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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…
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,…
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…
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,…
Disaster recovery
On 20 October a truck carrying a large excavator smashed into the Parkes Way tunnel which runs underneath our Acton Underhill repository. It collided with the roof of the tunnel and while causing…
Pacific events
The Archives' current exhibition 'Writings from the Archives' features the archival collections of anthropologist Marie Reay and Charles Morris Woodford, the first British Commissioner to the Solomon…
50th anniversary of ANU Creative Arts Fellows
The University recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the first Creative Arts fellows. The scheme was initiated by Dr HC Coombs and the first Fellows were Sidney Nolan and John Perceval who…
Newly processed collections
In conjunction with the data entry project, we have appraised, arranged and described a significant number of small collections in the Noel Butlin Archives Centre which were previously held in…
Australian Centre on China in the world exhibition
The exhibition 'China and ANU: Diplomats, Adventurers, Scholars' currently on show at the Australian Centre on China in the World on the ANU campus features documents and photographs from the…
Database news
Over half of our item lists have now been entered in the Archives database. We have been able to use optical character recognition (OCR) software to good effect and then load large typed lists using…
