{"id":1963,"date":"2025-09-17T16:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/?page_id=1963"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:09:08","slug":"archiving-research-cards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/parting-with-your-art\/archiving-research-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Archiving research cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

a time consuming aspect of Parting with your Archive<\/h4>\n

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Disposition of my archive and library has been an ongoing project for over a decade with recent activities having been spurred on by relocation to Melbourne in late 2023.<\/p>\n

Recently I dispatched a set of ring binders containing photocopies of all of Jack Cato\u2019s correspondence with Keast Burke to the wonderful Capon Research Library at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.<\/p>\n

The letters were exchanged 1948\u20131956 while Jack was researching and writing his The<\/em> Story of the Camera in Australia<\/em>.  I wrote on the letters in Photofile<\/em> in 1986.  see links below for that Story<\/em><\/p>\n

The original letters are held at the National Library but they are not digitised and are not easy to find (link below). For that reason I had tried to lodge my copies with another library, thinking that it would increase access to the letters for a future researcher unable to travel to Canberra. Alas, not so, there was a lack of interest in them as they were copies \u2014 not the originals.<\/p>\n

Before I sent my copies off to the Art Gallery, I scanned the letters and kept my Cato-Burke index cards in the optimistic plan to make an excel finding aid to assist researchers. A brave thought maybe!<\/p>\n

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I am now working on scanning my other research cards that are arranged  alphabetically by names and topics.  Above is a picture of one box of my cards.<\/p>\n

Having such research cards was an essential part of my professional life in my days of being a curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and for a while once I joined the National Gallery in Canberra. Many colleagues of my vintage will remember how we relied on these card files.<\/p>\n

Whereas researchers now would rely heavily on digital files and maybe only taking notes on paper if materials cannot be accessed with a laptop, camera or phone camera.<\/p>\n

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If my note taking and handwriting was a little tidier, I may have sent the cards with the letters to the Art Gallery but I decided they were not archive standard. So much of the information is now readily available on TROVE<\/span> or internet searches.<\/p>\n

and so, another part of my archive leaves the building!<\/p>\n

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A note for future aspirations: In upcoming posts here on Parting with your Art, I \u2018hope\u2019 to publish reports and\/or interviews with photographers or photographic archive managers about how they have\/ are going to deal with their archives.<\/p>\n

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A Story of The Story:  Correspondence between Jack Cato and Keast Burke<\/a> (1986).<\/p>\n

Link to National Library and the Cato letters <\/a>see  \u2018Class. Consignment added 2001\u2019  \u2018(File 32\u201338) \u2014 Box 6\u2019<\/p>\n

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click here for \u00bb contents page for Parting with Your Art<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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here\u2019s a link back to my main blog page \u2014 click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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