Guide to the Papers of Robert Stewart Parker, 1908-2002

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 8200, MS Acc06.178
Creator:
Robert Stewart Parker
Extent:
29.31 metres and (197 boxes + 1 folio box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Robert Stewart Parker, National Library of Australia, [class number/series/file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Part available for research; part not available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:
The collection documents Professor Parker's academic career and his private life interests. The papers include family and business correspondence, personal files, working papers, drafts and research material relating to his writing.
Biographical Note:

Robert Stewart Parker was born on 19 February 1915 in Artarmon N.S.W. He was educated at North Sydney Boys' High School and Sydney University. In 1938 he was appointed Lecturer in Public Administration and Secretary to the Council of the Canberra University College. From 1939 to 1945 he was Lecturer in Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, (with some years' leave for war service) before returning to the Canberra University College as Lecturer in Political Science. In 1947-48 Parker was a Social Science Research Fellow at the Australian National University, and from 1949 was Professor and head of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Victoria University College. In 1954 he returned to Canberra as Reader in the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social, Sciences Australian National University. He became Professor of Political Science in 1963 and retired in 1978.

Parker was a member of a number of official, academic and cultural bodies. He was a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Life Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, a Life Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration and the New Zealand College of Management, and a Life Member of Musica Viva Australia of which he was a Director from 1981 to 1990. He was President of the Australasian Political Studies Association in 1963-64. He was also a member of the 1957 Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment (Boyer Committee), the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea (1962-69) and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal (1972-73).

Collection Retrieval Advice:

Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there may be multiple Box 1s). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.

Provenance:

The original consignment of papers of R.S. Parker were acquired by the Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1990.

Further papers were added in: 1996 (Series 3, Subseries 5, File 465); March 2000 (Series 8); April 2002 (Series 9); and 4 February 2005 (Series 7, Subseries 4, Files 167-174).

Indexed terms

Names:
Cecily Parker (widow)

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2911389).
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Robert Stewart Parker, National Library of Australia, [class number/series/file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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