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Read the introduction to the State Records Act as background and summary to the Act itself. Also, read The Review of the implementation of the State Records Act 2000. 

Questioning the purpose and functions of a modern state library. Well worth reading to get an idea of one state librarian's vision of what Australian state libraries could be doing. Wright, J., & Cowell, J. (2014). ALICE: are we ready for a startup? Presented at the VALA 2014: Streaming with possibilities, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from VALA2014-Session-15-Wright-Paper

Recordkeeping In Brief 47 - Introducing the Standard on the appraisal and disposal of State records by NWS

Browse these two vision statements to compare and contrast the directions taken by the National and State Libraries. Note the modified and less ambitious vision of the later version. National and State Libraries Australasia. (2008). Re-imagining library services: strategic plan. Retrieved fromhttp://nsla.org.au/sites/www.nsla.org.au/files/publications/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-Reimagining.Library.Services.Strategic.Plan_200807.pdf

Familiarise yourself with this legislation for your role as a Records Management professional. International students & students out of W.A., please look out for similar legislation. We will be covering this Act in detail in another Unit - Management of Records and Archives.

National and State Libraries Australasia. (2008). Re-imagining library services: strategic plan. Retrieved from http://nsla.org.au/publications/papers/2008/pdf/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-20080708-Re.imagining.Library.Services.Strategic.Plan.pdf MULTIMEDIA PLATFORMS IN INFORMATION SERVICES

General Disposal Authorities (GDAs) by SRO WA Familiarise yourself with the following 5 GDAs for State government agencies. Online MSWord versions are possible. 1. General Disposal Authority for Administrative Records (2003, amended 2006); 2. General Disposal Authority for Human Resource Management Records (revised 1999, amended 2001, 2006); 3. General Disposal Authority for Financial and Accounting Records (1996, revised 2006);  4. General Disposal Authority for Local Government Records (revised 2010); 5. General Disposal Authority for Source Records (2009). Note: That similar publications are available from the other SROs in Australia, please find your State's GDAs and review them.

National and State Libraries Australasia. (2012, May). Re-imagining Libraries 2012-16. Retrieved fromhttp://www.nsla.org.au/publication/re-imagining-libraries-2012%E2%80%932016

Schmidmaier, D., & Doherty, A. (2005). Pay equity for the library profession: a State Library of New South Wales perspective. In Libraries - a voyage of discovery. Presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 71th IFLA General Conference and Council, Oslo. Retrieved fromhttp://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/179e-Schmidmaie_Doherty.pdf

State Library of Western Australia. (2009, February 1). Creating and keeping your digital treasures: February 2009. . Retrieved October 20, 2010, from http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/digital_treasures

NATIONAL AND STATE LIBRARIES OF AUSTRALASIA'S LIBRARY HACK PROJECT Warren, M., & Hayward, R. (2012). Hacking the nation: Libraryhack and community-created aps. VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures. Presented at the VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-12-warren

Greenhill, K. (2007, October 10). What Is Library 2.0 ? Presented at the Library 2.0 Unconference, State Library of Queensland. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/what-is-library-20 This is a 20 minute presentation with audio synced to the slides. To hear the audio, click on the green arrow in the centre of the box

Review this webpage and importantly review a few of the R&D schedules approved by the QSA for individual organisations at http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Recordkeeping/RetentionDisposal/Pages/RDS-alpha.aspx

Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) "The Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus (AGIFT) is a three-level hierarchical thesaurus that describes the business functions carried out across Commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia" (quote from above website).

Recordkeeping Plans from SROWA This link leads you to the SROWA's webpage where you will find background to the Recordkeeping Plans, templates for the RKP, RKP self evaluation checklist for State and Local Goverment agencies, and other useful information. See also, the training presentation slides to the RKP at the bottom of the webpage under the section Recordkeeping Plan Training.