Mander Jones Awards Recipients 1996 - 2022

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2022

Category 1A: (Not awarded)

Category 1B: Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick, and Jakelin Troy (editors), Music, Dance and the Archive, ISBN: 9781743328675, Publisher: Sydney University Press.

The nine chapters in this scholarly and well-researched volume combine specificity and theory as they introduce the reader to creative and scholarly work in ethnomusicology, dance and the archives of performance.

The case study descriptions of working with Aboriginal community members on traditional music are fascinating and encouraging examples of working inclusively and developing archival knowledge in co-operation with traditional owners.

The questioning and examination of past practices of custodianship, arrangement, and description contribute considerably to decolonising the archives.

Category 2A: Kate Follington, Tara Oldfield, and Natasha Cantwell (Public Record Office Victoria), Look History in the Eye, Podcast.

Beginning with the excellent tag line “…We meet the people who dig into those boxes, look history in the eye, and bother to wonder why”, each episode tells a fascinating story featuring archives or archival collections; some quirky or shocking, others with the capacity to make a dry government report or enquiry interesting.

Each podcast is well produced, scripted, and presented by experts in their research field. The easily navigated site links to transcriptions and rich additional content, including digitised archives.

The series presents an innovative model of engaging with client groups and promoting PROV to the wider community in a digital age. It is an engaging and innovative response to demands on archives to package their collections into ‘stories.’

Category 2B: Isobelle Barrett Meyering, Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution (1969-1979), ISBN: 9780522877847, Publisher: Melbourne University Press.

Meyering has used many archive collections Australia-wide related to Women’s Liberation and feminism, the personal testimony of activists (some interviewed by the author), and extensive secondary sources to produce a significant contribution to feminist history, which explores in detail, for the first time, children’s liberation as a specific dimension of feminist activism in the 1970s. Her writing is clear and engaging, photographs are well chosen and add interest, and the citations are excellent.

Category 3: (Not awarded)

Category 4: (Not awarded)

Category 5: Sarah Baker and Zelmarie Cantillon, Zines as Community Archive, Archival Science (2022) 22:539-561.

A very readable case study of a well-designed and executed project demonstrating the potential of zines to enable marginalised groups to record and tell their stories. The authors’ analysis of this ‘act of community archiving’ displays considerable insight into the needs and expectations of the community. The article is an extremely useful example of an application in practice of Caswell’s six principles of community archives discourse.

Category 6: Noah Riseman, “Finding ‘Evidence of Me’ through ‘Evidence of Us’: Transgender oral histories and personal archives speak”, New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption, 2022.

In this enjoyable and thought-provoking work, the author presents cogent well-developed arguments, demonstrates original research and contributes to theory across disciplines. The chapter is well structured and footnoted. With its blend of personal examples drawn from interviews, research, and theoretical discussion, the writing is highly readable and easy to follow.

Category 7: (Not awarded)

Category 8: (Not awarded)

Commendations Recipients

Category 2A: Anne-Marie Condé, Disrupt, Persist, Invent: Australians in an Ever-Changing World, ISBN: 9781922209313, Publisher: National Archives of Australia.

This exhibition catalogue is informative, entertaining and thought provoking. The writing is lively and engaging; the illustrations, facsimile documents, and examples are well-chosen and well-cited.

Its strength comes from the curators’ decisions on the exhibition themes and structure, which allow them to explore many events of Australian history in a dynamic and personal way, by highlighting the stories of the individuals involved as well as the government and institutional records.

The multimedia elements work well and add to the interest and one’s feeling of relationship with the people and their stories.

It has a value independently of the exhibition it accompanied and will remain a useful tool for researchers.

Category 2B: Tony Dawson and Heather Aynsley (Port Macquarie Historical Society), To be Worked in Irons: Stories from the Port Macquarie Bench Books, ISBN: 9780958039079, Publisher: Port Macquarie Historical Society.

The authors’ selection of cases, and their explanatory notes on historical context, are presented in a clear and engaging way that sheds new light on this period in the colony’s history.

The continuation of many of the stories of the convicts to tell how they fared after their detention at Port Macquarie adds interest and completeness, and shows the depth and breadth of additional archival sources used, all impeccably cited and indexed.

Very commendably, the authors have created an invaluable ongoing resource for future researchers with the transcription and digitisation of this records series.

Category 2B: Maggie Shapley, ‘Literary Journals and the ‘Monstrous Prevalence of Poetesses’, Axon: Creative Explorations, December 2022.

Drawing from archival records, AusLit, and other sources, the article contains well-researched and well-presented quantifiable evidence from the archives about the percentage of women poets published, or not, in literary journals from 1945-1990.

The author’s research also provides insights into the history of Australian literary journals and their editors.

Her identification of relevant archives and clear analysis and statistical tabulation have created a solid base for further research in this area.

2021

Category 1A: (Not awarded)

Category 1B: Mike Jones, Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum, ISBN: 9780367551056, Publisher: Routledge

This exciting and informative book addresses discussions amongst GLAM professionals on removing divisions between institutions that hinder cooperation and the opening the archives.

The author examines this; and using relational thinking he proposes ways that institutions can break down the internal divisions, or silos, that disrupt the management of collection items within a single institution, such as a museum with an archive.

This work will be of practical assistance to many collecting institutions as they consider how to document collections, and to open the archives to new forms of exploration, discovery, and re-use.

Category 1B: Kirsten Thorpe, Kimberly Christen, Lauren Booker, and Monica Galassi, “Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous communities: developing the Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes Model in Australia”, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 25

A thoughtful work bringing together research and practice within the archival space.

The authors move the discussion from colonial collecting paradigms to community-based archiving initiatives and on Country management of Indigenous knowledge.

The work calls for the digital return of archival material and the documentation needed to give the archives context, and the involvement of Indigenous communities in the design of information management systems, in ways that respect the material and make sense to Indigenous communities’ understandings of how to manage knowledge.

By giving practical guidance based on experience, this article fills an unmet need in the Australian archival profession.

Category 2A: Gavin Fry, Sydney Royal: Celebrating 200 Years of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1822-2022, Produced and published by The Beagle Press for the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW

This weighty tome draws heavily on the archival and heritage collections of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS) to tell the story of the RAS.

Archives are incorporated throughout the work, and are not just an illustration to the narrative.

This excellent organisational history will enable a wider audience to see and have an appreciation of the depth of the archival and heritage collections of the RAS.

Readers who have grown up attending the Royal Easter Show will enjoy seeing aspects of their childhoods portrayed in the book.

Category 2A: Rachel Tropea and Georgina Ward, “Fierce Compassion and Reflexivity Transforming Practice at the University of Melbourne Archives”, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2021): Radical Empathy in Archival Practice

It can be challenging for custodians of important archival collections documenting trauma, such as child welfare records, to bring these collections to the attention of potential researchers without causing further trauma.

