The Pro-Chancellor’s correspondence covers educational issues, administrative arrangements and invitations and dates from November 1998 to September 1999.

The Chancellor’s correspondence ranges over many subjects from administrative, political and educational issues to drop copies of documents and invitations.

The series consists of research proposals by staff and students which are considered against established protocols by the Committee. There are separate registers for Psychology, Science Communications, Medical, and Sociology for 1997–1999, and registers for Archaeology and Anthropology, Legal, and the Institute of the Arts for 1999. The registers are contolled by an annual single number with alphabetical prefix indicating the subject, eg P=Psychology, SC=Science Communications. In 1999 a new consolidated annual single number system was introduced, eg 1999/25, irrespective of subject.

The correspondence is between David Lake and Robert Graves, AD Hope, Bob Brissenden, John Manifold, James McAuley, Judith Wright, Kingsley Amis, Gore Vidal and Dimitris Tsaloumas and mainly relates to poetry.

This series documents the granting of scholarships to Cambridge University by the Cambridge Australia Trust, which was known as the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Australian Committee until 1997.

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.

The binders contain reports from examiners of PhD theses and their recommendations for awarding a degree and for prizes.

Some records relate to the Australian Universities Commission, including reports of visits to other universities and minutes 1959-1967. Most relate to the ANU campus, including submissions to the Australian Universities Commission, reports on site planning and development proposals, taffic and parking studies, and files relating to the preparation and publication of a 1991 history of the ANU campus.

The earliest files in this series relate to the Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art. From 1987 the files relate to the Canberra Institute of the Arts, an amalgamation of the Schools. In 1992 the Institute transferred from the ACT Government to become part of the Australian National University. The series includes minutes of meetings of the Councils or Boards for all these bodies and files about graduation ceremonies, celebrations and donations.

The correspondence, conference papers and reports relate to the development of the University’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program and include material from other universities. Contents date from 1974.

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.

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.

There is one volume of signed minutes of the Committee.

There is one volume of signed minutes of the Editorial Board.

There is one volume of signed minutes of the Committee.

There are two volumes of original signed minutes of the Committee 1955–1967 (Box 1) and a one-volume duplicate set 1955–1963 (Box 2).

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 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.

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).

These correspondence files from the Physiology Department of the John Curtin School of Medical Research were originally maintained by Professor Eccles as head of the department 1952 to 1966 and then by his successor Professor Peter Bishop. They relate to staff and research students of the school, meetings and conferences of related scientific organisations and general administrative matters.

The original typewritten signed minutes are bound in dark blue hardback volumes. For the period 1951 to 1963 there are both originals (Box 1) and a duplicate unsigned set (Box 2).

The original signed minutes of both the Interim Council (1946–1951) and the Council (from 1951) are bound in dark blue hardback volumes. For the period 1946 to 1962 there are both originals (Box 1) and an unsigned duplicate set (Boxes 2 and 3).

These are minutes of meetings of the Joint Faculty Board (1951-1960) and the Joint Faculty (1951-1965) of the two Research Schools.

These are the original signed minutes and agenda papers of the Building and Grounds Committee (known as the Advisers on Buildings and Grounds from August 1951 to October 1960). There is a gap between 7 April 1989 and 20 March 1992 when the Committee is said to be ‘re-established’. There are duplicate copies for the period 1947–1970 and copies of minutes of joint meetings between the Advisers on Building and Grounds and the Board of Graduate Studies’ Site Development Committee 1954–1957 in boxes 4–5.

These are the original signed minutes and agenda papers of the Audit Committee of Council.

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 original typed and signed minutes are bound in dark blue hardback volumes.

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.

Most of the films and audio tapes in this series record important events such as the laying of foundation stones, opening of buildings, conferring of honorary degrees and installation of Chancellors. There are also copies of staff interviews broadcast by the ABC and recordings of George Dreyfus, an ANU Creative Arts Fellow, and his music. The originals are not available for access – some reference copies have been made and others will be produced as required.

