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State Records New South Wales, Western Sydney Records Centre

Contact

Street address
143 O'Connell Street, Kingswood 2747
Postal address
PO Box 517, Kingswood, NSW 2747
Phone
(02) 9673-1788
Fax
(02) 9833 4518
Email
archive@csu.edu.au
Website
http://www.csu.au/division/library/archives.htm

About

Hours & facilities
Access Services – Services to the Public

Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm and Sat 10am-4pm; closed Sunday and public holidays. Reference assistance available. Copying services for original records to A3, microfilms, photographs, maps and plans. Introductory brochure available. General reference assistance is available to reading room visitors with some limitation on enquiries by mail or phone. State Records online database (Archives Investigator and Photo Investigator) provides access to limited records and includes a facility to pre order records in the reading room as well as providing an online ordering service for photographs.

Other State Records services to the public include:

  • An exhibition program presenting exhibitions at the Sydney Records Centre
  • A diverse seminar and training program for the Sydney CBD and regional centres

  • Records Services – Services to the NSW Public Sector

  • Records Management - manage a framework of policy, legislation, standards, codes of best practice and guidelines governing the making, retention and management of State records and access to them.
  • Services and Guidance –provide a wide range of services to the public and the NSW public sector, along with guidance for public sector bodies on all aspects of records management.
  • Records in our Care - documentation, storage and preservation of records. These include the State archives collection held in our own facilities, State archives maintained elsewhere in partnership arrangements with other organisations, and semi-active records stored commercially for our public sector clients.
Access
Minimum age 18 years. Application for access approved on the spot only for original records in the open access period. 2 forms of identity with signatures required. Closed period of 30 years applies to most records. Access to records not normally available for research can be gained by letter of authority from creating agency.
Acquisition focus
To preserve records which: document government policy, determination and action; embody citizens' legal rights; and document information about their existence and identity. Records which are valuable for research on all aspects of the history and development of the State, communities, individuals, public administration.
Quantity
53,081 m (CAARA, 2004)
Major holdings
  • Supreme Court of NSW: Probate packets, 1817–c.1964 (3500 metres)
  • Immigration: Persons on bounty ships (Board Lists) 1848-1891 (6m); Persons on bounty ships (Agent Lists) 1838-1896 (4.5m).
  • Colonial Secretary: Indexes and registers 1826-1921 (16.2m); Letters received 1826-1934 (870.0m).
  • Stamp Duties Office: Indexes to deceased estate files 1880-1958 (52.9m); Deceased estate files 1880-1958 (1205.1m).
  • Education: School files 1876-1976 (750.4m).
  • Lands: Conditional sales files 1877-1912 (649.6m).
  • Public Trust Office: Estate files 1914-1982 (496.4m).
  • Clerk of the Peace: Supreme court papers 1824-1946 (159.6m).
  • Colonial Architect: Correspondence c.1837-1896 (12m).
  • Surveyor General: Maps and plans 1792-c1886 (c5m).
  • Principal Superintendent of Convicts: Indents 1788-1842 (2.8m).
Guides
  • State Records NSW, Archives Investigator, on-line archives information and access system accessible at http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/archives_investigator_37.asp
  • A current list of published guides are listed on the Website at http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/concise_guide_38.asp.
  • Online indexes are at http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp
  • Archives Authority of New South Wales, Concise Guide to State Archives of NSW (2nd edition). Sydney: Archives Authority of New South Wales, 1992.
  • Archives Authority of New South Wales, Guide to Convict Records in the Archives Office of New South Wales. Sydney: Archives Authority of New South Wales, 1981.
  • Archives Authority of New South Wales, Guide to Shipping and Free Passenger Records (2nd edition), Sydney: Archives Authority of NSW, 1984.
  • Guide to NSW State archives relating to Aboriginal people. State Records NSW 1998
  • Concise Guide to the State Archives, 2nd ed. (http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/concise_guide_38.asp)
See also
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Last updated: 2010-10-11