Presented by Janet Prowse, Queensland State Archivist
Drinks and Award Presentation: Margaret Jennings Award 2008
Sponsored by the Australian Society of Archivists, the Caulfield School of IT and COSI, the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Time: 3.00-6.30pm, Friday 20 November 2009
Venue: Lecture Theatre HB.32, Basement of H Building, Caulfield campus, Monash University. Off-street user pays parking is available in the multi-storey carpark on campus and accessible via Sir John Monash Drive and Princes Avenue.
RSVP: By Monday 16 November to Christina Branton, or tel 9903 2704.
3-5pm: Information Management Skills Crisis: Educating Information Professionals for the 21st Century
Guest Speaker: Janet Prowse, Queensland State Archivist
The availability of high quality, authoritative information is essential to our organisations and society. the ability of organisations.. An information management skills crisis exists across the government, business and community sectors, impacting on the ability of organisations to plan and deliver services to their clients, develop effective policies, manage risk and achieve accountability. In her role as a member of the Queensland Government's Strategic Information and ICT Executive, and Chair of its whole-of-Government Information Management Sub Committee, Queensland State Archivist Janet Prowse is uniquely placed to comment on the challenge of building information management capability, particularly in the government sector.
Her presentation will be followed by discussion of the implications for information management programs.
5-6.30pm: Drinks and ASA Margaret Jennings Award Presentation
ASA Margaret Jennings Award for the Most Outstanding Graduate of the Archives and Records Program at Monash 2008
Award Recipient: Janet Prowse, Master of Information Management and Systems
Presenter: Helen Mclaughlin, Convenor of the Victorian, Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists
Janet Prowse
Janet Prowse, Director and State Archivist, Queensland State Archives, Winner ASA Margaret Jennings Award 2008
Janet Prowse is responsible for administering the legislative and policy framework for the management of public records of more than 600 Queensland public authorities.
Responsibilities include administering the Public Records Act 2002, developing and implementing strategic initiatives, providing policy advice at a whole-of-government level, promoting best practice recordkeeping, and managing and improving public access to the State's largest and most significant documentary heritage collection held at Queensland State Archives' facility at Runcorn, Brisbane.
Janet represents the Queensland Government on a number of national and Queensland Committees. She has been a member of the Queensland Government's Strategic Information and ICT Executive (SI&ICT) since February 2005, member of the ICT Strategy Information Management Sub-committee, former Chair of Executive's whole-of-Government Information Management Sub Committee in March 2007-2009, and a former member of the SI&ICT Council's Online Sub Committee since August 2008-2009. She was previously a member of the ICT Innovation Fund and Microsoft Program Committee (April 2005 to July 2008). In July 2008 the Queensland Government appointed Janet as a member of its Right to Information Steering Committee, established to oversee the implementation of a wide range of information management reforms.
She also has been a member of the Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities (CAARA) since 2001, has been its Deputy Convenor since August 2007, and was appointed the inaugural Chair of CAARA's Standards for the Public Access Working Group in August 2008. Janet is a member of CAARA's Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative, which involves the 10 government archival authorities in Australia and New Zealand working together on common solutions for the long term preservation of electronic records.
Janet has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and a Master of Information Management and Systems from Monash University. She is a professional member of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA).