 Australian Society of
Archivists
ARCHIVES AND COMMUNITIES
2005 Conference - Wellington NZ
The Archives and Records Association of New Zealand, the
Australian Society of Archivists, and the New Zealand Society of
Archivists are pleased to invite you to take part in their joint
2005 conference. This unique event will see the first ever joint
gathering of these three leading archives and recordkeeping
associations.
Date/Venue: 6-8 October 2005, Wellington Town Hall in
Wellington, New Zealand.
Programme
Workshop
and Seminars
Crown
Records Management Scholarship Invitation
Program
for Recordkeeping Metadata Session
Call
for papers
Sponsorship
and Trade Exhibition - Booklet
Sponsorship
Application Form
Registration
Booklet - PDF
Registration
Form - PDF or Online
Have you registered yet for the ASA/ARANZ
Archives and Communities Conference, October 7 and 8?
Early Bird registrations are
still open, but close September 1 so be in quick!
Not only is there a fantastic conference
programme, but also a very significant programme of pre-conference
activities. Details of the History of Archives and
Recordkeeping Seminar are now available and attached below.
Thanks to Michael Piggott, David Colquhoun, and Rosemary Collier
for organising this event. If, in your eagerness to register
early, you somehow failed to sign up for this star-studded
seminar, please contact the conference organisers.
Look out for details of additional
conference events shortly.
ASA/ARANZ history of archives and record keeping seminar
programme
5 October 2005, 9am-1pm
Archives New Zealand Training Room
First session. Chair:
Rosemary Collier
9 - 9.05 Introduction
9.05 -9.30 Michael Piggott - Australian archival history
in 2005; achievements
and blind spots
9.30 -10.00 Stuart Strachan - Dr T M Hocken
and the ‘patriation' of the New Zealand Company archives
10.00 - 10.30 Joanna Sassoon - Prostheses
and paper tigers - a history of failed archives legislation in
Western Australia
10.30 -10.50 Sophie Young
- The development of university archives in New
Zealand
10.50 - 11.10 Morning tea
Second session. Chair: Michael Piggott
11.10 -11.40 George Nichols - Early attempts at
managing Tasmania's records
1918 - 1926
11.40 -12.10 David Colquhoun - The New Zealand
Historical Collection 1908-1920
12.10 -12.40 Rachel Lilburn - Building a research
agenda for the history of New Zealand archives
12.40 1pm Discussion
1 pm Lunch
Biographical details
After a decade at National Archives of New Zealand (now
Archives New Zealand), latterly as Senior Archivist, a Diploma in
Archive Studies from University College London and two archives
jobs in that city, Rosemary Collier established
her archives and records management consultancy in 1980. She
has been President, Councillor and Vice-President of the recently
deceased New Zealand Society of Archivists, and editor of its
journal, New Zealand Archivist.
David Colquhoun has been Curator of Manuscripts
and Archives at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New
Zealand, since 1989. He previously worked for the National
Archives of New Zealand and the Waitangi Tribunal.
Rachel Lilburn is a lecturer at the School of
Information Studies at Victoria University in Wellington. Before
joining the university, Rachel worked at National Archives, now
Archives New Zealand, as Head Appraisal Archivist, and was their
first local authorities archives and records advisory officer.
Rachel graduated in 1993 with a Master of Arts (Archives) from
Western Washington University in the United States.
George Nichols was born and educated in Tasmania.
He graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1966. He has had a
lifelong interest in archives and history. He worked for the
Prime Minister’s Department 1970 1990 and was involved in
development of the Archives Act 1983 and policy on access to
Cabinet records in the 1970s and early 1980s. From 1990 to 2000 he
was Director-General, National Archives. Current research
interests include the life of John Moore-Robinson and social
history of early twentieth century rural Tasmania.
Michael Piggott is currently Manager, Cultural
Collections and University Archivist at the University of
Melbourne, which he joined in 1998. He was formerly with the
National Archives, Australian War Memorial and National Library.
His interests include appraisal, archival education and the
history of archives. He is a Laureate of the ASA, and was editor
of its journal Archives and Manuscripts for 5 years in the 1990s.
In recent years he has joined Monash University's School of
Information Management and Systems as an Honorary Research Fellow
and spoken at overseas conferences on diaries and ‘appraisal
theory and human behaviour'.
Joanna Sassoon works in the State Records Office
of Western Australia and is adjunct Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan
University. She has written widely on environmental and cultural
history, and on the archival management and use of photographs as
historical sources. She has a PhD in history.
Stuart Strachan, a life member of the Archives
and Records Association and founding editor of Archifacts, has
been Hocken Librarian at the University of
Otago since 1985. Prior to that, following an earlier
lengthy stint at the Hocken, he was a Senior Archivist at National
Archives of New Zealand. He holds the Diploma
in Archive Studies from University College London.
Sophie Young is enrolled as a part-time student
within the Master of Library
and Information Studies (MLIS) Programme at the Victoria
University of Wellington. She
has worked as an Archives Analyst for
Archives New Zealand since July 2004, and holds a MA degree
in History and Social
Anthropology.
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