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JkHNC CAMCRQH BATV 30 Colombo Street, Victori* Park Librarian will give evidence ea follows: CURRICULUM VITAE 1. l hold the following academic qualifications: Bachelor of Science Diploma of Librarienship University of Tasmania 1965 Tasmanian College of Advanced Education 1972. T-i-_A*i- *<**** 2. My relevant experience is as follows: 1972-1974 1975-1976 1976-1981 1981-1982 1963-1986 1987-date Tasmanian College of Advanced Education Library - Cataloguer university of Tasmania Library - Cataloguer University of Tasmania Library Reference Librarian Biomedical West Australian Institute of Technology Library - Reference Librarian University of Tasmania Library Librarian Biomedical University of Western Medical Librarian. Australia Library - 20*d PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT WV-04623 3 PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT Wiio isr.i-iet *jaan eentt E&/20/U WV-04623 2 SOURCES OP XNFORMATION 3. i have been asked what sources wore available to an Australian Librarian in the period 1943 to 1959 who had bean asked during that period to advise as to information available on the effects of exposure to dust containing asbestos and on the means of controlling dust in handling asbestos. 4. The principles of library science accepted during the relevant period appear, from my reading of library materials / available during that period, to be basically the same as those practised today. __________________________ This appears, for example, from course notes for the training programme for the public library of N.S.w. by j.w. Metcalfe. (Metcalfe, J.W.. A General Introduction to Library Practice 2nd Ed Sydney, Public Library of NSW, 1943, reprinted 1946 end the revised edition. 1955) It also appear* from the notes for the training programme m Victoria by F,j. Perry (Perry F.J. Advanced Reference Work Melbourne Public Library Training School 1950). Further if- from Australian institute of Librarians exam papers for the years 1944-1949 which 1 have perused. ro '<4 fcst-w hptj AM-wan -*oin*d 3- 5. The notes (Metcalfe p, 304 end Perry 194$ p. 3) refer to a standard test vis Madge l.G guide to Reference gqgkt 6th Edition Chicago A1A 1936. i have used subsequent editions in my training end work and Mudge ie still today end everyday library tool. Mudge provides an authoritative guide to reference works in each subject field. Subject fields included in the 6th edition ere medicine, hygiene, industrial arts, and chemistry. Works within these fields include Index Medicos <p.J$7>, U.S. Surgeon General's Offine Today ratalnrrne (p.iQft), I.i.O. Occupation end Health*. Encyclopedia of Hygiene, Pathology and Social welfare <p.l$9) end Induetrial Arts index (p.20I). 6. Metcalfe alee provides guidanse on the librory indoscc to which reference could have been made. in the special libraries section of theee notes, the Induetrial Arte index. Engineering Index and Chemical Abstracts are described. Perry also refers to the indexes in wee at the time. W'd SSV-!8? Wh "*01034 * -5 - IBEXES 10. The medical indexes available then were - {&) Qu&rterly Cumulative Index Kedicus (b2) Current list of medical literature <b) Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General*e Office, United States Army, 1936 (b2) Armed Forces Medical Library catalogue 1950-1954, 1955 (a) fiullQtin of Hygiene (d) Pneumoconiosis abstracts 1953-1959 () Abstract of the Literature of Industrial Hygiene. The engineering indexes available then were - {a5 Industrial Arts Index and Applied Science 5 Technology Index (&) Engineering Index A chemistry index available then use Chemical Abstracts. (a) Medical Indexes 11, Quarterly Cumulative index Medimm This is a series available on subscription, issued in parts with a bound volume every six months. It was prepared by the Ameiluaji rcaCUcdl AyauuiaUm. it Indexed articles m S8*d SSJ~*8 W*1 AifcftSn TeOlQa* ZS'Zt &/2&/n -4 7. In A Handbook of Wadleal Library Practice (19*3) the eeotion on bibliography describee the general works Quarterly Cummulatlve index Medloue (p.38S>, tha Index Catalogue of the Surgeon General's office <p.3Si) and in the section on public health (p.426-7) the Bulletin of Hygiene, Inqineerinc Index and Induetrial Arts Index (p.427). In tha section on encyclopaedias the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice 1936-39 ia described In the general section <p,5l7) and Occupation and Health; Encyclopedia of Hygiene Pathology end Social welfare in the section on public health and preventive medicine (p.536J. Chemical Abstracts appear at p446. 8. Hiving been guided io these sources by the professional literature the librarian could have checked through the encyclopedias and dictionaries to obtain a summary of the topic and the terminology In use. In accordance with good library practice various headings in tha indexes should have been checked for relevant articles. 9. Metcalf describes the need to use the collections of more than one library in order to provide a comprehensive search and ultimately to find tha documents identified in searching <Metcalfe 1946 p.223-4; Metcalfs 1955 p. 137; Perry 1950 P*4> Handbook of Medical Library Practice p.371), Thie proposition ts consistent with good library practice today. 