Reference copies:
The First Chancellor, colour, reference copy on video,1952;
The First Chancellor, colour, reference copy on DVD, 1952;
Opening of RG Menzies Library building by HM Queen Elizabeth II, reference copies on video, 13 Mar 1963;
Synchronos 72, reference copy on video, CD and DVD 1972;
Opening of Research School of Physical Sciences, speakers Dr Coombs, Mr Menzies, Professor Oliphant, Sir John Cockroft, Sir Douglas Copland reference copy on cassette tape, 5 Sep 1952;
Conferring of doctorate on Sir John Cockroft, speakers Professor Oliphant, Sir Douglas Copland, Sir John Cockroft, Dr Coombs reference copy on cassette tape, 5 Sep 1952;
Foundation stone ceremony, Haydon-Allen building [attachment to file: 12.3.1.1AA] reference copy on cassette tape, also in ANUA 20, 12 Oct 1959

The Undergraduate Prospectus set outs in detail the courses offered in the coming year.

The staff files record staff appointments, promotion, travel, conditions of service and resignation/retirement. Only files of senior academic and administrative staff are retained. Files of Chancellors and Creative Arts Fellows are also included. It is an artificial series bringing together staff files from an earlier single number series, the multiple number Central Files (ANUA 53) and the annual single number Central Files (ANUA 239). An alphabetical list by surname indicates the box in which the file is located. File suffixes include A=Annex and C=Confidential.

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

The minutes are of meetings of the Ceremonial and Naming Committee (later, the Naming Committee) which reported to the ANU Council.

This is an alphabetical subject index to the envelope series of photographs maintained by University Information later known as the Public Affairs Division. There are alphabetical tabs but entries are not in alphabetical on the pages. Careful handling is recommended as some pages have been ripped and have been placed in protective sleeves.

Newsletters include Owls and Fowls from 1956 produced by the General Staff Association, Apropos issued by the Secretary, Warwick Williams, in the 1980s, RSBS News from the Research School of Biological Sciences, Hexagon from the Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific Studies, and Staff News, published by the Public Affairs Division.

This monthly publication lists expected visitors to the University for the coming month, particularly academic staff visiting from other universities. Early issues also include new members of staff. The list indicates whether the visitor is accompanied by their wife, and from 1967 ‘their wife (or husband)’.

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

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.

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.

These are printed copies of annual reports of the Faculties of Science, Asian Studies, Arts, Economics and Commerce, Law, and Engineering and Information Technology. There are also some annual reports for administrative units.

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.

These are printed copies of annual reports of Research Schools and Centres.

The main newsletters represented are the Research School of Physical Sciences newsletter Advance, Research School of Biological Sciences newsletter Biologic, Research School of Earth Sciences newsletter Earth Sciences @ ANU, MedScience, ANU College of Science newsletter Science Wise, Australian Development Studies Network (RSSS) newsletter Development Bulletin, National Centre of Development Studies issues of Development, Social Science Data Archives (RSSS) National Social Science Survey Report, Humanities Research Centre newsletter HRC Bulletin, the New Guinea Research Unit Bulletin and Pacific Research.

Many of the files relate to the Library Committee, including minutes, agenda and working papers from 1960 to 1987. There are also files about significant events and ‘Library Archives’ and ‘Library History’ files. Single numbers have been imposed because many files bear the same alphanumeric number.

This series is a collection of historical notes and writings, and original records, about the University contributed by former staff and students.

The publications include reports of the Computing Policy Committee.

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 lists of publications and proceedings of a conference.

These reports and submissions were published by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee on which the ANU is represented.

These are printed copies of strategic plans, and background papers, submissions and reports of reviews.

This file contains a report on the visit to New Guinea by Professor Raymond Firth, Professor Jim Davidson and Professor Oskar Spate in October-November 1951, a report ‘Some problems of development in New Guinea’ by Spate, CS Belshaw and Professor Swan, March 1953, and papers relating to PM Worsley a student in the Research School who was denied entry into New Guinea by the Department of Territories.

