Day 1: The world scene – Opening

• Official welcome to delegates and the Minister – George Nichols, Director-General, Australian Archives
• Information management in the 1990s – Keynote address – The Hon. Michael Lee MP, Minister for Communications and the Arts
• The issues ahead – an address – Dagmar Parer, National Director, Records Control and Description, Australian Archives

Day 1: The world scene – The US experience

• Finders keepers, losers weepers: alternative program models for identifying and keeping electronic records – Margaret Hedstrom, Director, Center for Electronic Records, New York State Archives and Records Administration, USA
• Electronic records activities at the National Archives and Records Administration – Kenneth Thibodeau, Director, Center for Electronic Records, New York State Archives and Records Administration, USA

Day 1: The world scene – The European experience

• Information superhighways or quiet country lanes? Accessing electronic archives in the United Kingdom – Edward Higgs, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University, UK
• Off the beaten track: the archivist exploring the outback of electronic records – Hans Hofman, Director, Electronic Records Project, General State Archives, The Netherlands

Day 1: The world scene – The Canadian experience

• Managing records in the modern office: the experience of the National Archives of Canada
• Activities of the Electronic Records Committee of the International Council on Archives – John McDonald, Director General, Government Records Branch, National Archives of Canada

Day 1: The world scene – Panel Session

Chair: Rob Thomsett

Panel members: Margaret Hedstrom, Edward Higgs, Hans Hofman, John McDonald, Kenneth Thibodeau

Day 2: The Australian scene – Policy development in Australia

• Australian Archives’ approach to preserving long-term access to the Commonwealth’s electronic records – Stephen Ellis, Director, Systems Integration and Redevelopment Project, Australian Archives and Steve Stuckey, Assistant Director-General, Records Standards and Access, Australian Archives
• Avoiding litter on the information superhighway: electronic document management in Australian government agencies – Tom Worthington, Chair of the Electronic Document Management Subcommittee of the Information Exchange Steering Committee (IESC)
• Information management strategic planning – Judy Huxley, Director, Information Management and Technologies Strategies, Department of Primary Industries and Energy
• The State Archives of Western Australia: a Western Australian perspective – Carole Ellis, Records Management Office, Library and Information Service of Western Australia
• Preserving Australia’s electronic documentary heritage – Maggie Jones, Australian Council of Library and Information Services (ACLIS) Taskforce on the Preservation of Australian Electronic Information

Day 2: The Australian scene – Research considerations

• Strategic information databases and long-term access – David ML Berman, Director, Information Services Division, Australian Geological Survey Organisation
• FOI access to electronic records – Madeline Campbell, Principal Legal Officer, Family and Administrative Law Branch, Attorney-General’s Department
• Research in the social sciences and electronic records – Roger Jones, Social Science Data Archives, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Panel session – The Australian scene

Chair: Rob Thomsett

Day 3: The technology (1)

• Archival issues in a computing environment – David Bearman, President, Archives and Museum Informatics, USA
• Integrated information management – Adrienne Kebbell, Information Management Officer, Information Management Centre State Services Commission, New Zealand
• Oracle and document management – Brett Newbold, Oracle Systems, USA

Day 3: Technology (2)

• Electronic information management: a Pandora’s box or the light at the end of the tunnel – Brian Pink, First Assistant Statistician, Computer Services Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics
• The development of CALS within the Australian Department of Defence – Peter Hallams, Director, Integrated Logisitcs Information Management, Department of Defence
• Managing the new information technology revolution – Rob Thomsett, Rob Thomsett and Associates

Day 3: The Technology – Panel session

Chair: Rob Thomsett

Panel members: David Bearman, Adrienne Kebbell, Brian Pink, Brett Newbold, Keith Parrott

Closing address

Margaret Hedstrom, New York State Archives and Records Administration, USA and George Nichols, Director-General, Australian Archives

Biographical details, List of attendees and Bibliography