collections and artifacts, works of art of importance and which would be obtained and/or maintained by the Library within the terms of its charter.

(e) to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any or them or to the preservation, development and improvement of the Library’s collections facilities and operations.

Review and result of operations Total income for the period was $3,779,000 (2013: $4,398,000) enabling the Foundation to make its contributions to the Library of $2,223,000 (2013: $2,386,000). The result for the period amounted to a surplus of $1,083,000 (2013: surplus of $1,575,000). The Foundation continued to assist the Library by conducting various fundraising activities and managing investments. Total Grants and Contributions Income was $2,567,000 (2013: $2,911,000). Contributions include donations and sponsorships $2,452,000 (2013: $1,699,000). and bequests $115,000 (2013: $1,212,000). In line with the objectives of the Foundation, it was resolved to contribute $2,223,000 to the Library for the year ended 30 June 2014 (2013: $2,386,000). The Foundation continued with its objectives as follows: a. develop diversified income streams to provide sustainable financial resources

for the Library. b. attain funding to assist in the acquisition, preservation and accessibility of the

Library's significant collections.


BOARD REPORT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014 Review and result of operations (continued) c. grow mutually beneficial partnerships and membership programs. d. administer prestigious fellowships and awards on behalf of the Library. Significant changes in the state of affairs There were no significant changes in the state of affairs of the Foundation during the year. Environmental regulation The Foundation’s operations are not subject to any environmental regulation. The Foundation's operations do not impact the environment in any significant manner. Events subsequent to balance date Since 30 June 2014 there has not arisen, in the interval between the end of the period and the date of this report, any item transaction or event of a material nature likely, in the opinion of the Board, to affect significantly the operations of the Foundation, the results of those operations, or the state of affairs of the Foundation, in subsequent periods. Likely developments The Foundation will continue to pursue the principal activities for which it was formed. Board Members’ benefits No Board Members have received or become entitled to receive any benefit, other than those Board Members who are in the full time employment of the Library, by reason of a contract made by the Foundation or a related body corporate with a Board Member or with a firm of which a Board Member is a member or with an entity in which the Board Member has a substantial interest. Board Members’ indemnification and insurance As the Foundation is a controlled entity of the Library, the Foundation’s insurances are included with the Library’s insurances through the Treasury Managed Fund, administered by the NSW Self Insurance Corporation. Under this scheme, the Board Members are insured for liabilities that may arise from their position with the exception of conduct involving a wilful breach of duty or improper use of information to gain a personal advantage.



TRUSTEES’ DECLARATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014



Governance & meeting attendance In accordance with the Constitution, the Foundation can have both a Board and Trustees. One Trustee meeting was held electronically on 1 August 2013 due to unavailability of the trustees. The Board held five (5) meetings on 29 August 2013, 7 November 2013, 27 February 2014, 8 April 2014 and 26 June 2014.

Member Membership Eligible Meetings Board Trustees

Board Trustees Held Attended Held Attended Patty Akopiantz X 5 3 John Atkin 1 X 5 5 Graham Bradley AM 8 X X 5 4 Maxine Brenner 2 X X 2 1 Dr Alex Byrne X X 5 5 Dina Coppel 1 X 5 2 Peter Crossing X 5 5 Susan Doyle 6 X Richard Fisher AM 9 X 1 1 Sally Herman 3 X 3 2 Samantha Meers X 5 4 Anthony O’Sullivan X 5 2 Steven Schwartz AM X 5 3 Robert Thomas AM 5 X X 5 3 Dr John Vallance 7 X X 5 3 1 1 Kim Williams 4 X 1 1 1 John Atkin and Dina Coppel were appointed on 14 August 2013. 2 Maxine Brenner resigned from the Board on 18 December 2013 and was appointed as Trustee on 24 February 2014. 3 Sally Herman resigned from the Board on 28 February 2014. 4 Kim Williams was appointed on 19 May 2014. 5 Robert Thomas was appointed as Trustee on 24 February 2014. 6 Susan Doyle was appointed as Trustee on 24 February 2014. 7 John Vallance was reappointed as Trustee on 24 February 2014. 8 Graham Bradley AM, term as trustee finished on 31 December 2013. 9 Richard Fisher AM, term as trustee finished on 31 December 2013. Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Board: -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Alex Byrne Treasurer of the Board NSW State Librarian & Chief Executive

