Canberra University College Council minutes
- AU ANUA 133
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- 1930 - 1960
These are leather-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Council. Agenda papers such as reports from committees are also included.
Canberra University College
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Canberra University College Council minutes
These are leather-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Council. Agenda papers such as reports from committees are also included.
Canberra University College
Master set of Canberra University College enrolment procedures and handbooks
This is a small set of printed enrolment procedures and faculty handbooks.
Canberra University College
ANU Advisers on Legislation Committee minutes
The minutes are bound in dark blue hardback volumes. Original minutes are typed and signed and there are also duplicate copies of minutes for the period 1952 to 1963.
Advisers on Legislation
ANU Editorial Committee minutes
There is one volume of signed minutes of the Committee.
Editorial Committee
ANU Press Management Committee minutes
There is one volume of signed minutes of the Committee.
ANU Press Management Committee
Minutes of ANU Faculty Board and Faculty meetings
There is a complete run of minutes from 1951 to 2000. Items 1–5 are signed originals. From 1961 joint minutes of Faculty and Faculty Board meetings were taken and bound together. Items 11 and 12 are duplicate bound sets and 13 and 14 are minutes of the School Committee and the Academic Matters Standing Committee not included in the bound set.
ANU Research School of Social Sciences
Minutes of the ANU Governing Board and Management Committee
The original typed minutes of meetings of the Board, signed by the Master of University House as Chairman, are pasted into binders. From 16 December 1986, the minutes of the Management Committee are also included. There is one hard-bound volume of duplicate minutes for 1953-1958.
University House
Tom Dutton's Pacific linguistics research papers
The material relates to linguistics research in Papua New Guinea and includes notebooks, articles, transcripts, and texts on Koiari, Koita, Mountain Koiari, Barai, Mangalasi, Aomie (Omie), Rigo, Police Motu (Hiri Motu) and Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin English).
Dutton, Thomas Edward
Postgraduate Scholarships Committee minutes and agenda papers
The minutes and agenda papers in two binders document the consideration of awarding Masters and PhD scholarships to students and extending them.
ANU Postgraduate Scholarships Committee
Confidential papers of Hugh Ennor
There is one folder of papers including drafts of Ennor's paper 'The Development of the Institute of Advanced Studies' and papers relating to a second directorship in the Research School of Physical Sciences and the policy on professorships in the Institute of Advanced Studies.
Ennor, Arnold Hughes
Papers relating to the Lyttelton-Taylor Collection
The papers relate to the acquisition, valuation, management, sale and return of the furniture, paintings, works of art and decorative objects collected by Kathleen Lyttelton-Taylor, including correspondence with curators, comments by experts, lists of objects and some photographs of objects.
University Art Collection
'Basic Papers', reviews and reports
This is an artificial series of significant papers relating to the development of the University. There are binders of 'Basic Papers', Interim Council records and the 1948 Conference papers, as well as later reviews of the School of General Studies and other reviews and reports.
Office of the Registrar
Draft minutes of Council and its Committees
These volumes contain rough handwritten minutes of Council and the Standing Committee, the Board of Graduate Studies, the Advisers on Legislation, the Professorial Board, and various other committees of Council. From 1953 to October 1962 these were recorded chronologically in the same run of minute books, then a separate run was used for 'miscellaneous' committees (items 20-22). The minutes are in note form and often indicate what was said by particular members. There is usually an index at the front of the volume.
Council
ANU London Office binders of outward correspondence
The four binders contain carbon copies of letters and cables sent by EH Clark, the Administrative officer to December 1951, then R Mathews the Administrative Officer to January 1953, and then Joan Morrish, Secretary. The correspondence is mainly to ANU staff in Canberra particularly the Registrar RA Hohnen and the Assistant Accountant l Bellingham, members of the Academic Advisory Council located in the United Kingdom, and staff recruited there, and relates to recruitment of staff, accommodation, payment of salaries and allowances, and the purchase of equipment for the University. There is a short history of the London Office at the front of the first binder dated 30 November 1960.
London Office
This suede-bound volume is a register of higher degrees including honorary degrees: Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts and Master of Science. It was signed by the recipient of the degree on the day it was conferred. The first few pages include signatures of notable people including politicians, senior public servants and writers. Most of the entries relate to Doctor of Philosophy degrees from 1954 to 1983 which include the person's full name and their signature.
