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Karen ANDERSON
Senior Lecturer, School of Computer and Information Science,
Edith Cowan University. ARES Committee, ASA Education Committee
I am committed to doing all I can to
ensure that high quality relevant professional education is available in
Australia for the recordkeeping professions.
This cannot be done by educators alone: it requires continuing
commitment and support from the wider profession, engaging in discussion
and debate about
·
educational needs of various groups and sectors of the
profession;
·
course content and quality;
·
constructive contribution from employers and other stakeholders.
I welcome the initiative of the ASA and
RMAA in developing and supporting the ARES Forum. |
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Jack
BARRESI
Manager
Learning and Development, Records Solutions
I have a key interest in competency based development
initiatives as well as non accredited training opportunities for people
in the Record Management industry.
My interest is beyond our own organisation as we are also an
accredited VET provider. Our
Registered Training Organisation is registered in Victoria and we
include on our scope of registration the Certificates III and IV in
Business (Record Keeping).
I
welcome listening and participating in discussions addressing the
VET qualifications available to people within the Record Management
Industry.
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Phill
BEVAN
Operations
Manager, Esset Australia
Esset
Australia is a ISO 9001:2000 compliant registered training organisation
offering the Certificate III through to Advanced Diploma courses in
Business (Recordkeeping) through flexible delivery formats. |
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David
BROWN
RMAA
Victorian Branch Vice President 2002 -
Manager
Regulation and Compliance, Public Records Office Victoria
I
have a keen interest in the development of suitable and acceptable
training and qualifications for the archival and records management
industries. |
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Sue
Burgess
University
of Technology, Sydney
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Jill
CALDWELL
Convenor
ASA / RMAA ARES Forum Committee (2003) and ASA Education Committee (2002-03)
Convenor
ASA/RMAA Education and Membership Committee 2001
Member
ASA Accreditation/Course Recognition Committee 1997-2000
Director
Collection Documentation, National Archives of Australia
The
general educational landscape in Australia, and the particular
environment for archives and records education, have changed
considerably in the last 5-10 years. It has been difficult to develop a
shared perspective on the issues and consequently we have difficulty
responding to change and influencing the situation. My motivation for
working on the ARES Forum is to develop a public debate about
professional education which engages all stakeholders and a series of
actions which will contribute to sustaining education which they
value.
I
am keen to ensure that a wide range of educational opportunities are
available to National Archives staff.
At
the Archives I have worked on the computer systems which support storage
activities and I was a member of the Australian and international
records management standards committees. Since 2000, I have been
responsible for the Archives use of the CRS system and its expression in
the RecordSearch database. |
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Brigid
COOPER
ASA
Religious Archives Special Interest Group and Association of Catholic
Archivists |
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Amanda
COSSHAM
Lecturer,
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
I
teach in New Zealand's only undergraduate programme for Library and
Information Studies at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, which also
offers the only records management qualification. I became interested in
records management because of my immediate colleagues' work. This
interest extended to study in the area and to completing research into
the professional development needs of records managers in 2002. I am
interested in the maintenance and development of qualifications for the
information professions in their widest definition. |
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Renate
CROKER
ACT
RMAA Branch Councilor - Education Co-ordinator
National
Records Manager, Department of Immigration & Multicultural &
Indigenous Affairs
I
have been in the records management field in Commonwealth Government for
20 years. During that time I have observed the decline in the
availability of training (both in the public and private forum) for
records management and the subsequent loss of skills, and recognition of
the role that records managers and archivists play in government
agencies. As the Education
Coordinator for the RMAA ACT Branch, I am in a strong position to help
develop standards and a structured education program. |
| Peter
CRUSH
ASA
ARES Committee, Education Committee
Proprietor
of a sole trader consulting business in Archives & Recordkeeping.
Professional member of both the ASA & RMAA. Member of the ASA
National Education Committee, ARES Forum Committee, SA Branch Committee
of the ASA, 2003 ASA Conference Committee and SA Branch Education
Committee of the RMAA. I am particularly interested in the practical
implementation of the Recordkeeping domain of the Business Services
Training Package. |
| Del
CUDDIHY
ASA ARES Committee, ASA Education Committee
Principal Information Management Advisor, Strategy
Unit, Queensland Rail
Recordkeepers
in Queensland, whether employed in the public or private sector,
have very limited access to training and development either at
the VET level or the tertiary level. Most must study by distance
education or by re-locating and these limited choices create problems
for the ongoing quality and viability of the profession in Queensland.
