FOI training courses conducted by State Records, in conjunction with the Australian Government Solicitor, during June and July 2008.FOI Training Courses - June/July 2008
The Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) recently launched an initiative to provide two Loris Williams Scholarships.Loris Williams Scholarship awarded
Details the Australian Society of Archivists publication Keeping Archives, a practical guide addressing the real-life challenges of working with archival records.Keeping Archives 3 released
Notifying agencies that May 2007 version of the guideline for agencies making public access determinations for official records which they control is now available.Public Access Determination Guideline for Agencies
At State Records of South Australia we like to keep you up to date with our services. Agency staff can find out here about records management training, FOI and privacy issues, and State Records Council news.
If you're a researcher or family historian, you can learn about new transfers of records to our custody, and additions to ArchivesSearch, on the Additions to the Collection page.
You might also like to visit the Upcoming Events page and find out about our other activities - celebrations, exhibitions, workshops, conferences and seminars.
In line with the annual review of fees and charges governed by Regulation, most of the fees and charges under the State Records Act, 1997 and Freedom of Information Act, 1991 will increase from 1 July 2008 in line with CPI.
To keep researchers up-to-date with new transfers of records to our custody, we regularly prepare a list of selected records recently added to the State Records' collection. Our June listing can be viewed using the link below. Remember, documents can be requested to be viewed at one of our Research Centres by using the 'Direct Search' option in ArchivesSearch. Please note, more recent records may be restricted.
State Records, in conjunction with the Australian Government Solicitor, is conducting the following Freedom of Information (FOI) training courses in June and July 2008:
Processing FOI with Confidence
Key Exemptions in Practice
Public Interest
Personal Information.
These courses are specifically aimed at accredited and non-accredited FOI Officers from across state government, local government and universities that process and deal with FOI applications in South Australia.
For further information please see the links below.
The Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) recently launched an initiative to provide two Loris Williams Scholarships of $3,000 each. These scholarships are provided annually to two Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students studying in the field of archives and records management who are looking at a career in the field.
One of the inaugural Loris Williams Scholarships has been awarded to Monica Hardie to assist her with her Certificate III Records Management studies. This TAFE course is delivered by State Records of South Australia. Last Thursday a small gathering of ASA members, State Records personnel involved in the provision of the training, the Director of State Records and Monica's mother witnessed a presentation of a certificate commemorating the award of the Loris Williams Scholarship to Monica.
The Australian Society of Archivists has released its flagship publication, Keeping Archives, 3rd edition (KA3). A completely new work, KA3 is a practical guide addressing the real-life challenges of working with archival records, acknowledging the theoretical frameworks for this work. KA3 provides information, guidance and skills to professionally manage legacy collections and backlogs while also facing the challenge of proactively working across the records continuum.
State Records has released the training schedule for the Tertiary Accredited Training courses for 2008.
Because of demand, there will be two streams of Certificate III Business - Record Keeping. However, there will be no delivery of the Certificate IV Business - Record Keeping.
The Public Access Determinations Guideline has been revised and is now available for agencies to download from this website.
State Records is the principal repository for official records of government that are no longer required by agencies for current administrative purposes.
Agencies are responsible for making public access determinations for their official records when transferring them to the custody of State Records.
The guideline provides broad advice on when records should be open, when they should be closed and what period of restriction should be applied.