Person

Cameron, Margaret Alison (1937 - )

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Born
10 September 1937
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Librarian and Ornithologist

Summary

Margaret Cameron was foundation University Librarian at Deakin University 1977-1996 and Pro Vice-Chancellor 1986-1990. 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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Chronology

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
1999
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

See also

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

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