About the records

Administrative Information

• The collection is comprised of records from 2 accessions. The codes used to uniquely identify each accession range from UREN09/0001 to UREN97/0001.
• The records have been allocated to 7 series. The codes used to uniquely identify each series range from URENS001 to URENS007.
• 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 URENP01.
• The inventory covers 56 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 UREN00001 to UREN00053. The total collection occupies 153 linear cm of shelf space (or its equivalent).
• The documentation of the records at inventory level started on 16 September 1997. The latest additions were made on 20 May 2009. The latest modifications were made on 23 August 2011. This collection profile was updated on 23 August 2011.

Scope and Content

The Reverend Robert Richard U'Ren collection consists of assorted research papers gathered by Reverend Bob U'Ren (as he was known) in the late 1950s for the Brotherhood of St. Laurence Leisure Study, and the University of Melbourne Social Studies Department project into experiences of and community attitudes towards epilepsy. The records include reports; correspondence; notes; completed questionnaires; notebooks; statistical analysis; data; a publication. 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.

Publication History

Copyright

The Records of Reverend Robert Richard U'Ren 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 Reverend Robert Richard U'Ren. For information regarding copyright of the digital images of records contained in this Guide, please contact the State Library of Victoria.

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.

How These Records Can Be Used

Where material from the Records of Reverend Robert Richard U'Ren 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: Fay Anderson, Ann McCarthy and Michael Jones, Reverend Robert Richard U'Ren Guide to Records, The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, 2009 [URL and date accessed].

Access Conditions

The exception to this is one file of named, completed survey forms, in Series 6 Copies of Data from the Commonwealth Employment Service Files - All Clients For Whom a Diagnosis of Epilepsy was entered during 1959 (inventory item UREN00031). This information was gathered from 1959 Commonwealth Employment Service files for CES clients who had been diagnosed with epilepsy. The records includes the client's name, address, personal details, occupation, nature of employment, employment history, qualifications, factors affecting placement, general action, referrals, Commonwealth Employment Service interviewer and date. Specific information includes descriptions of an individual's emotional and psychological health, physical health, whether they were employed or, in the opinion of the interviewer, employable, relations with family, (including if estranged, etc), etc. The findings of this study into epilepsy and the prevailing community attitudes were not popular, and consequently the findings were never formally published. There may be personal privacy issues with public access to these records.

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