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A collection of articles and short contributions from The Recordkeeping Roundtable, our friends and colleagues, on the theme of archival reinvention.

Introduction by Kate Cumming, Cassie  Findlay, Anne Picot and Barbara Reed

Articles

Dr Kate Cumming and Anne Picot ‘Reinventing appraisal‘

Barbara Reed ‘Reinventing access‘

Short contributions

Xiaomi An, Hepu Deng, Bin Zhang ‘Reinventing the Concept of the State Archival Fond in China‘

Luke Bacon, ‘A Sea of Kites: Pushing access to archives with progressive enhancement‘

Belinda Battley, Elizabeth Daniels and Gregory Rolan, ‘Archives as multifaceted narratives: Linking the “touchstones” of community memory‘

Nicole Convery, ‘From reactive to proactive appraisal‘

Mark Crookston, ‘Reinventing Archival Methods: Am I part of the problem or part of the solution?‘

Adrian Cunningham, ‘Eternity Revisited: In pursuit of a national documentation strategy and a national archival system‘

Dr Katrina Dean, ‘Digitizing the modern archive‘

Dr Joanne Evans, ‘Reflections on the Promise and Pitfalls in Reinventing Recordkeeping Metadata‘

Cassie Findlay, ‘Full docs or it didn’t happen‘

Antony Funnell, ‘Give me a serve of data with that‘

Chris Hurley, ‘Re-Inventing On-Line Access‘

Mike Jones, ‘Contrapuntal archival methods‘

Richard Lehane, ‘Building an integrated digital archives (Part II)‘

Charlotte Maday and Magalie Moysan, ‘Records management for scientific data‘

Julie McLeod, ‘Reconceptualising ERM as a wicked problem‘

Adelaide Parr, ‘In an interconnected world – why do we think in functions?‘

Barbara Reed, ‘Rethinking approaches to recordkeeping metadata‘

Sonya Sherman, ‘People telling stories‘

Dr Tim Sherratt, ‘Contexts, connections, access: the glorious possibilities of getting it all wrong‘

Kirsten Thorpe, ‘Indigenous Records: connecting, critiquing and diversifying collections‘

Andrew Waugh, ‘Email – a bellwether records system‘

Kirsten Wright, ‘Broadening the record and expanding the archives‘

Articles also available via Readlist for download to Kindle, iPad, DropBox and more: http://readlists.com/8e8b0ed1/