In writing about how the University of Melbourne Archives has re-designed practices for enabling access to the Care Leavers records it holds, the authors have also provided guidance for other institutions, with potentially distressing collections, to help researchers and staff manage access sensitively.

This is a highly relevant work that deserves a wide audience among archivists and other collection managers.

Category 2B: Clive Smith, Port Macquarie’s First Convicts, ISBN: 9780958039055, Port Macquarie Historical Society Inc.

In the absence of a formal or conclusive listing from the colonial administration of Port Macquarie, the author of this work has trawled through archives in New South Wales and the United Kingdom to identify the first convicts who “volunteered” to go to Port Macquarie in 1821, so that they can take their place in Port Macquarie’s recorded history.

Future researchers of colonial New South Wales will benefit from this excellent work, with its detailed listing of convicts and volunteers, and useful explanation of the archival sources used and the research which has been undertaken.

Category 3: University of Adelaide - University Library, Adelaide Connect: Discover the University of Adelaide's special collections, https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/

This is an innovative portal leading researchers to the information they seek across multiple formats.

Its search function is precise and accurate, and the metadata includes the original item or collection number to help find similar items. This provides an effective system that could be a model for other institutions wishing to provide a way into their collections.

Category 4: (Not awarded)

Category 5: Katherine Jarvie, Joanne Evans, Sue McKemmish, “Radical appraisal in support of archival autonomy for animal rights activism”, Archival Science, 21(4)

A well-written article relevant to organisations for which traditional archiving practices are a poor fit, because the membership is dispersed, and may lack a hierarchy of decision-makers to determine what to document and what to retain.

The case study focuses on animal rights activists who may be in a loose association with others and who rely on technology, such as the cloud, to communicate and to manage their archives. The methodology outlined in this article could be a model for other groups.

Category 5: Kirsten Wright, Nicola Laurent, “Safety, Collaboration, and Empowerment: Trauma-Informed Archival Practice”, Archivaria, Vol. 91, June 2021

Belated recognition of the rights of marginalised groups, including Indigenous Australians and ‘care’ leavers, has made archives more aware of the potential for their holdings to cause further trauma to those depicted in them.

This article addresses the need for guidance to archives wanting to help staff and researchers use and manage relevant collections safely and with respect.

Category 6: Mike Jones, “The temple of history: historians and the sacralisation of archival work” History Australia, 18.4

An excellent work aimed at a strategic audience.

In this article Jones aims to break down the overly deferential attitudes some researchers have towards archives that conceal archival theory, and the work of archivists.

He calls on historians to demystify and explain their research in the archives, to reveal the value of archival research, and help re-build trust in history.

Category 7: Olivia Ensor, Privacy and consent in the construction of social media archives. Assignment submitted for Master of Information Management, Curtin University

A well-researched and well-written paper on some of the most fraught issues surrounding the archiving of social media, copyright, and privacy.

Ensor sets out the case of the ACT Heritage Library’s COVID-19 Community Archive Flickr group, within a well-constructed theoretical framework.

This paper would be a solid foundation for a journal article that would start discussions among the many archives faced with the need to archive social media.

Category 8: Karen Finch, Royal Agricultural Society Virtual Museum, Publisher: Royal Agricultural Society of NSW

The wide variety of digitised items includes photographs, catalogues and publications.

These are presented in an impressive and original way that provides a model for other organisations who want to highlight their archives and their history in general.

2020

Category 1A: (Not awarded)

Category 1B: Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, & Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, (eds), Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond

This excellent collection of essays and case studies highlights a range of successful repatriation projects. The work uses a range of examples to draw out the complexities in negotiating and managing archival returns, and the importance of ownership and control of knowledge and information about oneself and one’s group, and working with competing interests to achieve a successful repatriation of archival material.

One of the strengths of this work is the rich perspectives provided by the authors, who include archive users and the Indigenous researchers. These perspectives will have a significant impact on the archival profession and navigating this complex area of practice.

Category 2A: Clive Smith, Return to Lake Innes: Journals and letters written by Annabella Innes, Port Macquarie Historical Society Inc.

This excellent publication is the transcription of the journals and letters of Annabella Innes, a significant archival collection inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. The work is of a high standard, and the well-designed format enables a reader to appreciate this amusing and discerning first-hand account of life in NSW in the 19th century.

By publishing these archives, the author has made a highly significant archival record accessible to all researchers and a much wider audience. The journals and letters are enhanced by the contextual information included in the book and the detailed index.

Category 2B: James Keating, Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914

This impressive work uses archives from many countries, including personal papers, suffrage periodicals, and archives of temperance and suffrage organisations, to tell the story of women’s suffrage in Australia and New Zealand, and how these suffrage networks influenced the cause in the rest of the world. It overturns many earlier assumptions about Australasian involvement in the international women’s suffrage movement.

Archives are integral to this work. They are not just a source of facts, but are studied as artefacts themselves, with the author analysing and synthesising correspondence and periodicals and the way they were used by suffragists as a tool to communicate to a wide audience.

This book is valuable for both its subject matter, but also the way in which it sheds light on previously little-known archival collections. This will be the ‘go-to’ book on this topic for many years to come.

Category 3: City of Sydney, Archives management system/catalogue produced by the City of Sydney

Catalogues are the major tool for the public to access archives. The various City of Sydney catalogues have been systematically redesigned into one catalogue, with the users’ experience central to design decisions. It is an excellent example of how the next generation of archival catalogues could work.

From the main catalogue search engine, relevant material is easy to find for the casual user, but with full contextual information clearly provided for the more sophisticated user. The home page is visually appealing with key functions and areas of interest highlighted.

Category 4: Gareth Dyer (ed.), Worthy of our Forefathers: A History of The Scots College Sydney

A beautifully presented history of The Scots College produced for the school’s 125th anniversary. It makes good use of the school’s archives as a foundation for telling the history of the school. Biographies of key members of the community are interspersed with supporting archival images and high-quality images of school objects.

Category 5: Joanne Evans, Frank Golding, Cate O’Neill, & Rachel Tropea, ‘“All I want to know is who I am”: Archival Justice for Australian care leavers’, in David A. Wallace, Wendy M. Duff, Renée Saucier, & Andrew Flinn (eds.), Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice, Routledge, 2020, pp. 105-126

This article critically examines the response of the Australian archival community to Care Leavers’ experiences in gaining access to records about their lives while in “care”. While progress has been made, the article highlights important areas where the Australian archival profession could improve practice and provide better survivor-centred solutions.

