New South Wales ­ ISAA

DOING RESEARCH: MEETING 1. Shedding light on the Australian Joint Copying Project

Thursday 4 February 3-4 pm (via Zoom)

Topic: Shedding light on the Australian Joint Copying Project

Speaker: Christine Yeats

Abstract:

Between 1948 until 1993 teams of librarians worked on what was probably the longest running microfilm project of its kind in the world. It is known as the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). By the time the project came to an end there were over 10,000 reels of microfilm covering 1560 to 1984. With funding from the Federal...

SECOND ISAA NSW OPEN FORUM for 2020

This Forum was held on 5 November via Zoom and presented by Professor Richard Kemp, a cognitive scientist and forensic psychologist at the UNSW. Richard’s topic The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory was wide ranging around the issues of identity research and evidence, the reliability of human memory and concerns about false identification. He also elaborated on the memory process with its three stages of encoding, storage and retrieval stating that errors can...

THE RIGHT TO KNOW. ISAA NSW 2020 SEMINAR

Keynote Address by Quentin Dempster ─ The Right to Know: Journalism

STILL WAITING … FOR YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW

Quentin Dempster 

Presentation to the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (in association with the State Library of NSW) via webinar on 22 September 2020.

We’re all still waiting … for your right to know. The right of the public in our democracies to know what’s really going on is being tested at this very moment at...

THE VALUE OF FORMAL EDUCATION IN THE HUMANITIES

The National Council of ISAA resolved to write to the Federal Minister for Education, Dan Tehen, expressing its concern at the rise in fees for humanities courses, which will more than double and put them alongside law and commerce in the highest price band of $14,500 a year, as a result of the Government’s ‘carrot-and-stick approach to funnel students into the industries it believes will drive job growth’. ISAA is particularly concerned at...

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ISAA New South Wales Chapter

The New South Wales Chapter of ISAA was formed at a meeting in the State Library in February 1997. While most NSW members reside in or adjacent to Sydney, a number live as far afield as Armidale and Cooma.

The postal address is: PO Box A644 Sydney South 1235

The composition of the 2020-2021 NSW Chapter Committee is as follows: 

Chair: Lesley Potter

Immediate Past Chair: Christine Yeats (Seminar Convenor)

Vice-Chair: Shirley Randell AO

Treasurer: Rodney Nillsen

Secretary: Christine Jennett (Convenor...

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ANNUAL SEMINAR

ISAA NSW Chapter

ANNUAL SEMINAR

In collaboration with State Library of NSW

‘Spare the Rod’: Convention on the Rights of the ChildThirty Years On

The Seminar marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC) in November 1989. The CRC incorporates all the general rights set out in other UN treaties that apply to everyone, as well as the special rights that apply to children. This Seminar asks...

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