93 `d cssi-ik: yrn Ttousw zz-'tT zesze/n 6- medical Journal#, predominantly those in the English language and with a United State bias. It indexed major medical journals world-wide. .The article# wer# indexed under the name of tho author and under appropriate subject headings such as pneumoconiosis. It ceased publication in 1956. Current List of Medical Literature This provided a monthly list of the content* of medical journals. It was arranged by the title of the journal with author and subject Indexes. Cumulated indexes were provided every six months. 12. Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, 1936 - Thi**--la*-# publication in book form o the Library'a catalogue for the period 1919-1936. it lists both book# and journal articles under author and subject headings. it indexes both English and foreign language publications. 33. Bulletin of Hygiene way produced by the Bureau of Hygiene end Tropical Diseases, London, end started in 1926. The bulletin was iM'ti SSST-1BE WD A*an 101034 f 52*I 6/80/U -7 issued monthly. It covered both English end foreign language articles. h oubetentiai extract we? provided for each article so that the content of foreign language articles was readily available. 14. Pneumoconiosis Abstracts Vols. 1-3, 1956-59 Thie ia a collection of all the abstracts of paper* on pneumoconiosis appearing in the Bulletin of Hygiene from 1526 until 2955. 1$, AhnrAff nf the Literature of Industrial This was produced aa a regular supplement to the Journal of Industrial irvoiene and Toxicology. Tho journal woo published from 1919 to 1949 by the Harvard university School of Public Health. It changed its name to Archives of industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine fro 1950. {it later still became the American Medical Association's Archives of' Ijithiytrrtui Health.--)------ the abstract abstracted articles in both English and foreign languages on relevant subjects m other journals. SB'd ESSI-I8C W lytftfl n TtOi<>34 2?T SS/2&/1T -6 (b) Engineering Indexes 16, InduetrialArtetndex This was produced in New York by a private publisher, H W Wilson & Co. It was issued monthly with annual bound volumes starting in 1913. It indexed article* in major English language journals dealing with subjects relevant to industry, science and technology. It later became Applied Soienos and Technology Index. 17. Engineering Index This was produced in New York and started in 1906. it is produced by Engineering index Ino. Zt indexes engineering journals in English and foreign languages and covers mechanical engineering, raining and metallurgy. tc) Chemical index 2 8. ChemicelAbstraota This has been published by the American Chemical Society since 1907 and was issued fortnightly. it provides e comprehensive world coverage f the literature of chemistry end r)A4*d subject, it is tho oeoentiol bibliography fd the literature of chemistry. ea*d J~T8 mn Attttfln ~kOlQB4 '% ss/se/n -9 - (d) Extraota from Indexes 19. In the following appendices ere eopiee of extracts from the indexes in which are marked references to relevant literature: Appendix 1 Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus and Current List of Medical Literature 2 Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General*e Office, United States Amy, 1936 .and Armed Forces Library catalogue 19S0-54 3 Bulletin of Hygiene 4 Abstract of the Literature of Industrial Hygiene 5 Industrial Arts Index 6 Engineering Index 7 Chemical Abatracta 0J '6 E&T~i9E urn Awaan "fcosoau 2?tT cs/eb/tt UABZ/9Z 13;25 f-ED!02L UBRftRY LUA 381-1553 P-01 -lo se, Ti*s extracts are by no naans comprehensive in that i have nnt pndeevoured to oov*o* all relevant literature in eaen index. Moat of the extracts -I have made relate to the decade 1945-1958. OTHER SOURCES 21, Apart from recourse to indexes the librarian would consult encyclopedias and dictionaries..................... -- 22. The only aedicel encyclopedia available in Australia in' the relevant period wae The British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice. An extract fro the firet edition 1937 end an attract from the second edlliwu volume ten issued m 1950 and reprinted in 1955 is attached es Appendix 3. 23. Industrial health and safety was covered by the encyclopedia produced by the International Labour Organization in 1930: occupation and Health: Encyclopedia of Hyciane, Pathology and Social Welfare. A supplement issued in 1938 specifically covered the problem* with asbestos. This encyclopedia wae available in Sydney and Melbourne but the set in Adelaide was incomplete. 21/02/93 13^26 MSDICPi. LIBRARY OR 3B1-1553 P-0? - II - AVAILABILITY OF SOURCES {a) Catalogues of Libraries Holdings 24. Sn order to determine m what llljxa4i.ee the indexes, trie journal2 and texts Identified in the indexes were livid, Uu* librarian could have consulted publications Hating the holding of subscribing libraries or could have contacted aajor libraries. There were a number of such catalogued prior to and during the relevant period. 