About the records


Title Records of Harold Trevor Clifford
Date Range 1946 - 1947
Reference MS 13608
Creator Harold Trevor Clifford (1927 - )
Extent 0.07 metres (6 items)
Repository The State Library of Victoria
Abstract This is a guide to class notes compiled by botanist Harold Trevor Clifford while attending geology courses at the University of Melbourne, c.1946.

Administrative Information

  • The collection is comprised of records from 1 accessions. The codes used to uniquely identify each accession range from CLIF2008-001 to CLIF2008-001.
  • The records have been allocated to 1 series. The codes used to uniquely identify each series range from CLIS0001 to CLIS0001.
  • 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 CLIP001.
  • The inventory covers 6 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 CLIF00001 to CLIF00006. The total collection occupies 7 linear cm of shelf space (or its equivalent).
  • The documentation of the records at inventory level started on 17 July 2008. The latest additions were made on 30 July 2008. The latest modifications were made on 26 March 2009. This collection profile was updated on 2 April 2009.

Scope and Content

This set of notes is valuable for shedding light on the discipline of geology, including tertiary education in this field, in the 1940s. When Harold Trevor Clifford himself viewed these records in 1997 he commented on the amount of material still relevant at that time.

Trevor Clifford's personal papers and correspondence are held by the Basser Library (Australian Academy of Science), and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

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.

How These Records Can Be Used

Researchers wishing to consult these records will need to contact the State Library of Victoria regarding the access conditions that may apply to specific series or inventory items.

Where material from the Harold Trevor Clifford Collection is copied or quoted the source of the material must be acknowledged.

Preferred Citation

Records from the Harold Trevor Clifford Collection should be cited as [Inventory item number and title], [Series number], Harold Trevor Clifford Collection, MS 13608, State Library of Victoria, Australia.

For citation of the published guide, an acceptable form would be: Ann McCarthy and Michael Jones, Harold Trevor Clifford Guide to Records, The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, 2008 [URL and date accessed].

Publication History

This is the first edition of the Harold Trevor Clifford Guide to Records.

Copyright

The Harold Trevor Clifford Guide to Records has been published by the University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre (previously the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre). You may download, temporarily store in cache and display the material on this web site in unaltered form only. You may also print and copy the material on this site in unaltered form as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 only (retaining this copyright notice). This guide is the result of serious scholarly research and must be formally acknowledged as such when the guide itself or the records it catalogues are cited.

The Harold Trevor Clifford Collection is held by the State Library of Victoria. The State Library of Victoria manages any rights (including moral rights) in all material contained in the Harold Trevor Clifford Collection.

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.

Guide Image

The photograph seen on the top left hand side of the Guide is a detail of the photograph "Clifford, Harold Trevor", Date: 1967 (at age 40), Source: Mr. Clifford, HI Archives Portrait No. 1, from "Harold Trevor Clifford (1927- ) - Taxonomist - Papers, 1987-1992, HI Archives Collection No. 295", Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation online, http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/hibd/Departments/Archives/Archives-AG/Clifford.shtml. Date accessed: 26 March 2009.


Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, 2008
Listed by Ann McCarthy and Michael Jones
HTML edition Ann McCarthy and Michael Jones
Updated 2 April 2009
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