Peter Crossing Chairman of the Board

Dated at Sydney this 5th day of August 2014


TRUSTEES' DECLARATION

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014 In the opinion of the Trustees of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation: 1. The Financial Statements and notes set out are drawn up so as to give a true and fair view of the Foundation's financial position as at 30 June 2014 and of its performance as represented by the results of its operations and its cash flows for the period ended on that date;

2. The Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and Regulation, Australian Accounting Standards and authoritative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board; 3. We are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the Financial Statements to be misleading or inaccurate; 4. At the date of this declaration, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the State

Library of New South Wales Foundation will be able to pay its debts as and when they fall due; 5. The Financial Statements give a true and fair view of the financial results of fundraising

activities for the period ended 30 June 2014; 6. The Financial Statements are properly drawn up and the associated records have been

properly kept for the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014 in accordance with the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 and Regulations where appropriate;

7. The provisions of the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 and the regulations under that Act and the conditions attached to the authority have been complied with for the period 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014; and 8. The internal controls exercised by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation are appropriate and effective in accounting for all income received and applied by the Foundation from any of its fundraising appeals. 9. The Foundation has operated in accordance with its constitution and policies of the

Trustees. This declaration is made in accordance with the resolution of the Trustees and is signed for and on behalf of the Trustees by: -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Trustee

Trustee

Dated at Sydney this 1st day of August 2014


STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014

STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 30 JUNE 2014


Statement of comprehensive income for the year ended 30 June 2014

2014 2013

Notes $’000 $’000

Expenses

Personnel service expense 2a, 11 367 343

Other operating expenses 2b 106 94

Contributions to Library Council of NSW 2c, 11 2,223 2,386

Total expenses 2,696 2,823

Revenue

Investment revenue 3a 1,107 1,384

Contributions 3b 2,567 2,911

Other revenue 3c 105 103

Total revenue 3,779 4,398

Net result 1,083 1,575

Other comprehensive income

- -

Total other comprehensive income

- -

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

1,083 1,575

The accompanying notes form part of these statements


Statement of financial position as at 30 June 2014

Notes 2014 2013

$’000 $’000

Assets

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents 4 819 981

Receivables 5 7 8

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss 6a 1,159 915

Total current assets 1,985 1,904

Non-current assets

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss 6b 13,342 12,576

Total non-current assets 13,342 12,576

Total assets 15,327 14,480

Liabilities

Current liabilities

Payables 7 133 369

Total current liabilities 133 369

Total liabilities 133 369

Net assets 15,194 14,111

Equity

Accumulated fund 15,194 14,111

Total equity 15,194 14,111



STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014


Statement of changes in equity for the year ended 30 June 2014

Accumulated

Funds Total

$’000 $’000

Balance as at 1 July 2013 14,111 14,111

Net result for the year 1,083 1,083

Other comprehensive income for the year - -

Total other comprehensive income - -

Total comprehensive income for the year 1,083 1,083

Balance at 30 June 2014 15,194 15,194

Statement of changes in equity for the year ended 30 June 2013

Accumulated

Funds Total

$’000 $’000

Balance as at 1 July 2012 12,536 12,536

Net result for the year 1,575 1,575

Other comprehensive income for the year - -

Total other comprehensive income - -

Total comprehensive income for the year 1,575 1,575

Balance at 30 June 2013 14,111 14,111



Statement of cash flows for the year ended 30 June 2014

Notes 2014 2013

$’000 $’000

Cash flows from operating activities

Payments

Personnel services expense (423) (136)

Contributions to State Library of NSW

(2,395) (337)

Suppliers (101) (123)

Total payments (2,919) (596)

Receipts

Contributions 2,567 1,846

Investment income 46 17

Other 93 93

Total receipts 2,706 1,956

Net cash provided/used by operating activities

9

(213) 1,360

Cash flows from investing activities

Proceeds from sale of financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

859 5

Purchase of financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

(808) (797)

Net cash flows from investing activities

51 (792)

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

(162) 568

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of financial year

981 413

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

4

819 981



NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014



Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2014

1. Summary of significant accounting policies a. Reporting entity

The State Library of New South Wales Foundation (the Foundation) is a

controlled entity of the Library Council of New South Wales (the Library). The Foundation, established on 26 June 1989, is a not-for-profit organisation

and has no cash generating units. The reporting entity is consolidated as part of the NSW Total State Sector Accounts. The Foundation’s Trust Deed provides for monetary support for the development of the Australian cultural heritage collections of the Library. The Foundation holds authority to fundraise CFN 14813 until 31 August 2015 under the provisions of the Charitable Fundraising Act, 1991. Throughout the notes to the accounts, activities specifically relating to fundraising are disclosed accordingly. The Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2014 have been authorised for issue by the Trustees on 1st August 2014.

