Behind closed doors on Monday mornings, a team of Athenaeum Library volunteers is busy archiving our historic documents. For the past six months, with input from an experienced archivist, we’ve been meeting to sort, organise and catalogue such things as old (sometimes mundane, more often fascinating and occasionally hilarious) correspondence, newspaper articles, borrowing ledgers and financial records. 

About 15 years ago, three volunteers embarked on a similar project which wa