Barbara Reed

MAKE THE PLEDGE Across Australia, unjust laws and policing practices are resulting in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being locked up at alarming rates.

Very powerful session on youth justice from NATSILS this morning. Culminating in requests for a pledge to uphold children's rights www.alsnswact.org.au/pledge-for-c...

More coverage of what is happening with IMLS.

Photo shows a metal drawer from a filing cabinet (of extended length) standing on top of trestle legs

Photo shows the front side of a filing cabinet drawer labelled with typewritten words: 'Unknown. Height 165cm, Weight 74kg Aboriginal"

Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation

Me too, Tim. I'll pass it on if I can find an address

Missing from #budget2025 is much-needed funding for Australia's integrity organisations: auditors, information commissioners, ombudsmen, etc.

Staff numbers at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner are going *down* next year, while its freedom of information reviews take years.

Return of documents after historical thefts NRS has completed the return of thousands of documents taken from its archives and several other institutions by a single person decades ago.

And Macmillan is remembered in Australia as the first archivist at Sydney University! www.nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-news/...

Archival Storage I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...

DSHR: "Archival Storage" blog.dshr.org/2025/03/arch...

National Library cracks down on public data access Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.

The NLA's suspension of my #Trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #GLAM #OpenData

Sound advice.

Also, grab a local copy of any US based cloud data you rely on.

Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

Just written to DG at NLA to suggest a rethink of this one Tim. I do hope enough people take some action to redress this! We all need your work

Wow! Truisms about archives and power in action. But also see accusations of fudging the historical record in exhibitions: hyperallergic.com/964484/us-ar... or 2020's women's march theweek.com/speedreads/8...

Looking for some holiday reading? Try the new open access International Journal of Documentary Heritage! The inaugural issue is out now, including an article I co-wrote with Sarah Demb and Catherine Nichols: www.ijodh.org/wp-content/u... #archives #museums #heritage #documentation

Very happy to announce that the latest issue of Archives & Manuscripts has just been published—a special issue on research and practice in archives, with myself and @rtropea.bsky.social as guest editors: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa #archives #records #GLAM #research #publication

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A grey square with text ‘In NSW, 10-year-olds can be sent to prison. That is too young’. There’s a Raise the Age NSW logo.

I was live on ABC Illawarra radio with @doctormcdougall.bsky.social this afternoon talking about NSW ten-year-olds in lock-up, not teens on TikTok, and it was great, thanks for having me. Learn more here: raisetheagensw.org.au

👏 What an awesome opening keynote at #ACSPRI24 by Maggie Walter, on Indigenous data sovereignty. Here is my liveblog:
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(This will be a very hard act to follow, and I’m glad my own #ACSPRI24 keynote – on practice mapping – is only tomorrow. 😬)