Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA
Contact
- Street address
- Northcott Drive, Canberra 2600
- Postal address
- As above
- Phone
- (02) 6268-6270
- Fax
- (02) 6247-2324
- specialcollections@adfa.edu.au
- Website
- http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/speccoll.htm
About
- Officer in charge
- Co-ordinator, Special Collections
- Hours & facilities
- The Academy Library's Special Collections Reading Room is normally open Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5.00 pm throughout the year, except on public and university holidays. Readers planning to visit during ACT school holidays should confirm opening times with Special Collections staff in the Library by telephone on 02 6268 6270 or email specialcollections@adfa.edu.au.
- Acquisition focus
- Australian literary manuscripts; Australian military history manuscripts.
- Major holdings
- Doug Robertson Maritime and Naval History Collection: Photographs, negatives, notebooks etc 1825-1982 (25m).
- Robert Adamson: Manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks 1970-1994 (2.7m).
- Kate Llewellyn: Manuscripts, diaries, correspondence 1975-1995 (5.45m).
- David Foster
- Alex Miller
- Glenda Adams
- Lily Brett
- Robert Gray
- Dorothy Porter
- Geoff Page
- John Forbes
- John Romeril
- Nick Enright
- Alma de Groen
- Guides
- Collection level descriptions of all UNSW@ADFA manuscript collections are available via the Library's catalogue, or by searching the National Library's Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM). A full alphabetical list of the Academy Library's archival collectiosn, and detailed online finding aids for some collections are available at http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/finding_aids/msindex.html
Last updated: 8 June 2005