Dr. Belle Y. Alderman

Dr Belle Alderman, Collection Development Manager at the Archives and AustLit Executive Board member, read Graham's story of the reluctant superhero to an appreciative audience of pre-schoolers.

Dr Belle Alderman is Australia's first Professor of Children's Literature.She has been a tertiary lecturer at the University of Canberra since the mid-1970s where, in the Division of Communication and Education, she teaches children's literature, creative writing for young people, and archival theory and practice. As the Collections Development Manager of the Lu Rees Archives, a research collection of Australian children's literature located at the University of Canberra, she is responsible for building this internationally- known research collection of books, manuscripts, artwork and associated material.She is also on the Editorial Board of AustLit The Australian Literature Gateway which provides web-based access to scholarly literature.She has held several offices in the Children's Book Council of Australia and is presently on the national body, the May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust, which supports the development of Australian children's literature.For distinguished services to children's literature, Dr Alderman was awarded the Dromkeen Medal in 1996 and the Nan Chauncy Award in 2000.

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Belle Alderman was Professor and Head of the School of Information Management and Tourism at the University of Canberra.She was the first Professor of Children's Literature in Australia.Alderman has also been Collections Development Manager of the Lu Rees Archives which is housed at the University of Canberra.She has a long interest in children's writing and has compiled a guide to the Lu Rees collection.Alderman has worked with five different publishers of children's books in Australia and ....
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Dr. Belle Alderman, 62012062 Vice Presidents belle.alderman@canberra.edu.au

The award was given in 2000 to Dr Belle Alderman and was presented at the CBCA 5th National Conference in Canberra.

The Nan Chauncy award is administered by the National Executive of the CBCA.

Dr Belle Alderman, Project Manager Professor of Children's LiteratureDivision of Communication and EducationUniversity of Canberra ACT 2601

Phone +61 (0)2 6201 2062 FAX +61 (0)2 6201 2649Email belle.alderman@canberra.edu.au

University of Canberra children's literature professor, Dr Belle Alderman, was last week awarded a Distinguished Services Citation by The Children's Book Council of Australia for long and distinguished services to the National Council.

Dr Alderman is Australia's first professor of children's literature in Australia and among her many achievements is responsible for establishing the Lu Rees Archives, a collection of Australian children's literature located at the University of Canberra.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature, that provides web-based access to Australian scholarly literature, the May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust and the Jigsaw Theatre Company Board, a professional theatre company for young people.

Professor Alderman will be presented with her award at the Children's Book Council's National Conference to be held in Sydney in May 2006.

Dr Belle Alderman (ACT)Dr Belle Alderman holds the profesional title of Professor of Children's Literature.She has been the Collections Development Manager of the Lu Rees Archives, an internationally known research collection of Australian children's literature, since 1990.Professor Alderman is on the Editorial Board of AustLit:Australian Literature Gateway, a web-based, not-for-profit source of scholarly information providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 67,000 Australian authors and literary orgaisations.Professor Alderman's achievements have been recognised in several spheres.In the area of teaching and scholarship in education, she was short listed in the 2000 Commonwealth government's national teaching awards, Arts and Humanities, for outstanding university teaching.