Office of the Registrar
Roger Keesing teaching materials
This series includes an outline of the course 'Kinship and Social Organisation' which Professor Keesing taught in The Faculties, tutorial topics and reading lists, and copies of lectures which were available for short-term loan from the Chifley Library.
Keesing, Roger Martin
This series documents the academic progress of an ANU Science student who graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 1998. It includes material from her primary and secondary education, university studies and extracurricular activities, as well as personal correspondence and photographs. There is also material relating to her death and the setting up of the Anjeli Nathan Scholarship and Fund.
Nathan, Anjeli Catherine
Records relating to 50th anniversary celebrations of ANU Department of History
There are two folders: one contains invitation lists, correspondence, photographs and other documentation of the celebrations held at Melville Hall on 3 December 1999, and the other contains completed ‘Graduate Survey Forms’ giving details of the careers of History graduates, some with formal curriculum vitae attached.
ANU Department of History
The National Graduate master set
The National Graduate was a publication produced by Public Relations and designed to inform members of convocation about current activities and research being undertaken at the University. There are many gaps in this master set but it is not clear whether particular issues were produced. One issue of The Convocation News newsletter from 1990 is also included.
Australian National University
Publications about the Edith and Joy London Foundation
These are publications about the Edith and Joy London Foundation and the University’s coastal campus at Kioloa.
Australian National University
ANU Student Research Essays in Economic History master set
There are five booklets with essays by Sue Fenwick, Diane Whiteford, Stephen Haswell, Stephen Dodds and Ryl Fardell, published by the Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics and Commerce.
ANU Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics and Commerce
ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering publications
The publications include a report on the 1962 explosion and Fire in the Belly, a fiftieth anniversary history, by T Ophel and J Jenkin.
Research School of Physics and Engineering
There are irregular sets of printed Faculty guides for each of the Faculties which are various titled as faculty guides, information guides or similar. Faculty guides for the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Asian Studies, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Science.
Australian National University
Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee publications
These reports and submissions were published by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee on which the ANU is represented.
Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee
ANU orientation handbooks and programs
The handbook is an annual publication published by the Students’ Association for new students to the University. The programs relate to events in Orientation Week, usually the last week in February or the first week in March.
ANU Students' Association
ANU Board of the School of General Studies minutes and agenda papers
These are original signed minutes and agenda papers in bound volumes. Minutes and agenda paper for the Board of the School of General Studies from 1960 - 1980, and Board of the Faculties from 1980 - 2004. The first volume of each year contains an index to the meetings.
Board of the ANU School of General Studies
Australian National University Council minutes, agenda papers and reports
This series includes Council minutes, agenda papers and reports of the School of Music before its amalgamation with the Canberra School of Art to become the Canberra Institute of the Arts.
Canberra School of Music
ANU Committee on General Policy minutes and agenda papers
These are copies of minutes and agenda papers in black binders of the Committee on General Policy convened by the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies.
ANU Committee on General Policy
Hank Nelson papers on Kuru Disease in New Guinea. Deposit 2
The collection contains published and unpublished papers on Kuru disease.
Nelson, Hyland Neil
Exchange with Moscow State University files
Records documenting the exchange agreement between the Australian National University and Moscow State University in the Soviet Union.
Australian National University
Australian National University Annual Report master set
These are the published Annual Reports presented to the Commonwealth Parliament beginning with those of the Interim Council (1946–1951) and from 1 July 1951 those of the Council. There have been some changes in format: the reports up to 1962 are in foolscap size and for the period 1982–1986 the reports were issued in two volumes (the second containing the financial reports). In 1995-1996 a Research Report was included and for 1997-1999 there is a separate Annual Review.
Council
Annual reports and appendices summarising Research School activities each year.
Research School of Biological Sciences
Minutes and agenda of general meetings and financial committee, clubs and societies committee and cultural affairs committee meetings.
ANU Students' Association
Cards documenting the receipt and movement of some staff and student records. Contain name, file number and date of action. These cards can also show the date at which a person was appointed to a position.
Central Records
Examination booklets containing questions set for Law students.
