How to Nominate

Notice

Nominations are now open for items to be inscribed on the 2011 Australian Memory of the World Register. Nominations close on 31 March 2011. Successful nominations will be announced publicly in July or August 2011. Please use the Contact Form to start a discussion on your nomination.

Overview

Any government, institution, organisation, group or individual may submit nominations for the Australian Memory of the World Register. However, priority will be given to nominations made by or through relevant heritage institutions and to Australian documentary heritage under threat. In addition, two or more governments, institutions, organisations, groups or individuals may put forward joint nominations where collections are divided among several owners or custodians. Such prior collaboration is strongly encouraged. The Australian Memory of the World Committee also reserves the right to initiate nominations itself.

Nomination from

The nomination form to be used is the same as the 2009 form, available in either Microsoft® Word (233 KB) or Adobe® Acrobat® (190 KB) formats (see below). 2011 forms will be available soon.

If you require it, the Adobe® Acrobat® reader can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html.

Guidelines

Online guidelines to completing the nomination form are set out in the Submission Manual.

UNESCO has published general guidelines on how to submit a nomination for inscription but for the Australian Register you should follow the instructions in the Submission Manual.