Saving Children one hundred thousand Books at a Time

Mary Alexander worked as a librarian at the University of Western Australia, in the Reid Library on the main campus in Perth. Her father, Professor Fred Alexander, was the founding head of the university’s history department. An eminent historian who specialised in foreign affairs and policy, he also chaired the state library board for 30 years. Mary’s mother, Gretha, was an Englishwoman, whom Fred met while studying at Oxford university in the 1920s.