Author Archives: Cassie Findlay
Archivists, librarians and WikiLeaks – Part 2
A few weeks back I reported in this blog on the efforts of Tom Twiss and the rest of the Social Responsibilities Round Table group in the American Library Association to have three resolutions passed by the ALA’s general membership … Continue reading
Drawing insight and inspiration from tradition: The Australian Series System and digital recordkeeping – An interactive workshop
Archival institutions the world over are battling to reinvent their traditional processes, practices and systems in order to deal with the scale, complexity and richness of contemporary digital records. Come and join speakers from Archives New Zealand, the Public Record … Continue reading
From the Metroon to Wikileaks: People, power and the archive
What is an archive? What is its purpose? Has the kind of archive that has evolved in 20th and early 21st century Western civilisation remained consistent with the underlying principles of the contract struck between the people and the State … Continue reading
Save the date..
August 24 to be precise. We’re working on our next event, again at the Technology Park in Redfern. Probably a slightly earlier start time of 5pm for 5.30. The topic, speakers and other details will be released very soon!
IQ story on our March ‘After Wikileaks..’ event
For those not on the IQ magazine mailing list, here’s a scan of my report on our March ‘After Wikileaks..’ event. IQ article ‘After Wikileaks is it all over for The Archive?’ (PDF, 3.6MB)
Archivists, librarians and WikiLeaks
If you’ve followed this blog you will know that our first Recordkeeping Roundtable event, in March 2011, was on the subject of WikiLeaks (‘After WikiLeaks, is it all over for the Archives?’). At that session we explored, amongst other things, … Continue reading
Where do old websites go to die? with Jason Scott of Archive Team – Podcast
Our evening with Jason Scott last Wednesday was possibly the most entertaining archives talk ever in the world. No really. It really was. Jason is passionate and committed to his work and deadly serious about its importance but he is … Continue reading
Where do old websites go to die? Jason Scott of Archive Team
The Recordkeeping Roundtable is pleased to announce its next event: Where do old websites go to die?, with Jason Scott, founder of the US based, self described ‘loose coalition of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths’, Archive Team. When: Wednesday June … Continue reading
Stay tuned: More Recordkeeping Roundtable coming soon
We’re planning our next event – in June, if it all comes together (and it’s looking mighty promising). It will be in Sydney, again at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern, 5.30 for 6.00pm ’til 8.00pm latest. So keep Wednesday June … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundtable 