Recent international library historiography has demonstrated the need to move away from isolated narrative accounts of individual philanthropic acts, and instead evaluate how public library development fitted into a normative social culture of philanthropy. This paper employs this paradigm to contextualise the philanthropy of William Walker to the Tasmanian Public Library (now the State Library of Tasmania) in the early twentieth century. It explores Walker's donation of Australiana in the context of Tasmanian social philanthropy and influential examples of library ...

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