Primary contact
Nathan Campus, Building N53, Room 0.03, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan
Brisbane, Queensland 4111
Identity area
Identifier
daa/237
Authorized form of name
Griffith Archive
Parallel form(s) of name
- Griffith University Archives, Brisbane
Other form(s) of name
Type
- University
Contact area
Type
Address
Street address
Nathan Campus, Building N53, Room 0.03, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan
Locality
Brisbane
Region
Queensland
Country name
Postal code
4111
Telephone
07 3735 9605
Fax
griffitharchive@griffith.edu.au
URL
griffitharchive.griffith.edu.au
Note
Description area
History
Griffith University, Brisbane's second university, was constituted by the Queensland Parliament in 1971 and takes its name from Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, a former Queensland Premier and Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. On the 10th March 1975, Griffith University began teaching at our foundation campus at Nathan. There were four foundation Schools - Australian Environmental Studies, Humanities, Modern Asian Studies and Science.
By the late 1980s, the Australian Government had decided that the tertiary sector in Australia needed restructuring and set about an agenda of forced institutional amalgamations. This meant that by the beginning of 1992, our university had grown from a compact one campus institution - to a major Australian university with four campuses that incorporated the following teaching organisations:
- Mount Gravatt Teacher's College - Mount Gravatt campus,
- Gold Coast College of Advanced Education - Gold Coast campus,
- Queensland College of Art and Queensland Conservatorium - South Bank campus
Our fifth and final campus (Logan) opened in 1998 and was established to specifically address the interests and needs of potential students in the Logan City and surrounding areas. For further information about the history, see https://griffitharchive.griffith.edu.au/our-history/
The Griffith Archive tells the Griffith Story - which is the history of Griffith University. The Archive shares the Griffith story in a number of ways including making its collection publicly available on the Griffith Archive website - griffitharchive.griffith.edu.au.
Geographical and cultural context
Mandates/Sources of authority
Griffith University Act 1971 (Qld)
Administrative structure
Officer-in-charge: Curator - Griffith Archive
Records management and collecting policies
Official and some non-official records of the University. See http://policies.griffith.edu.au/pdf/Griffith%20Archive%20Collection%20Policy.pdf
Buildings
Holdings
Quantity: 500m (100% in-house).
Finding aids, guides and publications
Access area
Opening times
No reference assistance or copying services available.
Access conditions and requirements
Most Archive Collection content is available for public viewing/use via our website or by contacting the Griffith Archive curator.
Accessibility
Services area
Research services
Research requests/activities are undertaken by the Griffith Archive provided the area of research relates to the Griffith story.
Reproduction services
No copying services available. However, scans of most collection items are available upon request.
Public areas
Control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised 3 June 2018
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Maintenance notes
Access points
Access Points
- Education (Thematic area)