Mona Edgecombe Going MBE 19102003

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Mona Edgecombe Going MBE1910-2003
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1910-1929

• Born 11 January 1910, Littlehampton, Sussex
• 1925-1928 Tonbridge Girls Grammar School
• 1928 St James Secretarial College
• 1929 Acute poliomyelitis
• National Hospital for Nervous Diseases

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1930-1950

• Library Association examinations
• 1938 Volunteer at Kent and Sussex Hospital
  Library and at Kings College Hospital, London
• Guild of Hospital Librarians
• World War II Nursing and ambulance duties
• 1941-1951 Tonbridge Library, Kent
• 1944 ALA 1948 FLA
• LA Specialist Certificate in Hospital Library Work

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1950s

• 1951 Hospitals Librarian for Kent County Library
• Hospital Library Service expanded to 100 centres
• Annual day conferences at Kent County HQ
• 1956 Visit to Norway, Sweden and Denmark

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1960s

• 1961 LA Hospital Libraries and Handicapped
  Readers Group
• 1962-1963 Founder Chair
• 1963 - annual weekend conferences
• 1963 Hospital Libraries and work with the
  disabled
• 1965 Sheila Moore Award established
• 1965 Hospital library standards
• 1966 IFLA Conference, The Hague

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1970s

• 1973 Second edition of Hospital libraries...
• Hospital and welfare library services an
  international bibliography
• 1975 Retirement from Kent County Library
• 1975-1977 Information Consultant, Kent AHA
• 1976 Awarded MBE
• 1977-1985 Citizens Advice Bureau
• 1978 Tonbridge School Library

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1980 -2003

• 1983 Third edition of Hospital libraries and work
  with the disabled in the community
• 1990 Fourth edition of Hospital libraries and
  community care
• 1990s Tonbridge School Library
• 2000 Awarded Honorary FLA

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Mona Edgecombe Going MBE1910-2003
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