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The deadline for conference proposals has been extended - submissions are now due by close of business, Monday 1st March. Call for papers: Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Melbourne 2010 Future Proof: Resilient Archives 2020 and Beyond The ASA conference committee is inviting proposals for papers and other contributions to the annual conference, to be held 13-16 October 2010. As archivists grapple with ever increasing quantities and variant forms of records, questions surrounding professional principles, practical methodologies, and the provision of access to archival collections continue to engage our attention. With the theme 'Future Proof: Resilient Archives 2020 and Beyond' this conference will examine generational change in archives and the wider social context and consider how the archives profession might respond to challenges and opportunities on offer. It will explore how archivists and archives services can achieve sufficient flexibility and resilience to thrive in the future, and examine implications of changes to traditional understandings of what an archive is and does. Measuring the worth of archives and their contribution to social capital will also be a major theme. We welcome proposals around the following topics and questions: - What cultural and financial value do archives hold in trust for local and global communities, and how is this relevant to the sustainability of archives? - How can archives and records services prove return on investment, and to whom should this evidence be directed? - What has been the archives experience of digitisation, Web 2.0 and other new technologies for the delivery of information services, and what have we learned so far? - What does it mean to be a custodian of records in an age when 'information longs to be free'? - Privacy: protected or inconsequential in an online world? - Archives as personal object or public resource; notions of archival literacy in a socially networked world where everyone can be their own archivist - The role of education: attracting, keeping and re-energising those working in the profession - Building and sustaining the archive, both physical and intellectual - Archives and the survival of communities; recovery after disaster - Authenticity 2.0: archives as apparatus for constructing, narrating or memorialising events and identities - Archives' contribution to contemporary culture, mainstream and marginalised Various presentation formats are welcome: - Single plenary presentation - Panel discussion - Poster presentation - Workshop Presentations from students, and papers that include reflection on experiences and lessons learned are particularly encouraged. It is intended that there be a refereed stream for papers from the conference. Proposals should include the following details: . Author name(s) and institutional affiliation, if relevant . Email and telephone contact for the proposer . Title . Session type: paper, panel discussion, poster session etc. . Preferred time eg 30 minute paper, 3 panellists x 20 minutes . Abstract of 150 to 300 words . Up to six descriptive keywords for the topic The ASA conference, including pre-conference workshops, will be held in Melbourne, Australia from Wednesday 13 October to Saturday 16 October 2010. The deadline for submission of proposals is COB 1 March 2010. Please forward your proposal to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra