Barbara Reed
@barbarareed.bsky.social
Long time archives, records, information professional. Now semi-retired, but research adjacent for innovative recordkeeping approaches
Very powerful session on youth justice from NATSILS this morning. Culminating in requests for a pledge to uphold children's rights www.alsnswact.org.au/pledge-for-c...
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Across Australia, unjust laws and policing practices are resulting in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being locked up at alarming rates.
www.alsnswact.org.au
May 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Very powerful session on youth justice from NATSILS this morning. Culminating in requests for a pledge to uphold children's rights www.alsnswact.org.au/pledge-for-c...
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More coverage of what is happening with IMLS.
April 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
More coverage of what is happening with IMLS.
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Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation
April 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation
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Missing from #budget2025 is much-needed funding for Australia's integrity organisations: auditors, information commissioners, ombudsmen, etc.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
March 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Missing from #budget2025 is much-needed funding for Australia's integrity organisations: auditors, information commissioners, ombudsmen, etc.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.
And Macmillan is remembered in Australia as the first archivist at Sydney University! www.nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-news/...
Return of documents after historical thefts
NRS has completed the return of thousands of documents taken from its archives and several other institutions by a single person decades ago.
www.nrscotland.gov.uk
March 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
And Macmillan is remembered in Australia as the first archivist at Sydney University! www.nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-news/...
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DSHR: "Archival Storage" blog.dshr.org/2025/03/arch...
Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
blog.dshr.org
March 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
DSHR: "Archival Storage" blog.dshr.org/2025/03/arch...
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The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData
National Library cracks down on public data access
Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.
ia.acs.org.au
March 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData
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Sound advice.
Also, grab a local copy of any US based cloud data you rely on.
Also, grab a local copy of any US based cloud data you rely on.
March 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sound advice.
Also, grab a local copy of any US based cloud data you rely on.
Also, grab a local copy of any US based cloud data you rely on.
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Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]
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February 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]
Wow! Truisms about archives and power in action. But also see accusations of fudging the historical record in exhibitions: hyperallergic.com/964484/us-ar... or 2020's women's march theweek.com/speedreads/8...
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Wow! Truisms about archives and power in action. But also see accusations of fudging the historical record in exhibitions: hyperallergic.com/964484/us-ar... or 2020's women's march theweek.com/speedreads/8...
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Looking for some holiday reading? Try the new open access International Journal of Documentary Heritage! The inaugural issue is out now, including an article I co-wrote with Sarah Demb and Catherine Nichols: www.ijodh.org/wp-content/u... #archives #museums #heritage #documentation
December 28, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Looking for some holiday reading? Try the new open access International Journal of Documentary Heritage! The inaugural issue is out now, including an article I co-wrote with Sarah Demb and Catherine Nichols: www.ijodh.org/wp-content/u... #archives #museums #heritage #documentation
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Very happy to announce that the latest issue of Archives & Manuscripts has just been published—a special issue on research and practice in archives, with myself and @rtropea.bsky.social as guest editors: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa #archives #records #GLAM #research #publication
Archives & Manuscripts
Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists
publications.archivists.org.au
December 3, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Very happy to announce that the latest issue of Archives & Manuscripts has just been published—a special issue on research and practice in archives, with myself and @rtropea.bsky.social as guest editors: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa #archives #records #GLAM #research #publication
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Incredible scenes in QLD — terminating truth telling in an Olympics bill.
November 28, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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I was live on ABC Illawarra radio with @doctormcdougall.bsky.social this afternoon talking about NSW ten-year-olds in lock-up, not teens on TikTok, and it was great, thanks for having me. Learn more here: raisetheagensw.org.au
November 28, 2024 at 6:29 AM
I was live on ABC Illawarra radio with @doctormcdougall.bsky.social this afternoon talking about NSW ten-year-olds in lock-up, not teens on TikTok, and it was great, thanks for having me. Learn more here: raisetheagensw.org.au
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👏 What an awesome opening keynote at #ACSPRI24 by Maggie Walter, on Indigenous data sovereignty. Here is my liveblog:
snurb.info/node/3278
(This will be a very hard act to follow, and I’m glad my own #ACSPRI24 keynote – on practice mapping – is only tomorrow. 😬)
snurb.info/node/3278
(This will be a very hard act to follow, and I’m glad my own #ACSPRI24 keynote – on practice mapping – is only tomorrow. 😬)
November 27, 2024 at 10:55 PM
👏 What an awesome opening keynote at #ACSPRI24 by Maggie Walter, on Indigenous data sovereignty. Here is my liveblog:
snurb.info/node/3278
(This will be a very hard act to follow, and I’m glad my own #ACSPRI24 keynote – on practice mapping – is only tomorrow. 😬)
snurb.info/node/3278
(This will be a very hard act to follow, and I’m glad my own #ACSPRI24 keynote – on practice mapping – is only tomorrow. 😬)