The papers include addresses made by Crawford from 1933 to 1982, including the Buntine Oration in 1968 and the Sir Robert Garran Oration in 1969. There are medals, degrees and certificates presented to Crawford, and photographs, including albums relating to official overseas visits as Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Trade and later as adviser to the World Bank. There are also publications relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Some material relates to Crawford's family including personal papers and photographs.

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.

The publications include issues of Studies in Demography, Industrial Relations Papers and publications about the Botany Bay project.

The publications include an information booklet and Working Papers of the Economics Division.

The publications include a report on the 1962 explosion and Fire in the Belly, a fiftieth anniversary history, by T Ophel and J Jenkin.

These are printed copies of the annual report of the University Co-op Credit Society Ltd.

These publications relate to ANUTECH Pty Ltd and include newsletters and annual reviews.

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.

These are publications about the Edith and Joy London Foundation and the University’s coastal campus at Kioloa.

These are printed copies of the annual report for the Endowment for Excellence. Annual report for 2004 is missing from the set.

There are publications relating to the former School of General Studies library (Chifley) and the Menzies Library, including articles relating to its construction, as well as a history for 1946–1996 by PA Vidot.

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.

There are a number of versions of booklets and brochures relating to the Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories.

These are copies of speeches given on campus on various occasions including the John Curtin Memorial Lectures.

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

There are a variety of publications in this series: general publications on undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses available, the annual publication ‘Studying at the ANU’, information for overseas students, directories of services for students, leaflets about scholarships and special admission schemes, leaflets about studies in each faculty, and information about accommodation.

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.

The Gazette was published as a general newsletter for students and staff of the College. Issues held in a black springback binder are:
• Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1951 to No. 12, September 1955 (with index)
• Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1956 to No. 6, November 1957
• Vol. 3, No. 1, July 1959 to No. 4, September 1960
The master set does not include issues Vol 1, No. 4 or any issues for 1958.

Natuni was an annual publication for members of Convocation, primarily graduates of the University and current and former staff. Issues held: No 1, Autumn 1980 – No 7, Winter 1988. There is a long gap between issues 5 and 6 with no issues published in 1984–1986.

These are general information booklets about the Australian National University. They appear to be written for a general audience with the exception of the 1987 publication which is directed at University staff.

This newsletter for staff and students of the University was published at irregular intervals but there were usually about three issues a year. There is a gap in the master set between July 1961 and October 1964 and it appears that it was not published during this time. A copy of the 1950 to 1958 issues and an incomplete set of later issues is held in the reading room. A complete bound set is held in the Rare Book Library.

Roneoed copies of seminar and conference papers presented at the earliest academic events at the University.

The black and white photographs document the early development of the University: the Easter Conference of 1948, the laying of foundation stones in 1949, the opening of buildings, the conferring of degrees, and visits by dignatories. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s many staff and buildings were photographed as well as visitors, Creative Arts Fellows, exhibitions and other events. Most of the photographs were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information, then the Commonwealth News and Information Bureau, and bear a number with a UN (University) prefix. The photographs were originally held in numbered manila envelopes and have now been placed in archival albums. Some envelopes were top-numbered into the later series, photographs of people and subjects (ANUA 225 and ANUA 226).

This collection of reports and papers appears to have been maintained by Quentin Gibson, head of the Philosophy Department in the Faculty of Arts.

This is a small set of printed enrolment procedures and faculty handbooks.

The binders contain typed research notes prepared for the writing of the 50th anniversary history of the University by Stephen Foster and Margaret Varghese. There are often copies of source material (correspondence or other documents) attached to the notes. The dates listed against each folder on the item list refer to the period of time covered by the notes rather than their date of creation – there is material dated from 1904 included.

These are printed programs for graduation ceremonies and for the conferring of honorary degrees.