b. Basis of preparation

The entity’s Financial Statements are general purpose Financial Statements which have been prepared in accordance with:

• the provisions of the Trust Deed of 26 June 1989 • applicable Australian Accounting Standards including Australian

Accounting Interpretations • the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act, 1983 and

Regulation • The requirements of the Charitable Fundraising Act, 1991.

Financial assets ‘at fair value through profit or loss’ and donated collection material are measured at fair value. Other Financial Statement items are prepared on an accrual basis and prepared in accordance with the historical cost convention.

Judgements, key assumptions and estimations that have been made by management are disclosed in the relevant notes to the Financial Statements.

Amounts in the Financial Statements are rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars and are expressed in Australian currency.

c. Statement of compliance

The financial statements and notes comply with Australian Accounting

Standards, which include Australian Accounting Interpretations.



1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

d. Insurance

The entity’s insurance activities are included with the Library’s insurance

coverage through the Treasury Managed Fund; administered by the NSW Self Insurance Corporation. The expense (premium) is determined by the fund manager based on past claim experience.

e. Accounting for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except that:

i. the amount of GST incurred by the Foundation as a purchaser that is

not recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of an asset or as part of an item of expense; and

ii. receivables and payables are stated with the amount of GST included;

The net amount of GST recoverable from/payable to the Australian Taxation Office is included as a current asset in the Statement of Financial Position.

Cash flows are included in the cash flow statement on a gross basis. However, the GST components of cash flows arising from investing and financing activities which is recoverable from, or payable to, the Australian Taxation Office are classified as operating cash flows.

f. Revenue Recognition

Revenue is measured at the fair value of the consideration or contribution received or receivable. Additional comments regarding the accounting policies for the recognition of revenue are discussed below.

i. Contributions

Contributions, including donations, sponsorships and bequests, are

generally recognised as revenue when the Foundation obtains control over the assets comprising the contributions. Control over contributions is normally obtained upon the receipt of cash.

ii. Rendering of services

Revenue is recognised when the service is provided or by reference to

the stage of completion.







f. Revenue recognition (continued) iii. Investment revenue

Interest revenue is recognised using the effective interest method as set

out in AASB 139 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement. Imputation tax credits on investment income are recognised as revenue when the application for refund is approved by the Australian Taxation Office. Dividend revenue is recognised in accordance with AASB 118 Revenue when the right to receive the revenue is established.

g. Assets i. Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand and deposits held at call with financial institutions and NSW Treasury Corporation.

ii. Trade and other receivables

Trade and other receivables are non derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active market. These assets are recognised initially at fair value, usually based on the transaction cost or face value. Subsequent measurement is at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less an allowance for any impairment of receivables. Any changes are accounted for in the Statement of Comprehensive Income when impaired, derecognised or through the amortisation process. Short term receivables with no stated interest rate are measured at the original invoice value where the effect of discounting is immaterial.

iii. Investments

i. Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss Investments are initially recognised at fair value and, in the case of

investments not at fair value through profit or loss, transaction costs. The Foundation determines the classification of its financial assets after initial recognition and, when allowed and appropriate, re-evaluates this at each financial year end.

The Foundation subsequently measures investments designated upon initial recognition ‘at fair value through profit or loss’ at fair value. The Foundation’s medium term investments are held with NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) in accordance with the provisions of the Public Authorities (Financial Arrangements) Act of 1987.




g. Assets (continued) iii. Investments (continued)

ii. Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss (continued)

TCorp’s Hour-Glass Investment Facilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss using the second leg of the fair value option i.e. these financial assets are managed and their performance is evaluated on a fair value basis, in accordance with a documented risk management strategy, and information about these assets is provided internally on that basis to the Foundation Trustees and the Library’s key management personnel.

