Person
Cameron, Margaret Alison (1937 - )
AM
- 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
Related entries
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
- 'Cameron, Margaret (19370910-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-473409. Details
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
Rosanne Walker
Created: 28 May 1999, Last modified: 26 February 2019
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