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National Archives of Australia staff off to Cuba to restore historic documents

May 19 2016

Most travel packing includes perhaps a little sunscreen or the latest novel, but for two Canberra conservators, their luggage to Cuba will contain far more inter

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Indigenous graduate John Morseu holds history in his hands at National Library

 

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National Archives of Australia preparing to move 15 million items into new storage facility in Canberra

Posted Sun at 8:19am

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From Artist to Archivist: Maryanne Doyle (Radio)

1 March 2016 in RadioPortraits by Emily George  

Maryanne Doyle, Radio Archivist at the NFSA, has always looked for ways to bring various art forms together.  From working in theatre, co-creating a fri

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National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature (formerly known as Lu Rees Archives)

 

Newsletter Volume 3 Issue 1

 

"Locating the original artwork

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Letter flown by balloon out of besieged Paris in 1870 discovered in National Archives

666 ABC Canberra 

By Louise Maher

Posted yesterday

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Surveying the state of audiovisual archiving in Papua New Guinea

Mick Newnham, Senior Researcher

One of the directions the NFSA is actively pursuing

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Archives steps in for 2020 policy targets

 

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Arch

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AIATSIS on Trove

Monday, 25 January 2016 - 1:45pm

 

A lantern slide from the United Aborigines Mission collection - Colebrook Home being prepared for scanning.

We're broadening our hor

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Proposed changes to copyright laws that affect archives and libraries

Written by PRO_Vic on January 19, 2016 

 

Copyright

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National Archives of Australia preparing to transfer their valuable collection

16 January 2016

Kimberley Le Lievre

Kimberley Le Lievre

Canberra Times and Chronicle reporter

Assistant Director-General (Government Information Assurance and Policy) at the National Archives of Australia Anne Lyons.

Assistant Director-General (Government Information Assurance and Policy) at the National Archives of

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Australian company, trade union and HIV records stowed in hill above Parkes Way

Date
13 January 2016 - 11:32PM

Reporter for The Canberra Times.

ANU archivist, Maggie Shapley, inside the vast archive building.

ANU archivist, Maggie Shapley, inside the vast archive building. Photo: Graham Tidy

When a truck

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