The movement in the fair value of the Hour-Glass Investment Facilities

incorporates distributions received as well as unrealised movements in fair value and is reported in the line item ‘Investment revenue’.

ii. Impairment of financial assets

All financial assets, except for those measured at fair value through

profit or loss, are subject to an annual review for impairment. The Foundation’s only financial assets are valued at fair value through profit or loss, and as a result, do not require an annual review.

h. Liabilities

i. Trade and other payables

Trade and other payables represent liabilities for goods and services provided to the Foundation. These liabilities are recognised initially at fair value, usually based on the transaction cost or face value. Subsequent measurement is at amortised cost using the effective interest method. Short term payables with no stated interest rate are measured at original invoice amount where the effect of discounting is immaterial.

ii. Personnel services expense and other provisions

i. Personnel services expense

The Foundation does not employ staff nor does it have the capacity to

employ staff. The Foundation utilises the personnel services of the Library on an ongoing basis. The personnel services expense is charged by the Library according to services performed. The Foundation has no employee obligations under this arrangement.






1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued) h. Liabilities (continued) ii. Personnel services expense and other provisions (continued) ii. Other provisions

Other provisions exist when: the entity has a present legal or

constructive obligation as a result of a past event; it is probable that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the obligation; and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

i. Equity and reserves i. Accumulated Funds

The category ‘Accumulated Funds’ includes all current and prior period retained funds.

ii. Separate reserve accounts are recognised in the financial statements

only if such accounts are required by specific legislation of Australian Accounting Standards (e.g. revaluation surplus).

j. Comparative information

Comparative amounts are disclosed from year to year to ensure that consistency of presentation is maintained, except when an Australian Accounting Standard requires otherwise.

k. New accounting standards and interpretation

Certain new accounting standards and interpretations have been published that

are not mandatory for 30 June 2014 reporting periods. The following new Accounting Standards and Interpretations have not yet been adopted and are not yet effective:

• AASB 9, AASB 2010-7 and AASB 2012-6 regarding financial instruments

• AASB 10 Consolidated Financial Statements • AASB 1031 Materiality • AASB 1055 and AASB 2013-1 regarding budgetary reporting • AASB 2012-3 regarding offsetting financial assets and financial

liabilities • AASB 2013-3 Amendments to AASB 136 – Recoverable Amount

Disclosures for Non-Financial Assets • AASB 2013-6 regarding Reduced Disclosure Requirements • AASB 2013-8 regarding Australian Implementation Guidance for

Not-for-Profit Entities – Control and Structured Entities




k. New accounting standards and interpretation (continued)

• AASB 2013-9 regarding the Conceptual Framework, Materiality and Financial Instruments (Part B and C).

It is considered that these new Standards and Interpretations will have no material impact on the Financial Statements of the Foundation in future periods except AASB 9 the impact of which cannot be quantified.






2014 2013

$’000 $’000

2. Expenses

a. Personnel service expense

Library service charge 367 343

367 343

b. Other operating expenses

(i) Direct fundraising expenses

Professional fees 1 1

Printing & advertising 16 7

Catering for fundraising activities 11 6

Other expenses 3 1

Total direct fundraising expenses* 31 15

(ii) Indirect fundraising expenses

Audit of financial statements 18 15

Postage and printing 13 3

Maintenance - 15

Professional fees 8 3

Fees for service - 4

General Expenses 36 39

Total indirect fundraising expenses 75 79

Total other operating expenses 106 94

*Other operating expenses have been classified into direct and indirect fundraising expenses in accordance with the Best Practice Guidelines for Charitable Operations issued by the Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing. The relevant proportion of personnel services expense to be included as part of total direct cost of fundraising is $222 thousand (2013: $210 thousand). The total direct cost of fundraising is $253 thousand (2013: $225 thousand). c. Contributions to Library Council of NSW

Contributions for Library projects 2,223 2,386

2,223 2,386



2014 2013

$’000 $’000

3. Revenue

a. Investment revenue

Interest received 46 17

Distribution from TCorp Hour-Glass 507 653

Gains/(losses) on financial assets at fair value 554 714

1,107 1,384

b. Contributions

(i) Fundraising

Donations 1,742 909

Sponsorships & partnerships 647 640

Campaign revenue for Discover Collections project 63 150

2,452 1,699

(ii) Bequest income

Donated collection material - 1,111

Other bequests 115 101

115 1,212

The Foundation received during 2012/2013 year a collection of artworks from the bequest of Helen Selle (née McIlrath) comprised of 16 paintings. The collection which has been acquired for the Library Collection has been valued by an independent valuer at $1,111 thousand. Total contributions 2,567 2,911

c. Other revenue

Subscriptions 82 74

Miscellaneous - 8

Refunds (Franking Credit) 23 21

105 103






2014 2013

4. Cash and cash equivalents

$’000

$’000

Cash at bank and on hand 819 981

819 981

5. Receivables

Library Council of NSW 7 7

Other debtors - 1

7 8

6. Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

a. Current assets - TCorp Hour-Glass Medium Term Facility Glass Medium Term Facility

