Primary contact
1-39 Plymouth Road, Croydon
Melbourne, Victoria 3136
Identity area
Identifier
daa/582
Authorized form of name
Luther College, Independent Co-educational Secondary School, Melbourne
Parallel form(s) of name
Other form(s) of name
- Luther College
Type
- Educational
Contact area
Archivist
Type
Address
Street address
1-39 Plymouth Road, Croydon
Locality
Melbourne
Region
Victoria
Country name
Postal code
3136
Telephone
03 9724 2000
Fax
03 9724 2007
archives@luther.vic.edu.au
URL
www.luther.vic.edu.au
Note
Description area
History
The Luther College Archives was established in 2006 as a small, school collecting archives.
Luther College is a Lutheran independent non-government co-educational secondary school which opened in 1964 with 54 students. It now has an enrolment of almost 1200 students.
It was originally designed to cater for the education of children of Lutheran farmers, mostly from the Western Districts and surrounding areas and so students were mainly boarders. Boarding was discontinued in 2002.
Today the school population is incredibly varied, taking students mostly from the local area but also extending its reach into the Dandenongs and the outer northern and some eastern suburbs.
Geographical and cultural context
The school is situated on 32 acres in outer eastern Melbourne. While students represent many different faiths (or none), the school maintains a strong Christian Protestant ethic and outlook.
Mandates/Sources of authority
Administrative structure
Officer-in-charge: Archivist The archives is responsible to the Luther College Council via the Principal
Records management and collecting policies
Records created in-house only.
Buildings
No building permanently assigned to the Archives. Currently housed in a cottage previously used by boarders.
Holdings
All holdings date from the school's inception in 1964 with only some records pre-dating this. Records include:
- school magazine
- organisational and administrative records
- correspondence
- newspaper clippings relating to school
- photographs (digital and hard copy)
- student rolls
- memorabilia (uniforms etc)
- honour boards.
Cataloguing is a work in progress (as at 2018).
Finding aids, guides and publications
Access area
Opening times
Luther College Archives is an in-house archives and therefore, closed to the public. It is open to accredited persons by appointment only.
Access conditions and requirements
Permission in writing must be gained from the Principal prior to making an appointment with the Archivist.
All visitors need to register at Reception prior to being admitted to the campus. A current Working with Children Check is desirable.
Closed period of 30 years applies to most records, the exception being public records.
Accessibility
Services area
Research services
On request via the Principal only.
Reproduction services
Can be arranged, if required. Fees may be payable.
Public areas
Control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Entered 25 April 2018
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Maintenance notes
Access points
Access Points
- Education (Thematic area)