Appendix B

Volunteers and the 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 also 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 2005–06 members of the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra assisted the Archives by repackaging courts martial records in archival folders and annotating the folders with identifying information. Information about each item was listed on RecordSearch by Archives staff. The following volunteers contributed to the project:

Gladys Clarke	Ruth Rodgers
Ruth Rodgers	Tina Russell
Pat Gray	Dick Stevens
Rhonda Kerr	Joyce Stevens
Jo Lilienthal	Ken Thomsen

Work for the Dole scheme

Work for the Dole scheme projects continued in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide in 2005–06, with participants treating over 180,000 record items. Projects involved the repackaging and data entry of passenger indexes, alien registration cards and documents.