Guide to the Search notes and filming instructions for the Public Record Office material of the Australian Joint Copying Project (as filmed by the AJCP).

Summary

Collection number:

M461

Extent:

47 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Search notes and instructions for filming of Public Record Office material. The typed lists have been marked up with AJCP reel numbers. The lists are arranged in numerical order within each record group, in the following sequence: Admiralty, Home Office, Privy Council, Board of Trade, Treasury, Audit Office, Paymaster General, War Office, Foreign Office, Board of Longitude, Colonial Office.

The search notes provide detailed contents lists for many of the AJCP reels, showing in some cases folio numbers of documents and an indication of their subject content. The Colonial Office listings complement the Comprehensive List of Colonial Office Records (the 'Blue Books'), reproduced on AJCP reels M418-421, in which documents are arranged by colony, and within each colony by subject.

Many of the notes reproduced on M461 are held in typescript form by the National Library of Australia and the Mitchell Library, and are available for consultation by users.

Biographical / Historical:

The Australian Joint Copying Project began filming at the Public Record Office in 1948. Many Colonial Office classes were filmed comprehensively, but staff attached to the National Library Liaison Office in London searched other classes to identify relevant records. Mitchell Library staff also used the microfilm copies to compile lists.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2190930] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW, 2000.

For further information see Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections)

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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