Margaret's Century of Archiving
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Margaret Medcalf, a legendary archivist at the State Library of Western Australia, celebrated her 100th birthday with a party. She started her career in the archives in 1955, after working at the Australian embassy in the Hague during Indonesias independence. Margaret dedicated her life to preserving the states key documents, traveling to various locations, including the goldfields, to collect old mining files. She faced challenges, such as pushback to save welfare records from the 1920s to 1960s, but her efforts resulted in nearly 20,000 files on microfilm, which are now vital for Aboriginal folks tracing family roots and fuel daily use in family history projects, the National Redress Scheme, and Western Australias Stolen Generations efforts. Despite retiring in 1989, Margaret remains sharp and passionate about archives, grilling the state librarian on details and keeping her community focus alive.
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