dear colleagues please see below a notice for an event of interest to recordkeepers everwhere but alas only those in Sydney on the nght can attend. it will be necessary to get there early to get in.
And please note that the ASA NSW Branch meeting has
Read more…Does anyone have any experience with parchment decrees bearing lead seals? I have about 20 papal bulls in our collection and need advice on the best way(s) to store them. At present, they are in the cylinders used by the Italian postal service to get
Read more…Members will be glad to hear that the November 2011 issue of Archives and Manuscripts will arrive soon in their mailbox. This will be followed shortly by the March 2012 issue in both electronic and hard copy format (look out for an email detailing th
Read more…Minister Crean has just announced the next step in developing National Cultural Policy for Australia
"Arts Minister Simon Crean today invited all Australians to comment on a discussion paper for the country's first National Cultural Policy in almost t
Read more…When data disappears by Kari Kraus, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies and the English Department, University of Maryland
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/428bd5721fec32cb214e1f38e0cd8beb
We generate over 1.8 zettabytes of digital info
Read more… CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
UNESCO AUSTRALIAN MEMORY OF THE WORLD REGISTER 2013
Now is the time to start thinking about nominating your significant documentary heritage to the Australian Memory of the World Register http://www.amw.org.au/content/australian
Read more…Dear All,
I came upon this item http://www.jiscww1discovery.net/ on Twitter and was most taken by the comment “Collections may be in both analogue and digital form, however the project has mainly focused on those collections which have already been di
Read more…Dear colleagues,
The National Archives of Australia is leading the implementation of the Government's Digital Transition Policy in consultation with the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) and the Office of the Australian Info
Read more…This debate was prompted by a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald bemoaning the fact that younger people were unable to write in cursive.
I responded with a letter that many under 30s were also unable to read it.
http://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.
Read more…In today’s Archive Matters! Issue 15 2 March, Pat Jackson wrote about 'Foreshadowing a Special General Meeting'. The email address for me is slightly incorrect - there is no dot between the first name and surname in the address. Thanks, Rodney Teakle
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Dear colleagues
Please see the notice posted on behalf of Elizabeth Masters, Media Liaison, Communications and Programs, at the National Archives of Australia:
National Archives not affected by Mitchell fire
The National Archives repository in Mit
Read more…Dear ASA Members and Recordkeeping Colleagues
In the light of the horrific natural disasters experienced across Australia,
particularly in Queensland, and that some people who may have intended to
submit a proposal for inclusion in the Australian Societ
Here in WA we have been having our own struggles with both fire and flood.
Fortunately, not on the scale of what is happening in QLD (our hearts go out to all those facing this peril) but still devastating for all those involved and their communities.
Read more…Not a mention of the floods here as yet - maybe everyone is either desperately trying to rescue collections or in a state of disbelief. I wonder what we as a profession should be preparing for in the aftermath of this devastation?
Read more…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
Read more…Canadian colleagues are conducting a study of protocols for anthropological archives. Please respond to Katherine Pettipas, volunteer for the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, at kpettipas@mymts.net if you can assist or provide
Read more…The Protective Security Policy Framework has now superseded the Protective Security Manual (R.I.P PSM)
The PSPF applies to Government agencies and any organisations working on behalf of, or handling Australian Government information and assets. This m
So when is ASA Council going to publicly announce the cancellation of this year's Adelaide conference and the reasons for cancelling?
Read more…I need some advice re: some material that has been offered to our (religious, and therefore private) archives. One of the members of the religious order for whom I work has in his possession two photo albums created by his father, who was a lay missi
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