Directory of Archives in Australia

About

Officer in charge

Lyn Milton, Archivist

Hours & facilities

10am – 4pm Tuesday – Thursday.  Photocopying, scanning, video; microfilm reader; facilities for using laptop computers;  researcher photography available for appropriate records

Access

Readers are requested to make an appointment

Acquisition focus

The collection contains the administrative records of organisations within the credit union industry, the archival records individual credit unions, and personal papers of some prominent individuals in the credit union movement.

Quantity

500m

Major holdings

Any or all of these records many be held for any credit union – Board and Committee Minutes; correspondence; newsletters; annual reports; publications; histories; photographs of events and personalities.

Guides

Collection database available in-house.  Printed lists of histories of individual credit unions and of annual reports held in the collection, both published in 2004 are available on request [Although substantial quantities have been added to our collection since these were published.].

References

McNamara, T ‘Working together – the challenge for professional and not-for-profit organisations’. Australian Society of Archivists Inc Conference 2005