164 photographic prints, slides, and negatives of people and places related to Papua New Guinea. Many were taken by the Information & Extension Services, Administration of Papua & New Guinea or Department of External Territories, Canberra.

This series has not yet been processed.

These interviews were conducted in Vietnam between 2007 and 2011, with the focus on district and village Việt Minh cadres active during the First Indochina War, 1945-1954. David G. Marr (ANU) provided the initial questionnaire. Nguyễn Thị Hồng Hạnh and Đào Thế Đức organized the interviews. The Vietnam Historical Association co-sponsored the project and facilitated local contacts. It retained the original audio recordings. Interviewees were promised content confidentiality for five years. Funding for the project came from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Unprocessed. Includes photographs, product information and labels, research notes and publications, relating to the history, products, staff, factories and offices of Unilever and predecessor companies.

Metal Trades Industry Association (MTIA) News Bulletin NSW and ACT edition; Metal Trades Industry Association (MTIA) Input; Metal Trades Industry Association (MTIA) Input '88

Melbourne. Issued by the Victorian Branch of the Municipal Officers' Association of Australia

Melbourne. Issued by the Directors of Goldsbrough Mort & Co.

Melbourne. Published by Aboriginal Affairs, an independent association which seeks to focus attention on issues relating to the Aboriginal people. The information papers that were a supplement to this title have been separately catalogued at S6

London. Published by H B Lim and then Pusat Tenaga and the All Malaya Council of Joint Action

London. Published by New Park Publications

New York. Published by Weekly Masses. United with Mainstream to form Masses and Mainstream

Sydney. Journal of the Printing Trades, published by the NSW Branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia. Vol 3 No 1 - Vol 35 No 12 held

Diaries, 1931-2002
Film and theatre albums, 1932-1990s
Personal papers, 1921-2001
Large format material, 1920s-1982
Correspondence, 1956-2005
University research material, 1940s-1950s
Maps
Research materials, 1950s-2000
MAGNT Aboriginal Art Collection, 1960s-1970s
National Museum of Australia catalogue, 1992
Sound recordings, 1960s
Indigenous photographs, 1950s-1960s
Photograph albums, 1923-2005
Slides, 1954-1970
Movie films, 1960-1974
Super 8 films, 1974-1988
Videos, 1990-2000
Obituaries and condolences (for SA Wurm), 2001-2002

Contains research papers, academic articles, speeches, diaries, correspondence and government publications on the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Seychelles. Papers re general Pacific Islands matters, including Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and the South Pacific Commission, constitutional development, and press cuttings. The collection was compiled by Allan during his time as an administrator in these Islands and as a researcher.

The papers range from school and university awards and photographs, to research notes and lectures over a thirty-year teaching career. There are also drafts of unpublished books, draft chapters of the book 'Tale of Two Trippers' (Items 22-33), and correspondence with colleagues and students. Includes cassette tapes of lectures (Items 111-114), research papers on Monty Miller (Items 117-126), lectures and research material for a book on Australian history 1949-72 (Items 127-147), draft history of the Australian National University (Items 148-160), ANU PhD bonnet and gown.

These are original minutes and agenda papers in black binders of the committee responsible for the management of the University’s Kioloa campus on the south coast of New South Wales.

These are minutes and agenda for the lunch meetings attended by heads of the Research Schools and Deans of Faculties within the School of General Studies.

The series includes Cambridge lecture notes and thesis, correspondence and minutes from the Department of Applied Mathematics, material relating to the Yerkes Observatory, photographs of staff, glass plates of astronomical observations, and reprints of articles by Archibald Brown, notes for articles published in physics and mathematical journals. There are also several books in French, German and English.

This binder contains the blank templates for postgraduate degrees and diplomas.

There are administrative files maintained by the head of the department and files relating to seminars and conferences, research material of Professor Noel Butlin and Lloyd Robson, and publications including conference proceedings, Working Papers in Economic History nos. 1-197 (no. 72 is missing), and Source Papers in Economic History nos. 1-20.

There is a consolidated listing for 1949–1956 and separate annual volumes for the period 1977–1981.