This is a very practical and moving article. The judges commend it to all Australian archivists and particularly to institutions and archivists involved with the needs of the Care Leaver community.

Category 6: Michael Aird, Joanna Sassoon, & David Trigger, ‘From Illustration to Evidence: Historical Photographs and Aboriginal Native Title Claims in South-east Queensland, Australia’, in Anthropology & Photography, No. 13, 2020, pp. 1-22

This is a very important article for both researchers and archivists who want to promote photographic collections to a wider audience. The article emphasises the value of photographs, long used to illustrate a point but often overlooked as a source of evidence alongside other recorded information.

The authors show how photographs can be used as evidence - when the written record is lacking - by showing the continuing presence of Indigenous Australians in an area covered by a native title claim. This article should encourage researchers to look for evidence in photographic collections.

Category 7: Kerry Wilson, Vicarious trauma in court archives: An examination of the interactions with criminal court records, Master of Information Studies (Records and Archives Management), Charles Sturt University

This is an excellent work that examines the consequences for archivists of being exposed in their work to distressing material not usually seen by the public. This aspect of archival work can have long term impact but is not often discussed. The work is well set out, clearly cited, and tackles an important subject for the wellbeing of archivists.

Category 8: Rose Barrowcliffe, ‘#BlackLivesMatter and archives in Australia’, Blog Post on Indigenous Archives Collective, 17 June 2020

This very timely blog post highlights the need for more Indigenous input into the management of archives. The author writes clearly and forcefully about the issues while providing links to other resources. It addresses a need for information for archivists and others about the importance of decolonising the archives.

Commendation Recipients

Category 2A: Margaret Warburton and Joan Pope, The University of Western Australia and the Second World War Nominal Roll Project

This well designed publication features extensive archival research to document over 1,400 individuals listed on the Second World War nominal roll. Each entry includes date of birth and birthplace of the individual, date of death, connection to the University of Western Australia, and its affiliates, and the individual’s service record. The work intersperses moving and useful biographies within the nominal roll listing.

This publication makes extensive use of the University’s archives and other archival sources. It will be useful for family history researchers, military historians, those studying Western Australian society, and UWA for many generations to come.

Category 2B: Jenny Hocking, The Palace Letters

Archives are the star of this highly readable account of the landmark legal action to gain access to the correspondence between Sir John Kerr, the Governor General of Australia, and the Queen during the 1975 dismissal crisis, aka The Palace Letters. Archives are the subject, the source, and the context for this book.

This work has been written for a wide audience, and readers will gain an appreciation of archives, as well as the complexities of accessing information and archives, inter-governmental relations, the Australian legal system, and royal influence.

Hocking is an excellent raconteur in telling of her struggles and battle to gain access to the correspondence between a Governor General and the Queen held by the National Archives of Australia. She also provides the reader with an excellent essay on the detail that The Palace Letters reveal about the dismissal of the Whitlam government in November 1975. It is a great and fascinating read.

Category 5: Michael Smith and Janet Villata, ‘Applying user centred design to Archives’, in Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2020, pp. 239-249

This practical and interesting article is an excellent case study into the City of Sydney’s redesign of their archival catalogue. A user centred design approach was adopted.

By sharing the analysis and methods, as well as feedback from user groups, this article will be of enormous benefit to other archives looking to upgrade their catalogue and wishing to ensure meaningful access for the public to complex collections.

Category 7: Anna Corkhill, Capturing the crisis: records management obligations for Murrindindi Shire Council's social media communications of emergency responses, for Graduate Diploma in Information Management, University of South Australia

This is a very well written and well-constructed assignment examining the challenging but important subject of capturing social media in archival and recordkeeping systems.

It offers practical advice, based on thorough research, on which other organisations can base their own policies and procedures.

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2019

Category 1A: Nil winner

Category 1B: Kirsten Thorpe, ‘Transformative Praxis - Building Spaces for Indigenous Self-Determination in Libraries and Archives’, in In The Library With The Lead Pipe.

This powerful and well-written essay provides an informed road-map for the decolonisation of archival holdings and the education of non-Indigenous archivists in making the most of the Cultural Interface. The subject matter is addressed with sensitivity and authority and provides insights that are not common. It has practical advice, based on the author’s many years of experience, for the non-Indigenous to follow and should be read by every Australian archivist, or other person working with collections, who wants to decolonise the profession. It fills a gap in the literature to date.

Category 2A: Clive Smith, Port Macquarie’s Last Convicts: the end of the convict establishment at Port Macquarie as told by the original documents

This fabulous resource includes detailed transcriptions of over 150 documents from the office of the NSW Colonial Secretary that pertain to the ending of the convict establishment at Port Macquarie (covers June 1846 – November 1848) and also has a comprehensive listing of all convicts at Port Macquarie at the time.

The detailed explanation of the recordkeeping practices applied to the Colonial Secretary’s correspondence, including information to assist readers in understanding the annotations made on original documents, are essential to interpreting the transcripts.

An excellent publication containing information for researchers of local history or of the convict era in Port Macquarie.

Category 2B: Cate O’Neill, ‘The shifting significance of child endowment records at the National Archives of Australia’, in Archival Science, Vol 19, issue 3, 2019, pp. 235-253

This essay is a standout. It is well written and researched with its central focus being the Commonwealth Government child endowment scheme records.

The importance and value of these records has grown over the last 20 years as many more communities appreciate the information contained in these records to re-establish community and identity. Advocacy, by those whose lives are documented in the records, has improved archival description and improved accessibility. The author also makes the case for participatory practices in the archives and for extending rights in records to a broader range of communities.

It is a timely reminder that the needs of the subjects of records must be considered when appraising them.

Category 3: Terry Kass, ‘Unlocking land: A guide to Crown Land Records held at State Archives NSW’

This remarkable and outstanding guide unlocks the difficult to use and complex Crown Land records. This work will be indispensable to the many researchers investigating aspects of land management in NSW. It gives practical tools to help researchers navigate a very complicated collection of records in which it would be very easy to get lost. It includes detailed essays which explain and give context to how the records work.

The guide demonstrates the author’s deep and detailed knowledge of the Crown Land Records. This guide will also assist archivists who have land records in their collections to understand them and make them accessible to their researchers.

Category 4: Iain Wallace & Sandra Funnell, ‘Fort Street Tours App

This work demonstrates how a digital humanities project can use archives to present the history of a school and its surrounding area to a wide audience. The App includes three downloadable tours. Each tour incorporates a range of archives, is well-researched, and beautifully presented.