ANU Faculty of Law
Microfiche collection of Australian newspaper cuttings
There is a master copy and a reference set of the microfiche which was produced by the Department of Political Science. The original collection covered 1952-1978, with some earlier content resulting from personal collections of newspaper cuttings (eg NSW trade unions from 1938). Annual supplements were produced from 1979 to 1992.
The cuttings were taken from The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Canberra Times and The Australian Financial Review, supplemented by The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, The West Australian, The Mercury, The Examiner, The Northern Territory News, and the weekly National Times and The Sunday Mail (Brisbane). Periodically there are cuttings from other country and suburban papers.
The classification scheme developed over time but the summary published in 1986 gives an indication of the range of topics:
ANU Department of Political Science
Videotapes of lectures given to the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC
Videotapes of lectures 1 and 3 to 7 given by Professor Albert.
Albert, Adrien
Documentary on Central Australian totemic ceremonies
The film titled ‘The Honey Ant Ceremonies of Ljaba – North Aranda Group’ was filmed by Theodor Strehlow while he was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University from 1949 to 1951.
ANU Department of Anthropology and Sociology
This is a guide to presenting written information published by the University. It covers signs, fonts to be used, corporate colours and use of the ANU logo.
ANU Public Affairs Division
A register showing the student's signature, course, qualification for entry to the university and date of matriculation.
ANU School of General Studies
Research papers relating to British colonial rule in Malaya
Research papers and notes relating to Sadka's research 'The Protected Malay States 1874-1895'.
Sadka, Emily
The folders include teaching material and departmental papers relating to the Philosophy Department in the Canberra University College and from 1960, the School of General Studies in the Australian National University.
Gibson, Quentin Boyce
Correspondence files of Mark Oliphant
These correspondence files were maintained by Oliphant during the period he was head of the Department of Nuclear Physics and Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences, and deal with administrative matters, conferences, external organisations, projects and the Britannica Australia Awards. Some files have a multiple number with D prefix, but a single number has been imposed on all files.
Oliphant, Marcus Laurence Elwin
Australian Forestry School reunion papers
The papers relate to a reunion of former students of the Australian Forestry School, 1927 - 1964. There are committee minutes, administrative files, biographical notes of students called 'Growing Stock' and compiled by class coordinators, photographs of the event and the publication produced for the reunion 'A Brief History of the Australian Forestry School' by LT Carron.
AFS (Australian Forestry School) Reunion 2000 Incorporated
These records were created by Florey during his association with the Australian National University as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee, adviser to the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Chancellor. They contain Florey’s copies of official records such as minutes of meetings and correspondence with other senior University staff from the 1940s to 1960s about the establishment of the University, new buildings and staff appointments.
Florey, Howard Walter
Papers relating to the explosion at the Research School of Physical Sciences
Huxley’s personal file (annotated 8.1.1.3) and other files created in the Vice-Chancellor’s Office relating to the explosion at the Research School of Physical Sciences on 3 July 1962 and subsequent investigations and court proceedings. Item 4 relates to the reorganisation of the Department of Particle Physics in 1964 and includes papers of Senior Fellow J Blamey and Fellow R Marshall.
Huxley, Leonard George Holden
1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.
Gosson, Francis John
John Duffield's Papua New Guinea manuscript collection
The collection covers the period 1962 to 1976, when John Duffield was a Patrol Officer, Political Education Officer and District Government Liaison Officer with the Australian Public Service in Papua New Guinea. Included are Field Officer Journals from 1972 to 1976; several Patrol Reports and a very large collection of letters, circulars, reports, telegrams, ephemera, patrol instructions and comments on patrol reports; declarations of Local Government Council elections; as well as many personal records including his appointment as a Local Government advisor; an acceptance letter to ASOPA (the Australian School of Pacific Studies); his appointment letter as a Cadet Patrol Officer and appointment as a Magistrate for Native Matters. There are copies of the 'Black and White Magazine' and posters and ephemera relating to self-government and Independence. Rare publications include: the Western Highlands District Agricultural Society Mount Hagen Show Handbook for the Fourth District Show, dated 1967; Recipe book - 'Entertaining in Papua and New Guinea', published by the Boroko Branch of the Country Women's Association, 2nd Edition, 1968; and the Third South Pacific Games Souvenir Cookery Book, c.1969.
