Deposit N382 - Sigrid McCausland papers

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AU NBAC N382

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Sigrid McCausland papers

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  • 1980 - 2016 (Creation)

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1.8 m (9 type 1 boxes)

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(1953 - 2016)

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Sigrid McCausland's professional career as an archivist began in 1978 as a reference archivist at the National Archives of Australia (then the Australian Archives) in Canberra. She had graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts with honours in 1975. She also worked in the Manuscripts Section of the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (1984-86) and the Sydney City Council Archives (1988-91), and as University Archivist at the University of Technology Sydney (1991-97) and at the Australian National University (1998-2005). She was employed as the first Education Officer for the Australian Society of Archivists from 2006 to 2009. She held casual teaching positions in archives and records administration at the University of NSW and the University of Southern Queensland and was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University in 2009, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2014. She had undertaken a postgraduate Diploma in Information Management - Archives Administration in 1983, was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Technology Sydney in 1999, and completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching at Charles Sturt University in 2011. Among many positions held, Sigrid served as Secretary to the Section on Archival Education of the International Council on Archives from 2012 to 2016, gave many conference presentations for the Australian Society of Archivists and the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, and published numerous articles and book chapters.

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The papers document Sigrid McCausland's contributions to the archives profession in Australia over thirty years including employment as the University Archivist at the Australian National University at a time that the Noel Butlin Archives Centre was threatened with closure, as the first Education Officer for the Australian Society of Archivists, and as an academic at Charles Sturt University undertaking research and teaching archives administration and where she completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching. Activities for the Australian Society of Archivists, the Archive Forum (relating to the National Film and Sound Archive), the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and the International Council on Archives include conference presentations, workshops, articles, book reviews and submissions. Research files for articles and book chapters are mainly on archival access, advocacy, public programs and archival education. Project files relate to the review of the Statement of Knowledge for Recordkeeping Professionals in conjunction with the Records Management Association of Australasia, work undertaken for Australian Unity on their records, and a review of the Community Heritage Grants scheme. A series of notebooks from 1999 to 2015 record notes on conferences, seminars, lectures and meetings she attended.

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Prepared by Maggie Shapley in July 2019.

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