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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 52| August 2001


Donation of Australian Annual Reports

The TransData Corporation is donating its vast collection of Australian public company annual reports to the National Library of Australia and the first instalment of 900 annual reports covering the period from 1999 to 2000 has been received.

The donation comprises recent reports as well as runs dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. It significantly enhances the Library’s existing collection of company reports. According to Meredith Batten, Serials Manager, ‘the collection will be useful to many people including independent researchers, company employees, business and political journalists, economists, accountants and students’.

TransData Corporation publishes Webreports, an online archive of reports generated by listed companies. Reports are scanned and made available in PDF format. The printed reports are then transferred to the Library and added to the Australian print collections.

James Harker-Mortlock, Managing Director of TransData Corporation, says ‘Australia’s colourful corporate history, which is a work of art in progress, is to be preserved for teaching future generations of Australians and we are pleased to donate our collection to the National Library of Australia.’
—Chris Foster

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