Collecting women’s archives at the ANU Archives

  • Maggie Shapley University Archivist, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Keywords: Women’s archives, University archives, acquisition, appraisal, disposal

Abstract

The Australian National University Archives holds both the archives of the University and a large collection of business and labour archives in the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. Both are governed by collecting policies, and neither of these policies mention gender. The relative absence of women’s voices in both collections raises the question about whether archival policies should seek to redress past silences.

Published
2017-11-28
How to Cite
Shapley M. (2017) “Collecting women’s archives at the ANU Archives”, Archives & Manuscripts, 46(1), pp. 78–82. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2017.1402354.
Section
Reflection articles