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Staff Presentations and Papers
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Preservation Activities | Staff Presentations & Papers


  • Digital Preservation: The Australian Experience
    A paper presented by Deborah Woodyard, at the 3rd Digital Library Conference: Positioning the Fountain of Knowledge, State Library of Sarawak, Malaysia, 2nd - 4th of October, 2000.

  • A Balancing Act: PictureAustralia
    A paper presented by Debbie Campbell at the Australian Registrars' Committee Professional Development Seminar 2000, 5-6- October, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

  • The role of preservation and the library of the future
    A paper presented by Colin Webb, Director Preservation Services, at CONSAL 2000, the 11th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians Conference, Singapore, 26th - 28th April 2000

  • The Moving Frontier: Archiving, Preservation and Tomorrow’s Digital Heritage
    Presented by Hilary Berthon, Manager National & International Preservation Activities; and Colin Webb, Director Preservation Services Branch, at VALA 2000 - 10th VALA Biennial Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria, 16 - 18 February, 2000

  • Disaster: Are You Prepared?
    Presented by Bronwyn Hughes, Preservation Services Branch, at the 10th National Library Technicians' conference, Fremantle, 8-10 September 1999.

  • PANDORA - Towards a national collection of Australian electronic publications
    A paper presented by Fiona Ash Relf, Australian Electronic Unit, at the 10th National Library Technicians' conference, Fremantle, 8-10 September 1999.

  • A window on to the world: Australian newspaper collecting in the National Library of Australia
    A paper presented by Amelia McKenzie, Senior Manager, Technical Services, at the Newspapers Round Table Open Session, 65th IFLA Council and General Conference, Bangkok, 25 August 1999

  • Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-1845 – an update
    Paper by Colin Webb, Preservation Services, prepared for the ALIA Rare Books and Special Collections Special Interest Group 1999 Conference which was held at the Conference Room, University of Queensland Library, St.Lucia, Brisbane on Wednesday 7 July 1999. The paper was read by Richard Overell, Rare Books Librarian, Monash University Library.

  • Practical advice for preserving publications on disk
    Paper by Deborah Woodyard, Electronic Preservation, presented at Information Online and On Disc '99 Conference, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 19th-21st January 1999.

  • Learning from Disasters: A Decade of Experience at the National Library of Australia
    Paper presented by Lydia Preiss, Manager Collection Preservation, at the ALIA 5th Biennial Conference and Exhibition 'Pathways to Knowledge', 25 - 28 October 1998, Adelaide Convention Centre.

  • The Preservation of Internet Publications
    Paper delivered at WWW7 Conference (Brisbane : April 1998) by Margaret Phillips (Electronic Unit) .

  • PADI: Preserving access to Australian information and cultural heritage in digital form
    Paper by Leanne Brandis and Jan Lyall presented at the VALA Conference 28th - 30th January 1998 in Melbourne.

  • Electronic Publications and the Survival of Information
    Paper by Maggie Jones, Director Collection Management & Retrieval Services, and Colin Webb, Manager Information Preservation presented at the VALA Conference 28th - 30th January 1998 in Melbourne.

  • Farewell my Floppy: a strategy for migration of digital information
    Paper by Deborah Woodyard, Electronic Preservation, presented at the VALA Conference 28th - 30th January 1998 in Melbourne.

  • International Cooperation - We are all in the same boat so let's row together - Paper by Jan Lyall, Director, National Initiatives and Collaboration, National Library of Australia, presented at RLG 1997 Annual Membership Meeting - Chicago 5-6 May Digital Futures - Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information

  • Safeguarding the oral heritage in Australia
    Paper by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation. This article was published in IFLA's International Preservation News number 14 in May 1997

  • Preserving Oral History Recordings
    Paper written by Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley. This article has also been published in Ariadne magazine.

  • Developing Strategies for Preserving Access to Digital Information in Australia
    Paper written and presented by Hilary Berthon at 'CAUSE in Australasia '97 Information Technology - the Enabler', 13-16 April 1997, Melbourne.

  • Future Access - Long Term Preservation of Australian Electronic Legal Publications
    A paper prepared for ELI 97 - Standards and Issues in the Electronic Publication and Dissemination of Legal Information. College of Law, Sydney, 5 April 1997 by Wendy Smith, Manager - Pandora Project.

  • Ensuring Essential Evidence
    Paper by Adrian Cunningham, International Relations Section, for the National Library of Australia News, November 1996.

  • Future Directions in Access and Preservation Technologies and New Electronic Formats
    Paper by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation, for the National Conservations and Preservation Strategy Public Forum, October 1996.

  • Cultural Diversity in Australia
    Paper by John Thompson, Collection Research, Documentation and Promotion, for the National Conservations and Preservation Strategy Public Forum, October 1996.

