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Wood received her Bachelor"s (1927) and master"s degree (1943) from the University of Western Australia. After completing a correspondence course, she became an Associate of the Library Association of the United Kingdom in 1933.
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Malvina Wood
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Genealogy records show that the family"s name was initially Shell, but was changed to Wood for unknown reasons. Wood started as a typist and Librarian at the Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1910, before becoming an administrative assistant to chief Librarian J.S. Battye in 1919. She was appointed as the first full-time librarian of the University of Western Australia in 1927.
Wood became an Honorary Fellow of Street Catherine"s College in 1970.
