For one week of the June / July school holidays, Year 11 students Eliza Woods and Caitlin Trout joined staff of the State Library of Queensland to learn more about the professional activities undertaken at State Library due to the generous donation by long time donor to Queensland Library Foundation, Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser AM.
L – R Brisbane Girls Grammar students Eliza Woods and Caitlin Trout take the opportunity to look through original documents for a reference to a research topic. Photograph by State Library of Queensland, June 2016.
Eliza and Caitlin, both students of Brisbane Girls Grammar, were encouraged by their Year 11 History teacher, Ms Alison Dare to apply for the inaugural Mittleheuser student internship program in 2016. Both had to write …words explaining why they would like to participate in this program. Eliza and Caitlin’s successful applications were announced at the Queensland Memory Awards function, June 9, 2016.
Brisbane Girls Grammar Year 11 history student Eliza Woods with Dr Cathryn Mittleheuser AM at the 2016 Queensland Memory Awards event June 9. Photograph by Joe Ruckli, State Library of Queensland.
Both history buffs, the girls were also given the opportunity to choose an aspect of Queensland history, research the collections of the John Oxley Library for content and write a blog article to contribute to the John Oxley Library blog portal. These articles and stories will appear as Guest Blogs shortly.
Thank you to everyone who supported the program in Queensland Memory and congratulations to Eliza and Caitlin!
Anne Scheu – Coordinator, Queensland Memory