This poor situation flows on to the quality of management and leadership
within the public and private sectors as accountability and legal
compliance is increasingly associated with
information management and recordkeeping. |
| Kathryn
DAN
Assistant Director-General
Government Recordkeeping, National Archives of Australia
Member
of ASA Council 1993-1999, including President/Vice President 1996-1999.
I
am interested in the Forum from several perspectives:
*
National Archives interest as an employer that needs to recruit
and develop staff with records/archives knowledge
*
National Archives concerns for skilled staff and consultants to
be employed in the federal jurisdiction
*
as a member of Pacific Regional Branch of International Council
on Archives (PARBICA) interested in developments in Australia that might
impact on PARBICA aim for distance education at a certificate type level
to be available for pacific states and nations
*
as a member of the ICA Section of Professional Associations that
has an interest in professional education and certification of
individual archivists |
| Sharon
DOBSON
Human Resources
Manager , Archives New Zealand
Since
joining Archives New Zealand I have been involved with a review of the
archival competencies and development of new recordkeeping competency
standards.
In addition Archives New Zealand is interested in working with
trainers and educators to further develop training and education across
a range
of levels. |
| Judith
ELLIS
Institute of Information Management, Director Enterprise
Knowledge
Judith is Managing Director of
Enterprise Knowledge Pty Ltd, a company specialising in consulting,
recruitment, training and education in the information and knowledge
management field.
Judith is a long standing member of the ASA and RMAA and
other industry bodies, and has held various positions of office.
She is currently Branch President and a Federal Director of the
Institute for Information Management.
Judith’s interest in the Forum relate to her role as a
recruiter of graduates, contributor to and teacher of university
programs, and industry advocate of higher education in the information
management arena. |
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Sandra ENNOR
Records Management Officer, Records Management Unit, Chisholm Institute
RMAA Member
My interest in the forum is mainly with
trying to educate young professionals in the area of Recordkeeping &
Archives. Being fairly
young in the industry, I have 4 years of professional experience and a
Bachelor of Information Management degree from Monash University and I
am passionate about educating fellow staff members about the need for
accountable recordkeeping practices and sound archiving programs.
In my experience, a centralised records management program needs
to sustain trained and qualified RM professionals or strive towards
this, to provide a sound team with common objectives.
A lack of trained and qualified professionals in lower end jobs
seems to facilitate a high employee turnover and severe lack of
understanding of the true nature of recordkeeping. |
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Samantha FARNSWORTH
A/Associate State Archivist, State Records of South
Australia (SRSA)
I primarily have an interest in
the Education Forum as both an Employer and Regulator representative
(although I also have a personal interest as an Employee). In fulfilling
these roles I hope to, at the least:
·
explore post-appointment and continuing education and
training opportunities for Government archives, particularly in relation
to possible joint initiatives, common agreement and shared expectations
amongst COFSTA institutions in this area
·
gain an understanding of other COFSTA institutions’ views
on the importance of having a staff development program and what such
programs are meant to achieve for both the individual and the
organisation
·
explore training options in records management and archives
at a whole-of-Government level so that legislative compliance with State
Records legislation can be achieved
·
discuss whether other COFSTA institutions perceive any
dilemmas or conflicts of interest in being Regulators and Educators. |
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Lesley
FERGUSON
RMAA
ARES Committee, Education Coordinator
The
RMAA is pleased and to work with the ASA to bring stakeholders together
for archives and records education in Australia and New Zealand.
This paper will
provide background information about the RMAA's support and
in records management education.
The RMAA Education representative is to coordinate RMAA Education
in records management by -
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Providing input on policies on courses in records management
*
Encouraging educational institutions to introduce records management
courses in their curriculum and assisting educational institutions to
have their courses accredited by the RMAA.