Of particular significance are booklets produced for the Independence celebrations in Port Moresby in 1975, including booklets on the 'State Welcome & Flag Lowering', 'Sport & Culture', 'Royal Tour', 'Guriguri Hebou', 'Bikpela Lotu, 'Flag Raising', 'Installation & Constitutional Ceremonies', 'State opening of the First National Parliament', 16 September 1975, 'Official Programme'.
The collection includes one album of photographs covering the period.
Duffield, John
George Gadbois papers relating to a Papua New Guinea House of Assembly research project.
This series contains interview recordings, transcripts and research papers. They include transcripts of interviews with backbenchers in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly, 1974; a code book interview schedule and research committee paper; lists of the members of the House of Assembly, 1964-1976; research files and publications.
The interviews were conducted in English, Tok Pisin and Motu; written (typescript) versions are all in English. Most of the interviews were conducted by University of Papua New Guinea students with the interviewers frequently identified in the written version. A memorandum from Gadbois to an (unspecified) research committee provides a rationale for the form of the study.
Gadbois, George Harold Jr
Joe Barr's collection of Pacific disaster management publications and research material
The collection consists of disaster and research reports, disaster preparedness workshop training manuals, seminar papers, consultancy management files, newspaper clippings, small publications and ephemera, a large number of SOPAC (Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission) and United Nations reports, and documents created when Joe Barr was engaged as a consultant in relation to disaster management in the Pacific Islands. Of particular significance are the photographs and slides taken immediately following disasters in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Cambodia, Turkey, Afghanistan, India and Indonesia.
Barr, Joseph
Correspondence and minutes in bound volumes relating to Brown's role as undergraduate representative on the ANU Council, Chairman and member of the Governing Body of Graduate House, student member of the Faculty of Law and President of the ANU Law Society. Includes material on student accommodation, compulsory membership of student organisations, and ANU Law Society publications and events, and posters for events on campus.
Brown, Jonathan Graham
Administrative files of University House
Administrative files of University House relating to artworks, building, furniture, accommodation, functions including dinners and wine symposia, membership, residents, library, music program, Old Canberra House, visiting fellows and other visitors.
University House
Surveys completed by British Migrants for the book British Emigration to Australia
completed survey forms
Appleyard, Reginald Thomas
Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit reports and minutes
Research meeting minutes of the Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit 1961 - 1991 and quarterly reports of the Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit 1960 - 1990.
ANU Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit
Tony Reid's papers on Southeast Asian Studies
The files relate to Professor Reid's research and teaching in Southeast Asian Studies principally at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University including material about departmental reviews and publications, correspondence with fellow academics, and engagement with Southeast Asia through the Australian Development Assistance Agency, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and other organisations.
Reid, Anthony
Maps and aerial photographs of Papua New Guinea and other Pacific countries
Printed maps of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Western Samoa, New Caledonia (Noumea), Vanuatu and Fiji. The aerial photographs are of Papua New Guinea and Fiji only.
ANU Department of Human Geography
University of Papua New Guinea household baseline surveys of rising expectations 1986
1 large box of field data sheets, with codes and reports from a UPNG survey conducted by four teams of students on Normandy and Fergusson Islands in 1986. The survey was undertaken to identify the monetary needs of householders to 'live well' and to establish baseline data for future comparison.
University of Papua New Guinea
Reverend Harry T. Williams, Megalithic art structures found on Normandy Island, Papua.
Reverend Henry Williams was a Methodist Missionary on Normandy Island 1930 - 1945. In December 1940, during a pastoral and medical patrol to Sewa Bay, the inhabitants spoke of strange stones with unusual markings, which prompted Reverend Williams to record the site and conduct further research. The paper is in three parts, with varying contents including: Introduction ; The site of the stones ; General observations on the site ; The story of the stones ; A curious cave terminal ; The engravers and their tools ; Features in the designs ; The builders from whence? ; Primitive engravers. Includes text, maps, plates and hand-drawn illustrations.