The forms headed ‘Record of former member of University’ record name, department, file number, ‘if married to another member of ANU, husband’s/wife’s name’, degree conferred, country of birth, country from which recruited, scholarships and posts at ANU, date left ANU and posts held subsequently. Most relate to students but also to students who became staff members. It appears that the forms were to be the basis of a research project using punch cards to analyse where students were recruited from, when they left (either 1948-57 or 1958-67) and their subsequent career. This appears to be an attempt to evaluate the success of recruitment and scholarship programs for ‘early scholars’. The data seems to go to 1960 when the ANU and Canberra University College amalgamated. There are three separate runs of forms with no apparent reason for this.

These are printed booklets listing University officers, Council members, Chairmen of Council committees, former Officers, Emeritus Professors, Honorary graduates, and academic and senior administrative staff by Research School, Faculty or other organisational unit. There are also printed booklets of experts and speakers which are more selective lists of staff considered expert in particular subject areas available to comment to the media or speak at events.

These are annual printed copies of Faculty handbooks and rules, from 1994 published as the Undergraduate Handbook and the Undergraduate Rules Book. From 1998 they were published in one volume known as the Undergraduate Handbook. They give information about all courses offered such as prerequisites, number of lectures and tutorials, content, assessment and suggested reading.

This suede-bound volume contains a handwritten Roll of Convocation, listing members 1 to 201 from 1951 to 1952. It is not clear why it was not maintained for later years. There are numerous corrections to the numbering, spelling of names and the order of entries. There is a typed ‘Convocation List’ in the front cover and many of the names on this list are not in the volume, so it may be that the formal list in the volume was abandoned when further errors were discovered.

The Calendar was published annually for the coming year. Apart from a calendar of principal dates, the contents include: a description of the University and the work of the Departments of the Research Schools, lists of Council and Committee members, academic staff, senior administrative staff, graduates, research students, and members of convocation, legislation, statutes and rules, benefactions, and a list of staff publications. For 1971 (Part 1) and 1973 the publication was called General Information. A duplicate set for general reference use is located in the reading room.

This set of printed documents, drawings and maps is one of many distributed by the Commonwealth Government for the information of competitors in the Federal Capital Design Competition in 1911.

The negatives of photographs from 1948 to 1969 are held in glassine bags with a similar-sized print (12 x 9 cm). From 1977, the negatives are held as strips in plastic sleeves, with proof sheets, in binders.

This collection includes teaching materials, publications, material relating to the theatre and travel, as well as family photographs and objects, including items of academic dress.

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.

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

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.

These are hard-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Library Committee.

These are leather-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Council. Agenda papers such as reports from committees are also included.

The binders contain copies of transcripts, exhibits and awards relating to cases in the Federal Court brought by various unions relating to the Australian National University and other universities. The binders were maintained by the Industrial Library in the Human Resources Division.

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).

The volume contains a paper ‘The Press Opposition to the Site of Canberra’ presented to the Canberra and District Historical Society in 1955 and copies of related press articles, poems and cartoons (1899-1910) which form an appendix to the paper.

There are four copies of the album: one appears to be a file copy as it includes a list of photograph numbers in the back. Another is annotated to say that it was used in the London Office 1949-1952 (approx.). It is likely that the albums were compiled to show prospective staff members the facilities available at the University and in Canberra, as there are photographs of buildings, homes, churches, schools and recreational facilities. The 41 black and white photographs were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information and are endorsed with a single number with L prefix so are closely related to a National Archives' series of photographs (CRS A1200).

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’.

This is a typescript version of Shumack’s memoirs which relate to the early days of Canberra. He lived at ‘Duntroon’ from 1856 and then at ‘Springvale’ in Weetangera from 1866 to 1940. There is additional material such as obituaries, copies of death notices and letters at the back of the volume relating to Shumack, other family members and John Gale (1831–1929), Queanbeyan journalist.

There are three articles: Early British diplomatic representation in Australia, Old Canberra House and the British Connection, and Canberra House – Westminster House, 1931–1993.