*
Encouraging institutions to adopt courses in records management which
meet with the Australian Standard for Records Management and student
needs.
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Organising and promoting training and education courses and ensuring
adequate information is available. |
| Cassie
FINDLAY
ASA Electronic Records
Special Interest Group
Senior Project Officer, Government Recordkeeping, State
Records NSW
The improvement of
records/archives knowledge and skills in the NSW public sector is a key
corporate goal for State Records NSW. In order to achieve this goal,
State Records has developed a three year ‘Better Skills’ strategy,
which is designed to enhance opportunities in NSW for
records/archives training and education at a range of different levels.
A key means by which we can achieve this is by developing better
partnerships with the professional associations and the training and
education sector.
As Senior Project Officer responsible for the ‘Better
Skills’ strategy and State Records’ own program of short course
training, I am looking forward to meeting with colleagues in Melbourne
to discuss the current state of play and future needs for training and
education for archives / records professionals |
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Jan FISHER
Principal Consultant,
Information Management Solutions
Previous ASA Committee member
(SA & ACT); Previous RMAA Board member; Previous RMAA Branch
Councillor (SA & ACT)
Although I am the Principal
Consultant for IMS I also work extensively as a trainer in the
recordkeeping/records management field. I am currently completing course
work to become an accredited Workplace Assessor (I understand I will be
the only one in my industry in the ACT). My interest in the Forum
therefore, is having the opportunity to bring my views and opinions
about vocational education issues rather than tertiary education issues.
For example, there are no VET courses in the ACT to enable people to
gain RPL and/or relevant competencies and therefore, official
recognition of their skills. |
| Chris
FRIPP
National President, Records Management Association of Australasia
RMAA
Positions: National President, Treasurer, NSW Branch, Chair of National
Membership and Status Committee
Records
management and archives are emerging as a critical factor for any
business, and it is important that personnel can access and undertake
training to ensure necessary skills are achieved and maintained to a
high level.
We
need to ensure that once we have gone through and established the need
for the training, looked at uniformity and standards that achieves the
professional status of the participants, we must then ensure that the
standard achieved be accepted by the employing authorities, and similar
to other professionals, be accepted as the minimum level of
qualification required for practitioners (e.g.CPA and Engineers)
It
is essential that all learning institutes are aligned with the National
Competencies as there must be some uniformity and all stakeholders need
to understand the varying views on education. It is also important for
the RMAA to be seen as a professional Association and as such requires
it members to be qualified and maintain their skills through a continual
professional development program (CPD). It would be great if both RMAA
& ASA could have similar standards for qualifications for
professional members. This needs to be followed up by a CPD program that
ensures
someone just does not get a qualification 20 years ago and say they are
a professional.
Possibly
a flow on from this forum would be to ensure that employees are
encouraged to place on the bottom of all job advertisements that the
applicant must be a professional member of either ASA or RMAA. (based on
the fact that they are the same) |
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Sue FROST
Outsource Australia, National Records Consultant, Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu
As a manager of records staff and
as a records practitioner working for an organisation that provides
records and information management expertise to a range of clients, I
believe that it is critical that the industry takes responsibility for
the training and development of records professionals. Records and
information management is becoming much more strategic and records
professionals need to become proactive in ensuring that the business
goals of organisations are met as well as accountability requirements.
As a part time teacher for TAFE I am committed to the
education of records managers and as a student, I am concerned about my
own professional development opportunities. |
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Anne GILL
Recordkeeping Consultant, State Records Office of Western
Australia.
ASA (WA Branch Secretary).
I will be attending the ARES Forum
as the State Records Office of WA's (SROWA) representative on the COFSTA
Education Contacts group. The SROWA is responsible, under the State
Records Act 2000, for managing, preserving and providing access to the
State's archives. The SROWA delivers best practice records management services to
State and Local Government agencies, and provides the community with access
to the State's archives. As the organisation responsible for the
implementation of the recordkeeping legislation in WA, the SROWA has a
particular interest in promoting the best possible education
opportunities for professional practitioners who will be taking up
positions in public sector organisations. |
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Terry GURR
Acting
Senior Policy Officer, Queensland
State Archives, Department
of Innovation and Information Economy
Treasurer
- ASA Qld Branch
Education
Sub-committee - ASA Qld Branch
Professional
Member - RMAA (ARMA)
The
current implementation of two new Recordkeeping Information Standards
(IS40 & IS41) across over 800 Queensland public authorities seeks to
promote consistency in how government information is to be made, kept,
managed and preserved. Queensland State Archives (QSA) is keenly aware
of the need for suitably trained, skilled and experienced recordkeeping
personnel to support good government recordkeeping, QSA's archival
operations and the management of other public and private collections.
