Series 1: Oral history (2015)
In an interview conducted by Christina Ealing-Godbold, Senior Librarian, State Library of Queensland, Dr Spencer James Routh discusses a range of topics including: his school school days and parents; his academic success and time at university; his work in the University of Queensland library and his passion for reference librarianship; as well as his reminiscences of the early State Library, how he used State Library collections and what his favourite collections were.
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Spencer Routh (11 September 2015)
Interview of well known Queensland librarian and academic (now retired), Spencer Routh OAM about his life, his studies and achievements.
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Series 2: Papers (1997-2005)
Papers relating to the personal life and career of Spencer Routh.
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Honorary degree (14 December 2015)
Copy of a University of Queensland, Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters certificate awarded to Spencer James Routh, 14 December 2005 and copy of speech which accompanied the awarding of letters.
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Farewell speech (26 November 1997)
Farewell speech from the University of Queensland, delivered by Spencer Routh at Duhig North, University of Queensland.
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Questionnaire (2006)
Spencer Routh responding to questions put to him by Marion Elizabeth Mackenzie for her thesis: Promising lives, first placegetters in the Queensland Scholarship Examination 1873-1962, University of Queensland, 2006.
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List of publications (1950-2000)
List of publications by Spencer James Routh consisting of four typed pages and nine handwritten pages.