Malvina Evalyn Wood
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Malvina Evalyn Wood (1893–1976), university librarian and college warden, was born in Guildford, Western Australia, daughter of a railway porter.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
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}} Genealogy records show that the family's name was initially Shell, but was changed to Wood for unknown reasons.{{Cite web|url = http://www.uwa.edu.au/university/history/centenary/archive-stories/genealogical-research|title = Stories from the Archives: desperately seeking Eva|date = 17 April 2014|publisher = University of Western Australia}}
Personal life
An announcement of Wood's engagement to Sydney Harrison appeared in The Daily News on 18 May 1914,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79922716 |title=Mainly About People. |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=18 May 1914 |accessdate=26 February 2015 |page=3 Edition: Third Edition |via=National Library of Australia}} though her biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography states that she never married but had a long-term relationship with a partner who died in 1947. Wood a resident of a nursing home in Mosman Park died on 17 September 1976 the bulk of her estate valued at A$250,000 was bequeathed to St Catherine College at University of Western Australia.
Schooling
Wood received her Bachelor's (1927){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32025817 |title=THE GRADUATES. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=23 April 1927 |accessdate=26 February 2015 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}} and master's degree (1943) from the University of Western Australia. After completing a correspondence course, she became an Associate of the Library Association of the United Kingdom in 1933.
Career
Wood started as a typist and Librarian at the Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1910, before becoming an administrative assistant to chief Librarian J.S. Battye in 1919. She was appointed as the first full-time librarian of the University of Western Australia in 1927.
Wood became an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College in 1970.{{Cite web|url = http://www.stcatherines.uwa.edu.au/about-fellows|title = St. Catherine's Fellows|publisher = University of Western Australia}}
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Category:Australian librarians
Category:Australian women librarians
Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Australia