Appendix E – Volunteers and Work for the Dole scheme

Volunteers

The Archives receives community support in a variety of ways. This support is valuable not only because it increases the capacity of the organisation, but because it fosters strong relations with the community. The Archives is indebted to members of the community who have volunteered their services to make the national archival collection a more accessible public resource.

During 2007–08 members of the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra worked on a project to index Department of Air (Central Office) World War II air crash reports and to annotate folders containing the repackaged records with identifying information. Information about each item was listed on RecordSearch by Archives staff. The project is expected to be completed in 2008–09.

The following volunteers contributed to the project:

Gladys Clarke
Helen Fawcett
Jean Fominas
Patricia Gray
Rhonda Kerr
Mary Lilienthal
Ruth Rogers
Tina Russell
Joyce Stevens
Richard Stevens
Ken Thomsen.

Work for the Dole scheme

The Melbourne Work for the Dole scheme continued, with participants treating 16,185 record items. This project involves repackaging and data entry of alien registration documents.