Please contact NextSense: Postal address: 2 Gymnasium Road, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park NSW 2113 Phone: 1300 230 386 Email: institute.library@nextsense.org.au
In 2021 the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children rebranded, aligning all of its services under the name NextSense. NextSense provides services for children, adults and families of people with hearing or vision loss. The organisation delivers education, cochlear implant, allied health, therapy, research and clinical services.
The Records of the Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children (including the Deaf and Dumb Institution, the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children) are held by the successor organisation, NextSense Institute. The historical records held on site at NextSense include annual…
This is a copy of a photograph of the entrance to the Kalimna Vocational Centre for Girls. It was published in an article in the The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand in 2017.
This is a copy of a photograph published in Architecture au magazine, to accompany a 2018 article about the demolition of the Kalimna building. The image was published with permission from the RAIA collection, John Oxley Library (State Library of Queensland).
This is a copy of the front cover of a Salvation Army pamphlet, “Kalimna: lovely home”. It was published to accompany an article in the Architecture au magazine in 2018, about the demolition of the Kalimna buildings. The original pamphlet is from the Salvation Army Heritage Centre.
This is a copy of a photograph of Burton Hall Training Farm at Tatura, Victoria.
The Melbourne Jewish Orphan and Neglected Children’s Aid Society was established in 1882. Its objects were to provide for destitute orphan or neglected Jewish children until they turned 16 and to find employment or promote the future welfare of children in its care. In the annual report for 1883, the secretary of the Department of…
The Department of Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism was created in November 2024 following a state election. The Community and Personal Histories team within the Department helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to trace their personal and family histories, and can help people to use records from Queensland Missions for…
The Records of the Antonian Institute for Children and Antonian Children’s Home were transferred from the custody of the Daughters of Divine Zeal to the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing in 2017. The collection comprises register books, photographs and news clippings.
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