The University of Melbourne's Brownless Biomedical Library will be closing permanently at Midnight Friday 21 June 2024. Named after Sir Anthony Colling Brownless (1817-1897), a surgeon and physician who travelled to Australia in 1852. He worked as a physician at the Melbourne Hospital and was appointed to the Council of the University of Melbourne in 1855. He was central to the creation of the Medical School in 1862 and became Vice-Chancellor in 1858 and then Chancellor in 1887.(1)
Medical Librarian Anne Harrison (1923-1992) who worked at the Medical School from 1949-1983 foresaw the need for an independent Medical Library, originally situated in a small space in the University's original ...