Queensland currently has very limited archives/records course offerings.
See QSA Environmental scan in 2002 at:
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/govserv/records/PublicRecordsAlert/PRA1102.pdf
The
ARES forum will give an opportunity to discuss, and hopefully set,
national strategic objectives to foster more comprehensive archives and
records management related offerings. |
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Amanda HARRIS
Senior Advisor Records Management Policy and Procedures,
Territory Records Office
I will be attending the ARES Forum
as the ACT representative of the COFSTA education committee, ACT
Government representative and the Local Government SIG representative.
I am an associate member of
the ASA and ASA webmaster, I am also a corporate member of the RMAA. I
am currently studying online for an Executive Certificate in Records
Management through Edith Cowan University. |
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Shauna
HICKS
ASA
- Convenor of Reference, Access and Public Programs Special Interest
Group, Compiler of In The Mailbox for ASA Bulletin and aus-archivists
listserv
Manager Access Services Public Record Office Victoria
As a person who has been in the archival profession
for over 20 years I have a keen personal interest in education for and
within the profession. As convenor of RAPPSIG I am keen to seen the
profile of reference, access and public programs raised within the
profession and within employing bodies - a view that is shared by
members of RAPPSIG who I will be representing at the forum. |
| Janet
HOWSE
ASA
Convenor School Archives Special Interest Group
Archivist,
Cranbrook School (2000-2003); Archivist, SCEGGS Darlinghurst (1993
–2000); City Archivist,
Sydney City Council (1981 –1992)
The
education needs of archivists in both small archives and school archives
are as follows:
·
The
employment of professionally qualified and experienced archivists to
work in sole situations where professional support is not in the
workplace
·
Offering
realistic base grade
education for those who do not have professional qualifications and
experience in order to upgrade their skills and qualifications
·
Providing
on-going professional development and educational opportunities for sole
archivists
·
Providing
budgetary and management training for sole archivists
·
Recognition
of the part-time nature of small archives employment
·
Need
for training in records management, archives, and curatorial management
to reflect the encompassing responsibilities of many solo archivists
(particularly in relation to heritage or museum collections) |
| Tony
Hromiak
RMAA
ARES Event Assistant Co-ordinator Records
Solutions |
| Bronwyn
KEIGHLEY-GERARDY
Information
Commissioner (WA), Office of the
Information Commissioner
Invited
to participate as Information Commissioner and State Records
Commissioner in Western Australia.
Interested
in the recordkeeping practices of agencies as they affect access rights
under the FOI Act and accountability. |
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Brenda
LE GRAND
ASA ARES Forum Event Coordinator, Education Committee |
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Adrian
KELLY
Transcriptions
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Rachel
LILBURN
Lecturer,
School of Information Management, Victoria University, Wellington, New
Zealand.
Currently
I am Chair of Archives and Records Association (ARANZ) Wellington Branch
and past ARANZ Council member.
I
have taught several archives and records papers within the Master of
Library and Information Studies programme at the University since 1992.
The School has just received approval to proceed, pursuant to
ratification by the New Zealand Vice Chancellors' Committee, with a
proposal to offer a post-graduate certificate and diploma in archives
and records management in 2004, the first post-graduate qualification
ever to be offered in this country. I will be representing Archives New
Zealand in the ARES discussions. |
| Paul
MACPHERSON
ARES
Forum Facilitator
Principal
Consultant with Stuartfield House Consulting
Group Pty Ltd. He was
previously Director, Accessibility Development in the National Archives
of Australia and before that Policy Officer in the Library at the
Australian National University. From
1983 to 1995 he filled several senior curatorial and senior executive
positions at the Australian War Memorial.
