The Australian Society of Archivists is a professional organization of archivists in Australia.
The Australian Library Association had an archives section between 1951 and 1973.[1]
Significant persons in the starting of the society include Phyllis Mander-Jones, and Robert Sharman who became the editor of the journal Archives and Manuscripts
The inaugural meeting of the Society was held at the Australian National University in April 1975.[2] The first biennial conference was held in 1977.[3]
The Society publishes a professional and scholarly journal called Archives and Manuscripts (three issues per year, currently published through Taylor & Francis).[4] [5] Editors included:
Mander-Jones, Phyllis
Horton, Alan Roy
Gibbney, H J (Herbert James)
Sharman, R. C. (Robert Charles)The original title was: -
Archives and manuscripts : the journal / of the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia.
Sydney : the Association, 1962-1976.
With vol. 6, no. 6 (February 1976) it became the journal of the Australian Society of Archivists.[6]
Annual conferences of the society include the Loris Williams Memorial Lecture, honouring Loris Williams, and the Mander Jones Awards.