Territory Records Office


Records Advices

Records Advices are provided to give a brief introduction to a range of records management topics. Further Records Advices will be prepared in the future.

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1. What is a record?

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2. Normal Administrative Practice (NAP)

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3. eMail as a record

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4. What is a recordkeeping system?

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5. Electronically created records

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6. Executive records

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7. Preparation for the implementation of an Electronic Records Management System (ERMS)

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8. What is the Territory Records Office (TRO)?

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9. What is a Section 28 declaration?

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10. Application to close records under Section 28 of the Territory Records Act  

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11. How a Section 28 declaration is made

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12. The Process of Public Access

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13. TRO consideration of section 28 declaration

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14. Preparing ACT Government records for public access

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15. Guidance for producing ArchivesACT finding aids

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16. Format of records for public access

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17. Online services for records managers : Social networking

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18. Online sources for records managers : training and development

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19. What is aka and why do we use it?

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20. What is Sqiz Matrix?

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21. Security classification Cabinet documents

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22. Security classification of non-Cabinet documents

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23. Australian standard for records management

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24. Other Australian standards relevant to records management

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25. Metadata

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26. ACT Government application of metadata

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27. Subject level control of ACT Government records

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28. Functional directories on shared drives

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29. Health records

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30. Outsourced services contract clause

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31. Disposal actions: Preparation of records

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32. Utilising a records disposal schedule

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33. Special approval to dispose of records

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34. Freeze on personnel records - Superseded. See Advice No.45

   

35. Records and Legal Proceedings - Superseded. See Advice No.57

   

36. Destruction of ACT Government records

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37. What is the Territory Records Advisory Council?

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38. How long are diaries to be kept?

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39. Vital records

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40. Records management standing offer arrangements - Obsolete

41. What is an agency Records Management Program?

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42. Sentencing Legacy Records

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43. Selection of Records as Territory Archives

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44. Valuing ACT Government Records for insurance purposes

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45. Disposal Freeze Superannuation Records 2009-2010 - Superseded. See Advice No.59

   

46. Roles in Public Access

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47. Principal Officers and their Responsibilities

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48. Requests for access to ACT Government records by other jurisdictions

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49. ArchivesACT Find of the Month

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50. Retention and storage of digital photographs and images

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51. Managing hard copy plans, drawings and maps

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52. Disposing of parts of files - active and legacy files

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53. Managing web content as records

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54. Use of portable electronic data storage devices

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55. Web 2.0 - Social Networking and Collaboration Applications and Recordkeeping

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56. The Recordkeeping Responsibilities of ACT Government Employees

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57. Records and documents required for legal proceedings

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58. What is a Records Disposal Freeze?

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59. Records Disposal Freeze – Superannuation Records 2010-2015.  Post Cornwell Superannuation Case Litigation - Processing of Additional Claims

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60. Managing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Records

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61. Compliance with the Territory Records Act 2002

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62. Compliant Agency Records Management Programs

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63. Managing records during administrative change

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64. Managing Electronic Folders and Documents on Shared Drives

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65. Managing Security for Electronic Folders and Documents on Shared Drives

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66. Folioing of Files

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67. Archived Personnel Files

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68. Heritage Act

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69. Version Control

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70. Instructions for Saving VOIP Messages

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