Recently we moved house (well a few times in short succession actually) and because it was all so fast I did not get a chance to dispose of old and unwanted clothes.  So today I have been unpacking clothes and making decisions as I pack things away t

Earlier this week, as you may have read, the University of Melbourne announced it had acquired the archives of a former student, feminist scholar and writer Germaine Greer. The total cost of the archive including transport, cataloguing, indexing and

Welcome to The Community Archive, New Zealand’s hub for archival collections. Here you will find treasures of our past and present. Contributors range from individuals and small local organisations through to large institutions with nationally-signi

The State Records NSW Digital Archives project team has released the Digital Archives migration methodology as an exposure draft on the State Records website.

The migration methodology has been developed by the Digital Archives project team to establi

If you’re in and around Yarraville in a couple of weeks, you might be interested in an exhibition of sign writing-related documents from the inner west (paintings, drawings, job sheets) and paraphernalia from 1915 – 1960. The documents, from the form

Hi All,

I wondered if I could get a feel for how others in smaller organisations, educational or otherwise, might be handling the distinction between their archival holdings and their record management practices.  Particularly as we march into the dig

Archives & Manuscripts has been evaluated for inclusion in Scopus by the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB). The review is now complete and the CSAB has advised that the title will be accepted for inclusion in Scopus.

Scopus is a bibliographic

Video and text of archival records released from the UK National Archives.

And also of interest a view of their compactus and archival storage boxes. None of our beloved Australian Type-1 boxes there. They use a different kind of box size and shape in

On 3 July 2013, I gave a lunchtime lecture for the Royal Australian Historical Society, at History House, in Macquarie Street, Sydney, as part of their 2013 Day Lecture Series, on the topic of the Sydney Diocesan Archives, of which I am the Diocesan

Robin Gibson Gallery

Angela Welyczko
BFA Photography (Honours), College of Fine Arts, Sydney

The instinct to preserve runs deep within us all. While it can affect some of us more than others, the act of collecting, storing and archiving has been, and

Victorian School Archives SIG talk given by Mrs Ann Neil, President of the PLC OCA March 2013

PLC Alumni and Archives

Notes of a talk given by Mrs Anne Neil (Hare 1963) President of the PLC OCA,

to ASA Victorian School Archives SIG at the Term 2 Network

I don't know if anyone watched Foreign Correspondent last night but the section in the middle about the destruction of the archives and what that archival heritage meant to the community of Timbuktu and the nation of Mali was inspiring. The contrast

Friday 5 April 2013 00.01 BST  

British Library adds billions of webpages and tweets to archive

Every public tweet and Facebook entry in the UK could eventually be archived

By Madeline Chambers

BAD AROLSEN, Germany, April 3 (Reuters) - George Jaunzemis was three and a half years old

DJs puts a new spin on 175 years of history with finds from archivist's wonderland

Photos of cabinets

The Scotch College (Melbourne) Archives wishes to sell four surplus display cabinets. They are currently stacked up as they appear in the attached photo. One is a tall timber cabinet (quite spacious) although some of the glass panel

HUMN8025 Thinking Archivally: an introduction to working with archives