Everyone
further to recent discussion re relationship between this list and the SoA
*Newsletter*, I forward this from aus-archivists by permission of poster.
Allowing for the fact that the Australian Society of Archivists I think own
aus-archivists, this method of delivery of what I think is an extract from
the ASA Bulletin seems a profitable one.
NB she means August when she says October at the start of the message and
posted a subsequent correction to say so!
Sarah
> ----------
> From: Shauna Hicks[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 24 August 2000 07:54
> To: Aus-Archivists (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: ASA August Bulletin In the Mailbox
>
> Hi All
>
> By now all ASA members should have their October Bulletin, so I am posting
> the electronic version of In The Mailbox so that members can access the
> URLs
> more easily. This issue I have already had one request for a copy of an
> article so it is good to see members find it useful.
>
> Thanks
>
> Shauna Hicks
> Managing Editor, ASA Inc
>
>
>
> In The Mailbox - August 2000
> By Shauna Hicks
>
> In The Mailbox continues to be published both in the Bulletin and on
> aus-archivists listserv. It is being reposted on New Zealand and Dutch
> listservs and that is very pleasing to note.
> ********
> Knowit No 247 May-June 2000. This is the official newsletter of the
> Library
> and Information Service of Western Australia and this issue has an
> interesting one page feature 'The A Files - News from the State Records
> Office of WA' contributed by Damien Hassan. Mainly information on new
> transfers and reference enquiries on the lighter side. An insert to
> Knowit
> is The Professional Journal of the Library and Information Service of
> Western Australia Vol 1 Issue 1 May 2000. The whole issue (4 pages) is
> titled Managing Electronic Records for the Future and was written by
> Isabel
> Smith. Subheadings include Identifying Electronic Records, Best Evidence,
> Management Principles, Workflow Documents, Retention and Disposal etc.
> More
> on LISWA to be found at http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au
> ********
> Memento Number 14 May 2000 introduces the National Archives of Australia's
> new e-permanence campaign. More on the NAA website at
> http://www.naa.gov.au
> There is a short piece on the return of the Between Two Worlds exhibition
> which is back in Canberra after touring since 1993. The Family History
> Fair in Canberra in April attracted 600 eager family historians and Dr
> Michael McKernan, the inaugural Frederick Watson Fellow talks about his
> three month stint researching at National Archives. Another website to
> visit is http://www.govonline.gov.au the Office for Government Online
> which
> works closely with the National Archives in devising standards and
> guidelines for federal government agencies. Another interesting piece is
> Clues for Filling a Time Capsule - see Archives Advice 39 on the NAA
> website. The Bringing Them Home indexing team recently established in
> Melbourne is featured and it is pleasing to note that over 100,000 names
> have been indexed so far by the BTH teams in Canberra and Darwin.
> ********
> RecordSArchives Issue 11, April 2000 features the South Australian
> Minister
> for Administrative and Information Services visiting State Records, SA
> plus
> a visit from two senior archivists from the Public Record Office of Hong
> Kong. State Records strategy for dealing with their backlog of
> unsentenced
> records is given along with a list of disposal schedules being developed.
> A
> piece on the State Bank inquiry records highlights the conservation
> challenges of dealing with 550m of records in various formats including
> 'the
> dreaded lever arch binder'. Another interesting piece was Returning
> Documentary Heritage to the Regions which is making available
> electronically
> local council records held by State Records. A summary of State Records
> Council meetings is also given. Go to http://www.archives.sa.gov.au for
> more information on State Records, SA.
> ********
> Still with the States we have Nowandthen Number 4 Autumn 2000 which
> features
> the launch of State Records New South Wales Archives Resources Kit which
> contains 595 reels of microfilm and 728 microfiche of copies of early NSW
> records, a CD-ROM third edition of the Concise Guide plus other finding
> aids. The Kit will be held in 39 community access points to allow easier
> access to the records. For more details go to
> http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/accessforall/caps.htm There is news from
> the
> Reading Room and the new Community Advisory Committee includes ASA member
> Baiba Berzins. There is a spotlight on Sunday Sport and NSW sporting
> heritage including an on-line gallery display called Celebrating Our
> Sporting Heritage - see
> http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/public/gallery/sport/sportingheritagehome.ht
> m
> And if you are one of those really sports mad type people who I have never
> really understood go to
> http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publications/archivesbrief/aib41-sportingher
> it
> age.htm The full edition of Nowandthen is available on their website.
> ********
> The AICCM National Newsletter No 75 June 2000 looks at the state of
> conservation in Australia today with Ian Cook's piece Industry of the
> Future?; Colin Webb's The Likely Impact/s of Digital Technology on
> Conservation/Preservation in Australia; and Colin Pearson's Future
> Directions for Conservation Education and Training - Coping With Change.
