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  • An audience listen attentively as Janet Holmes à Court presents 'Changes' at the Government House Ballroom in Western Australia in 1993, forming part of the Herbert Cole Coombs Lecture Series.

    Janet Holmes à Court presents 'Changes' at the Government House Ballroom in Western Australia in 1993, forming part of the Herbert Cole Coombs Lecture Series.

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ECU Archives launches Herbert Cole Coombs online exhibition

The team at Edith Cowan University (ECU) Archives are working to make more of the content from ECU’s Archives collection available to the public digitally.

An exciting project in pursuit of this is migrating the content of historical Lecture Series cassettes to a digital medium for online publishing. The first lecture series that's been made available is the Herbert Cole Coombs Public Lecture Series.

In 1986, Edith Cowan University’s predecessor agency Western Australian College of Advanced Education (WACAE) held the first in the series after choosing to present an annual public lecture on the theme of ‘Enterprise’.

This was pre-internet; the theme reflected the College’s educational objectives and it was intended the lectures be a prestigious community service, offering a forum for public learning and for the entrepreneurial spirit to bloom.

Dr Herbert Cole Coombs, affectionately known as ‘Nugget’ and one of WACAE’s most famous Alumni, was asked if the series could be named after him.

He agreed and attended the first lecture presented by Professor Dame Leonie Kramer on 9 October 1986.

Listen online

The digitised Herbert Cole Coombs lectures have been curated online and are now accessible to the public.

Coming soon

More lectures will be made available soon. Future digitisation projects include:

  • Inaugural Professorial Lectures Series
  • Research and Development Lectures Series
  • Edith Cowan Lectures

Contact

Enquiries regarding the ECU Archives can be directed to the Information Management and Archive Services team: imas@ecu.edu.au.

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