About the records

Administrative Information

• The collection is comprised of records from 1 accessions. The codes used to uniquely identify each accession range from COAR/2002/001 to COAR/2002/001.
  
  
• The records have been allocated to 4 series. The codes used to uniquely identify each series range from COAS001 to COAS004.
  
  
• Through the processing of the records, 1 provenance entity was identified. The code used to uniquely identify this provenance entity, i.e. records creator or custodian, is COAP001.
  
  
• The inventory covers 58 items, and may include records of continuing value, records sentenced for destruction and records that have been destroyed. The codes used to uniquely identify each inventory item range from COAR0001 to COAR0058. The total collection occupies 44 linear cm of shelf space (or its equivalent).
  
  
• The documentation of the records at inventory level started on 19 September 2002. The latest additions were made on 8 July 2009. The latest modifications were made on 10 March 2015. This collection profile was updated on 3 August 2020.
  
  

Scope and Content

The Records of Alan Rawle Coad contain papers relating to Alan Coad's work on salinity and land reclamation in the public and private sectors. The main strengths of the records are the reports, maps and papers on this topic, either by Alan Coad or collected by him during his career.

Surveying and Mapping the Records

Further information about this guide and the records it describes, including transfer arrangements, custodianship and other contextual information, is held in the office files and the Heritage Documentation Management System (HDMS) database at the eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne.

Arrangement and Description of the Records

In 2007, the Records of Alan Rawle Coad were transferred to the State Library of Victoria from the eScholarship Research Centre - eSRC (previously Australian Technology and Heritage Centre - Austehc - and ASAP before that) at the University of Melbourne. Following the transfer of the records to the State Library of Victoria, eSRC staff undertook a survey of the collection. Provenance, series and item descriptions were reviewed and, where required, edited or rewritten, and (in collaboration with the State Library) the collection was rehoused in archival folders and boxes to ensure its preservation.

The 2009 edition of the Alan Rawle Coad Guide to Records has been produced as a result of this work.

Digitisation

How These Records Can Be Used

Where material from the Records of Alan Rawle Coad is copied or quoted the source of the material must be acknowledged.

Preferred Citation

For citation of the published guide, an acceptable form would be: Ailie Smith, Bruce Smith, Gavan McCarthy, and Michael Jones, Alan Rawle Coad Guide to Records, The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, 2009 [URL and date accessed].

Publication History

• HTML Edition, 2009: Ailie Smith, Bruce Smith, Gavan McCarthy, and Michael Jones, Alan Rawle Coad Guide to Records, eScholarship Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, 2009.
• HTML Edition, 2002: Ailie Smith, Bruce Smith, and Gavan McCarthy, Alan Rawle Coad Guide to Records, Australian Technology and Heritage Centre, The University of Melbourne, 2002.

Copyright

The Records of Alan Rawle Coad are held by the State Library of Victoria. The State Library of Victoria manages any rights (including moral rights) in all material contained in the Records of Alan Rawle Coad.

All information in the guide to this collection and in the material of the collection itself, served from Australia, is administered under Australian Intellectual Property Laws.

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