Agreement on Collecting Policy in Relation to Business and Trade Union Archives

Between the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia, 1961

  1. The National Library would in general vacate the field of collecting business records and would support the Australian National University in its collecting.

  2. For the time being the Australian National University would in general confine its collecting to the field of business records - that is, the records of employer and employee organisations and of business firms.

  3. After the Australian National University collectors had processed their documents and had completed the necessary research, and when the National Library has secured its new accommodation, the Australian National University would hand on the material to the National Library for permanent storage in its own custody or appropriate dispersal elsewhere, subject to the wishes of the owners or donors of any material.

  4. Both organisations were prepared to issue a joint letter to the Trade Unions saying that collecting could be resumed, but although it was also felt that any official statement should await the results of a conference of Federal and State bodies to be held at an early date.

  5. The Australian National University would correspondingly support the National Library in its collecting in all other fields.

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