BARBARA LEMON

Dr Barbara Lemon is an Australian curator, historian and library professional.

A Way with the Fairies by Barbara Lemon — Barbara Lemon, *A way with the fairies: the lost story of sculptor Ola Cohn*, 2014.

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Scripturient: Oceans of data: the Pacific preservation challenge, Information Professional, CILIP February 2025
Scripturient: passing the baton, Information Professional, CILIP November 2024
Barbara Lemon review of 'Thea Gardiner, Mab: The World of Mab Grimwade', Australian Journal of Biography and History, ANU Press (coming soon)
Catalogue essay on Ola Cohn and Head with Hands, Sheila Foundation (A foundation for women in visual art) (coming soon)

ABC radio documentaries

Selected publications

2011-2023: Numerous reports, discussion papers, webinars, guidelines, strategy documents, government submissions and frameworks for NSLA: www.nsla.org.au/resources
Lemon, B (2020), ‘Porter, Una Beatrice (1900-1996)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Lemon, B with K. Blinco and B. Somes (2020). ‘Building NED: Open Access to Australia’s Digital Documentary Heritage’, MDPI, Switzerland.
Lemon, B (2014), A Way with the Fairies: The Lost Story of Sculptor Ola Cohn, Robert Strugnell, Melbourne.
Lemon, B (2013), ‘Folk of the Fairies’ Tree: Sculptor Ola Cohn and a Melbourne Icon’ (PDF), commissioned essay for the City of Melbourne, Heritage Writing Sub-Panel
Lemon, B. (2011), ‘Away with the Fairies: The Lost History of Ola Cohn’, Circa (Professional Historians’ Association journal), August 2011
Lemon, B. (2011), ‘A Lasting Legacy’, final chapter in Helen Macpherson Smith: Her Life and Lasting Legacy by Jane Sandilands.

Online exhibitions

Selected talks and events

Webinar with Australasian members of the OCLC Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project advisory group, considering how the project’s community agenda and framework of guidance might be used by libraries and archives in our region. July 2022

Building NED: National edeposit for Australia, Open Repositories Conference, Hamburg, 2019.