W L Crowther Library
Contact
- Street address
- 91 Murray Street, Hobart 7000
- Postal address
- As above
- Phone
- (03) 6233-7474
- Fax
- (03) 6231-0927
- Heritage.Collections@central.tased.edu.au
- Website
- http://www.tased.edu.au/library/heritage/cropage.htm
- Enquiries to
- Senior Librarian (Heritage Collections)
About
- Officer in charge
- Senior Librarian (Heritage Collections)
- Hours & facilities
- Open Mon-Wed and Fri 9:30am-6:00pm, Thurs 1-9pm. General reference assistance available. Copying services include photocopying, photography, microfilming and scanning.
- Acquisition focus
- The W.L. Crowther Library was developed by Sir William Crowther and presented by him to the State Library of Tasmania in the period 1964-1981. The relatively few new acquisitions relate principally to whaling and seafaring.
- Quantity
- 40m (100% collecting)
- Major holdings
- Crowther Family: Business, Medical, Personal Papers c.1825-1980 (5m).
- Various: Logs of Whaling and Other Vessels c.1813-1910 (5m).
- Clark, Carrel Inglis: papers c.1900-1950 (2m).
- Kelly, James (Captain): Business, personal papers c.1810-1860 (1m).
- Derwent Bank/Charles Swanston: Business Records c1828-1850 (20m).
- Guides
- Voyage Summary Data for Whaling Logbooks and Journals (Unpublished).
- Records for some material are available on TALIS (Tasmanian Automated Library and Information Service) (telnet://talis.tased.edu.au).
- References
- Crowther, WELH, "Survey of logs", Royal Society of Tasmania papers and proceedings, 1971-74 (3 parts).
- Nicholson, I, Log of Logs. Aranda ACT: Roebuck 1990 and Log of Logs Volume 2. Woden ACT: Roebuck 1993.
- Sherman, S.C, Whaling Logbooks and Journals 1613-1927. New York: Garland 1986.
- Von Oppln, Caroline, "Sir William Crowther: a biographical sketch", in Tasmanian Insights: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell. Hobart: State Library of Tasmania 1992.
- See also
Last updated: 2010-10-11