Jan Fullerton

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Jan Fullerton
AO FAHA
CitizenshipAustralian
Alma mater University of Queensland
OccupationLibrarian
Years active1967–2010
Employer National Library of Australia
Known forPicture Australia
newspaper digitisation
Awards HCL Anderson Award (2010)

Janice Lillian Fullerton AO FAHA is an Australian librarian. She was the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia (NLA) and first internal appointment to the role. [1]

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Education and career

Fullerton was born in Queensland [2] and grew up on the Sunshine Coast at Beerwah. [1] Her secondary schooling was at Nambour High School. [3] She graduated from the University of Queensland in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts and completed a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship at the University of New South Wales in 1967. [4] She began work in the NLA's film and sound archives department in the following year. [1]

In August 1999, the Minister for the Arts, Peter McGauran, announced Fullerton's appointment as Director General of the NLA [5] and Senator Jocelyn Newman congratulated her as the first woman to head the library since its inception in 1901, following an international search. [6] During her time in the role, Fullerton led efforts to make the NLA's collections more accessible. This included digitising newspapers and launching the Picture Australia resource. [7] She also reported on the NLA's disaster preparedness. [8]

Fullerton announced her intention to retire from the Director General role in June 2010. [9] She subsequently donated her correspondence, photographs and other written materials to the NLA. [2]

Awards and recognition

In 2001 Fullerton was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. [10] She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to librarianship through the facilitation of wider community access to the collections of the National Library of Australia, the preservation of cultural heritage in digital forms, and collaboration with other collecting agencies nationally and internationally". [11] In 2006 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, acknowledging her "outstanding contribution to the role of libraries both nationally and internationally ... over the past decade, Ms Fullerton has taken the Library into the digital age in a collaborative manner that has attracted much praise". [12] The University of Queensland recognised her contribution to librarianship by awarding her a Doctor of Letters honoris causa in 2010. [4] In the same year the Australian Library and Information Association awarded her the HCL Anderson Award for her "outstanding leadership to the Australian library sector". [13]

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  3. ↑ "A conservation with Dr Jan Fullerton". Issuu: Glasshouse Country & Maleny News. 26 February 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Citation – Ms Jan Fullerton AO". UQ News. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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  6. ↑ "Fullerton appointment makes history". Parliament of Australia. 11 August 1999. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "Fullerton, Janice (Jan) Lillian". The Australian Women's Register. National Foundation for Australian Women and the University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  8. ↑ Fullerton, Jan (December 2004). "Disaster Preparedness at the National Library of Australia". Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues. 16 (3): 175–179. doi:10.1177/095574900401600307. ISSN   0955-7490. S2CID   168488677. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "Director-General Jan Fullerton to retire". National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Archived from the original on 29 September 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  10. ↑ "Victorian Honour Roll of Women" (PDF). Women's health in the South East (WHISE). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  11. ↑ "Ms Janice Lillian Fullerton". It's An Honour. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  12. ↑ "Fellows: Jan Fullerton". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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