  • Ensuring Long Term Access to Online Australian Publications: National Library of Australia Initiatives
    Paper presented by Margaret Phillips, Manager, Electronic Unit at the Information Online & On Disc 97 conference, 21-23 January 1997 Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre Sydney.

  • But Will We Find it a Year From Now?
    Paper by Wendy Smith, presented Friday 24 January 1997 at the Australian Vice-Chancelors' Committee workshop 'Setting Up An Electronic Journal', 9.00am-4.30pm, Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour.

  • New Approaches to Access: Use of the WWW by the National Library of Australia to Enhance Access to its Heritage Collections
    Paper by Pam Gatenby, Director Reader Services, presented at Information Online & On Disc 97, Session 306, Thursday 23 January 1997.

  • Stairways to Digital Heaven? Preserving Oral History Recordings at the National Library of Australia
    Paper written by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation.

  • The Ferguson Project: A Hybrid Approach to Reformatting Rare Australiana
    Paper written by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation and presented by Margaret Dent at the ALIA Rare Books and Special Materials SIG meeting in Sydney, 3 October 1996.

  • Digital Spatial Data: Accessible, But for How Long?
    Address by Maura O'Connor, Map Curator and Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation, National Library of Australia at the Mapping Sciences Institute of Australia 1996 Biennial Conference.

  • Electronic Alchemy: The Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project 1840-1845
    Article written by John Thompson about the "Ferguson" or, Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project 1840-1845 for NLA News.

  • A Cautionary Tale: Implementing the Project Visualising Conservation
    Paper by Wendy Smith, Sytems Projects (formerly National Centre for Cultural Heritage Science Studies, University of Canberra) presented at the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28 - 30 November 1995.

  • "Reading the Future" ALIA Australian Library Week Oration
    Inaugural Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Library Week Oration, delivered at the State Library of NSW, 1 May 1996 by The Hon. Sir Anthony Mason AC, KBE - Chairman, National Library of Australia Council; Chancellor, University of New South Wales; National Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

  • Copyright Impediments to the Preservat ion of Australia's Documentary Heritage
    Paper by Katy Bellingham, National Preservation Office and Tamara Lavrencic, Conservation Access, State Library of New South Wales published in vol. 12, no. 4 (1995) of the Australian Library Review.

  • Towards the Copyright Act 2000: Implications of and for Digital Preservation and Access
    Text of overhead projections from the presentation made by Jamie Wodetzki, Copyright Research Officer, ACLIS at the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, 28-30 November 1995.

  • In Search of the Rainbow: Conference Agenda and Strategy
    Opening of the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference - "Multimedia Preservation: Capturing The Rainbow", Brisbane, November 1995.

  • Disaster Planning for Libraries and Archives: Understanding the Essential Issues
    A paper written and presented by Dr Jan Lyall, Director, National Preservation Office for the Pan-African Conference on the Preservation and Conservation of Library and Archival Materials, Nairobi, Kenya: 21-25 June 1993.

  • The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau: a Duty of Care for the Preservation and Dissemination of Pacific Documentation
    Pre-publication version of an article written by Adrian Cunningham and Ewan Maidment for The Contemporary Pacific (Hawaii).

  • Preservation of the National Library of Australia's Oral History Collection
    Text and images prepated by Kevin Bradley, Manager, Sound Preservation and Technical Services, for a display at the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28-30 November 1995.

  • Networked Information Resources: Collection Development, Cataloguing and Preservation in the National Library of Australia
    Paper written and presented by Margaret Henty, Technical Services Branch, at the2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28-30 November 1995.

  • Culture and Cultural Memory: Challenges of an Electronic Era
    Paper written and presented by Eric Wainwright, Deputy Director-General, at the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28-30 November 1995.

  • Preservation Roles and Responsibilities of Collecting Institutions in the Digital Age
    Paper written and presented by Maggie Jones, Director, Collection Management and Retrieval Service, at the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28 - 30 November 1995.

  • Transfer from Analogue to Digital: Selecting a System
    Paper written and presented by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation at the 2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28 - 30 November 1995.

  • Defining the National Library of Australia's Role in the Acquisition, Control and Preservation of Australian Electronic Publications
    Written and presented by Lesley Bezear at the National Cataloguers' Conference. Sydney, 19 October 1995.
    This paper provides a 'work in progress' view of the Library's current position in relation to electronic publications. Some of the associated problems and the Library's present solutions are discussed. Future directions are also outlined.

  • The National Library of Australia's "Clayton's Disaster": A Dry Run in Slowmo, or the Real Thing?
    Paper by Colin Webb, Preservation Services on the National Library's "non-urgent near-disaster" in 1995.

  • A Vacuum Freeze Drier: Its Nice to Have One But ...
    Paper by Kim Morris, Preservation Services on the National Library's Freeze Drier, nine years on.

  • The Preservation of Asian Collections
    Paper presented by Dr Jan Lyall, Director, National Preservation Office at the 3rd National Roundtable on Libraries and Asia, 16 February 1995.

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