Category 5: Kirsten Wright, ‘Archival Interventions and the language we use’, in Archival Science Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2019, published online May 2019), pp. 331-348

This is an outstanding article discussing the importance of language in archival description. The article gives a theoretical discussion of how the use of offensive and outdated language in archival descriptions can discourage some researchers. It uses the Find and Connect website as an example of how to describe archives in ways that allow users to feel comfortable while remaining historically accurate. While the article’s focus is on the description of Care leaver archives, it is relevant to any archive wanting to improve outdated or offensive archival descriptions.

Category 6: Gregory Rolan, Joanne Evans, Rhiannon Abeling, Aedan Brittain, Elizabeth Constable, Matthew Kelemen, & Ella Roberts, ‘Voice, agency and equity: deep community collaboration in record-keeping research’ in Information Research, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2019

A strong and original article showing the result of integrating community members as equals in genuinely participatory research. This article discusses how the team of academic researchers and Care leaver advocates used workshops to co-design their research, an approach they recommend for others seeking to conduct participatory research. The authors discuss the issues involved in trying to be truly participatory and empowering when researching a community group. This article is a practical example for other researchers wanting to undertake participatory research.

Category 7: Nil winner.

Category 8: Vanessa Finney, ‘Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893’

This beautifully designed and well-presented book examines the Australian Museum through its own photographic processes and historical photography collection. The book charts how the photographs and photographers shaped the history of the Museum.

The book illuminates the glass plate negative photographic collections held at the Museum. While the book has been designed for audiences with an interest in historical photography and the development of museology, this work will entice a new audience to enjoy this wonderful archival collection.

Commendations:

Category 2B Joint: Tony James Brady, ‘The Empire has an Answer: The Empire Air Training Scheme as reported in the Australian Press 1939-1945’

A well-written story of a part of military history that may not be as well-known as others.

This work uses an exhaustive range of archives and contemporary sources, including many digitised from metropolitan, regional and rural newspapers to tell the story of the Empire Air Training Scheme. The use of these archival and contemporary sources is well explained.

Category 2B Joint: Tiffany Shellam, ‘Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal encounters in the archipelago’

An interesting work which discusses the encounters between explorers and Indigenous communities with particular attention given to the role and contribution of Indigenous members of the explorers’ parties – those in the middle.

This work offers differing perspectives on these encounters based on an analysis of the evidence and overlaying a range of archives to deconstruct the events in the ‘official archives’. It uses oral histories/testimonies/song cycles, pictures and other accounts, and it tackles the concept of the politics of the archive.

Category 3: Narrelle Morris, ‘Japanese war crimes in the Pacific: Australia's investigations and prosecutions’

This remarkable finding aid brings together a consolidated view of all relevant records held by a range of Australian institutions and opens these records up for further exploration and use.

The finding aid is easy to use and includes detailed listings of records and indexes. The work includes essays which reflect thorough research and provide a good contextual understanding of the listings of records that follow.

This outstanding publication provides clear guidance to access previously inadequately tapped sources.

Category 5: Joanne Evans, Sue McKemmish, and Gregory Rolan, ‘Participatory information governance: Transforming recordkeeping for childhood out-of-home Care’ in Records Management Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1/2, 2019, pp. 178-193

This original and powerful article argues the definition of information governance be expanded beyond compliance to incorporate meeting the needs of the subjects of records, in this case children in Care. The authors contend traditional views of governance, and the recordkeeping systems supporting them, have not supported or protected children in Care. They argue for a new system in which the subjects of records participate in management of their information to provide equity and agency in recordkeeping. This article should inspire information managers to incorporate participatory information governance into their practices.

Category 6: Evanthia Samaras and Andrew Johnston, ‘Off-Lining to Tape Is Not Archiving: Why We Need Real Archiving to Support Media Archaeology and Ensure Our Visual Effects Legacy Thrives’ in Leonardo, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2019, pp. 374-380

This informative and accessible article explains how to apply archival preservation concepts to the visual effects industry. It clearly tells the industry in its own language why it has to take a long term view and preserve its outputs and how to get started. It’s exciting to see an archivist bring archival concepts to such a highly technical industry.

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2018

Category 1B: Maryanne Dever, Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research

Category 2A: World War 1 Writers Group, Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Inc., Rallying the Troops: A
World War 1 Commemoration (Volume IV)

Category 2B: Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean, and Martin Persson, Accounting Thought and Practice
Reform: Ray Chambers’ Odyssey

Category 3: Lisa Joseph and Fiona Milway, Finding Aids from the National Library of Australia’s
Sidney Nolan Project
, published online

Category 4: Iain Wallace and Jules Davies, Fort Street High School History and Archives webpages

Category 5: Michael Jones, “From Catalogues to Contextual Networks: Reconfiguring Collection
Documentation in Museums”, Archives and Records 39, No.1 (24 April 2018)

Category 6: Gregory Rolan, Joanne Evans, Jane Bone, Antonina Lewis, Frank Golding, Jacqueline Z.
Wilson, Sue McKemmish, Philip Mendes, and Keir Reeves, “Weapons of Affect: the imperative for
transdisciplinary Information Systems design” in Building and Sustaining an Ethical Future with
Emerging Technology: Proceedings of the ASIS&T 81st Annual Meeting 2018
. Vancouver: Association
for Information Science and Technology.

Category 7 Joint winner: Barbara Swebeck, Anna-Bella Silva, and Natalie Dimmock, Report on the
Archives and Memorabilia of the Botany R.S.L Sub-Branch [established 1946]

Category 7 Joint winner: Michael O’Connor, Police and Policing in Western Australia 1829 to 1945

Category 8: Public Records Office of Victoria PROV, Provenance: the journal of Public Record Office
Victoria, Issue 16, 2018

Commendations

Category 8: Sophie Garrett et al, Inside the Repository – A Virtual Tour of the University of
Melbourne Archives,
2018

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2017

Category 1B: Frank Upward, Barbara Reed, Gillian Oliver, and Joanne Evans, Recordkeeping Informatics for a Networked Age

Category 2A: The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Tjungunutja: From Having Come Together

Category 2B: Joanna Sassoon, Agents of Empire: How E L Mitchell’s photographs shaped Australia

Category 4: Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission (MDHC) Summary of & Index to The Advocate 1868-1990 (48 volumes)

Category 5: Greg Rolan, ‘Towards interoperable recordkeeping systems: A meta-model for recordkeeping metadata’, in Records Management Journal, 27(2)

Category 6: Lachlan Glanville, ‘Reading Germaine Greer’s Mail’, in The Conversation, Australian edition, 24 March 2017

Category 8: ArchivesACT, ArchivesACT’s Find of the Month, Archives.act.gov.au. (2018). Previous find of the month - ArchivesACT. [online]

Commendations

Category 1B: James Lowry (ed.), Displaced Archives

Category 2A: World War 1 Writers Group, Ku-ring-gai Historical Society Inc., Rallying the Troops: A World War 1 Commemoration (Volume III)

Category 5: Luke Scholes, ‘Unmasking the myth: the emergence of Papunya painting’, published in Tjungunutja: From Having Come Together.

