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Dear ACT Branch members,
Our next event is a presentation by a visiting colleague from New Zealand, Mark Crookston on 5 December 2018. He will be speaking on Repatriating Archives of Gallipoli Veterans: A Case Study. The presentation will be about 25 minutes, followed by questions on this topic and any other aspects of archival activity in New Zealand. Please aim to arrive at 5.30pm for a 6pm start, through to 7.15pm. More information can be found here: https://archiveslive.ning.com/events/repatriating-archives-of-gallip...
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Catherine
Committee member of the ACT Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists
Events
Canberra
Dear ACT Branch members,
Our next event is a mid-week lunchtime one, a 45 minute tour of the new National Archives Preservation Facility (NAPF). Please join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this modern, architecturally designed and environmentally sustainable building, that houses over 100 km of paper records, more than 9 km of audiovisual records and a digital archive. The tour will include repository spaces and preservation labs.
Date: Wednesday, 9 August 2017.
Time: 12.30 – 1.15 p.m.
Place: 30 Vicars St, Mitchell (address with the google map link)
Parking: There are seven visitor car park spots at the staff entry which is fairly full most of the time, so you may have to park on Vicars Street i.e. kerbside parking which is allowed. On arrival people should follow the path at the left hand side of the visitor parking which leads to the entry, it is easy to find. Note: there are two driveways; the staff entry is the northern one, the southern one (i.e. closest to NAA’s old Mitchell building) is for deliveries only.
RSVP: Please do come along if you can and RSVP to me beforehand so we have an idea of numbers attending.
AGM: Also, the branch Annual General Meeting has been scheduled for the evening of Thursday 24 August, so please mark that in your calendars. Further details on that soon.
Cheers,
Convenor, Australian Society of Archivists, ACT Branch
Research Project Manager, Vietnam Medical Legacies
Military History Section | Australian War Memorial
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051
Reminder: ACT Branch Member Survey – Closes 31 May
The ACT Branch Committee has prepared an online survey to get your feedback on branch events, activities, preferences etc. It should only take a few minutes to complete and all responses are anonymous. Please take the opportunity to contribute and let us know your thoughts so we can organise future events perhaps differently or better. The survey is open until 31 May.
Here’s the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TFMBYRV
Craig Tibbitts
Convenor, Australian Society of Archivists, ACT Branch
VENUE CHANGE - 10 MAY 2017 EVENT
Dear ASA (ACT) Branch members,
We need to change the venue for the 10 May event – the visit by ASA President Julia Mant. Instead of the NLA the new venue is at the National Archives.
When: Wednesday 10 May, 5.30 – 6.30 p.m.
Where: National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT, The Barton Room.
Please do let me know if you intend coming.
Many thanks,
Craig Tibbitts
Convenor, Australian Society of Archivists, ACT Branch
Research Project Manager, Vietnam Medical Legacies
Military History Section | Australian War Memorial
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051
Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au
Dear ASA (ACT) Branch members,
We have a couple of after-hours events coming up within the next few weeks (10 May and 1 June), so if you’re interested, please save the dates and RSVP me to confirm. Details are below.
I’ll send out further reminders closer to the dates, including confirmation of time and place.
Hope to see a few of you there.
Cheers,
Craig Tibbitts
Convenor, Australian Society of Archivists, ACT Branch
Research Project Manager, Vietnam Medical Legacies
Military History Section | Australian War Memorial
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051
Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au
When: Wednesday 10 May, 5.30 – 6.30 p.m.
Where: National Library of Australia (Room Booking TBC)
Julia took over the reins as president in October last year. This meeting will be a good opportunity to meet her and discuss any Society matters you may have on your mind. Julia with give us an update on Council agenda and any other important business, and then we’ll open up for questions and discussion. Our new president is keen to hear members’ opinions.
When: Thursday 1 June, 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm.
Where: Australian War Memorial (Room Booking TBC)
Camels, cockerels and governors: Thinking with the photographs of E.L. Mitchell
Joanna Sassoon
For nearly 100 years E.L. Mitchell’s emblematic photographs of several Australian states have shaped how Australia was seen internationally. Many will recognize Mitchell’s images from having seen them published in Australian school textbooks, government publications, postcards, lantern-slides, international pictorial encyclopedia and museum exhibitions. But who was Mitchell, why did he succeed above his competitors, and how did his archive survive?
In this illustrated talk, Joanna will bring together three biographies – of the photographer, his photographs, and his archive. In doing so, Joanna will discuss this innovative approach to thinking with photographs and open a conversation about the way institutions document and digitize photographs and how this shapes the way they can be used.
