Government of South Australia

	Information about State Records Freedom of Information (FOI) General Awareness course during October and November 2008. FOI General Awareness Courses 2008
	Details about Certificate III and Certificate IV in Recordkeeping in 2009 and the new alternative to traditional face-to-face delivery of studying via correspondence. Certificate III and IV in Recordkeeping in 2009
	Publicising the Christmas and New Year opening hours for State Records City and Gepps Cross Research Centres. Christmas 2008 Research Centre Hours
	State Records Council has approved the permanent retention of all pre-1901 official records. Pre-1901 Records Made Permanent
	State Records has recently updated the Adequate Records Management Standard and South Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Standard and created the Contracting and Official Records Standard. Across-Government Standards for Record Management
	News item re change to October 2008 Research Centre opening hours at Gepps Cross. Change to October 2008 Sunday Opening Hours
	Freedom of Information (FOI) training courses being conducted for public sector employees in September and October 2008. FOI Training Courses - September/October 2008
	News item to announce that State Records has updated its Authorised Agency Retrieval Request Form. Agency Retrieval Request Form Updated
	To promotes the availability of Freedom of Information (FOI) Induction Training as an on-line module via ERNI, State Records E-Resource Network Initiative. Freedom of Information (ERNI) Induction Training
	Notifying agencies that May 2007 version of the guideline for agencies making public access determinations for official records which they control is now available. Public Access Determination Guideline for Agencies
	End of News

Availability

Special lists are available at both Research Centres. Only a small number of record series have special lists and only a limited number of these are searchable using Name Search in the ArchivesSearch catalogue.

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Description

Special Lists provide a detailed breakdown of information in an individual series of records.

Types of Special Lists include:

Alphabetical name indexes to particular series e.g. GRS 2414 Register of Prisoners - Adelaide Gaol, Special List lists names of prisoners [see Example 1]

Itemised lists of photographs or plans from pictorial series e.g. GRG 35/337 South Australian and Northern Territory maps, Special list describes each item in the series [see Example 2]

Chronological or numerical lists of correspondence which provide file number, name of writer and subject e.g. GRG 5/2 Correspondence Files (PCO Files) - Police Commissioners Office, Special List describes correspondence in chronological order by year and file number [see Example 3]

Itemised lists for 'miscellaneous' series e.g. GRG 10/26 Miscellaneous papers of the Australian Dairy Produce Board 1923 - 1972.

Please note: only a small number of record series have special lists.