Support by the New South Wales Government for the Archives Authority of New South Wales 1960–98 and State Records New South Wales 1999–2012

  • Alan Ventress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2012.760165
Keywords: archives and records management, government funding

Abstract

Despite optimistic pronouncements by successive New South Wales governments since 1961, support for archives and records management in New South Wales is amongst the lowest in Australia. This has led to State Records New South Wales being in breach of its own legislation, because of low levels of funding and the inability to carry out its statutory functions. Numerous reviews of operations have failed to convince the New South Wales Government that recurrent funding for the agency is urgently needed, especially for continuing the Digital State Archive pilot, the preservation of the archives collection and the arrangement and description of the collection.

Author Biography

Alan Ventress

Alan Ventress is currently the Volunteer Assistant Archivist at the Sydney Diocesan Archives. He was Director at the State Records Authority of New South Wales from 2008 to 2012 and Associate Director between 2001 and 2008. He first worked as a librarian at the University of New South Wales and became Collection Development Librarian at the State Library of New South Wales in 1987 and Mitchell Librarian in 1993. He has been active in the Royal Australian Historical Society, the New South Wales Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the Henry Parkes Foundation, Dictionary of Sydney and the New South Wales Geographical Names Board, and his services have been recognised with a Centenary Medal and Life Membership of the History Council of New South Wales.

Published
2013-03-14
How to Cite
Ventress A. (2013) “Support by the New South Wales Government for the Archives Authority of New South Wales 1960–98 and State Records New South Wales 1999–2012”, Archives & Manuscripts, 41(1), pp. 69-76. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2012.760165.
Issue
Vol 41 No 1 (2013)
Section
Reflection articles

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