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This article draws parallels between the career of Bendigo Children's Librarian Miss Euphemia (Pheme) Tanner and the life of Salley Vickers' fictional children's librarian Miss Syliva Blackwell from the 2018 novel The Librarian.
Pheme Tanner was the Children's Librarian at the Bendigo Library from 1946 to 1979. During that time, she encouraged children not only to visit the library for borrowing purposes, but also to contribute to the library's functioning by working there on Saturday mornings. The column's author, Tessa Wooldridge, was among those who took up that opportunity.
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