Annual reports of the Australian College of Optometry later the Victorian College of Optometry
 Catalogue Number: 956 Annual reports of the Australian College of Optometry later the Victorian College of Optometry Category: Papers Sub-Category: Annual report Institution: Australian College of Optometry later the Victorian College of Optometry Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1945 to 1999 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne Publisher/Manufacturer: Australian/Victorian College of Optometry Description Of Item: Six volumes: 1 Green cloth cover, 206 mm H x 136 mm W, 1945, 1947-1969. 2 Yellow cloth cover, quarto size, 1970-1976. 3 Yellow cloth cover, A4 size, 1977-1979. 4 Green cloth cover, B5 size, 1980-1986. 5 Green cloth cover, A4 size, 1987-1992. 6 Green cloth cover, A4 size, 1993-1999. 7 Green cloth cover, A4 size, 2000-2004. 8 Green cloth cover, A5 size, 2005-2009. NOTE: The Annual Report for 1946 missing from Vol 1 above. A copy of this annual report is filed with duplicate copies of annual reports between 1946 and 1963 at Cat No 1712. See Cat Nos 4399 and 4403 for later copies. Historical Significance: The Australian College of Optometry was founded in 1940 to provide a four-year full-time university-level optometry course, the first in Australia. The course became a degeee course of the Univerrsity of Melbourne in 1960 and the College affliated to the University of Melbourne in 1961. The College continued to be involved in teaching the university course, especially for clinical training. It changed its name to the Victorian College of Optometry in 1960 but reverted to its original name in 2009. The annual reports include (with the exception of the earliest but see Cat Nos 970 and 1712) the officers of the College, the financial reports, the graduates and the activities and achievements of the College in each year. See report of the first AGM of the Australian College of Optometry Cat No 970. See transcript of an address to the first general meeting of the Australian College of Optometry in April 1940, the year it was founded. Cat No 898. See also Cat Nos 956, 957, 970. 971 and 1712 for other holdings of Australian College of Optometry and National Vision Research Institute Annual Reports. How Acquired: Donated by Barry L Cole Director of the College from 1964 to 1999 Condition: Good Location: Archive office. South wall. Cube 15 |