Council of Australasian
Archives and Records Authorities  

Australian Archival Statistics 1996

Compiled by Queensland State Archives for the Statistics Subcommittee of the Australian Council of Archives Inc.

Statistics Subcommittee

Lee McGregor (Convenor)
Queensland State Archives

Ron Terry
Australian Archives

Peter Crush
City of Adelaide

Contents


NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Australian Archives

NZ National Archives

 

 

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

Holdings

 

 

1a

At start of year - Archives

217278m

ns

1b

At start of year - Total

478478m

61738.9m

2a

Accessions during year - Archives

13237m

ns

2b

Accessions during year - Total

20690m

2371m

3a

Number of accessions - Archives

3627

ns

3b

Number of accessions - Total

5600

ns

4a

Volume of disposal - Archives

n/a

ns

4b

Volume of disposal - Total

19914m

ns

5a

At end of year - Archives

238254m

ns

5b

At end of year - Total

465579m

64109.9m

Arrangement & description

 

 

 

Percentage of holdings available in public finding-aids

 

 

6a

At start of year

98%

ns

6b

At end of year

98%

ns

7a

Number of accessions processed during the year

5600

ns

Reference services

 

 

8a

Visits to search room during year

16022

17331

9a

Items made available in search room

61706

54883

10a

Enquiries recorded (except records creators/owners)

46400

4675

11a

Items loaned to creators/owners

107429

3757

Use Of Holdings Percentage

 

 

12a

Officers of government agencies

n/s

9.4%

12b

Students and academics

n/s

14.0%

12c

General Public

n/s

60.2%

12d

Other

n/s

16.4%

Repository buildings

 

 

13a

Total storage area - start of year

74999 m2

5000 m2

13b

Total storage area - end of year

51978 m2

5000 m2

14a

Shelving capacity - start of year

654839m

 

14b

Shelving capacity - end of year

597445m

81236m

Personnel

 

 

15a

FTE positions filled - start of year

344.4

73.5

15b

FTE positions filled - end of year

336.1

71.8

Funding ($000)

 

 

16a

Total budget for the year

36,080

8,272

17a

Actual expenditure for the year

35,507

8,194

18a

Including cost of accommodation (yes/no)

yes

yes

 

STATE ARCHIVES

Archives Authority of NSW

PRO  VIC

QLD State Archives

SA State Records

PRO  WA

Archives Office of TAS

NT Archives Service

 

 

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

30/06/1997

Holdings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1a

At start of year - Archives

43500m

32927m

24686.8m

ns

8335m

15700m

3244m

1b

At start of year - Total

175660m

67074m

32325m

57157m

21447m

15842m

10233m

2a

Accessions during year - Archives

820m

5640m

959.77m

1238m

405m

443m

0.03m

2b

Accessions during year - Total

27275m

14722m

1015.37m

6231.5m

538m

468m

82.83m

3a

Number of accessions - Archives

 -

 

104

279

8

120

2

3b

Number of accessions - Total

 -

 

113

1140

161