The annual handbooks contain statistical information on students, staff and finances of the University produced by the Planning Unit. The bulletins and summaries are selections from the handbooks

The publications include reports of the Computing Policy Committee.

This collection of publications includes copies of Members’ News and Notes (1970-1986, 1996–1997), publications about the Leonard French artworks Genesis: The Seven Days, and other publications relating to University House.

This collection of publications includes an incomplete run of the Australia-Japan Research Centre’s Pacific Economic Papers and various annual reports.

The publications relate to the Institute of the Arts (ITA) and predecessors the Canberra Institute of the Arts (CITA), the Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art. There are also publications relating to the Drill Hall Gallery.

This publication lists academic staff with their contact details by research field.

Reports of meetings and notices of seminars and staff movements are contained in one folder.

This series has not been processed

This series has not been processed

The constitution, statutes and regulations of the Australian National University Students' Association.

The papers cover many aspects of Ms Griffin’s career as a social worker and personnel manager, and later as an industrial relations commissioner and ANU Pro-Chancellor and member of the ANU Council. They include correspondence, speeches, reports, photographs and two audiotapes of presentations.

The annual folders include copies of all notices and circulars distributed to residents and staff including notices of meetings and events.

The files were maintained by Professor Pearce in his role as convenor of the Assessment Committee in conducting the review for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission. The role of the other members, Professor Enid Campbell (Monash University) and Professor Don Harding (University of NSW) is also documented through regular correspondence.

Two visitors’ books used in the RG Menzies Library from March 1963. The first commences with the signatures of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and others present at the Library's official opening ceremony. The second records visiting ambassadors and dignitaries from other libraries.

This series contains Board minutes, Academic Committee minutes, School of Art handbooks, exhibition catalogues, newsletters, publications, and promotional material and files on alumni.

Most records in this series are paper but some in boxes 15 to 19 are video cassettes and audio cassettes.

This series contains posters produced by the Canberra School of Art at the ANU. The posters were produced to publicise exhibitions of student work, other exhibitions held at the school, or the ANU’s open day. Many of the posters are not dated.

Duplicate posters and posters of events not connected with the ANU were destroyed in December 2008.

Research papers, notes and drafts on the Pacific Islands. Papers particularly relate to Daws’ book A Dream of Islands and his research into various Europeans involved in the Pacific.

Many of the files relate to the Library Committee, including minutes, agenda and working papers as well as other administrative matters.

This is an artificial series consisting of digital copies of photographs provided by staff and students of the University to the Archives and other material such as programs, posters and visitors book.

ANU was the lead agency in this consortium funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training which included University and other research facilities throughout Australia.

The binders contain copies of minutes, agenda papers, background material and attendance lists for Faculty and Faculty Board meetings.

This collection includes material gathered by Professor Tucker including lecture notes and outlines, tutorial topics, reading guides, student essays and a bibliographic index on the history of economic thought, before and during his time as Professor of Economic History 1961–1979.

Off-prints and photocopies of articles and papers written by staff and students of the Department of Experimental Pathology are bound into annual volumes, dating from the Department’s establishment.

This series of binders contain typescript pages which may be a manuscript for a proposed publication on international affairs between 1919 and 1948. Each binder appears to contain material for a chapter with later binders including information on dates, notes on books, and transcripts of documents. Item 9 is missing. The last item consists of annotated typescript ‘confidential notes’ about Victorian politicians, public servants and newspapers.

This series includes original poems by LH Allen, translations from Latin, Greek and German into English, translations from English into Latin, lectures on English and Classical literature, and scrapbooks.

The minutes are in the form of the Manager’s working files and cover the period 1980–1991 for the ANU Press Management Committee and the later Division of Publishing and Printing Management Committee and the ANU Press Editorial Committee. The subject and author files date mainly from 1984 when Permagon Press bought the ANU Press and had a representative on campus. The subject files cover submission, adoption and rejection of manuscripts, editing and graphic design, distribution, promotion and sales. Author files include biographical information, reviews, negotiations, contracts and royalty payments.

