When many people think of archival records, they think of paper – paper in files and filing cabinets, files in boxes, loose pages in drawers, bound ledgers and registers, printed photographs. But many archivists think about records more broadly. For… Continue Reading →
Tonight (Wednesday 15 January 2014) I’m heading to the Corner Hotel in Richmond, Melbourne to see The Julie Ruin. For me – and I suspect for others – it is not only a chance to see an excellent, original and… Continue Reading →
After my last blog post in December 2012, my plan was to take a break for a couple of weeks. That break turned into a year plus a couple of weeks. 2013 was exciting, interesting and engaging. But it was… Continue Reading →
Traditionally around this time people start looking back, trying to sum up what happened over the past twelve months in politics, culture, society, or their own lives. I also find people I know outside work still regularly ask me what… Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks back (29-30 November 2012) I travelled to Sydney for Reinventing Archival Methods, a two day workshop presented by the Australian Society of Archivists and the Recordkeeping Roundtable. Amongst the wide-ranging discussions were reflections on the place of… Continue Reading →
On 26 November 2012, some of my colleagues and I submitted a response to the Australian Government’s consultation paper on the Establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. My involvement came about through my position… Continue Reading →
In a post on You Ought to be Ashamed on 9 November 2012, Rebecca made an interesting point regarding the funding of archives, with particular reference to recent issues with the state archives in Georgia, USA: “It’s obvious to those of… Continue Reading →
While I have watched the blogging phenomenon from the sidelines for many years, if you had asked me two weeks ago whether I was considering starting my own blog I would have said no. But here we are. What happened?… Continue Reading →
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