Williams, Harry T
Official ANU correspondence files
This is the earliest ANU series of official ANU correspondence files. The extant files include the correspondence of Vice-Chancellor Douglas Copland, papers of the Interim Council and Academic Advisory Committee, files about the Easter Conference in 1948 and about individual visitors and staff.
Office of the Registrar
National Centre for Indigenous Studies administrative records
National Centre for Indigenous Studies
Dickson research on Papua New Guinea missionary history
Box of index cards includes notes on missionary history and notes on oral history interviews conducted by Dickson with missionaries and church personnel (recordings have not survived). Two oral history interviews, one with GT Roscoe (31 Jan 1969) and Archbishop Strong (1 Feb 1969) on PNG missionary activity.
Dickson, Don
Colebatch papers on Papua New Guinea
Includes materials about elections and the public service.
Colebatch, Peta
This material was collected over the course of Marr's career. Some early material relates to his time in the United States Marine Corps. Some earlier material dates Marr's postgraduate studies and the Berkeley Free Speech movement in the 1960s. Most papers are related to Vietnam, including material collected while he was co-director of the Indochina Research Center in the 1970s and while editor of Vietnam Today,1978-1982. Some of this material was collected for the IRC by John Spragens.
Most papers related to Marr's academic work in the 1970s-2000s, including papers and material for his MA thesis, as well as monographs and books edited by Marr, including 'Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries', 'Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945' and 'Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946)', and 'Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power'.
Other material covers the Vietnamese Union Cataloguing Project and projects relating to Vietnamese scripts on computers in the 1980s-1990s, including the Vietnam Internet Project (VIP). Marr's involvement in Australian-Vietnamese scholarly exchanges in the same period also forms part of the collection.
Some material in this collection contains accounts of torture and/or images of injuries.
Marr, David George
Papers relating to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) including transcripts of interviews for the Inquiry into the Use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia and CJD (1993-1997) and other animal studies, correspondence, transcripts, reports and submissions, publications, arbitration material, medical records, working diaries, obituaries, CV and press cuttings. Items 137-175 contain APQ legal documents, and mainly transcripts of interviews for the Inquiry into the Use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (referred to here as the CJD Inquiry).
Whitten, Wesley Kingston
Photographs of Library buildings and staff
Photographs of R.G. Menzies Building, J.B. Chifley Building, W.K. Hancock Building, the Law Library and the branch libraries in the research schools. Also contains photographs of Wyselaskie Hall, University of Melbourne, the collection in the former Canberra Community Hospital buildings, visitors and presentations to the University Library, exhibitions in the McDonald Room and of staff functions and events.
University Library
Examination papers and results
Draft examination papers, copies of roneoed examination papers, schedules of students' marks signed by examiners, copies of roneoed schedules of marks and results and also correspondence with students about results and 'posts'.
Australian Forestry School
Joint Quality and Standards Committee Minutes and Agenda Papers
Joint committee meeting agenda and minutes.
University Quality and Standards Committee
Peter Sack collection on land and related matters in Papua New Guinea
These reports were gathered by Dr Peter Sack as part of his research on land ownership systems and cultural patterns of inheritance and ownership which effect land tenure in Papua New Guinea. Includes Magistrates Land Law Survey 1968; reports on land matters on the Gazelle Peninsula and on administration of justice, law and order issues; photocopies of maps and plans.
Sack, Peter Georg
Papers documenting David Bruce Moorhouse's career in Papua New Guinea as a patrol officer, administrator, and land consultant. Includes patrol reports, field officer's journal, mining consultancy papers, correspondence, papers relating to border crossings and territory intelligence, newspaper articles re royal visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, publications and maps.
Moorhouse, David Bruce
CRC for Greenhouse Accounting records
Research files, minutes of Board and Management team meetings, annual reports and strategic plans, publications and media files, correspondence, agreements and legal material. Also includes files relating to the Australian Greenhouse Office and partnerships.
Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting
Posters prepared for the Infant Welfare Section, Department of Public Health, Papua New Guinea.
Chambers, Jean
Institute of the Arts assessment results
Student exam and assessment results for the School of Music, School of Art, Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology; reports, media releases and publications. Institute of the Arts study programs, Canberra School of Art council meetings minutes, agenda and papers. Also includes minutes of the Board of Studies 1976-1980.
