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Hull, D., Pettifer, S. R., & Kell, D. B. (2008). Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Comput Biol, 4(10), e1000204.
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204
McKemmish, S. (1997). Yesterday, today and tomorrow: A continuum of responsibility. In Proceedings of the 14th national convention of the Records Management Association of Australia, 14-17 September, 1997 (Perth: RMAA): 18-36.
McInnes, S. (1998). Electronic records: The new archival frontier? Journal of the Society of Archivists, 19(2): 211-220. Summarises how archival principles change in the electronic environment. This article is also relevant to the Appraisal section in Module 3.
Ling, T. (2001). Setting standards: Archival legislation and recordkeeping principles. Convergence, Proceedings of the Joint national ASA and RMAA Conference, pp. 93-99.
Cunningham, A. (2001). What's in a name? Broadening our horizons in the pursuit of a recordkeeping profession that cherishes unity in diversity. Archives & Manuscripts, 29(1): 110-117.
Activities (not for assessment)
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What is distributed custody? A good place to start is with CAARA's (Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities) Policy Statement 15: Models for the distributed custody and management of government archival records. Adopted March 2006.
http://www.caara.org.au/?s=Policy+Statement+15#principle15
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
Hallam, G. C. (2008). Nexus: An investigation into the library and information services workforce in Australia.
Final report. Retrieved from http://eprints.qut.edu.au/12908/
McColvin, L. R. (1947). Public libraries in Austalia: present conditions and future possibilities. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press for Australian Council for Educatonial Research.
Munn, R., & Pitt, E. . (1935). Australian libraries: a survey of conditions and suggestions for their improvement. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research. *** Hardcopy only ***
Budd, J. (2008). Genealogy of the profession. In Self-examination: the present and future of librarianship. Westport Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited. Retrieved fromhttp://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=dc60261220.pdf
This is a good overview, but rather thorough. You might want to skim the chapter and read in more detail sections that are of interest to you.