Category 6: Fiona Ross, ‘Humane and intimate, how the Red Cross helped families trace the fates of WW2 soldiers’, published in The Conversation, Australian edition, 11 May 2017

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2016

Category 1A: City of Sydney, Records Management Challenge eLearning module

A great training aid that is hard to beat for creativity and engagement. It was clearly focused on the desired outcomes with good encouragement for non-information professionals to complete. City of Sydney is to be praised for making such a useful tool available beyond its own audience [digital flyer].

Category 1B: Anne Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew Lau, Research in the Archival Multiverse, Social Informatics Series, Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Press, 2016.

A large volume of wide-ranging content which is a must-have for all interested in archival thought. The essays both provide background and explore new areas of archival theory and practice.

Category 2A: DN Children’s Services / Dr Leone Huntsman Children, a life interest: a biography of Joan Fry OBE

This is an important story of an advocate in a little-known area for education and social history. It not only tells the story of Joan Fry but also the history of Sydney Day Nursery and Teachers college. It makes good use of the institution’s archives to illustrate key points in the book.

Category 3: National Library of Australia, Guide to manuscript collections containing currency related items in the National Library of Australia

Edited by Claire Cruickshank, this is an excellent and easy to use finding aid on an unusual subject. It has a clear structure, valuable glossary for the very specific technical language and allows navigation directly to digitised images of the items described.

Category 5: Two winners in this category:

1. Michael Jones and Richard Vines, “Cultivating Capability: The Socio-Technical Challenges of Integrating Approaches to Records and Knowledge Management” Records Management Journal, Vol. 26 Issue: 3, pp.242-258

A fascinating study looking at the implementation of a knowledge management system that draws on archival theory. It extends ideas of knowledge management and archival description while providing a practical assessment of organisational responses to information management and a solution worthy of careful consideration and implementation.

2. Sue McKemmish, “Recordkeeping in the Continuum: an Australian tradition” in ed. Anne J Gilliand; Sue McKemmish; Andrew J Lau Research in the Archival Multiverse, Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Press, 2016. p. 122-160.

McKemmish’s chapter reviews Australian archival practice, particularly in government archives, and traces the development of the records continuum. It provides an invaluable synopsis of ‘an’ Australian recordkeeping journey that should encourage versatility of thought and practice in recordkeeping professionals.

Category 6: Dr Rachel Buchanan, How Shakespeare helped shape Germaine Greer’s feminist masterpiece, The Conversation, Australian edition, May 26, 2016.

A wonderful expression of an archivist at work demonstrating respect for original order that informs her arrangement and description. It features lovely writing, sensitive and fun, with little insights not just into the archives but also the archivist.

Category 8: Find & Connect web resource team, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Find and Connect Web Resource Blog

This blog is an important resource for care leavers and those wishing to support them in their search for understanding of their lives. It is written at a depth suitable to the importance of its content to its audience. It is practical and serious, not just about encouraging people to engage with archives, but fully aware of the emotional impact of what they might find.

Commendations

Category 2A University of Melbourne Archives and Millicent Weber, “A fortune built on slavery: the Bright Family Papers and their journey from UK to Melbourne”, The Conversation, 22 August 2016

An interesting, readable and engaging piece describing a quite unlikely collection to find in Australia. It has strong links to archival source and tells the history and provenance of collection and family well.

Category 3 Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria Ward Records Collection Guide

This is a praiseworthy resource to provide assistance for people seeking access to care records. The guide handles a hugely complex set of records well.

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2015

Category 1A: (Not awarded)

Category 1B: Joanne Evans, Sue McKemmish, Elizabeth Daniels & Gavan McCarthy: Self-determination and archival autonomy: advocating activism, Archival Science, 15(4), 337–368

Category 2A: World War I Writers’ Group Ku-Ring-Gai Historical Society: Rallying the troops: A Word War I commemoration, Vol II

Category 2B: Nathalie Nguyen: Memory in the Aftermath of War: Australian Responses to the Vietnamese Refugee Crisis of 1975
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 30 No. 2 (2015): 183-201

Category 3: (Joint winners)

  1. National Archives of Australia Graeme Powell with Stuart Macintyre: Land of Opportunity: Australian post-war reconstruction
  2. National Archives of Australia: Tracking Family:
a guide to Aboriginal records relating to the Northern Territory

Category 4: Methodist Ladies’ College (WA) Archives Year 8 WIAN students 2015: What’s in a name?

Category 5: Joanne Evans, Sue McKemmish, Elizabeth Daniels & Gavan McCarthy: Self-determination and archival autonomy: advocating activism Archival Science, 15(4), 337–368

Category 6: Michael Jones: Joining the Dots: Building Connections within GLAM Organizations in Juilee Decker (ed.) Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland and London, 2015, pp. 91-98

Category 7: (Not awarded)

Category 8: (Not awarded)

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2014

Category 1A: National Archives of Australia: Digital information and records management capabilities (the capability matrix)

Category 1B: Kate Cumming, Cassie Findlay, Anne Picot and Barbara Reed (eds): Reinventing archival methods: Continuing the conversation

Category 2A: Kim Eberhard: In Good Faith: Waverley College and the Great War 1914-1918
Highly commended: Bruce Ibsen, University of Queensland Archives: Faces of the Fallen: in honour of students and staff of the University of Queensland and the Queensland Agricultural College who died in the First World War

Category 2B: Saadia Thomson-Dwyer: The Banyo Boys: biographies of the men from the Banyo District who served in the Great War (including a short history of the Banyo Memorial School of Arts and Memorial Hall).

Category 3: Tsari Anderson, Public Records Office Victoria and National Archives of Australia: Walata Tyamateetj: A guide to government records about Aboriginal People in Victoria
Highly commended: University of Sydney Archives and Office of the University Historian: Beyond 1914. The University of Sydney and The Great War.

Category 4: Jane Mayo Carolan, Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak: A Row of Goodly Pearls: One Hundred and Twenty-five Years of Loreto in Melbourne

Category 5: Sue McKemmish, for her contribution to the article by Anne Gilliland and Sue McKemmish: “The Role of Participatory Archives in Furthering Human Rights, Reconciliation and Recovery.” Atlanti: review for modern archival theory and practice 24: 79-88.

Category 6: Cathy Humphreys, Gavan McCarthy, Melissa Downing, Margaret Kertesz, and Rachel Tropea: “Improving the Archiving of Records in the Out-of-Home Care Sector.” Australian Social Work 67 (4): 509–24.