25. One such Catalogue was the catalogue of the Scientific and ' Technical Periodical9 in Australian itbrariea compiled by E 8 Pitt published in 1930. The Suppliant* to Pitt flrat edition were issued in 2934 and 1937. Libraries contributed oerds indicating their holding of journal titles to a card file maintained by the CSIRO in Halbourne. As Pitt's catalogue became out of date libraries could ascertain tha location of titles by consulting the CSIRO .libraryeventually s new edition of Pitts catalogue was published by the CSIRO in book form in 1951 entitled Union Catalogue of frhe Scientific and Technical Periodicals in the Libraries of Australia. The 1951 edition nf Pitt's catalogue contained library holdings nf fnr periodical* irot publicised prior to 1st January 1946. Library holding far new titles published after 1946 were listed separately in a supplement published in 1954. li/BS^93 3.3;S6 fEDICAL UBRfWV LfUA 3B1-1S53 P.03 - 12 - Xn the preface to the 1951 iwHt.lrm nf Pitt's catalogue the editor Indicates the criteria on which certain library holdings were omitted. The catalogue exhaustive. whilst comprehensive was therefore not 26. Union list of periodicals, a list of periodicals received in libraries of the metropolitan area; Perth Library Boerd of WA and the Libraries Association of Australia (WA Branch) 1956. This list indicates the journals available in libraries in Perth at that time. 27. Some library catalogues were also available in bock form such as the Library Catalogue -1550 -for the 3MA library in Cydnay. This catalogue w<julim umny of the works iistec in the oioi logragists. 28. m lieu of lending the original or typing the article photoprinte or photostate could be obtained from a few raninr libraries (see Metcalfe 1944 p,305? Metcalfe 1955 p. 137; Pill 1951 Piwiocts p x) within Australia. U/02/S3 13:26 rtEDICft- LIBRARY UUft 391-1553 P-ft4 - 13 - 29. Items Identified in the search of the literature which were not available in Australis could have been obtained from Britain or the USA. Union lists existed for these countries and thfl librarian could reguaet aasietanoo directly from the British Library, the Library of Congress or the National Library of Medicine (previously Surgeon-General's Library). Material was also available from overasas on microfilm or photostat st thia time (see Handbook of Medical Library Practice p.245; Metcalfe 1944 p.305? Metcalfe 1955 p. 13?j Pitt 1951 Preface p x). (b) Availability of Indexes 30. 1 obtained library holdings of indexes according to the Pitt's catalogue 1930 and 1951. I obtained library holdings of encyclopedias in the National Union Catalogue of Monographs, a card catalogue of book heid-by- contributing libraries and maintained at the National Library of Australis. In addition I have contacted the State and University Libraries in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to confirm they did hold the indexes in the relevant period. The holdings are set out in appendix 9A. The encyclopedia holdings are set out in Appendix 98. 11^02^93 13; 27 j-EDICft- LIBRARY UUfi 3CS-15S3 P.85 - Id - 31. a Librarian working in Sydney and Melbourne In the period 2943 - 1060 aheuld have able to compile-a"reaeonbiy extensive bibliography using es a minimum the indexae recommended in the texts and the resources of the University end State Libraries. Prior to 1057 there was no medical school in wa end many medical students from idA trained in Adelaide. During the period 1943 - 2959 e Librarian working in Adelaide should also have been able to compile a reasonably extensive bibliography using as a minimum the resources of the University and State Libraries. in Perth during the relevant period a Librarian using the resources of the University, State, British Medical Association and Public Health Libraries would have been able to compile a bibliography which was virtually as comprehensive as those which could have been prepared in Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide. (c) Aveilability of Journals, Texts and other materials 32. Specifically 1 have been asked to advise on the availability in Australia during the period 1943 - 32 Dec *59 on the following materials -- listed--in- exhibit 51 {reproduced in exhibit 10A) and the list which is hereto as appendix 2OB. \ 1WWP7 11.1ft TRt-ITn p ft* - IS - 33* I have consulted Union Catalogue of the Scientific and VasftmLt'.ft'i _ TWInrtWitr m tho iiaagiea of wapiieo By S.&. Pitt 2nd Ed. CSZRO, ' 1951 and its appendix for irmrniln nrihlfnliei i. 1091 ..... 1946 and 1954. 2 have also consulted Scientific Seriale in Australian libraries 1976 and Serials in Australian blbr&xlm** Soclex Sciencee and Humanities 1973 for publications after 2954 and non-scientific publications which were excluded from Pitt's catalogues, ror Journals dated 1955 and after X have also checked the Union Hat of periodicals Perth 1956. 34- To find the availability of books I have consultad the National Union Catalogue of Monographs, a card catalogue of books held by contributing libraries and maintained at the national library of Australia, I consulted the mioroflint version covering the period to 1974- 36- AyHa-`JiA. 11a end iiu identity the libraries in which the s*ltrnl weissiaxs were held. 36* In addition t9 library holdings journals wore available far private subscription. Members of th gritifih Marti rM sueoeietion in AuotraHa received the British Medical Journal es pert of their membership. 11/02/93 13 s 28 MEDICAL LIBSWRY 391-1553 P.07 - 16 - in 1935 and 1940 there were approximately 5,500 registered doctors listed in the Medical Directory of Australia end by 1948 there were approximately 8,000. In each of those years the majority of those listed indicated membership 0f the M British Medical Association. JG221(48)DC