Dr Joanna Sassoon is a well-known, and internationally respected historian and archivist. She has managed a number of formats and archival collections in cultural institutions in Western Australia and Canberra and worked in social policy research in the State and Commonwealth public service. She has taught at several universities. She has written widely on Australian, environmental, oral and photographic history and has recently published a book called Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s photographs shaped Australia (See also attached flyer).
Dear ACT members,
Our first event for 2016 is a visit to the Forrest Fire Station/Canberra Fire Brigade Museum, hosted by the Fire Brigade Historical Society.
Date: Tuesday 16 February.
Time: 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm start.
Location: Canberra Fire Brigade Museum, 14 Empire Circuit, Forrest, ACT.
RSVP: to me ASAP so we have an idea of numbers.
The event will include:
In the meantime, check them out on facebook:
Should be really interesting so I hope to see a few of you there.
Cheers,
Craig Tibbitts
Convenor, ASA (ACT) Branch
Craig Tibbitts
Research Project Manager, Military History Section
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051
Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au
Upcoming ASA Event - 30 July - AGM & D-G NAA talk
Dear ACT Branch members,
This is just a long range reminder that our next branch event is on the evening of Thursday 30 July at the National Archives of Australia – Parkes.
Director-General of the NAA, David Fricker, will be speaking about the International Council on Archives (he has been ICA President since Oct. last year), and also about future directions for the NAA. And of course we are holding our Annual General Meeting that evening as well.
I’ll send out a couple more reminders as we get closer to the time as I’d really like to get a strong turnout, for both David’s talk and for the AGM.
Cheers,
Craig
Craig Tibbitts
Senior Curator, Official & Private Records | Research Centre
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051 | f 02 6243 4545
Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au
Upcoming ASA ACT Branch events
Dear ACT Branch members,
I’d like to announce three upcoming events:
Thursday 19 March 2015: Tour of the NLA exhibition, Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War.
Time: 5.30 pm for 5.45 pm start. Tour will be approximately 45 minutes.
Led by Guy Hansen, Director of Exhibitions, NLA.
Keepsakes explores the diaries, photographs, letters and mementos kept and treasured as reminders of the Great War. Discover how the very personal, as experienced by soldiers, nurses, politicians, artists, writers and families on the home front, becomes our collective memory. Sourced entirely from the National Library of Australia’s collections, this exhibition highlights the private experience of war and the objects that evoke our memories. On display are Norman Lindsay’s original artwork for his most famous propaganda posters, Prime Minister Billy Hughes’ handwritten notes from the Paris Peace Conference and Stan Cross’ cartoons of wartime Australia.
Wednesday 13 May 2015: Tour of the Academy Library, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
This visit will focus on the library’s re-launched Special Collections, including Australian Literature, Military Manuscripts and the John Howard Collection (and Reading Room).
Time: 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm start.
Led by Rose Holley, Special Collections and Digital Curator, Academy Library.
Thursday 30 July 2015: Annual General Meeting plus a talk by the Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, David Fricker. Topic: ICA and NAA future directions.
Location: National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Tce, Parkes ACT.
Time: TBC (evening).
We would love to see plenty of members attending these events and we’re sure you’ll find them interesting. Naturally, these events will also be great opportunities to network and keep abreast of what’s happening across the ACT in our sector. Please put them in your calendars!
For the Keepsakes tour, could you please RSVP to me by COB Wed. 18 March.
I’ll send out reminders and more details the week of the events.
Cheers,
Craig Tibbitts
(Convenor, ASA ACT Branch)
Craig Tibbitts
Senior Curator, Official & Private Records | Research Centre
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051 | f 02 6243 4545
Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au
Dear members,
On Wednesday 10 December, the ACT Branch of the ASA had an end of year meeting and AGM at the ACT Heritage Library at Woden. Many thanks to Lynda Weller for organising this and to Antoinette Buchanan for hosting and giving an interesting talk and tour of Heritage Library.
During the AGM, elections were held and the following members were appointed to the branch committee:
A number of activities are being planned for 2015 so I’ll be in touch again in the new year after I return from leave in January.
In the meantime, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Cheers,
Craig.
Craig Tibbitts
Senior Curator, Official & Private Records | Research Centre
Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au | t 02 6243 4248 | m 0439 603 051 | f 02 6243 4545
Australian War Memorial | GPO Box 345 Canberra ACT 2601 | www.awm.gov.au
The next Disaster Recovery Workshop is scheduled for the 23rd and 24th of October and will be held at a new venue, the Canberra Baptist Church rooms in Kingston. As in previous courses the two days will focus on building skills and knowledge in disaster preparedness and recovery. The course provider is Kim Morris of Art & Archival Pty Ltd, an experienced and respected expert in the field of collections disaster preparedness.
Please find attached an outline of the course. If you’re interested in attending please email Bernard Kertesz for a registration form.
Two%20Day%20Disaster%20Outline%20October%202012.pdf |
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