Meticulously prepared allegations of the most serious misconduct by some of the nation’s most senior public officers, including the Governor General Quentin Bryce, t
Just to let people know as it came up at the ACT Branch meeting this evening, that there is another listserv where there is discussion of archival matters in Australia.
You can join the group via its website at http://groups.google.com/group/archives-
Read more…Just a reminder to get your nominations in for the Mander Jones awards.
Works published in 2011 are eligible for nomination.
The Mander Jones Awards focus on excellence in archival writing and/or publishing and honour Phyllis Mander Jones, author of Ma
Read more…Readers may be interested in the following story about the Kennedy assassination aftermath tape:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-01/tape-emerges-of-conversations-after-jfk-death/3805908
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(on behalf of the Queensland Disaster Information Network (Q-DIS))
The Queensland Disaster Information Network (Q-Dis) website now includes a CYCLONE- QLD Update Discussion topic http://manexus.ning.com/group/qdis. Whilst a key purpose of Q-Dis is to
Dear colleagues,
I was pleasantly surprised to find the Symposium program far better than I feared and must say it looks genuinely interesting. (People may know I expressed dismay, not to say anger, about the lack of involvement of professional archi
Read more…Does anyone have advice on the best way to capture social media records. For eg. there are Twitter and facebook capture tools out there, but the process is quite labour intensive. If you were advising an enterprise approach, would it be to invest in
Read more…Hi folks,
if you've got a quiet spell on the search room desk, I recommend reading 'Of Provenance and Privacy: using contextual integrity to define third-party privacy' by Steven Bingo. Its in 'American Archivist' vol 74 #2 2011.
Raises some good point
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