John Arnold has had a long association with Monash University beginning as an arts undergraduate in the late sixties and early seventies. After working as a research assistant, bookseller and librarian, he returned to Monash in 1989 to join the recently established National Centre for Australian Studies. He retired from Monash as an Associate Professor at the end of 2012. In addition to being the co-editor of The Bibliography of Australian Literature, he has published widely in the fields of Australian studies and the history of the book. Terence O’Neill, formerly an Assistant Registrar at the University of Melbourne, worked as a bibliographer at the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University from 1993 until 2020. His publications include Australian Children’s Books to 1980: A Select Bibliography (1989) (with Frances O’Neill). He was Associate Editor of the second, third and fourth volumes of The Bibliography of Australian Literature (2004–2008), and co-compiler of the first volume (2001) and of The List of Australian Writers (1995). Christopher Wood, a former Research Fellow at the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, worked as a bibliographer on The Bibliography of Australian Literature for more than twenty years, during which time the first four volumes appeared in print. He has also worked as a rare books librarian and in the antiquarian book trade. Rowan Gibbs, after studying and briefly teaching Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, has been an antiquarian bookseller for almost fifty years with a special interest in Australasian literature, on which he has published a number of articles and bibliographies.