Older guidelines and advice
These are our older publications. Please refer to our new Framework as many of the publications below have been replaced. Please contact us if you have questions.
We know that many of our clients refer to our Guidelines in their policies and procedures. As we release new Standards, we will provide an overview to help you update your documentation. Current overviews are listed on the Framework page and to the right.
Understanding our older Records Management publications
Guideline: A defined set of mandatory guidelines, issued by the State Archivist under the Archives Act 1983. It is the duty of the relevant authority to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the guidelines are complied with.
Advice: General advice on contemporary recordkeeping issues. (No associated compliance requirement).
Template: An outline or example of a document type, often including explanatory text providing direction to the author.
Checklist: A comprehensive list of relevant actions, or steps to be taken in a specific order to support various activities.
Other: Additional tools either developed or endorsed by us
Overview documents (Replacements)
| wdt_ID | Document type | Name | Topic | Status | Issue Date | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advice | Advice 02 All about Appraisal | Appraisal | Under Review | 28/02/2015 | 28/02/2015 |
| 2 | Advice | Advice 03 Day Batching of Source Records | Digitisation, RM Operations | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 02/01/2013 |
| 3 | Advice | Advice 04 Managing Electronic Communications as Records | Digital Recordkeeping, Mobile, Social Business | Under Review | 15/07/2009 | 15/07/2009 |
| 4 | Advice | Advice 05 Australian Standard AS ISO 15489 Records Management | EDRMS Implementation, Standards | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 13/07/2005 |
| 5 | Advice | Advice 06 Information Classification tools | Business Analysis, EDRMS Implementation | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 31/08/2014 |
| 6 | Advice | Advice 07 Information Rights Management | Legal | Under Review | 15/07/2009 | 15/07/2009 |
| 7 | Advice | Advice 08 Microfilm Reproductions of State Records | Digitisation | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 13/07/2005 |
| 8 | Advice | Advice 09 Disposal of Scheduled Records | Disposal | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 13/07/2005 |
| 9 | Advice | Advice 10 Disposal of Unscheduled Records | Disposal | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 18/05/2012 |
| 10 | Advice | Advice 11 Short term Retrieval of State Records | Access + Transfer | Under Review | 13/07/2005 | 17/05/2017 |
| Document type | Name | Topic | Status | Issue Date | Last Update |