Guide to navigating and accessing the UM312 Registrar's correspondence indexes and files concerning the activities of the University's central administration
The University of Melbourne Registrar's Correspondence Series UM312 (1999.0014) consists of files arranged predominately by annual single number and subject. It is a large and comprehensive series representing a major proportion of the activities of the University's Central Administration over nearly a century dating 1871-1966. Records relate to subjects and services such as accommodation, accounts, University council, matriculation and arrangements for exams, schools, academic departments and curricula, regulations and statutes, and so on.
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Is the series complete?
Not all files that were created by the Office of the Registrar have been transferred to archives and some may no longer exist. A small number may have been separated out into related series. The original volumes recording all files created can be found at 2001.0030. Please seek advice from an archivist if you are interested in particular staff or former students.
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Requesting files
To request the PDF index listing for a particular year/s please contact archives@archives.unimelb.edu.au.
Place an online request through Aeon, the Reading Room’s request management system. Please request one file per transaction, entering the year, file number and title into the appropriate fields.
Some files remain open at the end of the year in which they were created indicating to see the subsequent year, e.g. (see 1950). In such cases, view the index listing for the relevant year/s and request the file for that year or the final year for that subject.