The visitor’s guides were originally booklets but then became leaflets in which the campus map is the dominant feature. There are also some leaflets about artworks, buildings and trees on campus.

The correspondence files are organised into an alphanumeric subject system and cover addresses and visits by the Commonwealth Astronomer, visits to the Observatory, meetings of the Board of Visitors (Advisory Board) and annual reports. There are some staff files and photographs of observations, eg comets, on some files.

This material was collected together by Dr MRC Banyard primarily for the establishment of an exhibition to commemorate the work of Sir Howard Florey in the foundation of the John Curtin School of Medical Research. There are placards used in an earlier exhibition held in Oxford on the development of antibiotics, a tissue perfusion chamber, photographs of Florey, images which appeared in the exhibition, photographs of the exhibition, and correspondence relating to the exhibition which was opened by Senator Susan Ryan, Commonwealth Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, in March 1984.

Minute books, membership lists, newsletters, financial statements and the constitution; includes, also, 'ANU Club for Women: A History 1961-2005'.

Research material, including manuscripts, notes and copies of documents; published papers and related correspondence; work diaries, 1982–1991; copy of a Master of Arts Thesis, 1979.

These are unregistered files created by a number of staff relating to administration, activities, plans, equipment, site protection, promotion and the history of the Mt Stromlo site. There are also printed publications about both the Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring observatories.

These folders contain correspondence, agenda and minutes of committees and reports relating to the early development of the University Library including accommodation at the University of Melbourne, building of the Menzies Library, association with the Canberra University College and relations with other University Librarians. Copies from McDonald’s diary 1948-1950 relating to the establishment of the library and his study tour to the United Kingdom and the United States of America are also included.

This is a bound volume of the Registrar’s copies of annual reports and accounts. Reports for 1937 and 1938 are missing from this set.

There are two versions of this plan of Walter Burley Griffin’s design for Canberra City which shows the proposed site for the National University. There is a negative of a lithograph (570 x 500mm) identified as 70/CAN/174A and printed copy (940 x 670mm) identified as 70/CAN/176. Griffin's design is overlain on a 1910 contour map provided to participants in the Federal Capital Design Competition.

The records comprise New Guinea Society papers presented at meetings in Canberra, records relating to membership and activities, correspondence, constitution, minutes and notices of meetings. The collection also includes some documents relating to the Papua and New Guinea Society, a group formed in Port Moresby in 1962.

The collection consists of typed copies of Dr Read’s anthropology lecture notes for the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA). Also, contains the lecture notes of other academics for ASOPA courses including Marie Reay, Camilla Wedgwood and June Watkins.

This series contains copies of the Humanities Research Centre Bulletin (1975 - 1980) and brochures called The Humanities Research Centre: A Description (1978 - 1995).

Records of the National Institute for Asian Pacific Studies including governance and committee meetings, media and events files, conference proposals and programs, reports, charter, constitution, correspondence, publications, newsletters and photographs.

These are printed copies of programs distributed at concerts, recitals and other performances at the Canberra School of Music from its establishment. They include performances by School of Music staff and students, visiting musicians, and concerts which were part of national tours, for instance by Musica Viva and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Some are high quality glossy programs while others are roneoed sheets. There are also some fliers, posters and publicity files which include photographs of musicians and reviews of performances. Publications include handbooks and calendars.

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15 colour photographic prints on backing board. The photos are of people, landscape and mining activities in Lihir, Papua New Guinea. The photos were taken by Dr Martha Macintyre and Dr Simon Foale.

The binders include copies of the minutes and agenda papers.

There are two folders with typewritten or ronoed copies of press statements. They mainly relate to staff appointments, events and scholarship winners.

The black and white and colour photographs were taken to document the demolition of heritage buildings at Mt Stromlo following the 2003 bushfires which destroyed a number of buildings. There are negatives, prints, architectural plans which indicate where photographs were taken from, and a catalogue to the photographs. Set A is the master set – Set B is a reference set for issue to the reading room. Colour prints with catalogue sheets are in envelopes C1-C94, black and white prints in envelopes BW1-BW62.

