In 1996 the Society introduced this award for publications in the field of recordkeeping. This award honours Phyllis Mander Jones who, amongst other contributions to the profession, authored Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, in 1972.
Nominations are called for in the Society's Bulletin magazine and the Awards are announced at its annual conference. Enquiries to the Mander Jones Committee, PO Box 638, Virginia, QLD, 4014 or managingeditor@archivists.org.au
Nominations for works published in 2008 must be submitted by 27 February 2009. More information and the nomination form can be found here.
The original four categories have been revised and added to several times since 1996. The list of recipients below reflects the current categories:
| Category 1A: | Publication making the greatest contribution to the archives profession in Australia written by or on behalf of a corporate body. |
| Category 1B: | Publication making the greatest contribution to the archives profession in Australia, written or edited by a person in their own right. |
| Category 2A: | Best publication that uses, features or interprets Australian archives, written by or on behalf of a corporate body. |
| Category 2B: | Best publication that uses, features or interprets Australian archives, written or edited by a person in their own right. |
| Category 3A: | Best finding aid to an archival collection (1) held by an Australian institution, or (2) about Australia; produced by an organisation deemed eligible for Category 4 (5) (a) institutional membership. |
| Category 3B: | Best finding aid to an archival collection (1) held by an Australian institution, or (2) about Australia; produced by an organisation deemed eligible for Category 4 (5) (b) institutional membership. |
| Category 4: | Best article or chapter about archives written by an Australian in an archives, library, museum or records management journal or within an anthology / monograph. |
| Category 5: | Best article or chapter about archives written by an Australian in a journal or newspaper or within an anthology / monograph not primarily intended for archivists or records managers. |
| Category 6: | Best essay (not more than 5,000 words) about archives or recordkeeping by a student in any university course. |
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2006 |2007
| 2007 | |
| Category 1A |
Winner:
Australian Society of Archivists Committee on Descriptive Standards, Describing Archives in Context: A Guide to Australasian Practice, ASA, 2007 |
| Category 1B | Not awarded |
| Category 2A | Joint winners:
Highly commended:
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| Category 2B |
Highly commended: Theresa Elliott (illustrations by Annie Joseph), Resting beneath the Rainbow, published by Loreto Normanhurst, 2007. |
| Category 3A |
Winner: City of Sydney Archives, Mark Stevens (City Archivist) and volunteer team; City of Sydney Assessment Books Online |
| Category 3B |
Winner: Robin Scott ‘Selected Guide to Loreto Archives’, Loreto Province Archives, Loreto Sisters IBVM (Australia). |
| Category 4 |
Winner: Anne-Marie Condé ‘Imagining a collection: creating Australia’s records of war’ in reCollections:Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol.2, no. 1, March 2007 Highly commended:
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| Category 5 |
Winner: Anna Funder ‘Secret Histories’ Good Weekend Magazine, 17 Feb 2007 Highly commended: Anne-Marie Conde, ‘War history on scaps of paper’, exhibitions of documents at the Australian War Memorial, 1922-1954, Public History Review, Vol 14, 2007, pp 25-43 |
| Category 6 |
Winner: Jane Ratcliff, ‘Electronic Records Management in Office 2007 SharePoint Services’ |
| 2005 | |
| Category 1 | Highly commended: Digital Recordkeeping @ PROV - Issues 1-3, 2005. Publisher: Public Record Office Victoria. Commissioning Editor: Lucy Hastewell WINNER: Proactive - Issues 33, 34 and 35, 2005. Publisher: Public Record Office Victoria. Commissioning editor: Laura Daniele |
| Category 2 | WINNER: Archives: Recordkeeping in Society, edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed and Frank Upward, Charles Sturt University Centre for Information Studies, 2005. |
| Category 3A | Highly commended: Guide to the New South Wales State Archives Relating to Responsible Government, November 2005. Publisher: State Records NSW. Author: Ms Christine Shergold WINNER: Finding Your Story: A Resource Guide to the Records of the Stolen Generation in Victoria, 2005. Publisher: Public Record Office Victoria. Authors: Research & content: James Jenkinson Editing & indexing: Emma Toon Commissioning editor: Emma Toon Design and Production: Deadly Design Graphic Printing & Design |