Canberra Institute of the Arts
Reports and papers relating to educational policy, TPNG Department of Education curricula, publications of the Manpower Planning Unit, Apprenticeships Board of PNG and University of PNG.
Hossack, Ian
Basil Shaw's research papers for a biography of Sir Michael Somare
The collection contains research files compiled by Basil Shaw to write a biography on the former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Michael Somare. Includes correspondence, interview material, drawings by Captain Yukio Shibata, photographs, press cuttings, maps and photocopies of printed material.
Shaw, Basil John
Includes student and lecture notes, reports, correspondence, material relating to Cambridge Australia Trust, ANU Investment Advisory Committee agenda and reports, financial records, research papers, news clippings, publications and newsletters.
Barton, Allan Douglas
Australian Forestry School papers, photographs and publications
This collection of records includes minutes of the AFS Student Mess and later Student Union, material about student clubs and sports teams, yearbooks, calendars, newsletters and photographs. Many of the photographs were donated at the time of the 2000 ... »reunion of students and have been sorted into annual folders. There are also three large albums and several folders of unidentified photographs
Australian Forestry School
Aerial and non standard photographs of ANU
The photographs are mostly of the Australian National University campus, including Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring. There are aerial photographs of the Acton site at different times, and photographs of events and portraits. Many are mounted on board for display purposes.
Office of the Registrar
Legal Workshop and Committee of Management minutes, agenda and correspondence, marketing records, historical material, administrative files, reports, GDLP results, staff records, and course programs material.
ANU College of Law
Processing of this series has not been completed.
ANU Department of History
Minutes and agenda papers of the ANU Council
These are the agenda, minutes and agenda papers of both the Interim Council (1946–1951) and the Council (from 1951).
Council
Lorraine and Michael Ovington collection
Correspondence, personal diaries, copy of a calendar, newspaper clippings and photographs relating to the Ovingtons' time in New Caledonia and Vanuatu, 1978-1980, photographs of Independence celebrations, official invitations, course papers on human development, and publications. Includes sound recording ANUA 480/18: Traditional music of Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides) from the Cultural Centre Archives, recordings made by anthropologist Kirk Huffman in the 1970s. The recordings relate to cultural practices. Side 1: Aoba; Ambrym ; Mota Lava (Banks) ; Side 2: Pentecost ; Malekula ; Tanna ; Erromango ; Aneityum
Ovington, Lorraine
Music scores of Harold Allen's compositions
The scores include choral works, including music for poetic works, and works for instrumental ensembles and solo instruments. There are some works written specifically for schools such as those for percussion bands. The music scores are manuscript, commonly on transparent sheets, with printed copies, spiral-bound photocopies, and some published copies.
Allen, Harold Wesley
ANU Women's Studies Program audiovisual material and photographs
The series includes cassette tapes of seminars and lectures, reel-to-reel tapes, reels of film, slides and photographs of staff, students and events.The photographs and slides have been placed in an archival album.
Women's Studies Program, Faculty of Arts
Reminiscences on audio tape about Canberra University College
The cassette tapes record Tom Owen reminiscing about his time as Registrar of Canberra University College. There are also copies of recordings of events such as the laying of the foundation stone for the Haydon-Allen building, and the opening of the RG Menzies Building and the Chemistry building, and tapes relating to his early life, the Richmond Hoyts Cinema, and oral histories recorded in the 1990s. Some tapes are annotated with file references 14.1.0.83-14.1.0.92 (ANUA 53).
Owen, Thomas Miles
Department files and audiovisual material
Includes annual reports, correspondence, meeting minutes and other administrative papers relating to the Department of Human Geography. Also includes, interviews with Professor Oskar Spate.
ANU Department of Human Geography
The collection was formed during 1969 and 1970 by John R Baker, Economist to the Government of Tonga and resident in the capital of Nukualofa from August 1969 to May 1970. Baker was employed by the British Ministry of Overseas Development and was seconded to the Government of Tonga as an Economist to undertake the preparation and drafting of the Tonga Development Plan 1970 - 1975, which was Tonga's second development plan. He was employed partly on the strength of his having worked in the Solomon Islands in 1964 and 1965 under the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Scheme. He was the first economist employed by the Tonga Government to work on development planning.
