News

14
Nov
2016

Records from the ANU Archives are part of the Memory of the World in Canberra exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery

The ANU Archives are proud to be part of the Memory of the World in Canberra exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. This exhibition showcases the rich documentary heritage held in Canberra’s…

09
Sep
2016

Watch the 2016 Annual Archives lecture - Did the Grim Reaper win?

You can now watch this lecture at on the ANU Youtube channel. Users will have to sign in due to the nature of some of the content. Presented by ANU Archives and the Friends of the Noel Butlin…

16
Aug
2016

New online exhibition - The 1948 Easter Conference

Read about how Australia's national University was designed in our latest online exhibition.

16
Aug
2016

Sydney hotel records now online

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the ANU has some wonderful New South Wales hotels records from Tooth and Company. The 'yellow cards', summary records including photographs and names of licensees,…

28
Jun
2016

60% of item lists on Archives database

Another milestone has been reached with 60% of our item lists entered on the database. We are now entering large lists for our most-used company deposits. Researchers can expect more hits from…

01
Apr
2016

Archives records now searchable in Trove

With just a few clicks from their desktops researchers all over the world can now find University Archives and Noel Butlin Archives Centre collections via Trove, the National Library of Australia (…

01
Dec
2015

Staff news

Sarah Lethbridge was acting University Archivist from September through November while Maggie Shapley was on long-service leave. Maggie presented a paper at the International Council on Archives…

01
Dec
2015

Exhibitions

An exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of Papua New Guinea Independence is currently displayed in the Menzies Building foyer and draws on material held in the Pacific Research Archives,…

01
Dec
2015

Digitisation of archival resources

A selection of highly-used archives have been digitised and placed in the digital repository. They can be accessed from the links below to their database descriptions and include: ANU annual reports…

01
Dec
2015

Annual lecture

In August the annual Archives lecture was delivered by Professor David Merrett, an eminent economic historian from the University of Melbourne, on the topic 'Whither business history?: Memory,…