Australian Society of Archivists

 2006 Conference Connections and Conversations: Archives at Work

The papers delivered at the main conference sessions and the Keeping Indigenous Archives Workshop at the 2006 ASA conference were edited for web publication by Katie Bird, Assistant University Archivist, University of New South Wales. 

PAPERS DELIVERED FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2006 ~

• Margaret Birtley, CEO Collections Council of Australia : Connecting and Conversing: The Collections Council at work
• Digital World
  • Joanna Baker : Digital preservation for small archives
  • Tim Robinson : Records Online at the University of Sydney, or How do we hide the recordkeeping?
  • Ross Gibbs : Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI)
• Collections
  • David Roberts : From the National Online Archival Network to CAN: Getting Australia’s archives online [Paper]
  • Joy Suliman : CAN for Archives – An Update
• Change & Challenge
  • Joanna Sassoon and Toby Burrows : Mapping our principles
  • Bronwyn Ryan, Renée Shuttleworth & Beth Lonergan : Handling the archival retirement brain drain: A case study from the Manuscripts Branch at the National Library of Australia
• Practical Archives
  • Janette Pelosi : Microfilming in a digital age: Managing microfilming projects
  • Kim Eberhard : Staking a claim: The development and implementation of the Records Retention Schedule for Non-Government Schools
  • John Baker : A small business view on recordkeeping
• Directions in Archival Education
  • Sigrid McCausland : Designing a Continuing Professional Development program for the ASA
• History & Commemoration
  • Peter Tyler : Writing administrative history: Are archivists necessary?
  • Paul Wilson : Commemorating Newcastle’s Medical Icon: Royal Newcastle Hospital, 1817 - 2006
• Loris Williams MemorialLecture
  • Jill Caldwell, Session Chairperson : Opening remarks
  • Kirsten Thorpe and Anne Wright : Where the bloody hell are we? The current position of Indigenous employees and students in the archives and records profession in Australia

PAPERS DELIVERED SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER 2006 ~

• Plenary – Governance and Professional Associations
  • John Peacock, General Manager, Associations Forum Pty Ltd and NFP Analysts Pty Ltd : Professional Associations: How does the ASA compare?
  • Sigrid McCausland : Planning & organising ASA events
  • John Roberts : The ASA Draft Appraisal Statement: Feeding Back, But Going Forwards
  • Nicole McLennan : Getting grant funding: The basics
• Recordkeeping in the Pacific
  • Danielle Wickman : Records management capacity in the Solomon Islands
  • Setareki Tale : Canoeing in cyberspace: Recordkeeping in the Pacific
  • Delene Cuddihy : Archives development at the Timor Leste Truth & Reconciliation Commission
• Regional Archives Networking
  • Wayne Doubleday : From system to network? Developments in the State Records NSW regional repositories 1995-2005
  • James Logan : Do regions matter? Conceptualising regions within the State Records NSW regional repositories network
  • Don Boadle : The collecting of State records by NSW regional repositories
• Documenting Communities
  • Helen McLaughlin : The role of the University of Melbourne Archives in preventing the fall
  • Paul Convy : Beginning to document the Lebanese communities: Encouraging community groups to maintain their own records
  • Joanna Sassoon : Digitisation is the answer, what on earth is the question!
• The Australian Memory of the World Register
  • Maggie Shapley : The Australian Memory of the World Register: What’s the problem?
  • Robyn Sloggett : 'Offices of memory': The paradigm of the global as a tool for the preservation of culture

WORKSHOP - KEEPING INDIGENOUS ARCHIVES

• Noeline Briggs-Smith & Donna Briggs : Creating an Indigenous Archive
• Jill Caldwell : Storing and Handling Indigenous Archival Collections
• Keeping Indigenous Archives Workshop - Participant’s Workbook