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Reading

We would like everyone participating to read at least some of the following articles. Students attending are expected to read more widely, using the attached reading list as a guide. Should participants have difficulty obtaining the printed sources, contact Barbara Reed at 'barbara.reed@recordkeeping.com.au for a paper copy.

Richard Brown, 'Macro-Appraisal in Transition: Recasting the Government Records Disposition Program of the National Archives of Canada' Paper delivered to the Annual Conference of the National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators. California, 18.7.1997

(Courtesy of the author)

Terry Cook, 'Mind Over Matter: Towards a New Theory of Archival Appraisal' in Barbara Craig ed The Archival Imagination. Essays in Honour of Hugh Taylor , ACA, 1992, pp 38-70

Terry Cook,
The archival appraisal of records containing personal information: A RAMP study with guidelines

PG1-90/WS/12, 1990

Margaret Hedstrom, 'Interfaces with Time' Keynote address for the Australian Society of Archivists, 1998 (Courtesy of the author and the ASA Conference Committee, 1998)

National Archives of NZ: Appraisal Review Discussion Paper, 1998-1999

National Archives of Australia, Making Choices. Deciding which Commonwealth records to keep for posterity, 1998 at '

John Roberts, 'Market Forces: Electronic Records Appraisal in the Age of Economic Rationalism' Paper delivered to the Australian Society of Archivists Conference, 1998 (Courtesy of the author and the ASA Conference Committee, 1998)

Public Record Office, UK, 'Acquisition Policy Statement' 1998.

AS 4390, Australian Standard on Records Management, Part 5 Appraisal and Disposal, 1995

University College, London: 'Theories of Appraisal' (particularly 'The European School')

For those not familiar with the notion of the continuum, we recommend that you glance through:

Frank Upward, Structuring the Records Continuum. Part One: Postcustodial principles and properties, Archives and Manuscripts 24, 2, November 1996, 268-285

Frank Upward, Structuring the Records Continuum. Part Two: Structuration Theory and Recordkeeping, Archives and Manuscripts 25, 1, May 1997, 10-35

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