National Archives of Australia
Media release
Archives Forum to benefit community – 13 September 2004
The inaugural Joint Archives Consultative Forum will be opened at 2pm on Friday 24 September by the Director-General of the National Archives of Australia, Ross Gibbs, and Senior Archivist Tasmania, Robyn Eastley, at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk.
‘This is a significant occasion as it’s the first time that the National Archives of Australia and the Archives Office of Tasmania have collaborated to enhance awareness of archives generally and to facilitate archival community consultation’, Mr Gibbs said.
‘The forum allows those with an interest in archives to express the views of their constituents and articulate community expectations’, he said.
The forum’s members include the State Library of Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Tasmanian Family History Society, Tasmanian History Teachers’ Association and the Professional Historians Association of Tasmania.
‘We hope to raise community awareness of the work of both the National Archives and the Archives Office of Tasmania, and to facilitate collaborative ventures among Tasmania’s cultural institutions and historical societies’, Mr Gibbs said.
The forum precedes the opening by Ross Gibbs of the National Archives exhibition Beacons By The Sea: Stories of Australian Lighthouses at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery tomorrow evening. The exhibition will be on show until 28 November before it travels to the Burnie Regional Art Gallery, opening on 11 December.
Contact information
To interview Ross Gibbs or Robyn Eastley please contact:
Matthew Eggins, National Archives of Australia
Tel: (02) 6212 3957 or 0413 157 255
