Primary contact
Chancellery Building B (formerly D), 26 Sports Walk, Monash University Clayton Campus
Melbourne, Victoria 3800
Identity area
Identifier
daa/358
Authorized form of name
Monash University Archives, Melbourne
Parallel form(s) of name
Other form(s) of name
Type
- University
Contact area
Archives Manager
Type
Address
Street address
Chancellery Building B (formerly D), 26 Sports Walk, Monash University Clayton Campus
Locality
Melbourne
Region
Victoria
Country name
Postal code
3800
Telephone
03 9905 3674
Fax
archives@monash.edu
URL
www.monash.edu/records-archives
Note
Description area
History
Monash University was established by an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1958 and took its first students at Clayton Campus in 1961. The University Archives was established in 1978 following passage of the Victorian Public Records Act. In the 1990s Monash merged with:
- Chisholm Institute of Technology
- Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, and
- Pharmacy College of Victoria
giving it a further four campuses. Historical records from those campuses are also held in the Archives.
Geographical and cultural context
Mandates/Sources of authority
Administrative structure
Records management and collecting policies
The University Archives are in-house and geared to documenting administrative processes and the teaching and research functions of the University. The Archives also accepts private papers from senior staff when appropriate.
Buildings
Holdings
Administrative records from offices of the Vice Chancellor, Deans, and academic Heads of Departments; and agenda and minutes of University boards and committees.
Records of Monash Association of Students; Managers of Alexander and George Jenkins theatres and Robert Blackwood Hall; and private papers of individual academics.
Administrative correspondence, board and committee papers relating to:
- Chisholm Institute of Technology and its predecessors, 1922-1990
- State College of Victoria (Frankston), 1959-1977
- Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, 1970-1990 and
- Pharmacy College of Victoria, 1960-1993.
Finding aids, guides and publications
Archives webpages include details of:
- collections of personal papers held
- digitised university publications, and
- databases of historical images and past graduates.
More detailed series descriptions are available on request.
Access area
Opening times
Open Monday to Friday 8.30am-4pm by appointment.
Closed between Christmas and New Year.
Access conditions and requirements
Restrictions on access to personal and confidential records.
Accessibility
A location map with parking and bus routes is included on the website at www.monash.edu
Services area
Research services
Reference enquiries and requests to visit can be emailed to archives@monash.edu
Reproduction services
Copies may be provided contingent on condition and format of original records and on volume requested.
Public areas
Control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised 11 April 2018
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Maintenance notes
Access points
Access Points
- Arts and Culture (Thematic area)
- Education (Thematic area)
- Law and Justice (Thematic area)
- Medicine and Health (Thematic area)
- Science and Technology (Thematic area)
- Social Organisations and Activities (Thematic area)