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Professional Development
The Association has a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program, including activities and publications. Guidelines and a CPD recording sheet are available on the ACPHA Web site.
Whilst some profession-specific CPD facilities are provided by the Association, members are expected to pursue CPD through relevant external avenues according to their needs.
The following activities are planned for 2010:
- Wednesday 10 February: Land and Property Management Authority
This workshop will cover the history and process of digitising the Lands' historical and archival collections as well as future plans for the Lands archiving and digitisation program of moveable heritage and Old Title system. Background to what is available online and how to do searches (SIX and PIXEL) and how this differs from what can be searched at LPMA. State Archives material, the Old Register 1-9, will also be covered.
Place: Land and Property Management Authority, Christopher Rolleston Room, I Prince Alfred Road
Time: between 1pm and 5pm.
Cost: $10
Booking: email secretary@phansw.org.au
- Thursday 25 March: Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens and Library
Tour the library with curator Miguel Garcia and then PHA member, Dr Jodi Frawley, will lead a 'walk and talk' through the Botanic Gardens. Optional lunch at the cafe in the heart of the Gardens.
Place: Meet in the foyer of the National Herbarium of NSW on Mrs Macquarie's Road
Time: 10am -12 noon
Cost: $10
Booking: email secretary@phansw.org.au
- Tuesday 20 April: April Heritage Festival - Myth and memory: Making a Nation
How has the Nation been shaped by collective memory? And what role has the heritage industry played in shaping and reshaping the Nation? Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton will lead a discussion on this topic over drinks.
Place: @ The Hero of Waterloo Hotel, 81 Lower Fort Street, Millers Point
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: $5.00
Bookings essential: email secretary@phansw.org.au
Enquiries: phone (02) 9252 9437
- May: City of Sydney Archives.
Archivist Mark Stevens will lead a workshop on the City’s database. Date to be arranged.
- June: Powerhouse Museum
Details and date to be announced.
- 18-25 July:
ISLANDS OF HISTORY
A conference for professional historians from Australia and New Zealand will be held on Norfolk Island from 18-25 July 2010. This will be on the eve of the World Heritage Convention's decision to include Kingston and Arthurs Vale on Norfolk Island and 10 other Australian convict sites on the World Heritage List.
Lectures will be presented by PHA members and local or visiting specialists. Topics cover: writing convict history, South Pacific maritime history, history for heritage, Polynesian migration, South Pacific history, Pacific missions and issues and practice of public history. The conference will include site visits, island orientation and free time to explore the diverse heritage of the island.
Registration fee $350. Attractive travel packages have been arranged, including return air fares, accommodation of various grades, and car hire from as low as $1,100 per person.
If you would like to present a 20-minute paper on one of the listed themes, please send a 150-200 word abstract before 14 February 2010 or for further details contact secretary@phansw.org.au.
Bookings and enquiries: Please contact the PHA NSW Secretary secretary@phansw.org.au or 9252 9437 (PHA message service).