> The Lab Profile was the Art Gallery of New South Wales which celebrated
> 100
> years of conservation in September 1999. The Strategic Plan 2000-2002
> (just over six pages) is included with an invitation to comment. Plus
> there
> was the usual people and places news.
>
> Perhaps what I most enjoy is the AICCM Calendar - there are conferences on
> just about anything and everything and held just about anywhere eg Leather
> as a covering material (Spain); Art and Object Handling (London UK);
> Preservation of Plastics (Illinois, USA); Non-destructive Testing (Rome);
> Restoration and Conservation of Monuments (Curacao, Antilles); Wood and
> Furniture Conservation (Amsterdam, Holland); International Conference 2000
> (Cracow Poland) and the list goes on. Once upon a time you joined the
> Navy
> to see the world, now you just have to be a conservator! Admittedly, you
> would need a big travel budget.
>
> The URL for the AICCM home page is still
> http://www.vicnet.au/~conserv/aiccmhc.htm
> ********
> Visions of Australia Newsletter for the Federal Government Touring Program
> (no number and no date) gives information on the Visions of Australia
> funding program to assist organisations tour their exhibitions. There is
> a
> list of organisations that received funding in Grant Round 13 including
> big
> ones like the Australian War Memorial to tour Forging the Nation; to
> little
> ones like the Cairns Regional Gallery to showcase the history of Thursday
> Island in collaboration with the Torres Strait Cultural Festival
> Committee.
> No website address is given and no e-mail address either. However, you
> can
> mail your details to Department of Communications, Information Technology
> and the Arts, GPO Box 2154, Canberra ACT 2601 and receive a free copy of
> this newsletter.
> ********
> Artbeat July 2000 another newsletter from the Commonwealth Department of
> Communications, Information Technology and the Arts profiles Australia's
> Olympic Arts Festival and the fifth annual small screen BIG PICTURE
> television conference held in Fremantle in March 2000. A new publication
> is
> Tourism with Integrity --best practice strategies for cultural heritage
> organisations in the tourism industry is a practical guide for cultural
> and
> heritage organisations wanting to succeed in the tourism industry while
> maintaining their cultural values and integrity. It uses a self
> assessment
> process that allows organisations to consider their performance and
> priorities using a wide range of indicators. It costs $16.95 from the
> Australian Council of National Trusts in Canberra phone 02 6247 6766 or
> email [log in to unmask] Again no URL for the Commonwealth Department.
> ********
> Stockman's Hall of Fame Vol 75 June 2000 newsletter actually made me laugh
> and it is not often that I openly laugh when reading my mail. The snippet
> was entitled Life's Little Mystery and was about the discovery of a small
> bush in the wasteland at Normanhurst Railway Station on Sydney's North
> Shore. The bush is about 1.5m high and is festooned with hundreds of used
> Lipton tea bags. What is the meaning of it all? It has been suggested
> that
> the bush is obviously a ti-tree (for overseas readers that is a type of
> Australian tree). So without a better answer we are left dangling......
> Perhaps it's time I went and had a cup of tea and a good lie down!!!!! Can
> you still buy Bex? The URL for the Stockman's Hall of Fame is
> http://www.outbackheritage.com.au
> ********
> Moving overseas we have PARBICA Panorama 2000-2, the newsletter of the
> Pacific Branch of the International Council on Archives. There is a small
> piece on the National Archives of New Zealand becoming an independent
> department responsible for record keeping within the NZ government from 1
> October 2000. Also included is the PARBICA Quadrennial Report 1996-2000
> that reports on the difficulties of archivists working in isolation with
> few
> resources and little opportunity for professional development. In the
> next
> quadrennial a working group will look at the development of a certificate
> program in archives and records management at the University of the South
> Pacific. A second working group will be developing budget storage options
> for tropical archives and finally, the preparation of a compendium of
> archives legislation from the Pacific region is well underway. To visit
> the
> PARBICA website go to
> http://www.archivenet.gov.au/archives/parbica/parbica_main.htm (note
> underscore).
> ********
> Still in the Pacific we have the ARANZ Newsletter No 39 April 2000
> (Archives
> and Records Association of New Zealand) which had some fascinating
> snippets
> - a fragment of Adolf Hitler's skull (allegedly) went on display in Russia
> in April (reported in the Sydney Daily Telegraph 28 April 2000).
> Apparently
> the only surviving remains were the skull fragment and the jaw with the
> dental work that identified it as Hitler's, is still kept in secret
> archives
> according to officials. No wonder people think archivists are strange!
> Another thing I didn't know was that top-secret KGB files are believed to
> show that the Soviet Union used New Zealand as an easy, English speaking
> training ground for spies during the cold war (reported in The Evening
> Post).
