Journal Article

Vale Peter Biskup

Clayton, Peter

2013

Overview

Peter Biskup was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926 and studied law, eventually graduating with a doctorate from Comenius University, now in Bratislava. After the Second World War he emigrated to Australia, where he regularly referred to himself as a \"dud Czech\". He worked in Papua New Guinea and as an historian at the ANU, publishing A Short History of New Guinea in 1970 and Not Slaves, Not Citizens on Aboriginal history in Western Australia. Peter was then appointed Senior Lecturer in librarianship at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education, now the University of Canberra, where he was to spend the remainder of his career. He retained his interest in history throughout, cooperating first with John Balnaves on Australian Libraries and then with Doreen Goodman on Libraries in Australia, and contributing to the Australian Library History Forum. He also edited several other volumes. He was a regular oral history interviewer for the National Library, again focusing principally on library history.

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group,Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subject: Aboriginal Australians / Academic libraries / Australia / Biographies / College students / Editing / Editors / Government Libraries / Higher education / Indigenous peoples / Information Management / Librarians / Libraries / Library Personnel / Native Language / Native peoples / Oral history / Oral Reading / Post World War II period / Publishing / Research Libraries / Slavery / World War II