A series of issues papers suggesting ways that the the record-keeping profession can better deal with the volume, fragility and complexity of contemporary archival records has been published by the Recordkeeping Roundtable.

The papers both seek to encapsulate the key issues identified by speakers and participants at the ‘Reinventing Archival Methods’ workshop, held in November 2012, and also identify opportunities for further research, for prototypes and projects that could be run either by the Roundtable or other stakeholders such as the Universities, government archives or professional associations. 

The papers were developed in consultation with the reference groups of volunteers from the workshops. The lead authors on the papers were Barbara Reed (Access) and Kate Cumming and Anne Picot (Appraisal).

Access (PDF, 33KB)

Appraisal (PDF, 29KB)

Members of the Recordkeeping Roundtable will be presenting on the papers at the Australian Society of Archivists’ conference in Canberra in October 2013.