Australian Society of Archivists

Members vote, at the society's 2016 Annual General Meeting

The Australian Society of Archivists is a professional organisation of archivists in Australia.

The Australian Library Association had an archives section between 1951 and 1973. ^{[1] [2]}

Significant persons in the starting of the society include Phyllis Mander-Jones, and Robert Sharman who became the editor of the journal Archives and Manuscripts ^{[3] [4] [5]}

The inaugural meeting of the Society was held at the Australian National University in April 1975. ^[6] The first biennial conference was held in 1977. ^[7]

Journal

The Society publishes a professional and scholarly journal called Archives and Manuscripts (three issues per year, currently published through Taylor & Francis). ^{[8] [9]} Previous editors have included:

• Phyllis Mander-Jones
• Alan Roy Horton
• HJ (Herbert James) Gibbney
• RC (Robert Charles) Sharman

The original title was: Archives and manuscripts : the journal / of the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia. Sydney : the Association, 1962-1976.

In February 1976 it became The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists. ^[10]

Conferences

Annual conferences of the society include the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, honouring Loris Elaine Williams, ^[11] and the Mander Jones Awards . ^[12]

Notable members

• Anne-Marie Schwirtlich the former Director-General of the National Library of Australia
• Loris Elaine Williams an Australian archivist and activist and first Aboriginal person from Queensland to earn professional archival qualifications

Publications

• Bettington, Jackie; Eberhard, Kim; Loo, Rowena; Smith, Clive (2008), Keeping archives (3rd ed.), Australian Society of Archivists Inc, ISBN   978-0-9803352-4-8

External links

• Official website
• Archives and Manuscripts journal homepage

References

1. "History of the ASA" . Retrieved 27 September 2018.
2. Macmillan, David S. (David Stirling); Fischer, Gerald Lyn. Archival concepts and commandments; Library Association of Australia. Archives Section (1957), Australian business archives, Archives Section, Library Association of Australia, retrieved 27 September 2018
3. Sharman, Robert (November 1985), "Thirty years of 'Archives and Manuscripts' -Series of seven parts- Part 3: Periodical fits of morality", Archives and Manuscripts, 13 (2): 118–126, ISSN   0157-6895
4. Australian Society of Archivists Incorporated, Papers of Robert Sharman , retrieved 27 September 2018
5. Sharman, Robert Charles; Reid, Stuart; State Library of Western Australia; J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History (1995), Robert Sharman interviewed by Stuart Reid for the Battye Library collection , retrieved 27 September 2018
6. "Chronology of the history of the ASA" . Retrieved 27 September 2018.
7. "Archivists meet In Canberra". The Canberra Times . Vol. 50, no. 14, 777. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 16 May 1977. p. 7. Retrieved 7 October 2021– via National Library of Australia.
8. "Archives and Manuscripts". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
9. Frequency varies - Two numbers a year, 1955-1971, then 4 numbers a year, 1972-1975
10. from NLA catalogue entry Library Association of Australia. Archives Section; Australian Society of Archivists (1962), Archives and manuscripts : the journal, the Association, retrieved 7 October 2021
11. Australian Society of Archivists. General Meeting; Australian Society of Archivists (2006), Agenda and papers for the sixteenth annual general meeting : Port Macquarie, 19 October 2006, The Australian Society of Archivists, retrieved 27 September 2018
12. "Don Boadle wins Mander Jones Award for AARL Article.(archives)(Brief Article)(Illustration)", Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 31 (4): 210, 1 December 2000, ISSN   0004-8623