1,159 915

1,159 915

b. Non-current assets - TCorp Hour-Glass Medium Term Facility

13,342 12,576

13,342 12,576

Total financial assets at fair value through profit or loss 14,501 13,491

c. Reconciliation

Carrying amount at the beginning of the financial year

13,491 12,371

Additions 1,315 1,451

Disposals (859) (1,045)

Fair value gain/(loss) of financial assets at fair value through profit or loss 554 714

Carrying amount at the end of the financial year 14,501 13,491

The Foundation has a tape negotiation authority of $2 million (2013: $2 million). This facility authorises the bank to debit the Foundation's operating account up to the above limit when processing the electronic vendor payments.



2014 2013

$’000 $’000

7. Payables

Library Council of NSW 118 349

Trade creditors - 1

Accrued Creditors 15 19

133 369

8. Restricted assets

The Foundation has assets valued at $ 11,662 thousand (2013: $11,169 thousand) received from bequests and contributions with special conditions in the documents. These assets have been invested in TCorp Hour-Glass Investment facilities and the revenue from the investment is being used to fund relevant activities and projects in line with the conditions imposed.

9. Reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities to net result

Net cash provided by/used by operating activities (213) 1,360

Gain/(Loss) on investments 1,061 328

Increase/(Decrease) in receivables (1) (1)

(Increase)/Decrease in payables 236 (112)

Net result 1,083 1,575

10. Financial instruments and risk management

The Foundation’s principal financial instruments, which are identified below, arise directly from the Foundation’s operations or are required to finance the Foundation’s operations. The Foundation does not enter into or trade financial instruments, including derivative financial instruments, for speculative purposes. The Foundation’s primary investments are placed with NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp). The Foundation’s main risks arising from financial instruments are outlined below together with the Foundation’s policies for measuring and managing risk. Further qualitative and quantitative disclosures are included throughout these financial statements.






10. Financial instruments and risk management (continued)

The State Librarian & Chief Executive, Library Council and Audit & Risk Committee have overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk management and review and agree policies for managing each of these risks. Risk management policies are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the entity through formalised treasury risk management policies to set risk limits and controls, and to monitor risks. Compliance with policies is reviewed by the State Librarian & Chief Executive, Library Council and Audit & Risk Committee on a continuous basis.

a. Financial instruments categories

Carrying Amount Financial

Instrument Categories

Note Category 2014 $’000

2013 $’000

Cash and cash equivalents 4 N/A 819 981

Receivables 1 5 Loans and receivables (at amortised cost) 7 7

Financial assets at fair value** 6

At fair value through profit or loss 14,501 13,491

Payables 2 7 Financial liabilities

measured at amortised cost 156 369

1 Excludes statutory receivables as these items are not within scope of AASB 7. 2 Excludes statutory payables as these items are not within scope of AASB 7. ** The average rate of return (excluding unrealised gains) for financial assets at fair value held in the TCorp Hour-Glass Investment Facility for the 2014 year was 3.464% (2013: 4.893%).

b. Credit risk

Credit risk arises where there is the possibility of the entity’s debtors defaulting on their contractual obligations, resulting in a financial loss to the entity. Credit risk can also arise from the financial assets of the entity, including cash, receivables, Hour Glass investment facilities and authority deposits. The entity’s maximum exposure to credit risk is represented by the carrying amounts of the financial assets included in the Statement of Financial Position. Credit risk associated with the Foundation’s financial assets is regarded as minimal as the counterparty of the entity’s main financial assets is NSW Treasury Corporation. The risk of default is minimised as the entity is subject to effective performance management and monitoring by the NSW Government.




b. Credit risk (continued) Cash

Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances within the NSW Treasury Banking System. Interest is earned on daily at call balances at the monthly average NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) 11am unofficial cash rate, adjusted for a management fee to NSW Treasury and Westpac Banking Corporation daily balances. The TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility is discussed in paragraph (d)below.

