News
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…
New online exhibition - The 1948 Easter Conference
Read about how Australia's national University was designed in our latest online exhibition.
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,…
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…
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 (…
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…
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…
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…
