This can be your best option if your enquiry is complex and you have no research experience personally, or if you are unable to visit. To find out about the availability of professional research assistance, contact the Professional Historians Association of NSW . Facilities to read the records and take notes are available. Researchers may bring their own laptop computers to take notes with. Tape recorders are generally not acceptable because you may have to share our reading room with other researchers.
Photographic copies are available but normally take a week to process.
Plan-print copies are also available but there is a delay of one or two days. This allows researchers to access ambient, context and content information about the archival records, from any computer connected to the world wide web. Our on-line digital catalogue of photographs, ArchivePix , was also made available on this web site in August 2000. The catalogue of publications in the Sydney Reference Collection is available through the City Library's 'Horizon' computer catalogue, with terminals in the Library on level 3 of Town Hall House as well as in the Archives office. It is also possible to search the City Libary Catologue On-line .