The Joint National Conference of the ASA & the RMAA	Invitation Speakers Social Program Main Program General Information Accommodation Registraton Further Information Sponsorship & Exhibition 2 to 5 September 2001 Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart Tasmania, Australia

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MAIN PROGRAM

TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2001

TIME	SPEAKER/EVENT
8.45 – 9.45	Setting Standards: Legislation and recordkeeping principles This paper will focus on the emergence of best practice recordkeeping principles as a legislative issue and look at the background and implementation of new legislation in WA and NSW. The speakers will take questions from the floor. Ted Ling, Director, Legislative and Accessibility Projects, National Archives of Australia David Roberts, Director, State Records NSW Chris Coggin, Director, State Records Office Western Australia
9.45 – 10.15	Blurring the boundary: Electronic records between standards and practice The implementation of VERS has challenged some of the assumptions about electronic records and the way they can be created, used, re-used, and ultimately preserved. Justine Heazlewood (Business Development Manager, Victorian Electronic Records Strategy, Public Record Office of Victoria) Howard Quenault (Victorian Department of Infrastructure)
10.15 – 10.45	MORNING TEA
10.45 – 11.15	ISO 15489 The International Standards Organisation’s long-awaited Records Management Standard, ISO15489, is a fascinating document that will replace our own Australian Standard AS4390. It will be vital to all recordkeepers. Convergence? Yes, it will help us all work in the same way and, in the growing global community, that is a huge plus. Mike Steemson, The Caldeson Consultancy
11.15 – 12.00	Can AS4390 and DIRKS apply on the international scene This paper contends that AS4390 and the recently developed DIRKS manual are powerful tools for any information manager anywhere in the world Tom Adami, Judicial Records and Archives Unit, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
12.00 – 12.30	Reality bites – DIRKS in the real world This paper uses the experience of implementation practitioners to explore issues about adapting standards to the work environment, getting commitment to recordkeeping projects and pitfalls for the unwary. This paper will include an implementation case study. Colleen McEwan, Assistant Director, Recordkeeping Implementation, National Archives of Australia.
12.30 – 1.30	Annual General Meetings of the Records Management Association of Australia and some Australian Society of Archivists Special Interest Groups (Electronic Records, Local Government, Science Technology & Medicine Archives, Indigenous Issues and University & College Archives).
1.30 – 2.30	LUNCH
2.30 – 3.15	WORKSHOPS Each workshop will provide opportunities for discussion around central papers.
Archives in the Electronic Age		Appraisal and Disposal, the point of convergence UPDATED		Education and Professional Development		Managing Electronic Records
Suzanne Fairbanks (Deputy University Archivist, The University of Melbourne): Collecting archives in the electronic age. Lise Summers (Archivist, State Records Office of WA): Dancing with the devil; developing a digitisation project. David Roberts (Director, State Records NSW) and Mark Stevens (City Archivist, Council of the City of Sydney): A case study on the development of Archives Navigator.		Barbara Reed (Chairperson) The process of determining when records should be destroyed is a critical point of convergence between Records Managers and Archivists. These sessions are designed to explore the practical issues of appraisal by studying some important current projects. Tony Newton (State Records NSW) and Lorraine Van Gemert (SA Department of Human Services): Health records - New South Wales and South Australian case studies. Janet Russell (NAA), Dr Jim Stokes (NAA) and Stephen Yorke (Department of Communications and the Arts): Re-appraisal - The National Archives (NAA) experience Abstracts		Margaret Pember (Curtin University of technology): Do you really need a degree? The workshop will include presentations on the development and future application of the Record-keeping Competency Standards and a panel discussion of the implementation of the Business Services Training Package.		Anne Picot (Corporate Archivist, Roads & Traffic Authority NSW): Electronic identity, what signatures really stand for and how they should be managed in the digital environment. Therese Bendeich (Senior Consultant, Synercon Management Consulting PL): An holistic approach to EDMS and RM implementations. Chris Fripp (Corporate Records & Archives Manager, Sutherland Shire Council NSW): The Electronic Challenge.
3.15 – 3.45	AFTERNOON TEA
3.45 – 5.00	WORKSHOPS CONTINUE
EVENING	CONFERENCE DINNER
	Social Program for Tuesday

The organising committee gratefully acknowledges the support of the following in promotion of the conference: Major Sponsor : Solution 6 Group Hummingbird Zetta Florence Objective Corporation Ltd Infovision Technology Pty Ltd Archives Office of Tasmania National Archives of Australia State Records Authority of NSW