Recordings (by year)
2025
Victorian Branch: Panel Discussion: Archives and Pest Management (26 August 2025): Sunny Marochini Darby (Conservator, Integrated Pest Management, Museums Victoria) and Elizabeth Radford (Manager Preservation Services, Queensland State Archives) discuss the basics of Integrated Pest Management, provide their top 10 tips, and share case studies. Includes Q&A.
2024
Western Australia Branch Professional Development Day 2024: Audiovisual Archives and AI (2 August 2024): A one-day professional development program that built foundation knowledge and skill in reformatting and preserving moving images and sound. It explored good practices in digitisation, media care and preservation, description, outsourcing and the provision of access. The program also explored artificial intelligence and its application to archival methods.
2023
Navigating copyright issues for archivists (13 July 2023): Sarah Powell and Elliott Bledsoe from the Australian Libraries and Archive Copyright Coalition (ALACC) provide an overview of the key copyright issues for archivists.
2022
Honouring stories of struggle: reassessing Australian records of disadvantage: A Documenting Australian Society Symposium (21 October 2022): A half-day symposium presented by the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program, the Australian Society of Archivists and the National Archives of Australia during the 2022 annual conference, Here We Are.
Outreach, Advocacy and Promotion: Archival Exhibitions - WA Branch Professional Development Session (29 July 2022): This professional development program explored the planning, designing, and producing of exhibitions in an archival setting.
Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care (16 March 2022): Barbara Reed and Sue McKemmish discuss the initiatives and ongoing advocacy to support the work to improve lifelong recordkeeping for children in Out of Home Care.
2021
David Fricker: In Conversation (9 December 2021): David Fricker reflects on ten years as NAA Directory General, in conversation with ASA President Nicola Laurent.
Recordkeeping in the WA Public Sector: Caroline Spenser, Auditor General - ASA WA Branch & RIMPA WA Branch joint meeting (2 December 2021): Caroline discusses the AGO’s role in promoting continuous improvement in WA Government agency records, information, security and data management.
Victorian Branch World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (26 October 2021): To acknowledge World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the ASA Victoria Branch asked for advice from four practitioners in archives and conservation.
International Archives Week (IAW) 2021 - Victorian Branch (8 June 2021): The Victorian Branch celebrates IAW by sharing a compilation of videos produced by Victorian archivists featuring a favourite item from the archives.
Empowering Cultural Change: Government archives an Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration (9 June 2021): A collaborative International Archives Week event discussing government archives in response to implementing the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration.
National Archives Building Trust Policy (20 May 2021): David Fricker, Director of the National Archives of Australia, presents on the NAA Building Trust Policy, followed by a conversation on the Policy led by Julia Mant.
Privacy Update: Current Trends and Developments (7 May 2021): Cassie Findlay provides an update on current developments in the regulatory landscape affecting privacy, including the review of the Commonwealth Privacy Act, and new laws facilitating data sharing.
Blue Shield Australia: Online Q&A (22 April 2021): Kathryn Dan and Catherine Robinson (ASA representatives on the Blue Sheild Australia (BSA) committee answer your questions.
2020
ASA Victorian Branch World Digital Preservation Day 2020 video (5 November 2020): The Victorian Branch celebrates World Digital Preservation Day 2020 with experts from around the world!
Panel: Supporting and Activating the Adelaide Tandanya Declaration on Indigenous Archives (11 September 2020): Speakers: Lauren Booker, Rose Barrowcliffe, Professor Sue McKEmmish an Kirsten Thorpe.
Out-of-Home Care Records Webinar with Q&A (30 July 2020): Panel discussion (Kirsten Wright, Nicola Laurent, Frank Golding, Simon Froude) around the issues around out-of-home care records, and how archives can improve access processes for people who grew up in out-of-home care.
The Palace Letters and the public right to access (15 June 2020): An expert panel (Professor Anne Twomey, Professor Bridget Girffen-Foley, Adrian Cunningham - moderated by Dr Mike Jones) reviews the High Court case and looks closely at public access regimes across the Commonwealth and States and how well they meet the needs of researchers.
Digital Preservation #HowReadyAreYou (12 June 2020): Jaye Weatherburn, Michaela Hart and James Doig explore proven digital preservation techniques that you can implement - starting now!
Recordkeeping in the time of COVID-19 (5 June 2020): Barbara Reed from Recordkeeping Innovation has a practical discussion of recordkeeping in the context of remote and hybrid working focussing on what is possible, what is likely and what might be desirable with opportunity.
State Records Office Western Australia (WA) Online Q&A (23 April 2020): An online Q&A Session on recent changes at the State Records Office of WA.
Exploring the Archives and Manuscripts Online Archive (25 May 2020): Dr Jessie Lymn and Dr Joanna Sassoon discuss the development of the Archives and Manuscripts Online Archive and key highlights from the years.
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives (20 May 2020): Presented by Nicola Laurent & Kirsten Wright, creators of our online learning course A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives
Indigenous Recordkeeping and Archives (27 May 2020): Kirsten Thorpe (Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research (JIIER) at University of Technology Sydney) introduces the Indigenous Archives and Recordkeeping module that has been developed by the Australian Society of Archivists in collaboration with Jumbunna Research at the University of Technology Sydney