Archives tend to attract public attention when they manage the personal records of the noted and the notorious. The announcement, for example, that Germaine Greer had donated her personal archive to the University of Melbourne in 2013, and further updates more recently about the challenges of processing the hybrid paper/digital collection, received wide media coverage. Former Senior Curator at the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales, Paul Brunton, used to get excellent mileage in his talks and tours out of stories from the Patrick White archive. There is something that captures the imagination about the glimpses into the personal lives and creative processes of our favourite authors that can come from these records.
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