Cameron, Margaret Alison (1937 - 2023)

Summary

Margaret Cameron was foundation University Librarian at Deakin University from 1977 to 1996, after a career in public and Australian university libraries, and Pro Vice-Chancellor 1986-1990. She was a keen ornithologist, an expert at bird identification in the field and a skilled bander and counter of birds. As President of the Royal Australasian Ornithological Union she steered the Union from being a volunteer organisation to one staffed by professionals. Cameron also took an active role in the Victorian Wader Study Group and with BATH (Birders Aiding the Handbook). Her broader interest in natural history saw her serve as a Member and Chair of several government bodies, including Museum Victoria, the Research Advisory Committee of the Victorian Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, and the Advisory Committee of the Australian Biological Resources Study.

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Chronology

1959 - 1962

Career position - Librarian at the Public Library of Queensland

1962 - 1963

Career position - Librarian, Australian Reference Library in New York, USA

1964 - 1965

Career position - Thatcher Librarian, 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

1980 - 1993

Career position - Chair, Library Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithological Union

1983 - 1986

Career position - Member of Council, Royal Australasian Ornithological Union

1984 - 1987

Career position - Member, Advisory Committee, Australian Biological Resources Study

1986 - ?

Career position - Chair, Research Advisory Committee, Victorian Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands

1986 - 1989

Career position - President, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

1986 - 1990

Career position - Pro Vice-Chancellor at Deakin University, Victoria

1987

Career position - Fellow, Library Association of Australia

1987 - 1991

Career position - Chair of the Australian Biological Resources Study Advisory Committee

1987 - 1998

Career position - Member of Council, Museum of Victoria

1990

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of service to library services, education and to ornithology

1993

Career position - Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union

1996

Life event - Retired

1997 - 2011

Award - Fellow, Birds Australia

1998 - 2000s

Career position - Member of Council, Museum Victoria

1999

Award - Honorary Doctorate, Deakin University

1999

Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

2012 - 2023

Award - Fellow, BirdLife Australia

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

Journal Articles

• Anon, 'RAOU Fellow: Citation - Margaret Alison Cameron AM, FLAA', Emu, 93 (4) (1993), 229. https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9930299. Details
• Olsen, Penny and Newman, Mike, ' Vale Prof Margaret Cameron AM (1937 - 2023)', Emu: austral ornithology, 123 (4) (2023), 370-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2023.2273027. 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