MS 9761 comprises correspondence, cards, family papers, diaries, notebooks, personal documents and mementos, papers on Mills' terms as librarian at Charles Sturt University and the University of the South Pacific (USP), papers on conferences and libraries, papers on bibliographic activities, scrap albums, printed material and two videos (17 boxes, 1 fol. item).
The Acc04.236 instalment comprises papers documenting Mills' career and relating to Australian librarianship (1 box).
The Acc05.067 instalment includes personal correspondence (letters received), 2002-2005, papers relating to the death of Mills' father, R.M. Mills, in 2004 and tape of Mills' mother regarding the family, 1982; review articles by Mills, 1982-1983; brochures, catalogues, articles, cuttings and some email correspondence relating to Australian book publishing and publishers, colonial authors, librarians and Pacific libraries and archives; USP oral history project "Conversations under a mango tree", four tapes and summary content notes (1 box).
The Acc05.071 instalment consists of three photograph albums of Fiji, USP and the Pacific; "Friends and work"; travels from 1997; and autobiographical notes and documents relating to Cyril Bennetts and the Bennetts family (2 boxes).
The Acc05.140 instalment comprises seven photograph albums (2 boxes).
The Acc05.159 instalment consists of correspondence A, B, M, S (2 boxes).
The Acc07.065 instalment includes miscellaneous correspondence (mostly personal), greeting cards and news clippings; card index relating to "DB entry" [i.e. database entry?]; photographic negatives, prints, slides; bound volumes of Cartoons magazine (1915-1917); and, copies of publications relevant to Mills' activities as a bibliographer (2 boxes, 1 fol. box).
The Acc09.169 instalment comprises correspondence, texts of speeches and papers given at professional conferences, reports, news clippings, script of a radio play by Mills "Two men and a goat" (broadcast around 1954) (1 packet).
The Acc12.094 instalment comprises posters and historical rubbings, correspondence, research notes and papers, photography and bound journals (23 boxes, 2 elephant fol., 3 small fol. boxes).
The Acc12.149 instalment comprises correspondence and photocopies of research material and newspaper clippings relating to various research projects (3 boxes, 1 fol. item).
The Acc13.082 instalment comprises Christmas cards sent to Carol Mills in 2012, correspondence and research notes (1 packet).
The Acc14.097 instalment comprises Christmas cards received by Carol Mills in 2013 (1 folder).
Librarian, bibliographer and historian. Carol Moya Mills was appointed librarian at the newly-formed Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1969. Mills worked subsequently as librarian at the Charles Sturt University at Wagga, and the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, where she published articles on library management and literacy in the South Pacific. Her other publications include, A bibliography of the Northern Territory: monographs (1977-1983), and numerous articles on early Australian writers, book illustrators and book history.
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