>
> Moving on to more mundane archival matters the National Archives of New
> Zealand's new Standard for the Storage of Public Records and Archives was
> launched in May and it is available from their website at
> http://www.archives.govt.nz They are also releasing a policy options
> paper
> on the Approved Repositories regime which addresses the issue of central
> government archives held other than with the National Archives of NZ. It
> is
> also available from their website http://www.archives.dia.govt.nz which is
> different from the one given for the storage standard. Not sure which is
> correct but one of them should get you there. Reference is also made to
> State Records New South Wales' and the National Archives of Australia's
> joint venture with the DIRKS draft manual - Designing and Implementing
> Recordkeeping Systems. The draft has been released and is available for
> comment - visit
> http://www.archives.gov.au/Govserv/techpub/DIRKSman/dirks.html
> ********
> New Zealand Archivist Vol XI No 1 Autumn/March 2000 has a feature story on
> Preserving Ministerial Papers at National Archives by Kim Lasenby plus
> Theatre Archives in New Zealand by Ellen Ellis and Rosemary Collier. An
> initiative by the New Zealand Society of Archivists is Edukit which is a
> training kit for approved tutors to provided introductory archives
> training
> for people who do not have access to formal training but who work with
> archives in schools, libraries, museums, clubs, local businesses, churches
> and voluntary organisations. Courses can be half day, one or two days
> duration. Topics covered include Archives Policy, Acquisition and
> Accessioning, Appraisal, Arrangement and Description, Access and
> Reference,
> Conservation, Repository Management and Microfilming. No URL given for
> the
> Society.
> ********
> Moving over to the other side of the world (Europe) we have Arhivski
> Vjesnik
> Bulletin D'Archives No 42 1999 Zagreb. Surprisingly, there are a number
> of
> English language articles in this rather large journal (400 pages) -
> Access
> to the current records and archives as a tool of democracy, transparency
> and
> openness of the government administration by Claes Granstrom; Financing of
> archives by Patrick Cadell; Current development in the archival network in
> the Netherlands by Jan van den Broek; the position of military archives in
> the frame of archival service: independence or integration by Manfred
> Kehrig; Federal archival service of Russia in the structure of the federal
> executive authorities by Vladimir A Tiuneyev; Italian state archives:
> structure, purpose, use, access: the legislation frame in relation to the
> autonomy of archives by Gigliola Fioravanti; Archives between knowledge
> and
> power by Theo Thomassen; Historiography and archival science by Joze
> Zontar;
> Access to archives and historical research: political and ideological
> influences - the Poland experience by Daria Nalez; Access to archives:
> democracy and transparency by Erik Norberg; Integration of separated
> archives for the preservation of national memory by Charles Kecskemeti;
> Silencing the archival voice: the destruction of archives and other
> obstacles to archival research in post-communist Eastern Europe by Ivo
> Banac; Destruction of archival records in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Saima
> Saric; the succession of the state archives - to integrate and preserve
> displaced archives by Miljenko Pandzic; and Ottoman archives by Erhan
> Erkan.
> ********
> Also received two large archival journals from the Croatian State
> Archives,
> Vols 3 (371 pages) and 4 (550 pages). The Editorial in Vol 3 has been
> translated into English so that I know this volume looks at the life and
> social system of medieval Dalmatian towns and the revolutionary events of
> 1848. Plus there are articles on the history of Jews in Croatia and the
> history of the book. The editorial also indicates that there are reviews
> of
> published historical sources. There is no English editorial in Vol 4.
> ********
> Now for the trivia. I have received my first copy of Mice: Meetings,
> Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions June 2000. It is also available
> electronically daily on http://www.mice-online.com or in hard copy each
> quarter. There is a feature on Email Policy vs Right to Privacy but the
> one
> that caught my eye was Why the Huha About the GST? Actually it was the
> subheading Don't Promote STD's - I have to confess I immediately thought
> sexually transmitted diseases and wondered how you could connect that to
> the
> GST. Talk about GST bashing! On reading the section, however, I found out
> that STD's are now (it must be a 2000 thing) Seminar and Taxation Induced
> Diseases. All I can say is bring back the good old days when STD was a
> way
> of making a telephone call.
> ********
> I am still receiving Environment for Europeans No 1 March 2000 and No 2
> May
> 2000 which is the magazine of the Directorate-General for the Environment
> that has some really interesting features but absolutely nothing to do
> with
> archives or recordkeeping. However, if you are an environment buff you
> can
> access an electronic version of this magazine at
> http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/news/efe/index.htm
> ********
> Submissions to In The Mailbox should be sent to the Managing Editor,
> Shauna
> Hicks, Australian Society of Archivists, PO Box 83, O'Connor, ACT, 2602
> Australia. Or I can be contacted on telephone 02 6212 3452 or email
> [log in to unmask]
> ********
>
>
>
>
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> Shauna Hicks
> Assistant Director, Collection Review Project
> National Archives of Australia
> PO Box 7425
> Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610
> Tel: 02 6212 3636
> Fax: 02 6212 3989
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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