Warwick Cathro | |
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Born | Newtown, New South Wales | 8 March 1948
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Librarian |
Academic background | |
Education | Newington College |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
Academic work | |
Institutions | National Library of Australia |
Notable works | Trove |
Warwick Scott Cathro (born 8 March 1948) was pivotal in the development of Trove, [1] an Australian online library database aggregator hosted by the National Library of Australia. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) says of him;"His extraordinary work in developing and implementing standards;advancing innovative solutions;championing national sectoral infrastructure and encouraging communication and debate in the profession,place Warwick Cathro among the most important Australian library and information practitioners of our time." [2]
Cathro was born in Newtown,New South Wales and attended Newington College (1957-1964) commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House. [3] In 1959,he was the Dux of Wyvern and in 1964 he was Dux of the College and received the Halse Rogers and Schofield Prizes. [4] Following school,he commenced study at the University of Sydney and in 1969 graduated as a Bachelor of Science and was awarded his PhD in physical chemistry in 1975. [5]
Cathro joined the staff of the National Library of Australia in January 1978 and on his retirement in 2011 held the position of Assistant Director-General,Resource Sharing and Innovation. During that time,Cathro played a leading role in the Library's delivery of innovative network services to the Australian library community including the Australian Bibliographic Network,Australian National Bibliographic Database,and Libraries Australia. Cathro is considered the founder of Trove,which is the National Library's discovery service and links Australians to resources available online,and in Australian libraries,cultural institutions and research collections. It highlights material collected by 1100 Australian institutions and links to more than 120,000,000 items,including full-text books,journal and newspaper articles,images,music,sound,video,maps,websites,letters,archives,and biographies of prominent Australians. In 2010,the site received 3 million visits and now boasts an average of 25,000 unique visitors a day. Visitors to the site assist in correcting the machine-readable indexed text in the full-text newspaper section. [6]
In 1997,Cathro was one of the primary organizers of the fourth Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's workshop which was hosted by the National Library in Canberra. [7]
Cathro was awarded the H.C.L. Anderson Award by ALIA in 2012 for his contribution to the development of Trove,the discovery service and national newspaper digitisation project. [8] [9] Other awards include the ALIA Library Manager of the Year (1991) [10] and the Victorian Association for Library Automation R.D. Williamson Award (1993).
Newington College is a multi-campus independent Uniting Church single-sex and co-educational early learning,primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys,located in Stanmore,an inner-western suburb of Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. Established in 1863 at Newington House,Silverwater,the college celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2013. The college is open to boys of all faiths and denominations. Newington has been governed by an Act of Parliament since 1922.
The Honourable Robert James Webster is an Australian company director and grazier and a former New South Wales parliamentarian.
Warwick Tennant Moss is an Australian actor,television personality and presenter and dramatist and playwright as well as New South Wales Premier's Literary Award winning writer for the stage.
Sir Carleton Kemp Allen was an Australian-born professor and Warden of Rhodes House,University of Oxford. Entry by his successor as Warden of Rhodes House,E.T. Williams,in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Wyvern House is one of the two independent Uniting Church single-sex primary day schools for boys of Newington College,that is located at 115 Cambridge Street,Stanmore,an Inner West suburb of Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. The other primary school is located at Lindfield,on Sydney's North Shore. Both schools are commonly called preparatory schools.
Colonel Alfred William Warden VD was a prominent Australian soldier,military engineer and architect.
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Lindsay Alexander Dey CBE was an Australian paediatric physician who was the president of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children's Board of Management from 1946 until 1959.
Harry Wolstenholme was an Australian lawyer and ornithologist.
Edwin Cuthbert Hall (1874–1953) was an Australian physician and philanthropist who through a bequest funded the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology within the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. In 1973,the Hall Bequest was the second largest donation to the University after the Power Bequest.
George Percy Harker was an Australian scientist and inventor. He spent his professional career alternating between teaching and chemical research. Harker published over a dozen research articles in the field of chemistry and was a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. He was the inventor of a patented system of extinguishing fires at sea and fumigation.
Born Walter Bryan Ward,Bryan Ward was an Australian clergyman active in the mid-20th century with the Anglican Church of Australia. He served as a Royal Australian Air Force Chaplain during World War II.
John James Veevers was an Australian professor of geology and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Harold Arthur Kinross Hunt was an Australian educationist who was Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Melbourne and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Douglas Squire Irving Burrows CBE (Civil) MBE (Military) was an Australian stock broker,businessman and philanthropist who from 1970 until his death was President of the Board Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. With Lorimer Dods and John Fulton he co-founded the Children's Medical Research Foundation of which from 1970 he became the Chairman of the Management Committee.
Peter John Holder is an Australian magazine publisher,journalist and non-fiction writer. In January 2013,Bauer Media Group appointed him as publisher of its joint venture titles with Hearst Magazines International. The group's magazines include Harper's Bazaar and Elle. He left Bauer Media in 2014 after 11 years employment. Holder was appointed as the acting managing director of the Daily Mail Australia in February 2015. By the May of that year he became permanent managing director of the Mail in Australia. He is an Industry Member of the Australian Press Council.
Richard Henry Thompson M.L.C. was an Australian politician and Methodist Lay Preacher.
Jean Conochie was also known as Jean Athola Conochie. She was honoured by The Library Association of Australia with the H.C.L. Anderson Award in 1985 for outstanding service to librarianship in Australia.
James Gordon Young McKern was an Australian mining engineer,geologist and petrologist who became an executive with the petroleum company Mobil. In retirement he was a pioneer of the nature conservation movement in Australia. His papers are held by the J S Battye Library in Perth,Western Australia and his education medals are held by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney,New South Wales.