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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WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2001

TIME	SPEAKER/EVENT
9.00 – 9.45 PLENARY Good records pay		9.00 – 10.30 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
What is the hardest job in Records Management? Getting attention. This paper will argue that there is a way to overcome this dilemma. David Price, (Senior Consultant, Synercon Management Consulting PL)		The Local Government Special Interest Group of ASA and the Local Government Chapters of RMAA will present papers and a panel discussion focusing on the application of Privacy legislation to Local Government The Science, Technology and Medicine Archives Special Interest Group and the Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group will host sessions at the conference venue.		The Electronic Records Special Interest Group of ASA and the Information Technology Committee of RMAA will explore issues of joint interest. The session will include a paper by Marian Hoy (Assistant Director, Collection Documentation, National Archives of Australia): Descriptive standards and procedures for record series in electronic form		Religious Archives Special Interest Group will hold its Annual General Meeting and tour the Catholic Diocesan Archive and Museum at Mt St Canice. The Collecting Archives Special Interest Group will hold its Annual General Meeting and tour the Tasmaniana section of the State Library of Tasmania.
9.45 – 10.30 PLENARY Building bridges between cultural heritage resources
Gavan McCarthy (Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne) and Bruce Smith (School of Business Information Technology,RMiT University).
10.30 – 11.00	MORNING TEA
11.00 – 11.45	Recordkeeping and reconciliation Reconciliation movements in Australia and elsewhere highlight fundamental questions about the significance of recordkeeping and archiving in relation to governance, democratic accountability, individual and collective identity, and individual, corporate and collective memory. Sue McKemmish (Associate Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, Monash University) and Michael Piggott (University Archivist, University of Melbourne)
11.45 – 12.30	Keynote address: What’s converging and where is it leading us? This paper argues that the biggest question for recordkeeping professionals in an era of convergence is how to integrate and balance the interests of society at large with the interests and concerns of the record creator. Kathryn Dan, Assistant Director-General, Government Recordkeeping, National Archives of Australia.
12.30 – 1.30	LUNCH
1.30 – 2.15	Convergence and Divergence This paper will explore the issues and challenges experienced during the development of Queensland’s whole-of-Government Recordkeeping Framework from both the archival and records management perspective and will also discuss and challenge the underlying barriers to forming professional strategic alliances. Jackie Bettington ARMA (Senior Consultant, Communication and Information Policy and Planning, Queensland Department of Innovation and Information Economy) and Sally Algate (Manager, Document Management Services, Education Queensland)
2.15 – 3.00	Can the digital age bring the interests of records managers and records users closer together? This paper examines the issue of the loss of records of state government departments and instrumentalities in NSW from a user’s viewpoint, and the implications of records gaps for research under-pinning heritage conservation, environmental management and social and cultural history. Dr Lynne McLoughlin (Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University), Dr Grace Karskens (ARC Queen Elizabeth Research Fellow, the School of History, the University of New South Wales) and Terry Kass (Historian and Heritage Consultant).
3.00 – 3.45	Darwin revisited: How closely are the ASA and RMAA converging? A panel discussion will be led by Steve Stuckey. Steve Stuckey (Assistant Director-General, Collection Management, National Archives of Australia) and a panel of conference speakers.
3.45 – 4.15	AFTERNOON TEA
4.15 – 4.45	Closing address: Mike Steemson.
4.45 – 5.00	Hand-over to subsequent conferences.
5.00	Farewell reception

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