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Nominate for the 27th Mander Jones Awards - Publications

Archives and recordkeeping publications from 2022 are eligible to be nominated for the 27th Mander Jones Awards - Publications.

👉 What types of publications can be nominated?

Publications may include articles, monographs, essays, guidelines or stand

Started by ASA Engagement / Communications

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Webinar: "Reach New Archival Audiences: Optimize Communication"

Hello everyone,

This is an invitation to "Reach New Archival Audiences: Optimize Communication", the fourth webinar in Lucidea's new series, The Four Cs of Reaching New Audiences, presented by archives expert Margot Note.
In this session, Margot will c

Started by Rima Ghanem

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Archives & Manuscripts Online Archive - Top 5 September 2021

Here are the Top 5 most accessed articles on the Archives & Manuscripts Online Archive for September:

Started by ASA Engagement / Communications

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Choosing a Photo Scanner

Hi there,

I am starting to look for a photo scanner for the archives at the school I work at. I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations/specs/helpful advice that they could share?

Started by Dayl Mulford

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Call for Volunteers - Our City: 175 years in 175 objects

2017 marks the 175th anniversary of the formation of the City of Sydney council – the second oldest council in Australia. To celebrate, the City of Sydney is holding a major exhibition in the Lower Town Hall.

The exhibition explores the themes of Gov

Started by Susan Kennedy

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Schools and the community: what happens when a school closes?

This story from suburban Melbourne (below) highlights several issues that we as archivists should be concerned about. Hopefully the archival community can offer support to the school, the students and the organisation which takes over the responsibil

Started by Sigrid McCausland

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AE 2 Project ported to Unity 3D Gaming Engine

A group of coursework Masters students is porting the AE2 game developed in 2010-11 with an National Archives of Australia Ian MacLean award to the Unity3D game engine. With Unity3D, building is possible for a wide range of platforms, including: iOS,

Started by Mark Brogan

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Rescued from obscurity, India's history enters the digital age

3 November 2012

Disorder.

Disorder ... how the historic documents were kept before the archive.

A group of old India hands were sitting in a cafe in Oxford in 2005, across from the university, marvel

Started by Pauline M Garland

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Directory of Archives

Help!

The ASA Directory of Archives seems to have gone rogue again... Existing links are returning an internal server error (e.g. http://directory.archivists.org.au/archives/21/ ) and I can't find the directory on the ASA website sitemap.

Where has it

Started by Antonina Lewis

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Census 2011

interesting article reporting on some research by ancestry.com.au

"Brad Argent, from Ancestry.com.au, said the survey found the age group with the largest proportion likely to say no to having papers preserved were those aged 18-34.

In that group, 68 p

Started by Joanna Baker

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Minister Crean Press Release - New appointments for Arts Archive Body - NFSA

23 June 2011
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The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) will be led by a new chief executive officer and a reinvigorated board following the latest appointments to the popular cultural institution.

Arts Minister Simon Crean today announced C

Started by Joanna Baker

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Retention Schedule for Applcations for School enrolment

One of our SIG members has been asked by her school executive how long they need to keep the application of enrolment forms of students whose parents have applied to the school but were not successful. The ASA “Records Retention Schedule for Non-Gove

Started by Denise Stephenson

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Archives and Manuscripts in pdf format

OK call me grumpy, but I just received the communication from Tamara, the Finance Officer asking our (I'm presuming everyone in the salutation to 'valued members, colleagues and subscribers' emphasis added). Here, for general consumption and conside

Started by Barbara Reed

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War crime, the legal process and archives

See: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,761639,00.html#ref=nlint

for an interesting mention of archives in the context of what could very well be the last Nazi concentration camp trial

Started by Alan Ventress

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After WikiLeaks, is it all over for The Archives? WikiLeaks and the future of recordkeeping in a connected world

Firstly, thank you to the organisers of this intelligent and lively discourse held on 23 March at the Australian Technology Park, Redfern. I thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to share some of the key issues the roundtable raised and my response to tho

Started by Susan Kennedy

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Nominate for the 27th Mander Jones Awards - Publications

Webinar: "Reach New Archival Audiences: Optimize Communication"

Archives & Manuscripts Online Archive - Top 5 September 2021

Choosing a Photo Scanner

Call for Volunteers - Our City: 175 years in 175 objects

Schools and the community: what happens when a school closes?

AE 2 Project ported to Unity 3D Gaming Engine

Rescued from obscurity, India's history enters the digital age

Directory of Archives

Census 2011

Minister Crean Press Release - New appointments for Arts Archive Body - NFSA

Retention Schedule for Applcations for School enrolment

Archives and Manuscripts in pdf format

War crime, the legal process and archives

After WikiLeaks, is it all over for The Archives? WikiLeaks and the future of recordkeeping in a connected world

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