Category 7: Viviane Hessami: Recordkeeping Issues Arising from the Public Hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Category 8: (Not awarded)

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2013

Category 1A: Queensland State Archives: Managing public Records when decommissioning business systems

Category 1B: (Not awarded)

Category 2A: (Joint winners)

  1. Clive Smith and Trysha Hanly, Port Macquarie & Districts Family History Society: Church of St Thomas, Port Macquarie, Early Parish Registers
  2. Australian Museum: The Art of Science: butterfly and moth paintings by the Scott sisters

Category 2B: (Not awarded)

Category 3: Rebe Taylor, with Michael Jones and Gavan McCarthy, The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre: Stories in Stone: an annotated history and guide to the collections and papers of Ernest Westlake (1855-1922)

Category 4: Dr Jonathan Harris, Trinity Grammar School: Trinity Grammar School A Centennial Portrait- Mind, Body, Spirit
Highly commended: Margaret Mason-Cox, The Hutchins School: Character Unbound: A History of The Hutchins School

Category 5: Cassie Findlay: ‘People, records and power: what archives can learn from WikiLeaks' Archives and Manuscripts Volume 41, Issue 1, 2013

Category 6: (Not awarded)

Category 7: Greg Rolan: Briefing paper for BCM: Discovery, Access and Accessibility

Category 8: Newington School: Newington College Sesquicentenary feature in the Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July 2013

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2012

Category 1A: (Not awarded)

Category 1B: Michael Piggott, Archives and Societal Provenance: Australian essays

Category 2A: Kim Eberhard, A Falcon Century: North Sydney Boys' High School 1912 - 2012

Category 2B: Joseph Neparrna Gumbula and Julia Mant, Mali Buku-Runamaram: Images of Milingimbi and surrounds 1926 - 1948

Category 3: Dr Antonina Lewis eScholarship Research Centre The University of Melbourne, Saulwick Polls and Social Research – a resource for exploring the work and archives of Irving Saulwick
Highly commended: State Records NSW, Sentenced beyond the Seas: Australia’s early convict records

Category 4: Kim Eberhard, A Falcon Century: North Sydney Boys' High School 1912 - 2012

Category 5: Richard Lehane “Documenting sites of creation” Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 40, No. 3, November 2012, pp. 171-180

Category 6: Janette Pelosi, "'Submitted for approval of the Colonial Secretary’ Popular Entertainment in the State Archives, 1828-1856”, in A World of Popular Entertainments: an edited volume of critical essays

Category 7: Elizabeth Daniels, A case study on the Public Perception of Archives Amongst Melbourne Youth

Category 8: National Archives Australia, Destination: Australia

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2011

Category 1A: Queensland State Archives, Guidelines for managing digital photographic images
Highly commended: National Archives of Australia, Digital Continuity Plan

Category 1B: (No nominations received)

Category 2A: Rob Linn, The Spirit of Knowledge: a social history of the University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus, Barr Smith Library Press, Adelaide

Category 2B: Patrick Weller, Joanne Scott and Bronwyn Stevens, From Postbox to Powerhouse: A Centenary History of the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, Allen & Unwin, Sydney

Category 3: (Joint winners)

  1. State Records NSW, Application Programming Interface
  2. National Archives of Australia, Commonwealth Government Records about the Northern Territory, National Archives of Australia, Canberra

Category 4: (No nominations received)

Category 5:
Anne-Marie Conde "A 'gift to the nation': the diaries and notebooks of CEW Bean" Archives & Manuscripts, Vol. 39, No. 2, November 2011, pp. 45-65
Highly commended: Adrian Cunningham, recognising his contribution to archival and recordkeeping literature in 2011

Category 6: (No nominations received)

Category 7: Amy Rossbach "Transforming Archives Online: AE2 Commander", towards requirements for Graduate Diploma of Science (Information Services), Edith Cowan University

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2010

Category 1A: (Not awarded)

Category 1B: Adrian Cunningham (ed.) The Arrangement and Description of Archives Amid Administrative and Technological Change: Essays and Reflections by Peter J. Scott, 2010

Category 2A: (Joint winners) 1. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Restoring ‘For the Term of his Natural Life’
2. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Marius Sestier Collection

Category 2B: Stephen Foster, A Private Empire, 2010

Category 3: (Joint winners)
1. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Wireless House
2. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Sounds of Australia Registry

Category 4: Julie Gleaves, Threads through time: a photographic history celebrating 125 years of Abbotsleigh 1885-2010, 2010

Category 5: Andrew Wilson, ‘How much is enough: metadata for preserving digital data’ Journal of Library Metadata, 10:2.

Category 6: Christine Kenneally, ‘Archive This’ The Monthly, December 2010 - January 2011

Category 7: Andrea Metcalf ‘Web 2.0, folksonomy and information retrieval: data analysis and interpretation report’

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2009

Category 1A: Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit, 2009

Category 1B: Ketelaar, Eric. Exploration of the archived world: from De Vlamingh’s plate to digital realities. Archives and Manuscripts, volume 36 number 2, November 2008. 13-33

Category 2A: Public Record Office Victoria, Water Stories

Category 2B: Barbara Hall, The Irish Vanguard: The Convicts of the Queen, Ireland to Botany Bay, 1791, Barbara Hall, 2009
Highly commended: Lois Sabine (Ed.) Dr William Bell’s The Settler’s Guide or Modern Domestic Medicine and Surgery, Windsor NSW 1849, Lois Sabine, Springwood, 2009

Category 3A: The National Film and Sound Archive australianscreen online
Highly commended: City of Sydney Archives, Historical Atlas of Sydney
Highly commended: Lands Guide: A guide to finding records of Crown land at Public Record Office Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria, in association with Gould Genealogy and History, Melbourne 2009, 432 pp

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: Brogan, M (2009) Clipping Mercury’s Wings: The challenge of email archiving Archives and Manuscripts, vol 37, no 1, May 2009

Category 5: Nicholas Rothwell “The Songs Remain Unbroken”. The Australian 21 September 2009, p 17

Category 6: Ms Rosemary Christie, Recordkeeping Scoping Study: Email

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2008

Category 1A: Bettington, J. et al. (Eds), Keeping Archives, third edition, 2008

Category 1B: Batterham, Ian, The Office Copying Revolution: History, Identification and Preservation, National Archives of Australia, 2008

Category 2A: (Joint winners)
1. Kass, Terry, Jewels in the Crown: a history of the Bridge Street Plan Room and Crown Plans 1788-2008, NSW Department of Lands, 2008.
2. Footprints: The Journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper, National Archives of Australia and Public Record Office Victoria, 2008

Category 2B: Darian-Smith, Prof. K. et al (Eds) Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World, Monash University Press, 2008

