Record ID:
60595796 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19270212
  • Blackburn, Victoria
Death:
  • 20140124
  • Victoria
Associated with:
  • Victoria
Fields of activity:
  • Vice President of Australian Society of Indexers
Occupations:
  • Chief Librarian, City of Moorabbin Libraries
Notes:
  • John Edgar Simkin was born in Blackburn, Victoria in 1927, and grew up in Box Hill. He was the Chief Librarian at Moorabbin City Libraries for 33 years until his retirement in 1992. He was the representative to AACOBS (Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographic Services), served on various committees for the Library Association of Australia and was a prime mover for the emerging Indexing Society in Australia. John Simkin was the first Vice-President of the Australian Society of Indexers.
  • Portrait of John Simkin, 2014 t.p. (John Simkin)
  • WWW ANZSI Newsletter. www.anzsi.org/UserFiles/file/Mar%202014.pdf
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1596609
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc