Historical Significance: That Was Then, This Is Now [VIC/TAS Event]

Time

8:30am - 8:45am

Registrations Open

8:45am - 9:00am

Welcome

Sandra Ennor, Vic/Tas Branch President

9:05am - 9:35am

Recordkeeping challenges and PROV initiatives
This presentation will outline some recordkeeping challenges and a number of PROV initiatives and projects to assist agencies to deal with them.

Alison McNulty, Senior Manager Standards and Policy at PROV
Alison McNulty manages the Standards and Policy Team at the Public Record Office Victoria. She has over 20 years of experience working in public sector records and information management. Alison has a Master of Information Management from RMIT.

9:40am - 10:10am

Yes, Victoria, there is still an SEC
Anyone under the age of 45 might be wondering what is an SEC.
The privatisation in the 1990’s of the SEC (‘you’ve got a friend”), created challenges to provide to the successor entities and the SEC ‘shell’ against a tight time frame, access to the information they required to operate.
When residual matters from Gas & Fuel (“endless hot water”) and Ports were also allocated to the SECV Administrator the complexity increased considerably.
That the goals were met is a tribute to the work of the consultant archivists and records specialists. That work has not finished. Some obligations go on for several more decades and information will be critical in managing them.
The presentation focuses on lessons learned and outstanding issues of records which in two industries go back to the nineteenth century.

John Drewett 
On graduating John went to the Latrobe Valley for 6 months. Except for short periods in Head Office, and a year overseas, he is still there. He occupied managerial and staff roles receiving a Public Service Medal for services to the Electricity Industry. After SECV breakup he joined the Administrator of the ‘shell’ as a consultant to manage a range of functions which later included elements of the Gas and Ports industries. John enjoys living on his beef farm in Gippsland and has been a Country Fire Authority volunteer for 55 years.

10:15am - 10:45am

Morning Tea

10:50am - 11:10am 

RIMPA Membership Model Update and Q&A

Tynelle Spinner, Member Services Coordinator, RIMPA

11:15am - 11:45am

Building a Trusting and Compassionate Society through the Voices and Historical Evidence of Holocaust Survivors and their Pasts.

A community’s outreach rests in the preservation of its individual and collective identity and memory. This presentation invites attendees into my personal story of building a trusting relationship with a Holocaust survivor to learn, receive, substantiate, preserve and disseminate her story through the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s Collections Department. 

Julia Reichstein | Librarian/Information Manager at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum [MHM]

Julia is Librarian and Information Manager at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum [MHM]. Julia also works for Smart Records Group, indexing outsourced school administrative and archival records. Julia graduated from Monash University with a Graduate Diploma in Information Management and Systems in 2008. She also holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts degree.

11.45am - 12.30pm

Talking Back to Records
Care Leavers crave access to their historical records, only to find they are often inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading with distressing content and offensive language written without regard for the thoughts and feelings of the subjects of the records. Formal opportunities to challenge these records are rarely taken up. Insider knowledge and direct experience can be used to create records they can trust.

Dr Frank Golding OAM
Underpinned by direct experience of childhood institutionalisation, Frank’s research and advocacy have led him to: contribute to formal inquiries and national projects; present papers on child welfare in a number of countries; publish books, chapters and journal articles. Frank holds degrees from Melbourne, London, and Federation universities. His PhD is titled Care Leavers Recovering Voice and Agency through Counter-Narratives.

12:35pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm - 2:00pm

Is M365 an eDRMS Which Can Manage All Records? - The Great Debate!

facilitated by Sandra Ennor

Debate Teams to be confirmed

2:00pm - 2:30pm 

OVIC Presentation

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Professional Development Opportunities – What’s New in the RIMPA Training World? PLUS and insight into the new Asset Register training workshop

Richard Jackson 
Richard has 14+ years experience working in the Information and Records Management space including having worked for some of the leading Local and State Government organisations in New South Wales and Victoria.  He has worked in a variety of Information and Records Management roles including Training & Information Analyst, Enterprise Information Project Officer, FOI Officer, Archives Team Leader and is currently employed by Victoria’s largest Government Organisation as an Information Management Specialist.

Sandra Pickett
Sandra’s career spans 30 years in various roles aligned with Information and Records Management, Privacy and Freedom of Information. Complimented with qualifications in Archives and Records Management (Monash University) including Training and Assessment.  Sandra has worked in the education and private sectors and across all levels of government and is currently the Enterprise Information Manager at Victoria Police. Sandra has represented RIMPA as the former Director, President, Vice President, Secretary for the Victorian Branch or in the capacity of a presenter, Trainer and Mentor.  

3:00pm

Wrap Up