These are binders of the minutes and agenda of Faculty Board meetings.

Correspondence files arranged in subject group areas. The subject groups are Ass. (Associations, Colleges, Universities), B. (Buildings), Cal. (School Calendar), Camps (School Camps), Club, Cur. (School Curriculum), Dip. (Diploma), Employment, Eq. (Equipment, Plant, Maps, Books, Photographs), Exam. (Examination papers and results), Exh. (Exhibits, Donations), Not. (Notices), Pol. (Policy), Pubs. (Publications), Public. (Publicity), Rep. (Reports), Sch. (Scholarships, Prizes), Soc. (Social - staff-student functions), Sport, Sta. Qld (State of Queensland), Sta. NSW (State of New South Wales), Sta. Vic. (State of Victoria), Sta. S.A. (State of South Australia), Sta. W.A. (State of Western Australia), Sta. Tas. (State of Tasmania), Sta. N.Z. (New Zealand), Sta. N.I. (Norfolk Island), Sta. Philippines, Sta. Burma (Burma), Stu. (Students).

Reports from students on field studies taken while on vacation employment. Includes reports on particular forests, overseas trips by prize-winning students, maps, diagrams and photographs.

Enrolment and academic records of students. Each entry has birth date and place, secondary education, tertiary qualifications, practical experience, forestry school exam results and year in which Diploma was awarded.

Correspondence, memoranda and report, evacuation lists, defence plans and notes.

Aerial photographs of the Rabaul area, Papua New Guinea, including Sortie Works, defence areas, forests, Keravat, Kokopo, and Ataliklikun Bay.

Index cards A - K (incomplete).

Research papers of K L Gillion, publications re Fiji press, material relating to CSR, Methodist papers and miscellaneous papers (not yet processed).

Contents include minutes of meetings, newsletters and advertising material explaining the purpose of the division.

In the period covered by this series the position of Director was held by Professor Max Neutze (1980–1985), Professor Paul Bourke (1985–1991), Professor Geoffrey Brennan (1991–1996) and Professor Ian McAllister (1997– 2004). Includes files on Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Group meetings, Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee of Academic Standards, University House review, files from departments and centres including Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology and Demography, History, History of Ideas, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Sociology, Law, Urban Research, Social Psychiatry, Encyclopedia of Australian People, Centre for Information Science Research, Federalism Research School, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Pacific Studies, Statistics, Statistics Consulting Centre, Centre for Democratic Institutions, Social Science Data Archive, Archives, ANU Press, Public Policy Program, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Centre for Social and Political Theory and the Archives of Business and Labour/Noel Butlin Archives. Also files from committees, councils, projects and other initiatives including the National Social Science Survey, Policy Advisory Committee, Public Policy Program, Middle Australia Project (part of the Economic Rationalism and Citizenship Project), Ethics in Human Experimentation Committee, Australian Family Project, Australian Science and Technology Council, Committee on General Policy Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies, the Max Crawford Chair of History, John Clive Fellowship Fund (set up at Harvard University with a contribution from ANU), American Studies Centre (set up at the University of Sydney) and the Automated Reasoning Project.

The photograph album was compiled by Tony Argyle and Tony Howkins at the time of the Department of Zoology's 'reunion and wake' in late 1990 before its amalgamation with the Department of Botany. Its contents date from 1959 and include photographs of buildings and building works, staff and students (groups and individuals), vehicles, equipment, field trips and social events, as well as documents relating to Tony Argyle's employment, accident reports, extracts from the ANU Reporter, poetry, quizzes, programs and addresses. The drawing on the cover (the word Zoology spelt out in animals) is by Richard (Dick) Barwick. Loose photographs and documents are in a separate folder. Also included is the memoir, "Smyth's Department: Memories of the Department of Zoology, 1958 to 1971".

This small collection of letters, invitations, and a menu includes photographs of the 1948 Easter Conference, showing participants at the Institute of Anatomy building including members of the Academic Advisory Committee (Florey, Hancock, Oliphant, and Firth).

