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

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.

Index cards on medicinal and other useful plants in the Solomon islands, A-Z, arranged by plant family. The cards record: Name; Family; Habitat; Constituents; Therapeutic activity; Local names; Sources of information; Preparation and use; Regions reporting use; Other locations reporting use. Most of the information has been obtained from Central and Makira /Ulawa Province. The main language groups include: Temotu, Malaita-San Cristobal, Gela-Guadalcanal and New Georgia.

Includes manuals, reports, newsletters and other publications, photographs, committee and meeting papers, memos and correspondence.

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

Personal correspondence with library colleagues and academic staff, and copies of travel reports, articles and presentations.

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.

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.

Correspondence, notes and reports on matters concerning the internal governance of the Australian National University created by Professor Low and relating to the more sensitive and confidential matters he had to deal with as Vice-Chancellor from 1975 to 1982.

Subjects include academic staffing and research positions, graduate education, students’ organisations, tertiary education fees, government funding, the University’s budgetary position, a review of the University’s Research Schools (Institute of Advanced Studies) 1976-1982, ANU conferences and seminars 1980-1981, proposed Australian Institute of Development Studies and the development of the University of Papua New Guinea.

Also included are speech notes, invitations and letters of appreciation relating to various functions including conferring of degrees ceremonies and official visits, reports of overseas visits and the Vice-Chancellor’s reports to the Australian National University 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1982.

Collected papers on Papua New Guinea history, mining, and independence including interviews with spokesmen of the Highlands Liberation Front, research papers and reports. Includes papers relating to the University of Papua New Guinea Council, transcripts of interviews with Papuan Defence Force personnel and Papuan Chinese on their experiences.

Research material probably relating to Lacey’s 1975 PhD Thesis 'Oral traditions as history: an exploration of oral sources among the Enga of the New Guinea highlands'

118 tape recordings of oral histories, legends and genealogies. Compact cassettes C60, C90 and long play tapes.

19 field diaries and notebooks kept by Lacey, recording his research progress, process and details of interviews.

The plans and reports mostly relate to civil defence and transport issues in the Northern Territory, Cape York and the Kimberley and Pilbara areas of Western Australia.

Correspondence, 1978-1981
Articles, 1978-1986
Conference & workshop papers, 1980-1982
Press cuttings/reports, 1977-1982
Files on politics in Vanuatu, 1975-1980

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

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

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

This series contains research files on subjects including hospital figures, public debt in Australian states and employment.

The mostly annual compilations of correspondence include correspondence to the Master of University House and copies of their replies in chronological order. In earlier years the correspondence is in binders and in later years loose in folders.

This volume has an alphabetical index at the side. Names of people attending University House dinners are noted in the appropriate alphabetical section (by surname or in the case of diplomats, by country) with the dates of the dinners they attended.

This collection is of photographs, press cuttings and audiovisual material from the North Australia Research Unit (NARU), an ANU facility located in Darwin. It comprises mostly photographic prints, with some negatives, in five albums, two scrapbooks of material about NARU as well as the Northern Territory generally, and two films taken in 1974 (after Cyclone Tracy) and 1976, along with an audiotape commentary. The photographs range in subject from official visits and fieldwork to social functions, and many are not individually listed.

Papers relating to fieldwork and research at Kuk.

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.

Includes, brochures, stickers, clothing and posters relating to the prevention HIV/AIDS and other health matters in the Pacific Islands, particularly Papua New Guinea. Also includes reports from the Department of Health in Papua New Guinea.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The black binders contain minutes and agenda papers for meetings of the Undergraduate Awards Committee which considered a range of prizes such as the University Medal. There are some gaps and overlaps; in particular no papers for the period mid-1985 to 1986.

Papers documenting Max Neutze's involvement with the Victorian Urban Land Council, Canberra Commercial Development Authority and the Australian Population and Immigration Council.

Publications including reports, reprints, occasional papers and research monographs.

This series has not been processed yet.

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

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

Records documenting the exchange agreement between the Australian National University and Moscow State University in the Soviet Union.

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.

These files relate to the Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art including the appointment of Directors, their Councils and building requirements and predate their administration by the ACT Government and the Australian National University. Includes Canberra Art School (old Canberra High School) plans and planning brief.

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

These three binders include reports of review committees and comments by Faculty Boards on them for reviews of Research Schools and departments and centres within Research Schools.

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.

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

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.

This series has not been processed. Boxes received from Alan Atkinson (1-3), Bill Gammage (4), Ann Curthoys (5), Peter Spearritt (6-16), Stephen Foster (17-35, 37, 52-56), Ken Inglis (36), Allan Martin (38-48), Graeme Davison (49-50) and JW McCarty (51).

The audio tape recordings, typescript copies of seminar papers and an index relate to a series of seminars presented by the Development Studies Centre in 1977–1978.

This series consists of speeches and articles on philosophy and economics by Professor Brennan. One exam paper is included.

Hal Kendig correspondence files (1981 - 1985), D. Rowland correspondence files (1980-1985), project correspondence, computer printouts of statistical results (1982-1985) with computer coding files included, chapters from the project book, Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs (AIME) Ethnic Aged Survey 1984. This deposit also holds records of the Adelaide Housing Survey (1977-1979) which was conducted by the ANU Urban Research Unit, a project which Hal Kendig directed.

Cards summarising some individual employees’ salary and leave. Contain employee name, address, date of birth, annual salary, reasons for salary changes and leave entitlements.