Receivables There are no financial assets that are past due or impaired as at 30 June 2014.

Authority Deposits

The Foundation places funds on deposit with TCorp, which has been rated ‘AAA’ by Standard and Poor’s. These deposits are similar to money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed term deposits, the interest rate payable by TCorp is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest rate payable on at call deposits can vary. During 2013/2014, the Foundation did not have term deposits or deposit at call.

c. Liquidity risk Liquidity risk is the risk that the entity will not be able to meet its payment obligations when they fall due. The entity continually manages this risk through monitoring its cash flows and maintaining sufficient cash and cash equivalents to meet projected outgoings. The entity’s exposure to liquidity risk is considered insignificant based on the data from prior periods and the current assessment of risk.

The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services received, whether or not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set out in NSW TC 11/12. For small business suppliers, where terms are not specified, payment is made not later than 30 days from date of receipt of a correctly rendered invoice. For other suppliers, if trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the month following the month in which an invoice or a statement is received. For small business suppliers, where payment is not made within the specified time period, simple interest must be paid automatically unless an existing contract specifies otherwise. For payments to other suppliers, the Head of an authority (or a person appointed by the Head of an authority) may automatically pay the supplier simple interest. The rate of interest applicable during the year was 10.63% (2013: 12.22%).






10. Financial instruments and risk management (continued) c. Liquidity risk

The table below summarises the maturity profile of the entity’s financial liabilities together with the interest rate exposure.

2014 $’000

Interest Rate Exposure Maturity Dates

Nominal Amount

Fixed Interest Rate

Variable Interest Rate

Non-Interest Bearing

< 1 Year

1-5 Years

> 5 Years

Financial Liabilities

Payables 156 156 156

2013 $’000

Interest Rate Exposure Maturity Dates

Nominal Amount

Fixed Interest Rate

Variable Interest Rate

Non-Interest Bearing

< 1 Year

1-5 Years

> 5 Years

Financial Liabilities

Payables 369 369 369

13.



10. Fi10. Financial instruments and risk management (continued)

d. Market risk

Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market prices. The entity’s exposure to market risk is primarily through other price risks associated with the movement in the unit price of TCorp’s Hour-Glass investment facilities. The entity has no borrowings and does not enter into commodity contracts. The entity's exposure to interest rate risk is set out below.

Interest risk

2013

Carrying Amount

-1% -1% 1% 1% Profit Equity Profit Equity

$’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 981 (10) (10) 10 10

Receivables 7 - - - - Financial assets at fair value 13,491 (135) (135) 135 135

Financial liabilities

Payables 369 - - - -

2014 Carrying Amount

-1% -1% 1% 1%

Profit Equity Profit Equity $’000 $’000 $’000 $000 $’000

Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 819 (8) (8) 8 8

Receivables 7 - - - - Financial assets at fair value 14,501 (145) (145) 145 145

Financial liabilities

Payables 156 - - - -






10. Financial instruments and risk management (continued) d. Market risk (continued) Other price risk – TCorp Hour-Glass Facilities The entity is exposed to price risk primarily through its investment in the TCorp Hour-

Glass investment facilities, which are held for strategic rather than trading purposes. The entity has no direct equity investments. The entity holds units in the following Hour-Glass investment trusts.

The unit price of each facility is equal to the total fair value of the net assets held by the facility divided by the number of units on issue for that facility. Unit prices are calculated and published daily.

NSW TCorp is trustee for each of the above facilities and is required to act in the best

interest of the unit holders and to administer the trusts in accordance with the trust deeds. As trustee, TCorp has appointed external managers to manage the performance and risks of each facility in accordance with a mandate agreed by the parties. However, TCorp acts as manager for part of the Cash and Strategic Cash Facilities and also manages the Australian Bond portfolio. A significant portion of the administration of the facilities is outsourced to an external custodian.

Investment in the Hour-Glass facilities limits the entity’s exposure to risk, as it allows

diversification across a pool of funds with different investment horizons and a mix of investments.

NSW TCorp provides sensitivity analysis information for each of the Investment facilities,

using historically based volatility information collected over a ten year period, quoted at two standard deviations (i.e. 95% probability). The TCorp Hour-Glass Investment facilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss and therefore any change in unit price impacts directly on profit (rather than equity). A reasonably possible change is based on the percentage change in unit price (as advised by TCorp) multiplied by the redemption value as at 30 June each year for each facility (balance from Hour-Glass statement).

