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In 1998 the NRAM Taskforce invited a number of archivists to communicate a personal view of their experience with a variety of ‘national registers’. This invitation was motivated by a desire to familiarise New Zealand archives keepers with practices elsewhere.
Subsequently a number of articles, written in response to this investigation, were published in the NRAM Newsletter. These articles are now included here on the NRAM website.
From NRAM Newsletter 2 (March 1998).
An early statement of the NRAM Taskforce's initial goals by then ARANZ representative on the NRAM Taskforce, Dr. Brad Patterson. This was written to promote fruitful discussion among contributors, researchers and funders, as the terminus of Lottery Grants Board funding approached.
From NRAM Newsletter 3 (June 1998)
Those who did not meet the one and only Penny Feltham in her capacity as NRAM editor 1988-1992 may still have noticed her laurels in M. Hoare’s article “NRAM: a pipe dream or a piper's lament?” Archifacts, Oct 1996, pp216-234. Senior Archivist at the Manchester Museum of Science since 1995, Penny gives here a contributor's view of the British National Register of Archives.
From NRAM Newsletter 5 (April 1999)
“The Development of Union Lists in Canada” by Janet McMaster
From NRAM Newsletter 5 (April 1999)
From NRAM Newsletter 6 (June 1999)
From NRAM Newsletter 7 (October 1999)
Thomas Wilsted spent the years 1973-1978 as Manuscripts Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library and made substantial contributions both to decisions affecting NRAM, and as the founding President of ARANZ (Archives and Records Association of New Zealand).
Michael Hoare went so far as to call the mid-1970s ‘the Wilsted era’, in his article The National Register of Archives and Manuscripts: a Piper's Lament or a pipe dream? (Archifacts, October 1996, pp.216-234).
Now Director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries (an OCLC Library), Thomas Wilsted gives an overview of experience in America over the last two decades, for those concerned with sharing information about archives. It was great to see Tom back in New Zealand at ARANZ's 25th anniversary in 2001.