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.

This series contains various documents relating to Ann Curthoys' involvement in the Australian Bicentennial History Project and in teaching and researching Women's Studies at the Australian National University.

Papers relating Ted Steele’s academic career, 1981-2003; scientific research and publications, 1993-2003, mainly pertaining to his reassessment of Lamarck’s evolution theories; alleged scientific misconduct by John Curtin School of Medical Research director, Professor Kevin Lafferty, 1977; plagiarism dispute with British scientist, Professor John Cairns, 1981-1992; criticism of the University of Wollongong’s academic standards and the assessment of honours students in Department of Biological Sciences, 1989-2001; dismissal from the University of Wollongong, 26 Feb 2002, and the involvement of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) following this event. Includes the campaign against proposed changes to the administrative and financial control of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, 1991-1993; Senate Inquiry into the capacity of public universities to meet Australia’s higher education needs, 2001. Also contains photographs, audio visual material and books.

Correspondence, press cuttings, journal articles and reviews, unpublished verse, theatre programmes and poster, 1981; photograph and other documents; Thesis: Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982; audio recordings on cassette tape, duplicated typescripts, and publications.

Most of the papers are proposals and reports on particular development programs from Brogan’s role as Director of the Asia Program in the National Centre for Development Studies and the National Graduate School of Management. They relate to projects in Vietnam, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, India, East Timor and China, particularly under the China Australia Governance Program. There are also some photographs of course participants and training materials. Also contains research and government papers relating to the Papua New Guinea government and economy.

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.

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.

A public affairs programme produced by the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University at the Instructional Resources Unit, ANU.

These records are minutes documenting the Intermediate Awards committee’s decisions and background information to those decisions.

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.

Notebooks relating to fieldwork with the Hegeso people of Papua New Guinea, and cassette tapes of recordings of music, Foi stories, stories in pidgin, meetings, arbitration cases, lectures, radio recordings, interviews, and discussions.

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 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.

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 set of posters for each Faculty and for 'student accommodation' with photographs of the campus provide an example of approaches to student recruitment.

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

Research collection collected by Geoffrey Hope during fieldwork in Papua (Irian Jaya) and Papua New Guinea (1980 - 1995). Collection consists of reprinted articles, unpublished reports, one field notebook, one closed ANU file (5-17-2) on the Mount Wilhelm Research Station, photographs, newspaper clippings, expedition equipment shipping lists and associated paperwork.

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.

Recordings of Kirsty Hamilton's interviews with Ferdinand Marcos; Aga Shahi, Pakistan Foreign Minister; Sihanouk, King of Cambodia; Qazi Ghan, General Secretary Students Union SMA Law College Karachi; Philippine dissidents; Lahore dancing girls; Gunther Rossinus, Foreign Policy to Commander in Chief - Pacific, Reagan Administration; Mujahideen Commander; Noel Barker; Senator Alan Cranston; Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State, Inter-American Affairs; Thomas Niles, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. Also includes recordings of news reports.

Subject files on the ANU Students Association, Australian Union of Students and ANU Law School Action Group, including notes, correspondence, position papers, circulars and printed material.

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.

Examination booklets containing questions set for Law students.

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.

Contains anthropological research papers relating to four Papua New Guinea projects.

1. Records of the Milne Bay Oil Palm social impact study are
   fieldwork papers (items 1-12),
   consultancy report papers (items 13-18),
   related technical reports (items 19-31)
   a map (item 32), and
   other correspondence (items 33-35).

2. Records of the Wapolu Gold Mine, Fergusson Island : Socio-Economic Impact Study (SEIS) are
   fieldword papers (items 36-59)
   consultancy report papers (items 60-63)
   reference notes and reports (items 64-77)
   cassette recordings (items 78-88)
   colour kodachrome slides (items 89-148)
   colour prints (items 149-172)

3. Records of the Woodlark (Muyuw) Island are
   forestry study (items 173-182)
   Kodachrome colour slides (items 182-246)

4. Records of South Normanby Island
   fieldwork papers (items 247-267)
   maps (items 268-270)
   colour kodachrome slides (items 271-370)
   cassette recordings (items 371-372)

These are copies of printed greetings sent to Australian and overseas universities on special occasions such as inauguration, installation of Chancellors and anniversaries. Some examples include special messages and appoint a representative of the University to deliver the greetings in person.

Addresses from the Australian National University to other universities celebrating significant events such as the installation of Chancellors or anniversaries.

1 poster

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.

These are recordings and transcripts of interviews with ANU academic and general staff for the 60th anniversary and other history projects.

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 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.

Videotapes of lectures 1 and 3 to 7 given by Professor Albert.

These sound recordings cover School of Art lectures and workshops given by various artists from 1983 to 2005.

Applications for scholarships, correspondence between trust members and assessment committee, register of scholarship recipients.

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 collection contains material related to the compiling and publishing of the Encyclopaedia of the Australian People. It includes correspondence with the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the ANU Research School of Social Sciences, various immigration and ethnic groups, publishing and marketing arrangements, copyright clearances, Project & Management Committee minutes, annual reports, articles and information submitted by contributors.

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.

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.

There are over 70 mainly colour slide transparencies, many taken by Bob Cooper, of the campus and also copies of older photographs of ceremonies and events as background information for an introductory training course in the Administrative Development Program.

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

Files and correspondence, Pacific Research newsletters and files relating to volumes of the newsletter.

Publications and photograph album.

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