Opening Hours
and Contacts
Restricted Access to Special Collections
- 22 January 2010 - 22 March 2010
Access to material held in the Special Collections will be severely
restricted for up to two months.
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For information and assistance outside normal hours, please contact
the Library's Service desk on 02 6268 8116 or use the Ask
Us service.
Borrowing
All monographs, theses and journals with "special" in
the call number are held in Special Collections. All Special Collections
material can only be consulted in the Special Collections Reading
Room. After hours access to theses may be granted at the discretion
of the Special Collections Co-ordinator.
Special Collections participates in the
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) operations of the Library. Requests
should be made through the patron’s home library and our
Inter Library Loan and Document Delivery Services will consult
with us to determine whether a loan is allowable. The condition of
the individual document/s and the size of the job will determine
whether a request can be accepted.
Facilities
General reference assistance is available. Laptop computers, scanners,
digital cameras and tape recorders may be used in the Reading
Room. DVD and video players can also be made available for viewing
PAL, SECAM or NTSC tapes.
Copying
Some rare books, theses and manuscripts may be copied depending
on the provisions of the Copyright Act, and the condition of the
item. All copying is undertaken by Special Collections staff at
a cost recovery rate.
Rare Books and
Theses
Special Collections holds approximately 13,500 rare books, principally
in the areas of Australian literature and Australian military
history and is a repository for print
copies of UNSW@ADFA theses. Copies of UNSW@ADFA
theses can be purchased by libraries and individuals for research
purposes.
Manuscripts
Special Collections has been acquiring material since 1986 and
now holds more than 300 manuscript collections to support UNSW@ADFAs
teaching and research in Australian literature and military and
political history. Most collections cover contemporary Australian
literature.
An appointment is necessary to access the manuscript collections.
At least two weeks advance notice is required as some collections
are subject to access restrictions and most are subject to copying
restrictions.
Special Collections welcomes donations of Australian military
material that meets our Military
manuscripts collecting policy. Please contact specialcollections@adfa.edu.au
if you would like to make a donation.
Collection level descriptions of all UNSW@ADFA manuscript collections
are available via the Library
Catalogue or by searching the National Library's Trove
database.
An alphabetical list of the Academy
Library's archival collections is available, and further links
will be made as the finding aids are encoded using the Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) format and made available as html documents.
In-house electronic finding aids listing collection name, number
and contents by box and wallets are also available for all housed
collections, and can be obtained free of charge via email specialcollections@adfa.edu.au
or mail.
Guides to Australian
Literary Manuscripts
The database consists of electronic guides, or finding aids for
collections of Australian literary manuscripts. These guides are
available on the Web for researchers to consult at: http://findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/.
Contact Information:
Special Collections and Reading Room
Academy Library
UNSW@ADFA
CRICOS Provider Code: 00100G
Australian Defence Force Academy
Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: +61 2 6268 6270
Fax: +61 2 6247 2324
Email: specialcollections@adfa.edu.au
URL: http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/speccoll.htm
Staff
Wilgha Edwards (Special
Collections Co-ordinator)
Phone: 02 6268 6270