Category 3A: NSW Department of Lands and State Records NSW, Old Register One to Nine DVD: The Registers of Assignments and Other Legal Instruments (DVD)
Highly commended: National Archives of Australia, Mapping our Anzacs

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: (Joint winners)
1. Katherine Gallen 'Archiving and Memorialising the Taboo', Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 36, No. 1, May 2008
2. Danielle Wickman “Recordkeeping Legislation and its impacts: The PARBICA Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit”, Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 36, No. 1, May 2008

Category 5:
Pauline Garland, Chapter 17 – ‘Managing Documentation’ in Lucas, B, Slack, P and d’Apice, W, Church Administration Handbook, St Pauls Publications, 2008

Category 6: “Social Media, User Contributed Content and Archives Online” Debra Leigo
Highly commended: “Share This: Archives and Web 2.0” Nick Gleghorn

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2007

Category 1A: Australian Society of Archivists Committee on Descriptive Standards, Describing Archives in Context: A Guide to Australasian Practice, ASA, 2007. Kate Cumming, Adrian Cunningham, Janine Delaney, Joanne Evans, Chris Hurley, Tony Leviston, Gavan McCarthy, Professor Sue McKemmish and Barbara Reed

Category 1B: (Not awarded)

Category 2A: (Joint winners)
1. National Archives of Australia for Uncommon Lives: Muslim Journeys
2. Public Record Office Victoria for Provenance: The Journal of the Public Record Office Victoria, September 2007, No. 6
Highly commended: National Archives of Australia, Memory of a Nation
Highly commended: Public Record Office Victoria Bigamy, Theft and Murder: the Extraordinary Tale of Frederick Bailey Deeming a PROV online exhibition.

Category 2B: (Not awarded)
Highly commended: Theresa Elliott (illustrations by Annie Joseph), Resting beneath the Rainbow, published by Loreto Normanhurst, 2007.

Category 3A: City of Sydney Archives, Mark Stevens (City Archivist) and volunteer team; City of Sydney Assessment Books Online

Category 3B: Robin Scott ‘Selected Guide to Loreto Archives’, Loreto Province Archives, Loreto Sisters IBVM (Australia).

Category 4: Anne-Marie Condé ‘Imagining a collection: creating Australia’s records of war’ in reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol.2, no. 1, March 2007
Highly commended: Sharon Huebner and Kooramyee Cooper, ‘Koorie Culture and Technology: A digital archive project for Victorian Koorie communities’, Archives and Manuscripts 35:1, May 2007, pp. 18-33
Highly commended: Michael Piggott, ‘Human behaviour and the making of records and archives’ in Archives and Social Studies: a journal of interdisciplinary research, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2007.
Highly commended: Andrew Waugh, ‘The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive’, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 11/12

Category 5:
Anna Funder ‘Secret Histories’ Good Weekend Magazine, 17 Feb 2007
Highly commended: Anne-Marie Conde, ‘War history on scraps of paper’, exhibitions of documents at the Australian War Memorial, 1922-1954, Public History Review, Vol. 14, 2007, pp 25-43

Category 6:
Jane Ratcliff, ‘Electronic Records Management in Office 2007 SharePoint Services’

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2006

Category 1A: Public Record Office Victoria, for Wilam naling ..knowing who you are..: Improving access to Records of the Stolen Generations A Report to the Victorian Government from the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce, Department for Victorian Communities, Melbourne, 2006

Category 1B: (No nominations received)

Category 2A: Public Record Office Victoria, for Provenance: The Journal of the Public Record Office Victoria, No. 5, September 2006

Category 2B: (No nominations received)

Category 3A: State Records NSW, Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Convicts and Convict Administration
Highly commended: National Archives of Australia, for: In the Interest of National Security: Civilian Internment in Australia during World War II

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: Richard Lehane, for ‘Allowing talk in virtual reading rooms: User-contributed content and online archive finding aids’ in Proceedings ALIA New Librarians’ Symposium 2006
Highly commended: Fiona Ross, Sue McKemmish & Shannon Faulkhead, for ‘Indigenous Knowledge and the Archives: Designing Trusted Archival Systems for Koorie Communities’, Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 34, No. 2, November 2006

Category 5: Joanna Sassoon, for: ‘The courage of their convictions: creating cultural landscapes in 1930’s Western Australia’ International Journal of Heritage Studies 12 (3) May 2006

Category 6: Susan Hood (Edith Cowan University) for her essay ‘Writing an agency history: The Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority’

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2005

Category 1: Proactive - Issues 33, 34 and 35, 2005. Publisher: Public Record Office Victoria. Commissioning editor: Laura Daniele
Highly commended: Digital Recordkeeping @ PROV - Issues 1-3, 2005. Publisher: Public Record Office Victoria. Commissioning Editor: Lucy Hastewell

Category 2: Archives: Recordkeeping in Society, edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed and Frank Upward, Charles Sturt University Centre for Information Studies, 2005.

Category 3A: Finding Your Story: A Resource Guide to the Records of the Stolen Generation in Victoria, 2005. Publisher: Public Record Office Victoria. Authors: Research & content: James Jenkinson Editing & indexing: Emma Toon Commissioning editor: Emma Toon Design and Production: Deadly Design Graphic Printing & Design
Highly commended: Guide to the New South Wales State Archives Relating to Responsible Government, November 2005. Publisher: State Records NSW. Author: Ms Christine Shergold

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: (No nominations received)

Category 5: Andrew Waugh, 'The design of the VERS encapsulated object, experience with an archival information package', International Journal on Digital Libraries, Published online 28 December 2005
Highly commended: Graeme Powell, 'The quest for the nation's title deeds, 1901-1990', The Australian Library Journal, Vol. 54 No. 1, February 2005, pp 55-65

Category 6: “Society's Archives: The Total Approach" Author: Penelope Legge, Monash University

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2004

Category 1: (Not awarded)
Commendation: National Archives of Australia for Memento
Commendation: Public Record Office Victoria for Lucy - a private life revealed through public records, an online exhibition.

Category 2: (No nominations received)

Category 3A: John Curtin: Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers, National Archives of Australia and the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library.

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: (Joint winners)
1. Standardised Recordkeeping: Reality or Illusion?, Jackie Bettington, Archives and Manuscripts 2004
2. The Laws of War and the Destruction of Cultural Property in the Iraq War, Tony Caravella, Archives and Manuscripts 2004

Category 5: Making archival choices for business history, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 44, No 2, July 2004, Jane Ellen, Trevor Hart, Michael Piggott and David Merrett.
Commendation: The politics of pictures, A Cultural History of the Western Australian Government Print Photograph Collection, Joanna Sassoon, Australian Historical Studies 123, 2004.

