The State Records Office of WA has completed development of the Online Retention and Disposal Application (ORDA) and is currently deploying the system for WA government agency use.
This system has been designed to enable government agency staff, and
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This week, "News from Brisbane" introduces Lauren Banks, who works at the National Archives of Australia as a Project Officer in the Government Information Management Branch.
See the whole article published on the ICA website at: http://icarchives.we
This week, "News from Brisbane" introduces Kylie Moloney, the Executive Officer of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long-term preservation and accessibility of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands.
See
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Australian Information Education Symposium
24 June 2012
City West Campus, University of South Australia, Adelaide
The Australian Information Education Symposium brings together educators within the information professions to enable a cul
Two members of our profession have been honoured today for their contributions:
Mr Paul Brunton has an OAM "For Service to Australian history through curatorial roles with the Mitchell Library"
Mr John Burke has a Public Service Medal "For outstandin
The Annual Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards, an initiative of the Public Records Advisory Council, recognise achievement in good records management practice within Victorian government agencies.
To be eligible to nominate, your project must
Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a research paper just published by State Records NSW's digital archives team and open for comment on the Future Proof blog. This research paper discusses three problems with using the term transf
Masters student, Heather Ryckman, is researching user attitudes to archival context as represented on the web. The purpose of Heather's project is to examine archivist and user attitudes to the description of context using a selection of Web 1.0 and
See the announcement at: http://www.kb.nl/nieuws/2011/kbna-en.html
The 2012 Emmett Leahy Award
The Emmett Leahy Award is presented annually to recognize an individual whose contributions and outstanding accomplishments have had a major impact on the records and information management professions.
The award honors E
2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2012)
http://www.apc2012.org/callForPapers
7 to 10 October 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The 2012 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC 2012) brings together researchers, practitioners, policy makers and professio
State Records NSW has been given a savings target of $1.8 million over the next 4 years.
Regrettably to stay within our budget, the decision has been made to consolidate all Public Access Services at the Western Sydney Records Centre at Kingswood.
Al
This afternoon we were presented with a prize book awarded to former student H. F. Reynolds in 1916, which had turned up recently in an interstate antiquarian bookshop owned by the sister-in-law of the donor, himself an Old Boy. This is not an unusua
At 2am on Saturday 3 December 2011, arsonists burned down the historic Alison Homestead in Wyong, NSW.
Built circa 1885, now owned by the Wyong Shire Council, and located in a rural setting, with a large 5 acres curtilage and several outbuildings (whi
An exhibit that uses records and memorabilia of those in care
See 7.30 ACT edition from 28 Nov about the exhibit
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-28/inside/3698726
or visit the NMA web - http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/inside/
The call for nominations for the 16th annual Mander Jones Awards are now open.
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, auth
See:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,800809,00.html#ref=nlint
The remaining PROV recordkeeping Standards and Specifications, along with a new Guideline, three new Fact Sheets and six new Forms, are now available on the Public Record Office Victoria website (http://prov.vic.gov.au). We hope that you find these d
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National Library hosts priceless manuscripts
Canberra is showcasing a priceless collection of manuscripts and letters penned by some of the world's best known composers and philosophers.
The National Library of Australia has borrowed more t
For all those Australian archivists who cringe and curl up with frustration when they hear their job described as:
arch-ive-ist....
Check out Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com.au
You can type in 'archivist', and then click on the loudspeaker
