Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00078)

The National Library of Australia has now completed the cataloguing of the 
4,000 books and 240 sets of journals in the collection donated by the family 
of the late Dr John Cooper. The books have been kept together in a special 
collection, and the journals have been integrated into the Library’s Serials 
Collection. The archival collection – thirty large boxes – is in the process 
of cataloguing and will be kept in the Library’s Manuscripts Collection.

The Cooper family and I have received bound volumes of the catalogue of the 
books and journals (400 pages) in both hard copy and on CD. This catalogue is 
a valuable resource for Theosophical bibliography and history.

There is a page on the Library’s website devoted to the Dr John Cooper 
Collection: www.nla.gov.au/collect/cooper.html More details of the Library’s 
holdings of journals relating to Theosophy (including those from the Cooper 
Collection) can be found by searching the Library’s on-line catalogue: 
http:///catalogue.nla.gov.au/

Access to and use of the Collection is possible on the conditions prescribed 
by the Library.

Those books and journals not required by the Library, or which duplicated 
those already in the Library’s collection have, at the family’s request, been 
returned to me.

Dr Gregory Tillett

gregory1@pacific.net.au
gregory@zeta.org.au