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Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Librarianship, Archives and Records (later School of Information Management and Systems) 1990 – 2004. Inaugural Chair in Archival Systems (2004), Emerita Professor (2021). Founding Director of the Centre for Organisational Social Informatics (COSI).

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Susan (Sue) McKemmish was born in 1950. She received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Monash University in 1972, followed by a Master of Arts from Monash University in 1977. In 1980 she completed a graduate diploma in librarianship from RMIT.

Before joining Monash University, McKemmish worked at the University of Queensland, the Victorian Branch of the National Archives of Australia, and was Deputy Keeper at the Public Record Office Victoria from 1983-1990.

In 1990, McKemmish was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Librarianship, Archives, and Records (later School of Information Management and Systems) to develop a curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate recordkeeping courses alongside Frank Upward and Livia Iacovino. In 1999, McKemmish, Upward and Iacovino established the Records Continuum Research Group. In 2001, she was awarded her PhD with her thesis titled ‘Constantly evolving, ever mutating: an Australian contribution to the archival metatext’.

McKemmish held the position of Chair of Archival Systems from 2004-2021 and was the founding director of the Centre of Organisational and Societal Informatics (COSI). She was also Associate Dean, Graduate Research / Research Training from 2007-2016 in the Faculty of Information Technology. She became Emeritus Professor in October 2021.

McKemmish’s research has focused on four main areas throughout her career: records continuum theory where she made significant contributions to Frank Upward’s Records Continuum Model; indigenous and community archives frameworks and systems, including rights, human rights and social justice in records; recordkeeping metadata standards; and research design and methods.

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Research, teaching and administrative records 1990-2021

Records of research projects for which McKemmish was a chief investigator, including Recordkeeping Metadata (SPIRT) (1997-98), Breast Cancer Knowledge Online (2002-03), Create once, use many times: The clever use of metadata...(2003-05) and Trust and Technology: building archival systems for Indigenous oral memory (2003-05)
Working papers arising from McKemmish's leadership roles within the Faculty of Information Technology
Published conference papers of the Australian Society of Archivists.

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Sue McKemmish and Michael Piggott (eds), The Records Continuum: Ian Maclean and Australian Archives first fifty years, (Ancora Press in association with Australian Archives, 1994). With book review

Coralie Jenkin, Jean Primrose Whyte: A Professional Biography (Monash University Faculty of Information Technology, 2010) (Jean Whyte was the foundation professor of the Graduate School of Librarianship at Monash University, 1975-1988.)

SIMS Intranet Photo Gallery (CD)

Playing for Keeps: Proceedings of an Electronic Records Management Conference hosted by the Australian Archives. Stephen Yorke (ed)

Ethics, Lies and Archives: Proceedings of a one-day seminar conducted by the Canberra Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists (Stephen Yorke, Anne-Marie Schwirtlich and Laurine Teakle eds)

Past as Prologue: The Royal Commission into Commercial Activities of Government and Other Matters (Proceedings of a Conference at Edith Cowan University) Mark Brogan and Harry Phillips (eds.)

Keeping Data: Papers from a workshop on appraising computer-based records, Barbara Reed and David Roberts (eds.), Includes Sue's handwritten speaker's notes

Privacy versus Access: Papers from a seminar on the issues of the right to privacy, the right of access to information, and the dilemma of the records' custodian. Presented by the Australian Society of Archivists Inc. ACT Branch, 30 April 1991

Convergence: The Joint National Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists and the Records Management Association of Australia

Archives at Risk: Accountability, Vulnerability and Credibility - Australian Society of Archivists Conference Proceedings 1999

Place, Interface and Cyberspace: Archives at the Edge. Proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists 1998 Conference

Archives and Reform - Preparing for Tomorrow: Australian Society of Archivists 1997 National Conference

Archives at the Centre: Proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists 1996 Conference

Archivists - The Image and Future of the Professions: Proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists 1995 Conference

Documenting Modern Society: Australian Society of Archivists Conference and Workshops

The National and International Environment: Proceedings from the 6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists

Proceedings of the 5th biennial conference of the Australian Society of Archivists

Proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists Inc 4th Biennial Conference

Promoting the Better Use of Archives in Australia: Papers from the 1981 Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists

Archives Conference Proceedings 1977: Papers and Discussion from the First Biennial General Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists

The Australian Archives Technical Training Scheme Unit 3

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The Australian Archives Technical Training Scheme Unit 2

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MON1379: Research and teaching papers

Professor Sue McKemmish

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