Australian Society of Archivists

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

The Australian Society of Archivists is a professional organization 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] Editors included:

Mander-Jones, Phyllis
Horton, Alan Roy
Gibbney, H J (Herbert James)
Sharman, R. C. (Robert Charles)

The original title was: -

Archives and manuscripts : the journal / of the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia.
Sydney : the Association, 1962-1976.
With vol. 6, no. 6 (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 Williams,[11] and the Mander Jones Awards.[12]


Notable members

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

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