Facility Investment

Sectors Investment

Horizon 2014 2013 $’000 $’000

Cash facility Cash, money market instruments Up to 1.5 years - -

Medium-term growth facility

Cash, money market instruments, Australian bonds, listed property, Australian and international shares 3 years to 7 years 14,501 13,491




d. Market risk (continued) Other price risk – TCorp Hour-Glass Facilities

Facility Change in unit price

Impact on profit/loss

2014 2013 $’000 $’000

Hour-Glass Investment – Cash facility +/-1% - - Hour-Glass Investment - Medium-term growth facility +/-6% 870/(870) 809/(809)

e. Fair value compared to carrying amount Financial instruments are generally recognised at cost, with the exception of the

TCorp Hour-Glass facilities, which are measured at fair value. The value of the Hour-Glass Investments is based on the entity’s share of the value of the underlying assets of the facility, based on the market value. All of the Hour-Glass facilities are valued using ‘redemption’ pricing.

The amortised cost of financial instruments recognised in the statement of financial

position approximates the fair value, because of the short-term nature of financial assets.

f. Fair value recognised in the statement of financial position The entity uses the following hierarchy for disclosing the fair value of financial instruments by valuation technique:

• Level 1 – Derived from quoted prices in active markets for identical assets/liabilities.

• Level 2 – Derived from inputs other than quoted prices that are observable directly or indirectly.

• Level 3 – Derived from valuation techniques that include inputs for the asset/liability not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).

Consolidated/ Parent Entity Financial assets at fair value

Level 1 $’000

Level 2 $’000

Level 3 $’000

2014 Total $’000

TCorp Hour-Glass Investment Facility

14,501 14,501

Total

14,501 14,501 (The table above includes only financial assets, as no financial liabilities were measured at fair value in the statement of financial position.) There were no transfers between level 1 and 2 during the period ended 30 June 2014.)



End of audited financial statements




11. Related parties Transactions with related parties (Library Council of NSW) of $ 2,590 thousand

(2013: $2,729 thousand) represent the contributions of $2,223 thousand (2013: $2,386 thousand) and personnel services expense of $367 thousand (2013:

$343 thousand) to the Library Council of NSW. At balance date, the entity has a receivable of $7 thousand (2013: $7 thousand) and a payable of $118 thousand (2013: $349 thousand) with related parties.

12. Contingent assets and liabilities The Foundation has no material contingent assets or contingent liabilities as at 30 June 2014 (2013: Nil). 13. Commitments The Foundation's commitments as at 30 June 2014 are nil (2013: Nil). 14. After balance date events

The Foundation has not identified any event or transaction that is sufficiently material to require adjustment or disclosure in the Financial Statements.

15. Disclosure under Charitable Fundraising Act 1991

Fundraising appeals conducted by the Foundation during the year included the campaign for the website digitisation development and other projects. The Foundation has authority to act as a fundraising entity under the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991. Comparisons of certain monetary figures and percentages in accordance with the requirements of the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 are set out below: 2014 2013

$’000 $’000

Result of fundraising appeals

Aggregate gross income from fundraising (note 3b (i)) 2,452 1,699

Less total direct cost of fundraising (note 2a &2b (i)) (253) (225)

Net surplus from fundraising 2,199 1,474



15. Disclosure under Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 (continued)

2014 2013 Total costs of fundraising/aggregate gross income from fundraising 253/2,452 10% 225/1,699 13% Net surplus from fundraising/aggregate gross income from fundraising 2,199/2,452 90% 1,474/1,699 87%

Total cost of services provided/total expenditure 253/2,696 9% 225/2,823 8% Total costs of services provided/total gross income received 253/3,779 7% 225/4,398 5%

There is no information of a material matter or occurrence to report. Fundraising income includes donations, sponsorships and funds raised for Discover Collections digitisation. Where funding is received for specific projects, these projects may not be completed by the end of the year in which the funds are received. A balance of unspent funds of $2,258 thousand for projects not completed by 30th June 2014 is represented by cash, cash equivalents and TCorp Hour-Glass investment facilities.

End of audited financial statements

Documents

State Library of NSW Foundation - 2013-14 Annual Report · Dina Coppel, Sally Herman, Samantha Meers, Tony O’Sullivan, Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz, Rob Thomas AM, Kim Williams