Biographical entry Cameron, Margaret Alison (1937 - )

Summary

Margaret Alison Cameron was foundation University Librarian at Deakin University 1977-96 and Pro Vice-Chancellor 1986-90. She is a keen ornithologist, being an expert at bird identification in the field and a competent bander and counter of birds. She has taken an active role in the Victorian Wader Studies Group and with BATH (Birders Aiding the Handbook).

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Events

1959 - 1962

Career position - Librarian at the Public Library of Queensland

1962 - 1963

Career position - Librarian at the Australian Reference Library in New York, USA

1964 - 1965

Career position - Thatcher Librarian at the University of Queensland

1965 - 1969

Career position - Librarian at Flinders University of South Australia

1969 - 1977

Career position - Reader Services Librarian at Macquarie University, New South Wales

1977 - 1996

Career position - Foundation University Librarian at Deakin University, Victoria

1980 - 1987

Career position - Editor of Geelong Naturalist

1986 - 1989

Career position - President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

1986 - 1990

Career position - Pro Vice-Chancellor at Deakin University, Victoria

1987

Career position - Fellow of the Library Association of Australia

1987 - 1991

Career position - Chair of the Australian Biological Resources Study Advisory Committee

1990

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

1993

Career position - Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Cameron, Margaret', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-473409. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp. Details