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The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlists for the 2020 NSW Premier’s History Awards.
Eight judges considered 139 entries across the five prize categories.
2020 NSW Premier’s History Awards shortlists (in alphabetical order by author):
How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room
If you’re cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more.
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In Trinity and Columbia, Twin Archivist Projects Map a Pandemic in Real Time
Living in Lockdown, a Trinity project, is chronicling the pandemic in a new way. In the US, a similar project is taking place in Columbia University.
Media Release: Australian Society of Archivists joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), as they become the newest Full Member of the Coalition this week.
Role changes criticised in merger move
Former leaders of the State Archives and Records and Sydney Living Museums have accused the Berejiklian government of pre-empting a parliamentary inquiry investigating contro
State Archives
The eminent historian, Dr Shirley Fitzgerald takes the view that the State government’s proposal to merge State Archives and Records Authority (SARA) with Sydney Living Museums (SLM) is nothing short of ‘nuts’. (SMH 27/07/20)
I agree co
Archives need neutrality
I agree with eminent historian Dr Shirley Fitzgerald that the proposal to merge the State Archives with Sydney Living Museums is nothing short of ‘‘nuts’’. It is no accident that over centuries State Archives has been respecte
PUBLIC POLICY IN ART MUSEUMS AND SOCIAL STATEMENTS
This blog post born from the reply (such I am agree with him) to the bad feeling towards Australian volunteer in a museum discussion. Since I have worked for an important cultural and art trust in Asi
Updated July 28, 2020 — 6.39pm
Sydney cultural custodians are divided over a Berejiklian government plan to merge the State Archives with the authority responsible for some of the c
As we all know, the fundamental purpose of the NSW government's archives is to maintain the records of government, to ensure records are created, to keep a paper & digital trail of those records, to preserve records and most importantly, to ensure th
and includes an email I wrote on 4 June 2020 to the Chair, Hon Shayne Mallard MLC relating to false and misleading statements made by t
These three letters were published in the Sydney Morning Herald today, all opposing this proposed merger, they are in response to an article in the SMH yesterday about this issue
Historic mistake
It is ‘‘just nuts’’ to amalgamate archives (‘‘Historian
Australian War Memorial volunteers told they could lose role if they speak publicly about controversial expansion
Warning not to ‘like’ social media comments comes as critics dec
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Image: Staff and boys outside the main dormitory at Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm, 1908. Courtesy Uniting Heritage Service, Victoria.
Our new online learning course Out-of-Home Care Records Toolkit is now live! It is designed to support anyone holdin
The National Archives of Australia is pleased to advise the exposure draft of our new policy Building Trust in the Public Record: managing information and data for government and community is now available for comment until 10th August 2020. We have
Celebrating Archives – the Teachers, Witnesses and Resistance of Our Time
The journey of most archival documents is an unlikely one.
A photograph of Dr. Solon J. Buck, archivist, delivering a lecture in 1948. Photo: archives.gov
Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks
BY RICH WHITEHOUSE JUNE 1, 2020
Hey all, VGHF founder Frank Cifaldi here. Today I’m tag-teaming with Rich Whitehouse to bring you the story of how we recovered and re-assembled Days o
