Cirrus@Austlit

'The aim of this article is to illustrate what must be a commonplace observation: that libraries on the periphery (by which I mean those in major English-speaking countries beyond the British Isles and North America, for present purposes Australia and New Zealand) are generally neglected by analytical and descriptive bibliographers based in the centre-neglected to the extent that the holdings of peripheralist libraries are likely to be overlooked or ignored, despite the fact that they may (nay: do) contain significant collections of one kind or another (as well as significant individual items) that, were they known to the scholarly and collecting world, would serve to add to or correct the bibliographical record.' (Publication abstract)