ABLative*

ABLative is a newsletter published by the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (Archives of Business and Labour). First printed in 1985, the newsletter is intended to encourage use of our resources by making current and potential users aware of the magnificent collection of records held by the ANU Archives Program.

The look has been changed over time and has now been adapted for the web. Feature articles of past editions of ABLative have been republished on this site. Copies of the full editions are available from the Centre.

ABLative Feature Articles

The following articles were published in ABLative between 1985 and 1997. The articles selected provide insights into the collections held by the NBAC and have a timeless quality that transcends the date of publication. Significant additions have been made to most of the collections mentioned in these articles. Detailed findings aids of these additions are available at the Archives.

ABLative 1
Australian Agricultural Company (HTML)	(PDF version)
Victoria River Downs (HTML)	(PDF version)
ABLative 2
Maritime records (HTML)	(PDF version)
ABLative 3
Pastoral industry records (HTML)	(PDF version)
Business records relating to women (HTML)	(PDF version)
ABLative 4
Trade union records relating to women (HTML)	(PDF version)

* The name was derived from three sources:

• ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘L’ are the initials of part of our name - the Archives of Business and Labour;
• the connotation which it has of protecting the core by burning away the periphery - an apt title for a newsletter published by an archives dedicated to preserving permanently valuable documents; and
• the dictionary definition: "a [grammatical] case which has amongst its functions the indication of place from which, time when, place in which, manner, means, instrument, agent etc".