State Library of New South Wales
State Librarian
The role of the State Librarian is prescribed in the New South Wales Library Act 1939, ss 7a. The State Librarian is the Secretary of the Library Council of New South Wales.

State Library of New South Wales

Section Title: State Librarian
Table Section Text: The role of the State Librarian is prescribed in the New South Wales Library Act 1939, ss 7a. The State Librarian is the Secretary of the Library Council of New South Wales.

Ordinal	Name	Title	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes

1	Peter Cooke	State Librarian	1827	1829	1–2 years

2	Charles Henderson	1829	1829	0 years

3	Thomas Connolly	1831	1839	7–8 years

4	The Hon. John Fairfax	1839	1841	1–2 years

5	P. J. Elliott	1841	1865	23–24 years

6	D. R. Hawley	1865	1869	3–4 years

7	Robert Cooper Walker	1869	1893	23–24 years

8	Henry Charles Lennox Anderson	1893	1906	12–13 years

9	Frank Murcott Bladen	1907	1912	4–5 years

10	William Herbert Ifould OBE	1912	1942	29–30 years

11	John Wallace Metcalfe	1942	1959	16–17 years

12	Gordon Dalyell Richardson OBE	1959	1973	13–14 years

13	Russell Fletcher Doust	1973	1987	13–14 years

14	Alison Laura Crook AO	1987	1995	7–8 years

15	Dagmar Schmidmaier AM	1995	2006	10–11 years

16	Regina Anne Sutton	2006	2010	3–4 years

17	Dr Alex Byrne	2011	2016	4–5 years

18	Lucy Milne	2016	2017	0–1 years

19	Hon. Professor John Vallance	State Librarian and Chief Executive	28 August 2017	incumbent	1 year, 229 days

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Henry Charles Lennox Anderson was the Librarian from 1893–1906.

final_sentence: Henry Charles Lennox Anderson was the Librarian from 1893–1906.