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President's Message

President's Message Welcome to the latest issue of the Bulletin.

This issue focusses on the upcoming ASA ARCHIVING THE ICONIC - A Symposium on Thursday 20th October, in Symposium exploring Sydney. The Symposium program is now community memory, available, and the ASA Office is receiving meaning and pluralisation registrations. A reminder that the Symposium day will be 'book-ended' by workshops, the Session 1: Iconic Spaces AGM and Mander Jones Awards on Wednesday 19th October, and SIG activities Session 2: Iconic People on Friday 21st October. The timetable for these activities is being finalised and details will be released in the next week. Session 3: Iconic Events The call for nominations for positions on Council was sent out on 17th June 2011, and nomination forms are available on the website. There are five positions available and I encourage professional members to nominate. Remember that you have to be a financial member and two professional members have to second your nomination. To help you consider whether coming on Council is for you, Louise Trott is working on a document that will give you more information on the roles and responsibilities of Council members. This will be on the website in the not too distant future. Being on Council is the best way to learn about Registration Details our profession as a whole as well as being the Crystal Palace, Luna Park, place where you can help shape the future Olympic Drive, Milsons Point, direction of the ASA. Sydney NSW Council has spent the past fortnight knee deep ASA Professional Members - in budget deliberations. The discussions held $275 were robust and detailed. As a result we have ASA Associate & Institutional ended up with a budget for 2011/12 that is Members - $325 necessarily conservative and responsible. No Non-members - $375 key activities will be lost, but there is not a lot of fat left for big, costly initiatives. 2011/12 will be To book, please download the the year that see the full suite of continuing Registration Form and fax: 07 professional development workshops and 3221 6885 or email: masterclasses rolled out and a Committee [email protected] structure in place that will develop policy and frameworks to further move the ASA forward.

For these things to work, Council (who are, of course, all volunteers) will rely greatly on the willingness of other ASA members - professional, associate or institutional - to volunteer on Committees, or at the State Branch or Special Interest Group level. In the next few months, Branches and SIGs will be holding their AGMs and I'm sure they would be absolutely delighted to see new faces at these events.

Cheers for now, and keep on archiving

Pat Jackson

ARCHIVING THE ICONIC - A Symposium exploring community memory, meaning and pluralisation

A series of intriguing, inspiring and entertaining archivist and non-archivist speakers will offer perspectives on working with cultural icons, community memory, meaning and pluralisation. The day will comprise three plenary sessions: iconic spaces, iconic people and iconic events.

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Keynote speaker

Tim Bowden AM is a radio and television reporter, documentary maker, oral historian and author. He became a familiar face on ABC- TV after hosting the listener and viewer reaction program Backchat from 1986 to 1994.

His background in journalism includes working as a foreign correspondent for the ABC in Asia and North America during the mid to late 1960s during which time he was assigned to help to cover the Vietnam war. He was the first executive producer of the ABC's radio current affairs program PM in 1969, before becoming a producer with the ground-breaking television current affairs program This Day Tonight in the early 1970s.

Among his many published books are One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman; The Way My Father Tells It; Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days; The Silence Calling - in Antarctica 1947-97; an autobiography, Spooling Through - An Irreverent Memoir and three travel related books the most recent being The Devil In Tim - Travels In Tasmania.

Tim Bowden received an Order of for services to public broadcasting in June 1994. In May 1997 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Tasmania.

Session 1: Iconic Spaces

Professor Peter Spearritt, has spent most of his working life at universities in Victoria, NSW and Queensland but regularly pays homage to archival collections in all states - Are icons made or are they simply promotional artefacts?

Joanna Besley, is currently Senior Curator Social History at Queensland Museum, Southbank, Brisbane. From 2004 to 2011 she was Curator, Histories and Community at Museum of Brisbane. Joanna was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2009 to study - Closure? Or opening? Collections and archives as forums for dialogue

Paul Bentley, managed the Dennis Wolanski Library and Archives of the Performing Arts at the Sydney Opera House from 1973 to 1997. As well as developing library and archival programs, he initiated improvements to enterprise information systems, produced the Building of the Century and other exhibitions, and oversaw the development of the ill-fated TheatreWorks performing arts museum project - Archiving the Sydney Opera House: a drama in more than three acts

Session 2: Iconic People

Paul Brunton is the Senior Curator of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Paul has been called 'one of the reigning doyens of Australian manuscript curatorship' (Flinders University) - Engaging with a national icon: The Matthew Flinders experience

Brad Argent, has worked for Ancestry.com.au since 2007 and is Content Director for and New Zealand markets, as well as being the principal spokesperson - Pitching the past - selling history to the media

Ross Latham, is the Manager of the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO) and Tasmania's State Archivist - From the Paper panopticon to Facebook - 21st Century uses of the Records of the Tasmanian Convict Department

Session 3: Iconic Events

Dr Axel Bruns is an Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia - Archiving the immediate: how and why archives should approach social media

Dr David Headon is a cultural consultant and historian. Formerly Director of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies in Canberra (1994- 2004), he is now Adviser on the Centenary of Canberra in the Chief Minister’s Department, ACT Government, and Adviser to Senator Kate Lundy - Untold stories - Canberra's Centenary opportunity

Cassie Findlay & Antony Loewenstein - Cassie Findlay is the Project Manager, Digital Archives at State Records NS W. In this role she is responsible for delivering the digital archives infrastructure and processes for accepting, preserving and making available digital State archives of the NSW Government. Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney- based independent freelance journalist, author, documentarian, photographer and blogger. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, , Washington Post, New Statesman, The Nation, BBC World Service, and many others - WikiLeaks and the meaning of archives

The Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, Professor Martin Nakata, is the Director of Nura Gili at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He also holds the title of Chair of Australian Indigenous Education - Presented by the Australian Society of Archivists' Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group Australian Society of Archivists P: 1800 622 251 GPO Box 1293 ABN 36 102 573 974 E: [email protected] Brisbane QLD 4001

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