Primary contact
Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre & Archives
1 Rockwall Crescent, Potts Point
Postal address: PO Box 21, Potts Point NSW 1335.
Sydney, New South Wales 2011
Identity area
Identifier
daa/158
Authorized form of name
Sisters of Charity of Australia Heritage Centre and Archives, Potts Point, New South Wales
Parallel form(s) of name
Other form(s) of name
- Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia
- Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia
Type
- Religious
- Private
Contact area
Archives Manager
Type
Address
Street address
Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre & Archives
1 Rockwall Crescent, Potts Point
Postal address: PO Box 21, Potts Point NSW 1335.
Locality
Sydney
Region
New South Wales
Country name
Postal code
2011
Telephone
02 9138 0840
Fax
archives@rscoffice.com
Note
Description area
History
The Sisters of Charity of Australia Congregational Archives is the central repository for records and museum objects of the first Catholic female Religious order to arrive in Australia in 1838.
Established in 1989, the Congregational Archives has been staffed by professional lay staff since 1995.
The Congregational Archives holds material relating to the past and present ministries of the Sisters of Charity in four states – New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland, mainly in the ministries of health, education, prisons, community care, the homeless, childcare, rural and remote, social justice as well as overseas missions in Papua New Guinea, and some countries of the Pacific, Asia and Africa.
Geographical and cultural context
The Archives also holds records, museum objects and textiles relating to individual Sisters, convents and communities of Sisters, as well as governance and administration of the Congregation.
Mandates/Sources of authority
Administrative structure
Archives Manager, Archivist, Collections Registrar, Assistant Archivist
Records management and collecting policies
The Congregational Archives generally collects its own records only.
Buildings
Holdings
The Congregational Archives holds the records of this Catholic religious congregation (its governing and administrative bodies, individual members, convents and communities) and of the facilities it used to provide services in the fields of health, education, community care and childcare.
Finding aids, guides and publications
Access area
Opening times
Researchers are required to pre-book appointments with the Archives Manager.
Closed on public holidays and between Christmas and New Year.
Access conditions and requirements
Access is by completion of an access form. As it is a private Archives, some records may have access restrictions. A closed period of 30 years applies to most records.
Accessibility
Services area
Research services
Please email with reference enquiry.
Reproduction services
Fee for copying: 1-5 pages (A3 and A4 size) $ 5 ; 1-10 pages (A3 and A4): $10
Supply of digital image: $15 per image. (As at February 2018)
Application forms are available for both obtaining copies and for permission to reproduce.
Public areas
Control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised 22 February 2022
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Maintenance notes
Access points
Access Points
- Arts and Culture (Thematic area)
- Education (Thematic area)
- Indigenous (Thematic area)
- Law and Justice (Thematic area)
- Medicine and Health (Thematic area)
- Out of Home Care (Thematic area)
- Religion (Thematic area)