Dr John Dargavel. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
Australia's wood collections are a nation's history told in timber, but how do you preserve them for future generations? MARTYN PEARCE reports. A library is something you would expect to find in a university, but this one will still surprise you. As you walk into the small room you notice shelves of dusty volumes, lined up and packed in. Like many university libraries, the shelves' contents are aged, well used and with a hint of antiquity. The art deco lettering on the spine of each volume hints at the glory days of the 1930s and the care and attention that was paid to them when they were first placed on shelves. These volumes speak of history, but not with words or images of days gone by. The history they tell is told in grain, shards and splinters - of pioneers, of conservation and investigation.
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