Earlier in his career he was Manuscripts Librarian and Deputy La
Trobe Librarian in the State Library of Victoria.
He has been an ASA branch secretary and is convenor of it 2004
Conference Committee. His
current work is in strategic planning and cultural and human resource
policy as well as in records related areas.
He has a specific interest in change within organisations and the
role of learning as a critical factor in managing change successfully
and therefore is particularly interested in Continuous Professional
Development |
| Dr
Heather MAGUIRE
Senior
Lecturer - Administrative Management, Head of Department - Economics and
Resources Management, Faculty of Business, University of Southern
Queensland
My
interest in the forum is an educator in the area of information
management. Our major in Administrative Management (established in
1997) contains a course on Information Management and we have recently
established a post-graduate course on Corporate Information Management
for delivery as part of the Masters in e-Commerce.
Without any prior knowledge or experience in the area I have been
fortunate enough to have Phil Taylor (RMAA) and Jackie Bettington (ASA)
to audit materials for the courses.
We have recently established certificate courses in Information
Management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and I am keen to
ensure that our courses deliver relevant content. |
| Colleen
McEWEN
Director,
Information Management, National Archives of Australia
I
currently hold the position of Education Portfolio Holder on the ASA
Council and in this role am responsible for the coordination of national
education activities undertaken by the Society.
Between 1997 and 2003 I was Secretary of the Accreditation
Committee supporting the accreditations of courses offered by four
universities, and between 2002 and 2003 coordinated a review of the
accreditation process.
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Professor
Sue McKEMMISH
Head
of School, School of Information Management and Systems, Monash
University
My
interest in the Forum relates to my role as an archival educator and
researcher. |
| Michael
MIDDLETON
Senior
Lecturer, School of Information Systems, QUT
Curriculum for recordkeeping and archives
administration |
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David
MOLDRICH
Fuji
Xerox Australia, Professional Services
Chair,
Standards Australia Committee IT/21 - Records Management;
Chair,
Inter. Stds. Org. (ISO), TC/46 SC11 - Archives/Records Management;
Fellow,
Records Management Association of Australia (RMAA)
Vice
President, International Records Management Congress, Australasia
& Oceania;
Past
Federal Director, (RMAA);
Past
President, RMAA (Vic. Branch).
My
interest in attending the ARES Forum is to gain a greater understanding
of the educational requirements of Archives and Records professionals.
In so
doing, try to influence standards organisations in understanding these
requirements and if possible explore the opportunities of facilitating a
Standard
or Benchmark for educational requirements. |
| Gail
E MURPHY
Employment and Consulting Coordinator, Information
Enterprises Australia Pty Ltd
As
Employment and Consulting Coordinator for Information Enterprises
Australia, a recruitment company that specialises in the provision of
records management personnel, I am very aware that the demand for
records practioners far outweighs the supply.
As organisations become more aware of their corporate records
management responsibilities, the demand for experienced records
personnel will escalate. To meet this demand, educators and employers
need to work together to ensure that experienced, qualified records
management practitioners are not only available but are also recognised
for their skills, qualifications; expertise and competencies. The ARES
Forum will allow us to embark upon this journey. |
|
Marie
MURPHY
Manager,
Policy, Projects and Research, Australian Library and Information
Association. In this role I also manage the Association's course
recognition program.
I
believe the Forum will provide an opportunity for information
professions across the professions to come together to identify
commonalities and differences across the professions and from this it
may be possible to identify areas where we can work together to achieve
outcomes that benefit us all - particularly important in the area of
education for the professions - both initial and career-long. I believe
the
work already underway through ALIA's LISEKA project, which ultimately
seeks to align the LIS core knowledge statement to work-levels,
qualifications and to link CPD to these elements can have
relevance across the broader information professions. |
| Sue
MYBURGH
Senior
Lecturer and Program Director, Knowledge Management, Internet
Communication Strategies, Foundation Director, Centre for Internet
Studies, University of South Australia.
I
am the International Ambassador for Australia and the Pacific for ARMA,
as well as serving of various ARMA committees: the Education Development
Committee, the Member Relations Committee, the Standards Review
Committee and the International Relations Committee.