| Category 3B | There were no nominations in this category. |
| Category 4 | There were no nominations in this category. |
| Category 5 | Highly commended: Graeme Powell, 'The quest for the nation's title deeds, 1901-1990', The Australian Library Journal, Volume 54 No. 1, February 2005, pp 55-65 WINNER: Andrew Waugh, 'The design of the VERS encapsulated object, experience with an archival information package', International Journal on Digital Libraries, Published online 28 December 2005 |
| Category 6 | WINNER: "Society's Archives: The Total Approach" Author: Penelope Legge, Monash University |
| 2004 | |
| Category 1 | The judges decided not to award a prize in this category this year, but Commendations were awarded to National Archives of Australia for Memento, and to Public Record Office Victoria for Lucy - a private life revealed through public records, an online exhibition. |
| Category 2 | There were no nominations in this category. |
| Category 3A | John Curtin: Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers, National Archives of Australia and the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. |
| Category 3B | There were no nominations in this category. |
| Category 4 | There were two winning articles in this category: Standardised Recordkeeping: Reality or Illusion?, Jackie Bettington, Archives and Manuscripts 2004 The Laws of War and the Destruction of Cultural Property in the Iraq War, Tony Caravella, Archives and Manuscripts 2004. |
| Category 5 | Making archival choices for business history, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 44, No 2, July 2004, Jane Ellen, Trevor Hart, Michael Piggott and David Merrett. Commendation: The politics of pictures, A Cultural History of the Western Australian Government Print Photograph Collection, Joanna Sassoon, Australian Historical Studies 123, 2004. |
| Category 6 | Managing Email as Records, Cari Jansen |
| 2003 | |
| Category 1 | Archives and Indigenous Peoples - Theme Issue of COMMA, International Journal on Archives, 2003.1, edited by Adrian Cunningham and Verne Harris. |
| Category 2 | Integrative Document and Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge, Len Asprey and Michael Middleton |
| Category 3A | Private Lives, Public Records, Bronwyn Fensham et al, PROV |
| Category 3B | Records & Archives Centre website, Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of Brisbane, www.anglicanbrisbane.gil.com.au/thediocese/archives |
| Category 4 | The Rule of Law: Model Archival Legislation in the Wake of the Heiner Affair, Kevin Lindeberg, Archives and Manuscripts May 2003
Commendation: Political Archives: Defining Key Issues in a Significant Private Records Arena, Joanne Anthony, Archives and Manuscripts May 2003 |
| Category 5 | Phantoms of Remembrance: libraries and archives as the collective memory, Joanna Sassoon, Public History Review 10 (2003). |
| Category 6 | Descriptive Metadata Standards: Issues for Archival and Records Professionals, Damien Jasper |
| 2002 | |
| Category 1 | AGLS Metadata Element Set (AS 5044), Standards Australia Commendation: Vital Signs, State Records NSW |
| Category 2 | No nominations received |
| Category 3A | Australia's Prime Ministers website, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au , National Archives of Australia Commendation: A Little Flour and a Few Blankets: an Administrative History of Aboriginal Affairs in South Australia 1834-2000, State Records of South Australia |
| Category 3B | No nominations received |
| Category 4 | Identifying Roadkill on the Information Superhighway: A website appraisal case study, Archives and Manuscripts, Nov 2002, Catherine Nicholls and Jon-Paul Williams |
| Category 5 | Keeping House in the 1840s, National Library of Australia News, June 2002, Joanna Richardson |
| Category 6 | An evaluation of Archives Manager, Melissa Okely |
| 2001 | |
| Category 1 | Understanding Society Through Its Records, Website, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Ann E Pederson |
| Category 2 | No nominations received. |
| Category 3A | Joint Winners Sound Recordings in the National Archives, NAA, Margaret Chambers and Helen Cross and Near Neighbours: Records on Australia's Relations with Indonesia, NAA, Karl Metcalf. |
| Category 3B | No nominations received. |
| Category 4 | "Indigenous Records: How Far Have We Come in Bringing the History Back Home? ", Kirsten Thorpe, Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 29, no. 2, November 2001 |
| Category 5 | "The use of Archival Material in Legal Studies and Research", Australian Law Librarian, Tony Caravella |
| Category 6 | No nominations received. |
| 2000 | |
