Keeping Archives is a practical guide which addresses the real-life challenges of working with archival records, acknowledging the theoretical grameworks for this work. It provides information, guidance and skills to professionally manage legacy collections and backlogs while also facing the challenge of working proactively across the records continuum.
This is a completely new edition of the Society's flagship publication, with authors and editors drawn from a wide variety of archival practice.
The series system is a method of describing records and their contexts of creation and management over time. It has been used for almost forty years. During this period it has been implemented in the majority of Australian government archival organisations and has been adopted by a number of other organisations to serve a range of recordkeeping objectives. It has also been implemented in many international archival institutions.
This selection of essays is an introductory text bringing together the most up to date information and advice on the challenges of electronic recordkeeping.
On April 5, 2005 the Australian Society of Archivists celebrated 30 years of the professional asociation with a seminar, Made, Kept and Used. The seminar was designed to provide a focus on the key area of access to records and archives, one of the crutial roles undertaken by archivists and recordkeepers. This is a publication based on that seminar.
1951-1990 was the formative period of the Australian archival profession. The 16 essays and papers which have been reproduced in this publication were written during that period by Australian archivists who were grappling with some of the basic problems of archival management. Archivists and archives students will find in this volume some major Australian contributions to archival theory, as well as some ideas, arguments and debates that continue to be relevant as archives face the challenges of the electronic world. Articles include:
The Records Retention Schedule for Non-Government Schools is a comprehensive document providing an overview of all records likely to be created by any non-government school. A useful too for all people charged with ‘looking after the records’, it provides guidance on retention and disposal through recommended sentences which are based on research and reference to many pieces of legislation affecting the operation of non-government schools.