The Reading Room will be CLOSED from 4pm Friday 14 December 2018 and reopen at 10am Monday 7 January 2019. Summer Hours are now in effect in the Reading Room (Mon-Fri 10am - 4pm) through to Friday 22 February 2019.
Congratulations to Lachlan Glanville and Fiona Ross of the University of Melbourne Archives, whose articles in The Conversation have been recognised by the presenting of Mander Jones Awards by the Australian Society of Archivists. These awards recognise writing about archives for a general audience or an audience that is rarely exposed to archival thinking. Both articles highlight the many human interactions and range of emotions which are reflected in records. They also give an insight into what it is like to work with very personal records and suggest many ways in which they might be valued by researchers.
Each year, students from the graduate course Digital Humanities MULT900056 work through the process of digitising UMA material, including selection, metadata creation, digitisation and publication.
The University of Melbourne Archives recently acquired the papers of Geoffrey Bell (1944-2008). The collection documents the social and political history of the disability rights movement in Australia during that period.
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