| Category 1 | Administrative Functions Disposal Authority, National Archives of Australia High Commendation: Selected Essays in Electronic Recordkeeping in Australia, Australian Society of Archivists Inc, Editor Judith Ellis |
| Category 2 | No nominations received |
| Category 3A | Winner best web-based finding aid: Archives Investigator, City of Sydney Archives and State Records NSW Winner best paper-based finding aid: Ancestors in Archives, State Records of South Australia High Commendation: Norman B. Tindale website, Department of Anthropology, South Australian Museum, Phillip Manning, Philip Jones, and Fran Zilio |
| Category 3B | No nominations received. |
| Category 4 | "Bright Specimens for the Curious or the Somewhat Imponderable Guided by the Unfathomable: Use, Users and Appraisal in Archival Literature", Danielle Wickman, Archives and Manuscripts |
| Category 5 | "Archives and Australian History", AHA Bulletin, Michael Piggott |
| Category 6 | No awards made |
| 1999 | |
| Category 1 | Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies, National Archives of Australia. |
| High Commendations: - John Curtin and International Relations During World War II, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Education Resource Series. - Online Heritage Resource Manager, Austehc. |
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| Category 1B | Archives and Manuscripts, Theme Issue: Recordkeeping and the Law, Livia Iacovino. |
| Category 3A | Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia, Barry Coldrey, National Archives of Australia. |
| Category 3B | PHIND - The Personal History index for former child migrants to Catholic Homes in WA 1938-1965, Dr Debra Rosser and Josette Mathers on behalf of the Christian Brothers Holy Spirit Province. |
| Category 4 | "Saying it Like it is: Oral Traditions, Legal Systems and Records", Archives and Manuscripts, Justice Peter Gray. |
| Category 5 | "Australian University Archives and Their Prospects", AARL Vol. 30 no. 3, Don Boadle. |
| Category 6 | No nominations received |
| 1998 | |
| Category 1 | Government Recordkeeping Manual, State Records NSW. |
| High Commendation: Voices for Democracy: Teachers' Resource Kit, National Archives of Australia, compiled by Esther Robinson, Richard Gorrell and Stephen Foster. | |
| Category 2 | Solid, Safe, Secure: Building Archives Repositories in Australia, Ted Ling. |
| Category 3 | Connecting Kin: Guide to Records: A Guide to help people separated from their families search for their records, NSW Department of Community Services, compiled by Tracy Bradford and Kristy Thinee. |
| High Commendation: Federation: The Guide to Records, National Archives of Australia, compiled by S G Foster, Susan Marsden and Roslyn Russell. | |
| Category 4 | No nominations received. |
| Category 5 | No nominations received. |
| Category 6 | "Development of a Hypertext Online Recordkeeping Manual for the WA Police Service," Carol Muir and Elaine Brady |
| 1997 | |
| Category 1 |
Records of National Cultural Significance: Indigenous Australians, Commonwealth of Australia and |
| Category 2 |
Tabularium: Series System Control for Archives, Version 1.0a, David Roberts |
| Category 3 |
The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: A Guide to Commonwealth Government Records, Richard Summerrell, National Archives of Australia |
| Category 4 | This category did not exist in 1997. |
| Category 5 |
"Architectural Archives: Who collects the designs and papers of Australian architects?" by Barbara van Bronswijk in Voices, National Library of Australia, Winter 1997 and |
| Category 6 | No nominations received |
| 1996 | |
| Category 1 |
Corporate Memory in the Electronic Age: statement of a common position on Electronic Recordkeeping produced by the Australian Council of Archives. |
| Category 2 |
"Evidence of Me" written for Archives and Manuscripts volume 24 no 1, May 1996 by Associate Professor Sue McKemmish, Monash University. |
| Category 3 |
The publications Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: The Royal Commission and its Records, 1987-1991 compiled by Peter Nagle and Richard Summerrell, Australian Archives ACT and Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Australians in NSW compiled by Julie Stacker and Peri Stewart, Australian Archives NSW. |
| Category 4 | This category did not exist in 1996. |
| Category 5 |
"Ensuring Essential Evidence" written by Adrian Cunningham for the National Library of Australia News volume VII no 2, November 1996. |
| Category 6 |
"Implications of Outsourcing Record Keeping and the Effect on Government Accountability" written by Monique Jose for Informaa Quarterly, 12 (4) November 1996 |