As an educator, I am very
interested in attending this conference to meet other educators in the
area and to discuss issues of common concern.
This is the only forum which will allow participation by all the
interested parties, and thus must be the most important meeting for a
RIM educator in Australia, and probably elsewhere.
It is also unique because of the collaboration between the ASA
and RMAA. I am also very
interested from the point of view of international accreditation and
recognition of programs. |
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Catherine
NICHOLLS
ARES
Forum Assistant Facilitator
Archives
Systems Officer, Records Services, University of Melbourne
People
seem to enter the archives and records profession through tertiary or
tafe education, on the job training or a combination of both.
It will be interesting to see how the profession as a whole
intends to regard education in the future.
In particular it will be relevant to see how much emphasis is
going to be placed on information technology skills and how people with
strong information technology skills can combine their expertise with
training/education in records management. |
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Kye
O’DONNELL
RMAA
WA Education Coordinator,
Records
Services Team Leader at the City of Perth.
Kye
O'Donnell is currently the Records Services Team Leader at the City of
Perth. Kye is also a member of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA)
and completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Records Management) at
Curtin University of Technology in 1999.
I
come to the forum with a number different perspectives on the issue of
archives & record keeping education. Primarily I am attending as a
representative
of the WA Branch of the RMAA, but I can also provide the perspective of
an employer of record keeping staff in Local Government and as
a graduate from a University undergraduate course in Records Management. |
| Gillian
OLIVER
PhD
Student
Senior
Lecturer,
Head,
Information and Library Studies,
The
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
I
am a records management educator, and programme leader of the Diploma in
Records and Information Management consequently I am interested in the
provision of records management education at the undergraduate level.
In addition I am currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at Monash
University, conducting research into the influence of culture on the
management of information.
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Margaret
PEMBER
Lecturer,
Information Studies, School of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin
University of Technology
As a
lecturer in records management and archives I am vitally interested in
ensuring that courses developed at Curtin University are relevant to the
needs of today’s recordkeeping professionals. One of the major drivers
for course change should be industry need, but just how often do
educators actually ask stakeholders what they really need? The
development of a shared agenda for professional education can only
benefit the profession as a whole by producing practitioners with the
knowledge and skills identified as crucial by stakeholders. My paper at
the Forum will focus on a content analysis of recordkeeping positions
advertised in the West Australian.
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| Michael
PIGGOTT
University
Archivist and Head, Archives Grainger and Special Collections,
University of Melbourne
General
interest and concern for archival education and training |
| Barbara
REED
Consultant,
Recordkeeping |
| Stephen
SMITH
RMAA
Position: Chair, NSW Education Committee
Member
of the Standards Australia IT/21 Committee on Records Management
Member
of the Public Sector Advisory Committee of State Records NSW
Leader, Records Management, Department of Education
and Training (NSW)
The
NSW Education Committee has been active in the area of promoting records
management training with both providers and employers. The Committee’s
achievements since 1998 include:
1.
The development, with TAFE NSW, of a suite of specialist records
management courses based on the Business Services Training Package
2.
The establishment of a scholarship to encourage tertiary study in
records management
3.
The establishment of a Traineeship in Records Management to
encourage employers to take on new starters in the profession
4.
A NSW position paper on skills projects in records management |
| Micky
STEVENS
RMAA
New Zealand Branch Councillor
Knowledge
Administrator at Industry New Zealand, where I look after the electronic
documents database and records management generally.
RMAA
New Zealand is particularly interested in the ARES Forum as we have many
members who are working in the records management field and looking at
gaining or updating their formal qualifications. |
| Rachel
U’REN
RMAA ARES Event Assistant Coordinator |
| Barbara
VAN BRONSWIJK
School Archivist (2 part time positions), Wesley
College, South Perth, WA
Penrhos College, Como, WA.
I served on the Council of the ASA from 1999 until
2002. Responsibilities in
that time included the portfolios of Small Archives, SIGs and Education.
My time on Council made me
particularly aware of the great changes taking place in the provision of
education and training for the archives and records management sector.
