Australian Society of Archivists

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

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

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 Elaine Williams,^[11] and the Mander Jones Awards.^[12]

Notable members

• Anne-Marie Schwirtlich AM - former Director-General of the National Library of Australia
• Loris Elaine Williams, 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