Category Archives: Blog & News
Who Do You Think You Are? – John Howard
In last nights episode of Who Do You Think You Are? John Howard was taken on a journey which identified significant events of his ancestors over many years including those of his great-great-grandfather John Crane Nottage, an architect who built churches in Castlemaine during the gold rush days including the Tarnagulla Church of England and [...]
Geelong Heritage Centre Reading Room temporary closure
The Geelong Heritage Centre Reading Room at 51 Little Malop Street Geelong, will be temporarily closed on Tuesday May 28th and Wednesday May 29th. The temporary closure is to enable the relocation of the GHC archive collection being carried out over these days. The Geelong Heritage Centre Reading Room will re-open on Thursday May 30th at 11.00 [...]
Copying Fees Review
WHAT DO YOU THINK? COPYING FEES REVIEW You may not know that the fees that PROV charges for providing copies of public records are set under the Public Records Act Regulations. These Regulations need to be remade every 10 years, and are next due for renewal in November 2013. Because fees are set by the [...]
Invitation to the Sir Rupert Hamer Awards Thursday 16 May 2013
The Public Records Advisory Council in association with Public Record Office Victoria takes pleasure in inviting you to this year’s Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards. The Hamer Awards recognise excellence and innovation in records management within the Victorian Public Sector and achievements of Community Archives in making records accessible to local communities. The awards [...]
Hospital records of people in immigration detention
Do you provide medical treatment to people in immigration detention? The Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the National Archives of Australia have provided advice clarifying ownership of the health records of people in immigration detention. In short, these medical records remain the property of the treating institution and should be managed in accordance [...]
Government Restructure
To assist agencies that are affected by the recent government restructure, the Guide on Transfer of Custodianship provides practical advice on the transfer of records, information and data from one agency to another. A plan for the transfer of records between agencies is required (see PROS 10/17 S1 Operations Management Specification). This will assist both [...]
Update on Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The Royal Commission held its first day of hearings on 3 April 2012. The transcripts are available at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/Hearings/Pages/Hearings-transcripts.aspx The Senior Counsel Assisting, Ms Gail Furness SC, described the types of institutions that the Commission will be investigating. These include (the text is taken verbatim from the draft transcript p13-14): residential care facilities such as orphanages, [...]
ORDA (Online Retention and Disposal Application)
A key activity being undertaken by PROV to support the development of Retention and Disposal Authorities is the implementation of an Online Retention and Disposal Application (ORDA). ORDA is a web based application developed by the State Records Office of Western Australia (SROWA) as a project of the Australasian Digital Records Initiative (ADRI). With ADRI [...]
vive la différence!
For many years PROV has been promoting the importance of records and recordkeeping. We have highlighted such things as: The redevelopment of records management standards The achievement of VERS Stage 1 measured by an EDRMS implementation The ubiquity of records across varying formats and systems I understand that often the related promotional messages have been [...]
Showcase Record – January 2013
The gift of a school to Villers Bretonneux by Melbourne school children. The Villers-Bretonneux School Photograph Collection features items of various formats documenting the role of the Victorian Department of Education and the school children of Victoria in the rebuilding of the school at Villers-Bretonneux, France after its destruction in 1918 during World War 1. [...]