Baker, John R
Ian Maddocks' Papua New Guinea research papers
Material relating mostly to Pari and Pari Village Study but also Papua New Guinea in general, particularly health and medical services. Includes research papers, photographs, genetics data, genealogical charts and notes, correspondence, notebooks, clinical data print-outs, serials, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, index cards and maps. Material relates mostly to health of Pari people and medical services but includes material relating to a wide variety of subjects including genealogy, genetics, geography, Pari Church, anthropology, language, education, legends and stories, history, children and culture. Also includes material relating to Hiri, Motu and Koita people. Includes material in Pari and Motu languages.
Maddocks, Ian
Australian National University 75th Anniversary Time Capsule
This series contains items symbolic of ANU during its 75th anniversary year. These include objects showing the impact of the 2020 hail storm and COVID 19 on the campus, teaching and research between 2020 and 2022, an updated paid parental leave scheme, the ANU First Nations Portfolio, cooperation with Indigenous communities, mementous discoveries in science and 75th anniversary events.
Australian National University
This series is not processed yet.
ANU Marketing and Communications Division
Mount Stromlo Observatory papers and plans
Includes correspondence, insurance papers, reports, financial papers, notebooks, photographs, slides, audio-visual material, publications, annual reports, visitor books, blueprints and architectural plans related to Mount Stromlo Observatory (and its predecessor the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. This includes blueprints and drawings related to the design and construction of various telescopes and equipment at the Mount Stromlo site. The collection includes a large number of records related to the 2003 fire which destroyed much of the observatory and the subsequent insurance claims.
Mount Stromlo Observatory
Federal Capital Design Competition material
This collection consists of a bound volume of papers and glass lantern slides and negatives. The volume includes instructions to competitors in the 1911 Federal Capital Design Competition, the report of the Federal Capital Designs Board and other parliamentary papers relating to Walter Burley Griffin’s winning design, including correspondence relating to AJ Macdonald’s temporary transfer ‘to assist Mr Griffin’, and reports of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on ‘Dams for Ornamental Waters – Canberra’ and the erection of the Provisional Parliament House, Canberra. The lantern slides are of AJ Macdonald’s entry (no. 9) in the Federal Capital Design Competition which was one of the 46 short-listed designs (see www.idealcity.org.au/competition-3-shortlist-46.html). The lantern slides (8 x 8 cm) are:
•Drawing 1, Map of Contour Survey of the Site
•Drawing 2, Perspective view overlooking the Administrative Centre
Two additional lantern slides labelled A and B relate to another project for a site south of the Flinders Street station in Melbourne. There are also two glass plate negatives (22 x 17 cm) of Drawings 1 and 2 with a label ‘AJ Macdonald’s design for Federal Capital, DW Crawford’s perspective view thereof’.
Macdonald, Alexander James
Drill Hall Gallery administrative records
Contains press clippings and information about some exhibitions held at the gallery.
Drill Hall Gallery
The records include teaching and course material from history and women’s studies courses at ANU and other universities; correspondence; conference material; publications on feminism and sexuality; recorded lectures on audio cassettes and posters. Later additions contain research notebooks of research undertaken in libraries and archives to support Jill Matthews publications; transcripts of interviews with Lois Quarrel Hendry and Olga Varonas; research notes and manuscript for chapter in 'The thing she loves' ed. Kerry Greenwood; research notes and newsclippings for research on women and sport, women in film.
Matthews, Jill Julius
This is a master set of copies of the ANU’s publication The ANU Reporter. Issues for 2000 are missing from the set. Format and numbering is variable. Early issues are bound, issues after 1999 are loose.
ANU Marketing and Communications Division
Draft articles about Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
The typescript articles about Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific appear to be chapters for a proposed publication, as a published compilation has not been identified. Authors include Keith Sinclair (University of Auckland), Mary Boyd (University of Wellington), Deryck Scarr (ANU), M P K Sorrenson (University of Auckland), Joseph Jones (University of Texas), L F Crisp (ANU), Geoffrey Sawer (ANU), Sir John Crawford (ANU), C G F Simkin (University of Sydney), F W L Wood (University of Wellington), Norman Harper (Melbourne University).
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies