Creation of a purposeful database for the archival records held by the Teachers' Documentation and Resource Centre

Abstract

The Teachers' Documentation and Resource Centre has a very large collection of Education Documents dating from 1851 to the present day. These include circulars, memos, departmental notices, departmental orders, correspondence, syllabi, education broadcasting notices, meteorological data, reports and other original documents which have never been documented and classified. It is the intention of this long assignment to create such an annotated bibliographical database of this wealth of information which would be useful to future students of Education and History as well as to the Education Department Administration and to future Dip LIS students. This database would include searching by town, by Education Department employee, by originator of the document, by keywords and would also include a detailed synopsis of the contents of each document surveyed. Clearly there is a huge amount of data that needs to be collated into this database. The purpose of this assignment is to create such a database with full search and printing routines, with adequate safeguards against accidental erasure of data, and including bibliographical records for the years 1900 to 1910.