A quiet word from the List Mistress - the beginning of the collection

The Library, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, photo Mick Bradley

Documentation of the Carrick Hill collection has finally entered the 21^st century with the recent installation of the MOSAIC Collection Management System that will allow us to electronically catalogue and digitise the collection.  On the 31 January 3837 records were uploaded into the database, these records currently contain minimal information but they give us base records that will be improved with information from the old hand-written catalogue worksheets and research files.  At this stage, the project is being run by just one person on a part-time basis but in the first month two weeks over 800 records have been edited and in a few months, a group of trained volunteers will be ready to assist project by entering enhanced research information and digitised images.  Our goal is to have a 100 of our most significant objects fully documented and added to the Carrick Hill website by early 2013.

For the first time the large personal library of books that were owned by Sir Edward and Lady Ursula Hayward will be included in the new centralised database.  This will allow us to directly link the books to the paintings and sculptures that form the core of the Carrick Hill collection.  These books provide a window into the private life of the Hayward’s and include a range of first editions and popular novels; there are the expected gardening, farming, sporting and business books plus a significant number of art, design and architecture reference books that informed the Hayward’s interests and collecting tastes.    

Two of the eight Jacob Epstein bronzes from the collection with some of the many art books owned by Lady Ursula Hayward.  Collection Carrick Hill Trust, Adelaide, Hayward Bequest

The 'List Mistress' Caroline Berlyn