Company information, including memos, architects' drawings, lab reports and marketing plans. Old theatre programmes, film posters and movie tickets. Court transcripts, legal case notes and files. Title deeds to property. Unpublished information can be difficult to find, although, with developments in image software, material is now appearing on the World Wide Web.
Archives are special, organised collections of unpublished material.
They often have special storage conditions and expert staff to organise and preserve the items and firm guidelines about what they collect and who can see the material. Organisations and members of the community often donate their own 'archives' to add to the information about social, community and political life collected for researchers and for future generations. Archives can be government institutions or located in universities or private organisations. Some images of letters, newspaper clippings, photographs and government documents can be viewed on the ERA database. Western Australian Documentary Heritage Services are found in the J.S. Battye Library .