appraising the records of the financial mutual sector and credit union movement
developing practices for the systematic transfer of records from individual mutual banks and credit unions and special service providers
receiving relevant records of many who have served the movement
arranging and describing archives in accordance with accepted archival practices
taking steps to preserve the physical records by placing them in acid free and chemically inert enclosures and housing them appropriately
assisting researchers and making records available for research purposes
providing information to the sector and promoting the use of the records in the collection
providing guidance in relation to records and archives management within the sector
Australian Mutuals History undertook many activities and projects in the past year and we report on our highlights for 2020/2021 here
Father Ganey was born in 1904 in Illinois, USA. He was a Jesuit Priest and very influential in the credit union movement around the world including in Australia. He entered the Society of Jesus
Recently we have been looking at some of the courageous groups that started credit unions in the 1990s – a time when conventional wisdom said it was a bad idea. While they each were only short-lived,
Gary Lewis described Francis Leo (Lee) Nash as a “pioneer” of the Australian credit union movement in his ground-breaking study, People Before Profit: The Credit Union Movement in Australia (1996). A
