Noel Butlin Archives Centre
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) is a nationally significant collection of primary source material relating to business and labour and the history of AIDS education and prevention. The collection houses over 13,087 shelf meters of archives (ACA Australian Archival Statistics, 1998). It is one of the more significant collections of archives relating to railway unions in Australia.
Since 1953 the ANU Archives of Business and Labour, now known as the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, has principally focused on collecting records of companies and organisations that represent Australian industry at a national and regional level. The Centre preserves records of trade unions, companies, and employer, industry and professional bodies. It also holds personal papers of individuals whose activities relate to Australian industry, the labour movement and public life. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour movement.
Highlights of the business collections include such prominent companies as the Australian Agricultural Company, inscribed on the Australian Memory of the World Register in 2003, Dalgety & Co., Burns Philp & Co Ltd, CSR Limited, Tooth & Co Ltd, and Elder Smith & Co Ltd.
The National AIDS Archive Collection (NAAC) documents the history of AIDS education and prevention in Australia up to 1993, when the Collection stopped accepting new material. It contains material from a wide range of government agencies, community-based organisations, academic and research centres, and individuals.
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