‘The way that you do it’

The 30th Annual Conference of the

Archives and Records Association of New Zealand

Christchurch Convention Centre, Christchurch

25th – 26th August 2006

DRAFT PROGRAMME

‘It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it and that’s what gets results’

The 30th Annual ARANZ Conference is an opportunity, not for introspection, but rather to look outwards to other disciplines working in this Information Age. What can we learn from each other and can we learn from the experiences of others? Click here for the Conference Registration Form. There are a number of accommodation options available some of which are listed here.(pdf 52kbs)

Conference Scholarships are available. The closing date for applications is August 17th. Scholarships are available to help attendees offset the cost of conference registration and travel/accommodation. The scholarships can help attendees from small institutionsor students attend the conference.

Thursday, 24th August

9am-12pm

Digitisation Workshop - Connecting to your Community through Digitisation

THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

Learn how to project manage the conversion of your paper based collections to digital through imaging.

  • Why you should digitise material
  • The issues surrounding access vs preservation
  • A practical approach to workflow (Project Planning and ExternalRelationships)
  • Image capture - critical steps and things you should know and ask
  • Image delivery - Master files to Access Images
  • Web hosting - some traps and options
  • How it can generate income for your archive

The key focus will to be empower you to move forward with any digital projects you are planning. This will help your archive connect to your community through heritage digital images.

Venue: Board Room, Methodist Archives, Morley Hse, 25 Latimer Sq ,located next to AMI insurance. The entry to the Archives and Boardroom is located down the driveway on the right hand side of Morley House. Go through the door, and turn hard right by the display cases.There is no carparking at the site however there is a carpark buildingclose by onManchester Street.

12 - 2pm

ARANZ Council Meeting

Venue: Archives New Zealand, 90 Peterborough St

1 -3pm

Schools Special Interest Group Meeting

Venue: Board Room, Methodist Archives, Morley Hse, 25 Latimer Sq

3-5pm

Religious Special Interest Group Meeting

Venue: Board Room, Methodist Archives, Morley Hse, 25 Latimer Sq

2-5pm

Collecting Archives Special Interest Group Meeting

Venue: Seminar Room, Room 208, Te Ao Marama Building, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury (second right off Arts Road coming from the Clyde Road end of Campus). Meet at the Macmillan Brown Library entrance at 2 - 2.10pm

6-7pm

Early Bird Reception

An opportunity for everyone catch up and meet fellow delegates. Drinks and nibbles provided.

Venue: Archives New Zealand, 90 Peterborough St

Friday, 25th August

8.30 – 9am

Registration

9am

Welcome by Mayor Garry Moore and Official opening of 30th Annual ARANZ Conference by Hon Judith Tizard MP

10 – 10.30am

Morning Tea

‘The way that you use it’

10.30 -11.15am

Bronwyn Dalley, Chief Historian at the Ministry of Culture and Heritage

11.15-12.pm

Bruce Russell, ‘Connecting withYour Publics in the Information Age: Information Design and Usability as Key Tools in Service Provision’

12-12.15pm

Discussion / Questions

12.15-1.15pm

Lunch

‘The way that you teach it’

1.15pm -2pm

Steve Watters, Ministry of Culture and Heritage

2-2.45pm

Tom Norcliffe, ‘Taking Archives to the Classroom’

2.45 – 3.15pm

Afternoon tea

3.15-4pm

Annabel Armstrong-Clarke and Paul Sutherland, Christchurch City Libraries

4-5pm

Annual General Meeting of ARANZ

7pm

Conference Dinner

The Grand Café is the Christchurch Casino’s buffet style restaurant. It offers a selection of dishes including Asian, European and New Zealand favourites. All dietary requirements are catered for including carnivore, vegetarian, coeliac and diabetic. After dinner, relax in the bar with your colleagues or take a flutter on the tables and gaming machines.(Please note neat attire is required and you must be over 20 years of age.)

Venue: The Grand Café, Christchurch Casino, Victoria St

Saturday, 26th August

9 – 9.45am

Kim Eberhard, Archivist, Loreto Normanhurst School ‘The development of the retention schedule for non-government schools and the resulting impact it has had’

‘The way that you remember’

9.45-10.20am

George Davis, ‘ANZAC Day Research and the Archives’

10.20-11am

Bruce Ralston, 'Electronic remembrance : towards collaborative databasing of New Zealand's war dead at Auckland War Memorial Museum'

11am - 11.30am

Morning Tea

'The way that you do it'

11.30am-1pm

Janine Delaney, Digital Preservation Team, Archives New Zealand, ’Continuum management and the digital preservation programme’

Linda Moore & Hamish James, OSRDAC [The Official Statistics Research & Data Archive Centre]

1-2pm

Lunch

2-2.30pm

Kevin Molloy, Government Recordkeeping, Archives New Zealand, ‘Public Recordkeeping Mandatory Standards’

2.30 – 3.00pm

Patrick Power, Government Recordkeeping, Archives New Zealand,The Way That You Store It: Archives NZ Reviews Its Storage Standard’

3 - 3.15pm

Discussion / Questions

3.15 – 3.45pm

Afternoon Tea

3.45-4.15pm

'Now we are Thirty'

4.15 – 4.30pm

Close of Conference and Invitation to 2007 Conference

   
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