BSANZ member profile

I’m the Library & Archives Team Leader at Moore College in Newtown, NSW. Moore College is the theological college of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, founded in 1856. I started working at Moore while completing my Masters in Librarianship. I’ve been working there since 2012, first as a librarian, then gaining an additional qualification in archives & records management. As well as coordinating the activities of the Library team, my role includes looking after the cataloguing, conservation and curation of the Rare Book & Archive collections. The College’s new Library & administration building, opened in 2017, includes museum-quality display cases, so I’ve been able to curate quite a few small exhibitions. The collections I look after range from incunabula to digital, so I’m yet to develop a specialty! I’m very interested in personal manuscript collections and the provenance & personal ownership of books, as they reveal so much about an individual. The main reason I joined BSANZ was to keep up with developments in the rare book world, and take advantage of any learning opportunities.

Contact: erin.mollenhauer@moore.edu.au; Twitter: @MollenhauerErin; or via the library website: https://library.moore.edu.au. 

Originally published in Broadsheet, No. 114, October 2020.