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Opening Hours |
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- Monday - Thursday
11:00 - 1:00 pm
2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Friday
11:00 - 1:00pm
- At other times:
via the Client Services desk,
Level 2, Morris
Miller Library
Telephone: (03) 6226 2222
E-mail: Archivist@lib.utas.edu.au
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Location
The Special and Rare Materials Collection is part of the Resources and Access Unit (Special
Collections Section) of the University Library, and is located
on the 5th floor of the Morris Miller Library. Quaker and Royal Society book and serial collections are located in open shelves but rare materials and archival materials are housed in the Archives office at the end of the book stacks. The Special Collections Librarian's office is located directly outside the Archives Office.
There are also small collections of rare materials in the Art Library and the Music Library. (Stewart Challender collection...
About Special Collections
The Special and Rare
Materials Collection, part of the Resources and Access Unit (Special
Collections Section) of the University Library, is the official keeping place for historic archives
deposited by various institutions, bodies or families of some
other institutions, whose records are of sufficient historical
interest to warrant careful preservation and maintenance. It is
also the repository for some of the University's older records
of a non-official nature.
The Special and Rare
Materials collections service is now limited to maintenance of and access
provision to, existing collections. The collections no longer
accept new material from outside organisations or individuals
unless they supplement existing holdings, or form a valuable and
related addition to the collections.
The Special/Rare
Collection staff are able to undertake limited searches for
material for outside users, and access to files and material
is available to personal visitors. A staff member is available
for visitors during documented
opening hours (see above) and Reference staff will provide urgent access outside this time.
An answering service is available for telephone enquiries which
will be dealt with at the earliest available opportunity.
Please
contact the Collection Management/Special Collections Librarian
(Graeme Rayner,
phone (03) 6226 2231) or the Special Collections Assistant (Luana Nandan, phone (03) 6226 2222) with any queries about access and availability
of resources.
The former
University archives (i.e. the formal records of the University)
are now held at the Archives Office of Tasmania.
The current
collections embrace private sector or personal archives and manuscripts,
all of which relate to the social, economic, literary, religious
and scientific history of Tasmania. Other major collections held
include those of the Tasmanian Baptist Church, the Society of
Friends, the Friends' School, Quaker deposits and the Royal Society
Archives - a fascinating vista of colonial science and technology.
Indexes
to archival material (including the old indexes to the formal University Archives
which still provides some guide to the contents now transferred
to the Archives Office of Tasmania).
Some of
the deposits listed above have some restrictions on their use,
and on the publication of material using data from them. For this
reason access to that archival or manuscript material may require
prior permission from the depositor(s). Call us for advice.
Rare Books
Also housed
in the Special/Rare materials area are the Morris Miller Library's
Rare Book, Quaker Rare Book and Christ College Rare Book collections on Level 5. Rare or valuable items acquired by the
Library. Material is listed in the catalogue with the location Morris Miller Rare.
As material in the Rare Books collection is located in the Special/Rare
Materials area and can only be used in the Library, you should ask
the Library Assistant, Special/Rare Materials, about using these
items. This area is normally staffed between 11am-1pm and 2pm and 4pm, Monday
toThursday and 10am-12pm, Friday.
Collection codes:- Morris Miller Rare, Morris Miller Quaker Rare, Morris Miller
Roy Soc Rare,
Morris Miller College Rare etc
There are small collections of rare materials in the Art Library (Art Rare) the Music Library (Music Rare) and the Law Library (Law Rare).
Quaker collection
Level 5: Material deposited with the University
by the Society of Friends with subsequent additions by the Library.
The collection covers all aspects of the Society of Friends, their
religion, philosophy, life and thought. All items are listed in
the computer catalogue.. Material in this collection is not normally
available for loan and should be used in the Library. Some items designated Cent Quaker Rare are located with
the Rare Books collection in the Special/Rare collection. Collection code: - Morris Miller Quaker
See also:
Online collections
Some items from the UTAS Special and Rare collections are available online. There is a continuing project to scan selected letters, diaries, documents, photographs, lantern slides and other materials from the collections into ePrints. See: Online items from the UTAS Special and Rare collections
See also Online exhibitions
Online versions of some UTAS Library exhibitions which have been held in the Morris Miller Library.
