National Archives Canberra Reading Room
This right to access is limited when such information is protected from disclosure by one of foia s nine statutory exemptions.
National archives canberra reading room. Cafe constitution offers great coffee and meals in a beautiful light filled space at the heart of the national archives. Find event and ticket information. This collection includes a broad sampling of articles from the national intelligence daily the cia s principal form of current intelligence analysis at the time from february 1989 to march 1990. The freedom of information act or foia 5 u s c.
People who use a wheelchair can access the national archives through either the kings avenue or western carpark entrance. Operating hours are between 08 00 and 16 00 on week days. Welcome to the national archives website. Visitors in the charters of our nation gallery at enlighten festival 2018.
It s the perfect place to relax after checking out our records or an exhibition. These articles represent much of the agency s. 552 as amended generally provides any person with the statutory right enforceable in court to obtain access to government information in executive branch agency records. The national archives is closed on public holidays.
Find out about what you can access research centres digitising services and more. The national archives of australia strives for service excellence as we make the collection available to the public. For the time being we require all visitors wishing to use our document reading rooms to reserve a seat in advance of their visit. In 1998 the canberra reading room galleries and public areas of national archives moved into a heritage listed building east block in the parliamentary triangle.
The archives is now open for the public but there are limited seating space in the reading room. Eventbrite the national archives presents the national archives. The national archives and records administration nara processes foia requests for two distinct types of records in our legal custody. All documents are issued using a document tracking system and can be traced to an individual.
Visitors at the archives reading room in canberra during enlighten festival 2018. Operational records are the records created by nara and its employees in the process of carrying out its mission and responsibilities as an executive branch agency. The building one of the national capital s original offices was built in 1926 beside the provisional parliament house. Welcome to the central intelligence agency s freedom of information act electronic reading room.
Any attempt to remove records from the reading room is a criminal offence under section 18 1 of the national archives act 1986.