The Australian Information Commissioner, Prof. John McMillan, would like to draw your attention to a number of recent publications on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s public website (http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/index.ht
Read more…Sounds of Australia was launched in 2007 with the announcement of 10 foundation sounds for the registry.
Each year, the Australian public nominates new sounds to be added with final selections determined by a panel of industry experts.
To see what ha
Read more…I am reading with interest Paul McPherson's article in the latest A&M and, not surprisingly, find a few issues he raises are quite contentious. Basically, his argument is that greater resources should be given to online services at the expense of ma
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There are four new Council members as a result of the recent election including myself as the new Vice-President. I am providing this information as as an elected member with a responsibility to those who voted for me and the membership g
The ASA Council is delighted to announce the Accreditation of Charles Sturt University’s Bachelor and Masters Courses in Information Studies (Records and Archives Management) for a period of five years.
Master of Information Studies http://www.csu.ed
Read more…Dear All,
An interesting article in the NY Times re Brodeur's attempts to have his archives returned.
Jenny
Read more…Dear OAICnet subscriber,
Information Publication Scheme
Australian Government agencies are now required to publish a broad range of information on their websites as part of an Information Publication Scheme (IPS) required under new freedom of informati
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Can anyone recommend a good (and reasonable!) company who create exhibition panels? Would be grateful for any feedback.
Thank you
Caroline
Read more…latest news from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner - some papers due for comment and some updates on legislation
Jo
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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:41:54 +1100
To: Joanna B
State Records NSW is pleased to announce that it has issued a revised General retention and disposal authority for local government records in NSW.
The new authority is available in HTML, PDF, XML and CSV formats on the State Records NSW website at ww
I have just joined after discovering its existence last Saturday at the History Teachers' Conference in Perth.
Some years ago (2004) I was looking for a program for archiving my family documents and could not find one. I have had a programmer that doe
Read more…The State Records Office of WA have now put the draft Guideline on Sanitizing Digital Media and Devices up on our website for comment.
http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/dri/RequestforComment1.asp
The comment period closes on 4th March 201.
Please contact Meg T
Read more…From the FaHCSIA website, the following Find and Connect Service Report was released 16 Nov.
This is a significant funding commitment from the Government that will
have impacts on many archives and archival collections of all sizes. I encourage you t
This fascinating blog and associated newspaper article reveal so much about the value of provenance for archives, and particularly for images.
http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2011/06/archival-mysteries.html
Read more…I am intrigued by a new service called Ninuku Archivist (www.ninuku.com),designed for Facebook users who want to archive and preserve their Facebookcontents for prosperity. Their slogan is “share, save, delete” and theyencourage Facebook members to u
Read more…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
Read more…From Stephen Ellis A/g Director General, National Archives of Australia.
Dear Archives – I am sure you will join me in expressing our congratulations to our colleague Ms Phyllis Williams, Director of our NT and SA offices, on the award of the Public
Read more…I know this question has been raised in the past but can i ask what is the best method of scanning or migration to another format?
I would like to be able to get them scanned as i have been doing with the ordinary photographs. What is the method and
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