From a period of relative stability in the early 1990s we have
seen the termination of several university courses, the increasing
de-regulation of the VET sector and the advent of registered private
training providers. The outcomes of many of these changes and the effect on the
industry are still to be revealed.
On the other hand great
challenges have been thrown up to practicing professionals, not least
with IT and electronic records, the increasing emphasis placed on the
development of standards, the need for compliance with a raft of new
legislation (eg.Privacy). The
professional associations must play an active role to ensure that
archivists and records managers, not least the sole practitioners who
are frequently expected to deal with the broadest range of issues
without workplace support, are provided with the most appropriate
educational resources possible. |
| Kate
WALKER
RMAA
Positions: Executive Secretary, National; President, Tasmanian Branch;
President, Tasmanian Local Government Chapter
Executive Secretary, Records Management Association of
Australasia and Principal
Consultant, Business Competency Solutions
Records
management, recordkeeping and archives are emerging as a critical factor
for any business (something us professionals have known for some time),
and it is important that personnel can access and undertake training to
ensure necessary skills are achieved and maintained to a high level.
We
need to ensure that once we have gone through and established the need
for the training, looked at uniformity and standards that achieves the
professional status of the participants, we must then ensure that the
standard achieved be accepted by the employing authorities, and similar
to other professionals, be accepted as the
minimum level of
qualification required for practitioners (e.g. CPA, Engineers, Building
Surveyors, Environmental Health Officers).
It
is essential that all learning institutes are aligned with the National
Competencies as there must be some uniformity and all stakeholders need
to understand the varying views on education. |
| Lynne
WELLING
RMAA
Position: I’m currently the Education Coordinator of the Tasmanian
Branch
Records
Manager at the National Oceans Office, Hobart which is a Commonwealth
Prescribed Executive Agency.
I
completed my degree in Records Management 18 months ago, so I have been
a distant education student for a number years. I feel education in
Recordkeeping is necessary and currently there maybe 1 or 2 RMAA members
students studying or enrolled with a Registered Training Organisation (RTO).
In
Tasmania there is more of a problem/concern encouraging RMAA members to
undertake the study or competency based assessment process than having
insufficient number of assessors available to assess! A reason why
members do not undertake formal education could be with the omittance in
job vacancies that professional status is necessary from RMAA. |
|
Loris
WILLIAMS
ASA indigenous Issues Special Interest Group
I
am a mature age Aboriginal woman expecting to complete my Graduate
Diploma of Science (Archives and Records) by the end of this year.
I have been completing one subject a semester since commencing
the course in 1999
For
the past ten years my working life has revolved around assisting
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to access records that
will enable them to establish their connection to family and country
both at the State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Government,
Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy.
I
am looking forward to being an active participant in the forum,
providing input as a representative of my people and even perhaps as a
mature age student being constantly challenged by on-line learning. |
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Andrew
WOOD
Andrew
Wood is Education Coordinator for the SA Branch of RMAA and has
been a member of the SA Branch Council since 1986
He
has some 30+ years working in Records Management in the Commonwealth
Government where he has dealt with all aspects of Records Management.
More
recently he has spent some time working in a private Registered Training
Organisation and he has experience with introducing the new
Business Services Training Package and the accreditation process.
Andrew is currently working
for State Records of South Australia as RM Policy project officer
Andrew
is an accredited trainer and has a Diploma in Training and Assessment
Systems. |
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Stephen
YORKE
President,
Australian Society of Archivists
We
are in an environment of rapidly changing business and government
administrative processes and recordkeeping requirements. The changes go
hand in hand with new technologies continually being utilised for
communication, administration, and for recordkeeping. Consequently, many
of the skills that were learned by recordkeeping professionals (say) 20
years ago are no longer required, many skills require updating to
contemporary requirements, and new or additional skills are constantly
being required.
From
the viewpoint of a profession, if is to remain relevant to its members
then it must engage with the issues pro-actively. The basic questions in
the context of the Forum then are: what are the real recordkeeping
educational and training issues and needs, what are the priorities, and
what are the strategies to achieve these? My personal hope is at the end
of the Forum there will be at least agreement on the issues - if not a
consensus on what should be addressed. |
