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PARBICA 13 Conference

PARBICA 13 Conference - PARBICA, the Australian Society of Archivists and the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand are joining forces to hold a joint conference in Brisbane, Australia titled Voyaging together – Memories, Integrity and Sustainability.

PARBICA members are encouraged to notionally set aside the dates 12-17 October 2009. More information will be made available as the arrangements are finalised – for more information, please contact a member of the PARBICA Bureau.

Call for Papers

The Australian Society of Archivists, the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand and the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives invite proposals for papers and other contributions to their joint conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia.

The broad theme of the conference is Voyaging together: integrity, memory and sustainability. Papers and panels with an Indigenous or Pacific focus are particularly welcome.

The following list of topic areas for papers is indicative, but not exhaustive:

• Cooperation between institutions
• Pacific collections in Australia and New Zealand
• Sustainability for small archives
• Management and preservation of Indigenous collections
• Freedom of Information: developments and directions
• Archives and anniversaries
• New technologies: tools or masters?
• Non-government archives: history and future

We will be offering a refereed stream for papers from the conference.

Proposals should include the following:

• Author name(s) and institutional affiliation (if any)
• Email contact for the proposer
• Title
• Session type: paper, panel discussion, poster session etc.
• Abstract: minimum 150 words, maximum 300 words.
• Up to six descriptive keywords for the topic

The deadline for submission of proposals is 28 February 2009. Please forward your proposal to education@archivists.org.au

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