Research Notes

Turnbull Library Record, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 1 October 1984, Page 108

Research Notes

Douglas Lilburn’s address to the first Cambridge Summer School of Music in 1946 has been published by the Endowment Trust in association with the New Zealand Composers’ Foundation under the title A Search for Tradition. The text was edited byj. M. Thomson, who also contributed an introduction, from the original manuscript in the Lilburn papers in the Library.

The Endowment Trust has agreed to a grant ofs 10,000 over three years to support the publication by the Auckland University Press of the Sir Apirana Ngata-Sir Peter Buck letters, edited by Professor Keith Sorrenson of the University of Auckland. The bulk of the original letters is held by the Turnbull. The first volume is to be issued in 1985.

The publication ofjohn Boultbee’s Journal of a Rambler, edited from the original manuscript in the Turnbull by Mrs June Starke, is to be undertaken by Oxford University Press with the aid of a subsidy of $4,000 from the Endowment Trust. Publication is planned for early 1985.

Douglas Lilburn has established a charitable trust, the Lilburn Trust, to be administered by the Board of the Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the guidance of an advisory committee. The Trust is established to foster and promote New Zealand music, for the general advancement of music and the preservation of musical archives, and in support of the interests of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Income from the Trust will not be available for distribution until 1985.

In recognition of Douglas Lilburn’s contributions to the establishment and development of the Archive of New Zealand Music he was made, on the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Archive in 1974, its Honorary Curator. This is the first honorary curatorship created by the Library.

Research grants have been made from the Research Endowment fund to John Caselberg of Dunedin for research in the Library for his book on R. A. K. Mason; to Joan Schwartz,. Photo Archivist, Public Archives of Canada, for work on the Beere collection of photographs; and to Professor Jacob Gruber to supplement his Fulbright grant.

The Chief Librarian has been appointed by the Victoria University Council to the Advisory Board of the Stout Research Centre for the Study of New Zealand Society, History and Culture.

Mrs Patricia Larby, Librarian of the Institute for Commonwealth Studies of the University of London, visited the Library in May and conducted an informal seminar for an invited audience of academics and librarians on recent developments in Australian and New Zealand studies in Britain.