APPRAISAL AND THE CONTINUUM

Programme

March 15th - 19th, 1999
Conference Room 1,
Level 8,
Casseldon Place,
2 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Monday 15th March: Appraisal: what's the problem?

9.00-9.30 Welcome and introductions

9.30-10.30 An overview of appraisal: what is it? What's wrong with the taxonomical approach? What does it mean that something has archival or permanent or lasting value? Is appraisal objective and scientific or subjective and relative? What aspects of society or government should be reflected in archival holdings? Why is this on the agenda? What is functional appraisal?

Terry Cook

10.30-11.0 Tea Break

11.00-12.30 Workshop:

• Why do appraisal?
• What is the traditional articulation?
• What assumptions underly this articulation?
• What is or needs to be different?
• How justifiable are our current methods?

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 An introduction to appraisal in the continuum: A preliminary exegis

The Monash team

3.00-3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30-5.00 Workshop:

• What are the things we need to explain better?
• What is/are our present methodology/ies?
• What are the problems?

Tuesday 16th March: Historical Accountability? Community Expectations? Long Term value?

9.00-10.30 Are the administrative and cultural values of archives compatible? Is appraisal the same in the public or corporate world and in the private manuscripts sector of society?

Terry Cook

Commentary: 3 professional Australian responses from a variety of public/private organisations

Sigrid McCausland, ANU
Jock Murphy, LaTrobe Library
Helen Smith, BHP Archives

10.30-11.0 Tea

11.00-12.30 Articulating our assumptions. What are long term values? The NAA's Making Choices and reactions to it

Kathryn Dan, National Archives of Australia

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.0 What are community expectations?

Anne Picot, RTA

Discussion

3.00-3.30 Tea

3.30-5.0 Workshop:Expressing long term responsibilities in contestable/defendable ways

Wednesday 17th March: Defining and Establishing an Appraisal Regime

9.00-10.30 What is an appraisal regime?

Chris Hurley

10.30-11.0 Tea

11.00-12.30 The New Zealand experience and review

John Roberts, National Archives of NZ

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 3.00 Regulatory environments, Risk Management

Anne Picot, Road and Traffic Authority, NSW

3.00-3.30 Tea

3.30-5.0 Workshop: Defining and constituting an appraisal regime

Thursday 18th March: Appraisal Methodologies

9.00-10.30 Appraisal methodologies: the traditional approach contrasted with the Canadian functional macroappraisal strategy (including an update on other international implementation strategies )

Terry Cook

10.30-11.0 Tea

11.00-12.0 Macroappraisal continued

Terry Cook

12.00-12.30 Australian appraisal methodology: the current practice and emerging methods.

The Monash team

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.0 Workshop:

* Devising an articulation of new methodologies

3.00-3.30 Tea

3.30-5.0 Reappraisal: the theory, the reality and the practice

Jim Stokes, National Archives of Australia
Michael Piggott, University of Melbourne

Friday 19th March: Appraisal and the Implementation Environment

9.00-10.30 The current credo: what does it mean?

• Appraisal on or before creation
• Defining recordkeeping requirements
• The tools
• The constraints
• Translating the tools into action
• The criticisms
• Is it appraisal?

Barbara Reed and friends

10.30-11.0 Tea

11.00-12.30 Does it work? How can we tell?

David Brown, Archival Systems Consultants
Sue Ireland, Archives and Records Manager, CSL Bioplasma

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 How do we document decisions? Interventionist and visible recordkeeping. Archival responsibilities and accountabilities

The Monash team

3.00-3.30 Tea

3.30-5.00 Synthesis workshop: where are we and what is appraisal in the continuum?

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