Australian Society of Archivists

Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Conference: Archives at Risk: Accountability, Vulnerability and Credibility

Papers include:

• Keynote address - Archives at risk: Accountability, vulnerability and credibility (John McDonald)

• Was JF to blame? Archivists, historians and risk (Don Boadle)

• Archives at risk in Cambodia: The National Archives of Cambodia and the role of the foreign advisor (Peter Arfanis)

• Archives in Kiribati (Pat Jackson)

• The information economy and electronic recordkeeping: An Australian perspective (Paul Twomey)

• Recordkeeping systems: Lessons learned from the experience of the Canadian Federal Government (John McDonald)

• The information economy and electronic recordkeeping: A New Zealand perspective (John Roberts)

• Recordkeeping Educators' Forum report

• The need for archival education and professional development (Delene Cuddihy)

• Accreditation: Purpose, process and value (Sigrid McCausland)

• Understanding ourselves and others: Australian archivists and temperament (Ann Pederson)

• Overview of archival legislation in Australia (Anne-Marie Schwirtlich)

• Changing roles in New South Wales (Tony Newton)

• Changes within the Archives Authority of New South Wales (Catherine Robinson)

• Water dripping on stone: The development of new archival legislation in Western Australia (Jenny Edgecombe)

• A new paradigm for access: The implications of current copyright law reform initiatives (Margy Burn)

• Experiences in FOI and tertiary education (Tim Robinson)

• FOI and privacy from a school archives perspective (Sarah O’Neill)

• Post‑Fitzgerald Queensland (Peter Botsman)

• Public sector ethics in Queensland since Fitzgerald (Noel Preston)

• Archives at risk: Accountability and the role of the professional society (Sue McKemmish and Glenda Acland)

• Accountability Discussion Session

• Economic rationalism and archives: Introduction (Sigrid McCausland)

• Where have all the business archives gone? (Kathryn Dan and Bruce Smith)

• The UWA Archives' experience of economic rationalism (Christine Bapty)

• The end of the beginning: The SPIRT Recordkeeping Metadata Project (Glenda Acland, Kate Cumming and Sue McKemmish)

• Without consent: Records relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Loris Williams)

• Indigenous peoples' access rights to archival records (Sonia Smallacombe)

• Bringing Them Home: The National Archives' Bringing Them Home indexing project (Paul Macpherson)

• Bringing Them Home: A Queensland perspective (Kathy Frankland)

• Heritage and the Internet: Encoding context objects ‑ using knowledge to reduce risks (Gavan McCarthy)

• Heritage and the Internet: A cultural heritage perspective (Sandra Lynn)

• Closing address (John McDonald)

 

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