ATTENTION Western Australian members
Can you help? We are looking to purchase the above scanner. Unfortunately for us the supplier has just sold the one they had in stock and aren't getting in another.
We are in the Perth CBD and wondered if anyone has
Read more…Dear brains trust,
Does a VFL / AFL archives exist, presumably in Victoria? If so, could you please let me know the contact details?
Thanks in advance,
Catriona
Read more…Hi, has anyone converted cassette tapes to digital?
I purchased a small portable USB cassette capture, but the quality of the device and sound is terrible.
I am currently looking at the ION Audio Tape 2 PC device https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V
Read more…I have recently been asked to help set up an archive storage area in our fairly young school. Among the most numerous items are boxes and boxes of loose photographs. Once sorted and weeded what it is the best option for storage and ease of display th
Read more…Hello Members of Archives Live!
We are looking for people who are willing to take part in a research study that investigates the contribution of various social factors to adjustment during the retirement transition.
Over 3 million Australians are curre
Read more…Please undertake the ASA survey on Archives and Manuscripts to provide us with guidance on what you value about the journal, digital and print options, and potential publishing platforms.
Open to ASA members, subscribers, authors & potential authors.
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Read more…We have all been to a countryPub and noticed the framed pics on the walls.
What happens to these gems of history when the pub changes hands or burns down or whatever.....
A project could be a hi res camera and appropriate control software with a couple
Read more…I've been asked to explore what other Archives and collecting institutions are doing around fund raising and encouraging donations/philanthropic gestures for funding specific or general projects.
UOW Archives frequently receives offers of material, ra
Read more…Dear all
We are new and small corporate archives. We are planning to buy a archival system. Currently, We have 80% of archives are paper and the rest of them are electronic. We foresee that we shall collect more electronic files like video and photos
Read more…The deadline for the Mander Jones awards has now been extended to Friday 14 April!
So if you've been meaning to send in a nomination, you haven't missed your chance.
Can I please encourage you all to consider nominating? Nominations are down this year
Read more…Records of the scheme, which was implemented in the mid-1960s, reveal harrowing personal stories of the Holocaust
Thousands of individual stories of Nazi persecuti
From grant.mitchell@ifrc.org on the ICA list-serv:
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 190 member National Societies.
The IFRC is looking to hire two archiv
Read more…Please note that the editor, Laura Uglean Jackson, is particularly hoping to receive submissions from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK. See below for contact information and timeline.
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Call for chapter proposals: Deaccessioning in Special
Read more…6 Dec 2017
For those members who could not attend our ASA-ITIC 2017 conference at the University of Melbourne, the videos from Day 1 and 2, are up online and available for viewing on your smart phone, tablet, Smart TV or
Read more…This year's Loris Willams Lecture is to be presented by the marvellous Claire G. Coleman, an author of speculative fiction and a Noongar woman. Claire's debut novel, "Terra Nullius" is already receiving much acclaim.
Owing to some changes in the progr
Read more…Dear Colleagues
Very few of you will remember me. I was one of the first archivists in Australia to have a formal tertiary qualification in archiving – the UNSW Post-Graduate Diploma of Archives Administration. Having got that in the first year it wa
Read more…Hi everyone,
ArchivesACT are in the middle of a move and as such we are weeding our resource collection. We have a box of old Archives and Manuscripts journals that we no longer require with a fairly random timeframe although a couple do date back to
Read more…Hello,
I am hoping to connect with others around how to navigate complex ethical considerations (i.e. privacy, confidentiality, consent) when researching a video archive. I am a PhD student who is currently doing research on a video archive of a socia
Read more…Hugh Williamson Foundation fellow Sharon Huebner and University of Melbourne archivist Stella Marr on the importance of community engagement projects which seek to give voice to the stories of Indigenous people and the role that archives and archivis
Read more…Following the discussions at the ASA conference, inspired by Timm Sherratt, and the recent WA branch event about hackathons, I thought members may be interested in this guide to running hackathons for the cultural sector
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