Archives Outside

A Day in the Life of a State Archive (part 4)

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Ann Item

The viewing! It’s 9am and our savvy web surfer is here. In fact, he arrived a bit earlier than the opening time and has been patiently waiting in the reader’s lounge with a cup of tea.

A Day in the Life of a State Archive (part 3)

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Ann Item

OK, it’s retrieval time; OMG, how exciting! The clerk on retrieval duty is on her way to collect me. Boy, does she have a long way to walk. The retrieval staff at State Records NSW walk, on average, 10-12km a day. According to her GCC pedometer she has already walked 15,564 steps.

A Day in the Life of a State Archive (part 2)

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Ann Item

- from request to delivery
[or: The Amazing Adventures of Dame Nellie Melba's Probate Packet]

Well, it’s ‘tomorrow’ and the pre-order is under way. Our savvy web surfer submitted the pre-order form yesterday and the archivist on ‘pre-order duty’ has received my details.

A Day in the Life of a State Archive (part 1)

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Ann Item

- from request to delivery
[or: The Amazing Adventures of Dame Nellie Melba's Probate Packet]
Someone just found me on the internet! I’m listed in a database called Archives Investigator – the online archival catalogue at State Records NSW. Not all of the 7+ million items stored here have been listed in the system so I feel [...]