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Abstract
Despite optimistic pronouncements by successive New South Wales governments since 1961, support for archives and records management in New South Wales is amongst the lowest in Australia. This has led to State Records New South Wales being in breach of its own legislation, because of low levels of funding and the inability to carry out its statutory functions. Numerous reviews of operations have failed to convince the New South Wales Government that recurrent funding for the agency is urgently needed, especially for continuing the Digital State Archive pilot, the preservation of the archives collection and the arrangement and description of the collection.
Notes
1. Australian Library Journal, vol. 56, no. 3–4, November 2007, pp. 428–43.
2. State Records New South Wales and State Records Authority of New South Wales are one and the same organisation and are used interchangeably throughout this article.
3. Archives Authority of New South Wales, ‘Board Minutes’, 29 June 1961.
4. An estray is an official document that has ‘strayed’ from official custody.
5. Peter J Tyler, State Records New South Wales 1788–2011, Desert Pea Press, Annandale, 2011, p. 57.
6. ibid., p. 66.
7. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Annual Report, SRNSW, Sydney, 2006-7, p. 6.