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• Researching your family
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Popular research topics

• Australian Constitution and Federation
  • Creating a nation
• Cabinet
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• Defence
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• Migration and citizenship
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  • Making Australia Home
• Security and intelligence
  • Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security
  • ASIO films

Snapshots of the collection

• Bar the Gates
• Chinese Australians
• Faces of Australia
• Find of the Month
• From Europe to Australia
• Games we played
• Lighthouse drawings
• Max Dupain
• On Patrol in Papua New Guinea
• Old Albert Hall
• Power for the People
• Service and sacrifice
• Shell-shocked
• Sinking of HMAS Sydney
• Stanley Melbourne Bruce
• Strike a Pose
• Summers Past
• The motion
• Wartime internment

Publications and podcasts

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• Your Memento
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• Papers and podcasts
  • The Archives Act
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  • Family history
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  • Prominent people
  • Social history
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Records management

Records management

Getting started

• What is records management
• Professional support for records management

Digital Transition Policy

• Target to limit the creation of paper records
• What is digital transition?
  • Reviewing business processes to reduce reliance on paper
• Benefits of digital information and records
• Scanning incoming paper
• Reducing paper stockpiles

Check-up 2.0

Strategic information and records management

• Responsibilities of the National Archives and agencies
  • Other Government agencies
• Linking business to records
  • Managing recordkeeping risks
  • Supporting your staff
  • Policies, procedures and guidelines
  • Outsourcing
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Compliance programs
• Standards and legislation
  • Records and legislation
  • Records in evidence
  • Retaining records for legal proceedings
  • Australian and international standards
• Information governance
  • Key information governance documents

Managing your agency records

• Create, capture and describe
  • Creating records
  • Capturing records
  • Digitising accumulated physical records
  • Describing records
• Accessing records
  • Access to records held by the Archives
  • Access to other agencies' records
  • Access to records in your agency
• Keep, destroy or transfer
  • Records authorities explained
  • Agency-specific records authorities
  • General records authorities
  • Records disposal freezes
  • Normal administrative practice
  • Sentencing
  • Destroying records
  • Transferring records to the Archives
  • Transferring ownership
  • Transferring records following administrative change
• Secure and store
  • Protecting records
  • Business continuity planning
  • Storing digital records
  • Outsourcing digital data storage
  • Records management and the cloud
  • Storing physical records
  • Storing and charging at the National Archives
• Preserve
  • Preserving physical records
  • Preserving digital records
  • Preserving audiovisual records
• Digital records
  • Digital continuity
  • Types of digital records
  • Systems that create, keep and manage digital records
  • EDRMS
  • Social media
  • Managing email
  • ISO 16175

Capability development

• Training and events calendar
• Introduction to digital records
• Keep the Knowledge
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Publications and tools

• Administrative Arrangements Orders
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Where to go for help

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