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Application Guidelines
The following matters will be taken into consideration in assessing your application:
The completeness of the nomination form. Those nominations received with incomplete sections, particularly the historical research or story of the person being nominated, will not be considered.
The person is deceased. If the nominee died after 2020, only nominations from community groups will be considered.
The person does not have any significant existing monuments within the Bathurst region.
The person has a clear and sustained association with the Bathurst region. This may be satisfied by the nominee having lived in the area for a time, but not necessarily having been born here.
The person’s life story includes a contribution or achievement that could be said to have added something special to the wider story of the Bathurst district, and ideally offering inspiration to living and future Bathurstians.
The uniqueness of the nominee and the relative interest of their story compared to the other ‘Pillars’ already commemorated or nominated.
The robustness of the nominee's story.
The nominee’s story should be robust and the story and facts should be verifiable from a number of sources. Bathurst Library, as part of Bathurst Regional Council, will rely on the sources provided to verify the information.
Bathurst Library, as part of Bathurst Regional Council, will maintain all rights to the text and photographs as may be provided on the nomination form for use in the Pillars of Bathurst project.
Bathurst Library reserves the right to select all future nominees based on the assessment criteria outlined above. The library will seek to consider the representativeness of each approved nomination against the existing Pillars in relation to:
The 38 heritage themes of New South Wales Heritage Office
The gender and ethnicity of the nominee
The historic time period of the nominee
The uniqueness of the nominee’s story and its potential to engage with the community
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