The index cards were used by Price and others in the Department of Demography in their research on immigrants: their origins and their place of settlement. They summarise information about immigrants sourced from the Department of Immigration including naturalisation files 1903-1970. There are two main groups of cards: non-Europeans (Chinese, Japanese and other Asian) in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland sorted by province and district in their home countries, and European migrants by country of origin. Cards for Jewish people, Greeks, Italians and East Europeans are sorted by Australian place of residence at the time of naturalisation (state, then city or country); there are separate runs for Germans in South Australia and Italians in Griffith, New South Wales. Cards for other Europeans are sorted by country, then district or village of origin (including Germans, Austrians, Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Turks, Cypriots, Hungarians, Rumanians, Balts, Poles and immigrants from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Norway, United States, South America, Syria and Lebanon). Sampling was 1:1 for small groups and earlier years, reaching 1:4 when Germans and Greeks were numerous and 1:5 when Italians were numerous.

There are minutes and correspondence for both the national and ACT committees of the Florey Memorial Fund which was administered in conjunction with the Royal Society in London. The last item is a box of unsorted receipts and letters which accompanied donations.

This typescript volume includes a carbon copy of a subject index to meetings of the Interim Council, the Council and its Committees. Each entry indicates subject, Council/Committee and meeting number, date and paragraph number in the minutes.

The two binders labelled '1st book Archives 1946-1948' and '2nd book Archives 1946-1948' contain roneoed typescript memos, minutes of meetings, reports and press releases. Each volume is divided into sections by subject, eg Library, Scholarships, and Letters to Vice-Chancellor. It appears to be a deliberate collection of important documents to form the 'archives' of the University in its early days.

This is an artificial compilation of records which relate to the amalgamation (formally known as the association) of the Australian National University and the Canberra University College. There are often several folders about the same committee combined into one file. Some papers are from the Registrar, some from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dale Trendall, and some probably from Thomas Owen, Registrar of the Canberra University College.

This small collection of files relates to various legal issues including drafting of leases, contracts and agreements, and legal opinions on University powers in relation to the site.

The recordings are of undergraduate lectures, public lectures and debates on current issues, addresses delivered at seminars and conferences, readings of literary works including plays and poetry, interviews, and radio programs produced for 2XX. Among the presenters are the 14th Dalai Lama, academics Professor R Johnson, Dr B Rawson, Dr H Kinloch, Professor R Elliot (reading Chaucer), Professor G Sawer, Professor Manning Clark, Professor Ted Ringwood, Professor G Zubrzycki, Professor Robin Gollan and Professor Derek Freeman, Vice-Chancellors Dr HC Coombs and Professor DA Low, politicians Gough Whitlam and Senator Susan Ryan, writers Patrick White and Xavier Herbert, and poets AD Hope, Bob Brissenden, and Rosemary Dobson. Most are on reel-to-reel tapes but some audio cassettes were produced in the period 1984-1986.

The lectures are typescript or printed and most of them are Commonwealth Literary Fund lectures. Some proceedings of commencement ceremonies are included.

Two files of correspondence between Professor Robert Porter as Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Lady Florey about the Florey Lectures, 1984 exhibition and Memorial Fund. One additional folder of publications relating to Florey Memorial Fund and commemoration of centenary of his birth in September 1998.

The black binders contain copies of the agenda, minutes and agenda papers of the Matriculation Committee. At early meetings it was referred to as the Matriculation Board of the Board of Studies and from its 22 September 1970 meeting as the Admissions Committee. From the 1990s agenda papers were held in box files and have been placed in archival folders. There is one folder of Admissions Committee reports 1979-1998 to the Board of the School of General Studies, later the Board of The Faculties.

The index cards were prepared by Lewis during his research for a Master of Arts thesis on the early history of the Canberra University College and the Australian National University. There is a list of material he consulted at the Commonwealth Archives Office (now the National Archives) at the front of the first box which also indicates the original order in which the cards were maintained.