Category 6: Managing Email as Records, Cari Jansen

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2003

Category 1: Archives and Indigenous Peoples - Theme Issue of COMMA, International Journal on Archives, 2003.1, edited by Adrian Cunningham and Verne Harris.

Category 2: Integrative Document and Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge, Len Asprey and Michael Middleton

Category 3A: Private Lives, Public Records, Bronwyn Fensham et al, PROV

Category 3B: Records & Archives Centre website, Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of Brisbane, www.anglicanbrisbane.gil.com.au/thediocese/archives

Category 4: The Rule of Law: Model Archival Legislation in the Wake of the Heiner Affair, Kevin Lindeberg, Archives and Manuscripts May 2003
Commendation: Political Archives: Defining Key Issues in a Significant Private Records Arena, Joanne Anthony, Archives and Manuscripts May 2003

Category 5: Phantoms of Remembrance: libraries and archives as the collective memory, Joanna Sassoon, Public History Review 10 (2003).

Category 6: Descriptive Metadata Standards: Issues for Archival and Records Professionals, Damien Jasper

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2002

Category 1: AGLS Metadata Element Set (AS 5044), Standards Australia Commendation: Vital Signs, State Records NSW

Category 2: (No nominations received)

Category 3A: Australia's Prime Ministers website, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au, National Archives of Australia Commendation: A Little Flour and a Few Blankets: an Administrative History of Aboriginal Affairs in South Australia 1834-2000, State Records of South Australia

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: Identifying Roadkill on the Information Superhighway: A website appraisal case study, Archives and Manuscripts, Nov 2002, Catherine Nicholls and Jon-Paul Williams

Category 5: Keeping House in the 1840s, National Library of Australia News, June 2002, Joanna Richardson

Category 6: An evaluation of Archives Manager, Melissa Okely

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2001

Category 1: Understanding Society Through Its Records, Website, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Ann E Pederson

Category 2: (No nominations received)

Category 3A: (Joint winners)
1. Sound Recordings in the National Archives, NAA, Margaret Chambers and Helen Cross
2. Near Neighbours: Records on Australia's Relations with Indonesia, NAA, Karl Metcalf

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: "Indigenous Records: How Far Have We Come in Bringing the History Back Home? ", Kirsten Thorpe, Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 29, No. 2, November 2001

Category 5: "The use of Archival Material in Legal Studies and Research", Australian Law Librarian, Tony Caravella

Category 6: (No nominations received)

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2000

Category 1: Administrative Functions Disposal Authority, National Archives of Australia
High Commendation: Selected Essays in Electronic Recordkeeping in Australia, Australian Society of Archivists Inc, Editor Judith Ellis

Category 2: (No nominations received)

Category 3A: Winner best web-based finding aid: Archives Investigator, City of Sydney Archives and State Records NSW
Winner best paper-based finding aid: Ancestors in Archives, State Records of South Australia
High Commendation: Norman B. Tindale website, Department of Anthropology, South Australian Museum, Phillip Manning, Philip Jones, and Fran Zilio

Category 3B: (No nominations received)

Category 4: "Bright Specimens for the Curious or the Somewhat Imponderable Guided by the Unfathomable: Use, Users and Appraisal in Archival Literature", Danielle Wickman, Archives and Manuscripts

Category 5: "Archives and Australian History", AHA Bulletin, Michael Piggott

Category 6: (Not awarded)

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1999

Category 1: Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies, National Archives of Australia
High Commendation: John Curtin and International Relations During World War II, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Education Resource Series
High Commendation: Online Heritage Resource Manager, Austehc

Category 1B: Archives and Manuscripts, Theme Issue: Recordkeeping and the Law, Livia Iacovino.

Category 3A:
Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia, Barry Coldrey, National Archives of Australia

Category 3B: PHIND - The Personal History index for former child migrants to Catholic Homes in WA 1938-1965, Dr Debra Rosser and Josette Mathers on behalf of the Christian Brothers Holy Spirit Province

Category 4: "Saying it Like it is: Oral Traditions, Legal Systems and Records", Archives and Manuscripts, Justice Peter Gray

Category 5: "Australian University Archives and Their Prospects", AARL Vol. 30 no. 3, Don Boadle

Category 6: (No nominations received)

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1998

Category 1: Government Recordkeeping Manual, State Records NSW
High Commendation: Voices for Democracy: Teachers' Resource Kit, National Archives of Australia, compiled by Esther Robinson, Richard Gorrell and Stephen Foster

Category 2: Solid, Safe, Secure: Building Archives Repositories in Australia, Ted Ling

Category 3: Connecting Kin: Guide to Records: A Guide to help people separated from their families search for their records, NSW Department of Community Services, compiled by Tracy Bradford and Kristy Thinee
High Commendation: Federation: The Guide to Records, National Archives of Australia, compiled by S G Foster, Susan Marsden and Roslyn Russell

Category 4: (No nominations received)

Category 5: (No nominations received)

Category 6: "Development of a Hypertext Online Recordkeeping Manual for the WA Police Service," Carol Muir and Elaine Brady

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1997

Category 1: Records of National Cultural Significance: Indigenous Australians, Commonwealth of Australia and
One Destiny! The Federation Story (CD ROM), National Archives of Australia

Category 2: Tabularium: Series System Control for Archives, Version 1.0a, David Roberts

Category 3: The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: A Guide to Commonwealth Government Records, Richard Summerrell, National Archives of Australia

Category 4: (Category did not exist in 1997)

Category 5: (Joint winners)
1. "Architectural Archives: Who collects the designs and papers of Australian architects?" by Barbara van Bronswijk in Voices, National Library of Australia, Winter 1997
2. "Delete Button Dilemma" by Sally Blakeney in The Weekend Australian, 10 May 1997

Category 6: (No nominations received)

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1996

Category 1: Corporate Memory in the Electronic Age: statement of a common position on Electronic Recordkeeping produced by the Australian Council of Archives

Category 2: "Evidence of Me" written for Archives and Manuscripts Vol. 24, No. 1, May 1996 by Associate Professor Sue McKemmish, Monash University

Category 3: The publications Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: The Royal Commission and its Records, 1987-1991 compiled by Peter Nagle and Richard Summerrell, Australian Archives ACT and Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Australians in NSW compiled by Julie Stacker and Peri Stewart, Australian Archives NSW

Category 4: (This category did not exist in 1996)

Category 5: "Ensuring Essential Evidence" written by Adrian Cunningham for the National Library of Australia News Vol. VII, No 2, November 1996

Category 6: "Implications of Outsourcing Record Keeping and the Effect on Government Accountability" written by Monique Jose for Informaa Quarterly, 12 (4) November 1996

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