Introducing Your New ASA Councillors

Morwenna%20Dixon.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xMorwenna Dixon - Secretary

Morwenna has worked in the Archives at Barker College, Sydney, since 2010. She holds a BSc/BA(Hons) in Museum Studies from Macquarie University and a Masters of Information Studies (Records and Archives Management) from Charles Sturt University.

Morwenna has been involved in the ASA since entering the profession, particularly through the NSW School Archives SIG. She was Convenor of the SIG from 2017-2019, and in 2019 was elected Convenor of the National School Archives SIG. Working in a small archives, most recently as the sole Archivist, she values the work of the ASA in providing professional learning and networking opportunities.

Fiona%20Blackburn.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xFiona Blackburn - Councillor

Fiona Blackburn is Collection Manager, Manuscripts, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). She is an Australian with English heritage and European ancestry. In addition to acknowledging Traditional Owners and their care for country, she acknowledges that the willingness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ to engage with libraries and archives enables her to do her job.

Fiona also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from La Trobe University and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from RMIT University.

Fiona has worked in libraries and archives for eleven years, beginning at Alice Springs Public Library as Special Collections Manager. This is where she started thinking about cross-cultural provision, completing a Master in Information Management at RMIT University, which included research into cultural competence and libraries.

At AIATSIS, Fiona is joining in discussions about provenance, arrangement, and description so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait experience is not always presented as a subaltern one. Facilitating the right of reply to records is a current project.

Michaela%20Hart.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xMichaela Hart - Councillor

Michaela Hart is a Digital Archivist at the Department of Health and Human Services in Victoria, where she has held several roles, including responding to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and projects to preserve and make available photographs, artefacts and audio visual material of value to people who spent time in out of Home Care.

Michaela is committed to progressing the conversation around trauma informed practices and emotional labour in the GLAM sector, and she has presented and written on these widely (with Nicola Laurent). Her research thesis on the role of Change Management and Digital preservation in Australian Archives further speaks to her curiosity about the human side of archival work.

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