The original signed minutes are bound in three volumes and extend from 4 December 1950 to the last meeting on 23 September 1960. At the end of the third volume there are also minutes of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 28 October to 2 December 1960. There is a duplicate set of minutes in box 2 for issue to the reading room.

The register records file numbers and titles for CUC files (ANUA 42), most of which were subsequently top-numbered or destroyed. There are two versions of the register: 1. Black springback binder: this is a working copy, heavily annotated with many handwritten entries, 2. Cardboard folder: this is a clean copy with all the file titles typed and has a cover sheet: 'Australian National University: School of General Studies: File Index'. Both versions are divided into primary headings from 1. Accounts to 17. Miscellaneous. The primary heading number (eg 2. Buildings and equipment) appears not to have been used as part of the file number, instead the secondary numbers (which appear randomly allocated) and a running number are used to identify files. For example, the first file listed under Buildings and equipment is 9/1. The file register allocates numbers from 8/1 through to 124/2 though not in order which may indicate that there was an earlier file register where the secondary numbers were allocated as required and this register was created to bring similar file titles together. Many file titles are crossed out and a new file number allocated, while others are stamped 'inactive', noted as 'destroyed' or 'PA' (put away). There is a note in the front of volume 1 referring to file 14.1.0.17 (ANUA 53) for the disposal and retention of files.

The papers include notes and theses on Physics and correspondence with other physicists, travel diaries, appointment diaries as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Australian National University, correspondence relating to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, correspondence and other papers as Chairman of the Universities Council of the Tertiary Education Commission, invitations, cassette tapes of his ANU farewell function, a radio interview and an address by Lord Rutherford, photographs of ANU buildings, functions and staff, and personal correspondence with ANU staff and professional contacts.

The course materials include translation exercises, examination papers, notes and readings for courses undertaken by Douglas Ross as a mature age student.

This folder of publications is part of the department's reference collection and includes government reports, the Australian Quarterly 1968, seminar and research papers, and art exhibition catalogues.

Contains research papers, census and statistical reports, correspondence, published and unpublished reports relating to population studies in the Pacific Islands. Includes material on American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Palau, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa.

The original signed and bound minutes and agenda papers of the Finance Committee of Council are in boxes 1-7. Duplicates are held for 1946-1963 and 1995-1996 in boxes 8-10.

The Academic Advisory Committee was appointed by the Interim Council to provide advice on the establishment of the ANU. The initial members were Sir Howard Florey, Professor Keith Hancock (replaced by Professor KC Weare in 1949), Professor Mark Oliphant (till 1950) and Professor Raymond Firth and they met in Oxford. The original minutes are signed. A reference set of the minutes (Box 2) will be issued in the reading room.

The files contain agenda and minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial statements and other reports considered at the meetings.

The files were maintained in alphabetical order by Dr Susan Bambrick as Master of University House. While some are subject files most are organised by the person, position or body that she corresponded with, and include original correspondence and copies of her correspondence to others.

Video material created and collected by the Instructional Resources Unit (IRU) for teaching and other ANU uses such as 1) promotional, e.g. University Open Days, student activities and campus life, facilities and study requirements for students, etc., 2) official visits and events, e.g. conferring of degrees ceremonies, the 14th Dalai Lama’s visit, etc., 3) interviews - Professor AD Hope; Professor Manning Clark; Dr HC Coombs; Emeritus Professor Oscar Spate; Sir John Eccles; British social anthropologist, Sir Edmund Leach, etc., 4) lectures and public addresses - Research School of Physical Sciences, Department of Zoology and a series of Twilight Lectures presented by the ANU and the National Aquarium, 5) commissions and contracts e.g. Questacon, Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1990 Floriade Festival, NSW Chamber of Mines Metals and Extractive Industries, Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency, etc., 6) commissions by ANU Departments, often recorded in the field, e.g. Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories; fossil locations in the Gogo area of the Kimberleys; Department of Forestry student field trips; the freshwater and wetland ecology of Iron Bark Creek, etc. At the time of the IRU’s closure, Departments were contacted and encouraged to claim any items which they considered to be of value and for which they had an ongoing use. This explains some of the gaps in the collection.