Browse the Memory Board : page 3
- A Baillieu Living Legend Before computers the reference section and research collection was stored in the head of Patrick Singleton. Professor Ron Ridley describes one of the Baillieu's living legends.
- Charting out the Baillieu's Map collections Dorothy Prescott, map collection pioneer, tells the story of how the Baillieu's map collection came to be and of her integral role in its instigation.
- Wendy Hazchem and her Toxic Wastes Wendy Haslem entered into the eccentric world of the Baillieu under false pretences. But it has been through this world, inspired by the people who worked there, that she has ended up where she is today. One of those people, Gordon Dunlop, imagined her heading up a band called 'Wendy Hazchem and her Toxic Wastes'. Rock on Wendy!
- Secret Librarian's Business Jeff Leeuwenburg speaks about his time in the Baillieu secret service (the online services). Beginning in the maps collection, Jeff moved to the secret world of early online services where the fax machine was kept under lock and key, a CD cost $6,000, and print-outs took two weeks and came via US mail.
- Memorable Stories Chris Flegg retells some funny stories, about Baillieu's wonderful people and a Professor who took great pleasure in her being unable to find a book.
- Sleep? Oh yes. Study? I don't think so The Bailieu's sleep inducing atmosphere, not really conducive to study...
- I wish that I had John Elliot's girl... Geoff Allen recalls spying a beauty between the stacks, but alas she belonged to someone else...
- Books? What Books? For Edwin Charles Batt, as a Law student, the Baillieu meant 2 cent photocopying he never noticed any books, well at least not until he started his Arts Degree
- Baillieu stalwarts remembered - particularly Patrick Singleton Alison Crawn (now Hatfield) remembers some of the Baillieu's stalwarts, such as Patrick Singleton who received some calls from the strangest of places.
- First Impressions In 1961 Ann Sadedin was part of a VW beetle librarian convoy from the Neo-gothic State Library of South Australia to the huge modern Baillieu Library. She shares her own first impressions of the new Baillieu and her friend Valmai Hankel's memories of the Rare Books Collections.