For the Centre's whereabouts, opening hours, etc please see Location and Facilities.
Generally, staff or students of any tertiary institution may consult records that are relevant to their field of study. When necessary, the Centre’s staff will seek written permission from depositors for non-academic researchers wishing to use the collections. For further details see Access Agreement.
All first-time researchers (or those beginning a new research topic) should call the Centre on (02) 6125 2219 to make an appointment to discuss their research requirements.
All returning researchers are advised to contact the Centre and give advance notice of their visit to ensure that the records they wish to consult will be available to them and that the Centre will be open at the time they plan to visit.
To place an order for the retrieval of records, all researchers are required to complete an issue sheet available at the Centre. Records are retrieved from the repository at the following times:
11.15 am
2 .00 pm
3.15 pm
Items requested by 5 pm will be issued at 9 am on the following working day.
Note: The use of finding aids to identify the documents needed for research may take some time. Researchers are advised to allow plenty of time to identify and order relevant records. Researchers should also consult the List of Holdings before visiting the Centre and, where possible, advise the staff of their topic before their first visit.
For details of other finding aids please see our Finding Aids Fact Sheet.
Unfortunately, the Centre's staff cannot undertake research on our clients' behalf. We will respond to written requests for information about the holdings in general and about particular collections, but cannot undertake research within a collection.
The Centre maintains a list of professional researchers who are willing to undertake such work.
Standard photocopying services are available at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre and University Archives. All copying will be done by Archives staff, and researchers are limited to 200 pages per month. For current charges and other details, please see our Photocopying Services Fact Sheet.
Photographic work can be undertaken by arrangement with the Centre. For current charges and other details see our Photographic Services Fact Sheet.
The Centre reserves the right to refuse to copy any material where damage to the records may result or where copying may contravene copyright law or agreements with depositors.
For the recommended method of citing NBAC records see Fact Sheet No. 4: Citation of Archives.