| Membership |
Alele has a formal arrangement with the Government
to implement the National Archives Act which provides for the establishment
of an office of National Archives to attend to the custody and preservation
of public records and the deposition of private records.
Archival records are selected according to established archival principles and are accessioned under a policy which requires that they be original records created or received in the course of normal business.
Records are assessed according to the following values:
| Evidential | The value for providing evidence of the origins, structure, functions, policies and operations of the agency or person that created the records |
| Administrative, Legal and Fiscal | The value for the conduct of current and future administrative, legal and fiscal business |
| Informational | The value for reference or research deriving from the information the records contain, as distinct from their evidential value (i.e., uses not envisaged by the creators) |
| Historical | The value arising from exceptional age, and/or connection with some historical event or person |
Public records 25 years old or more are open to the public
except where specifically restricted for reason of national security or
where the information is considered to be of sensitive nature. Private records
are open to the extent permitted by the depositor at time of deposition.
Archival holdings (about 2,500 microfilms)