Ballot Archive

09 Dec 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Anthony Tedeschi

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA (Rutgers), MA (University of Otago), MLS(Indiana University), 2005 Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Profession or occupation

Curator Rare Books and Fine Printing, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Grounds for election

Over his career of nearly 20 years, Anthony Tedeschi has worked for a number of rare books and research libraries in the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand, including the Lilly Library, Indiana University; the Heritage Collections, Dunedin Public Libraries; and the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. Anthony has published and curated exhibitions on various book-related subjects. He is a council member of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; is the current regional liaison for New Zealand with the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing; is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Royal Society of New Zealand; is a corresponding committee member for the Rare Books and Special Collections section under the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; and a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow.

Signatories

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