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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Friday 18 September 2009
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1) Second call for ACT ICOMOS mentors!!!!
2) Historic Environment - Call for Papers 'Convict Heritage'
3) Heritage Industry Skills and Training Needs Questionnaire
4) First Heritage Connections colloquium - JCU, Cairns
5) APT LA 2009 Conference
6) Conference announcement - International conference on
Structural Health Assessment of Timber Structures
7) Global Heritage Fund on CNN This Week: Reviving Historic
Sites
8) ICOMOS Documentation Centre blog: recent posts
Situations
Vacant
9) Database Officer, Museum of Australian Democracy, Old
Parliament House
10) Archaeology Manager (Maternity Leave Position) , GML
11) Accountant (permanent part-time), GML
12) Operations Coordinator GML
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1) Second call for ACT ICOMOS
mentors!!!!
Dear ACT ICOMOS Members,
A call for potential ICOMOS
mentors was previously sent out and a great response has been received!
However, a number of members commented that the call appeared to exclude those
who work in government roles. This was certainly unintentional.
Although government employees will obviously have restrictions on bringing
mentees into their workplace or discussing some specific issues, this probably
applies to all professionals in certain circumstances. So, I hope Canberra's
public servant ICOMITES will reconsider!
Planning is well underway to
launch the mentor program on 6 October at 5pm at the National Archives- details
will be confirmed and potential mentors who have lodged expressions of interest
will be contacted individually.
I include the original call,
slightly reworded, below.
Best wishes, Tracy Ireland
Are you willing to mentor and
pass on your wisdom and experience to a new generation of cultural heritage
professionals?
The Donald Horne Institute for
Cultural Heritage, University of Canberra, in conjunction with the Institute
for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts, ANU, is seeking ICOMOS
members based in or close to Canberra, to participate in a trial mentoring
program for students and early career professionals.
What is required?
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A monthly meeting
of just an hour or so with a mentee to discuss issues involved in your work and
the student's study or early career professional's work, over a 4 or 5 month
period;
•
Involving the
mentee in a site visit or meeting, where appropriate, would be an added bonus for
the mentee;
•
Responding to
some questions at the end of the mentoring trial for evaluation purposes.
How do I get involved?
If you would like to become an
ICOMOS MENTOR, or learn more about the idea, please send an expression of
interest to Tracy Ireland Email tracy.ireland@canberra.edu.au. Mentors should be ICOMOS members with substantial
professional experience in any sector of cultural heritage.
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2) Historic Environment - Call
for Papers 'Convict Heritage'
The Editorial Committee is
proposing a volume of Historic Environment dedicated to convict
heritage, to be published next year to coincide with the decision on the Australian
Convict Sites World Heritage nomination. For further information about
the current World Heritage nomination and the sites that have been selected for
inclusion, the document can be downloaded at http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/about/convict-sites.html. We anticipate that the majority of the papers
will be concerned with the Australian transportation and convict experience,
with hopefully a substantial contribution of offerings about the challenges of
conserving and interpreting these places today, but papers that take a broader
international or historic perspective on the phenomenon would also be
welcome. If you would like to contribute to this particular theme could
you please contact one of the guest editors for this volume - either Jane
Harrington (jane.harrington@portarthur.org.au) or Peter Romey (peterr@gml.com.au) with a title and short abstract by 1 October
2009.
Completed papers will be
required by 1 December 2009. If you have any queries please contact
either Jane or Peter.
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3) Heritage Industry Skills and
Training Needs Questionnaire
HERITAGE INDUSTRY SKILLS
AND TRAINING NEEDS QUESTIONNAIRE
1 - 10 OCTOBER 2009
The Heritage Chairs of
Australia and New Zealand (HCOANZ) have commissioned the Heritage Trades and
Professional Training Project to document and evaluate existing professional
and trades training and assess community and industry requirements and identify
actions needed to address historic heritage training needs.
The project seeks the views of
individuals and organisations in the Heritage industry on the skills and
professional training needs of people working in the management and
conservation of historic heritage places through a Heritage Industry Skills and
Training Needs Questionnaire that you will be able access through www.gml.com.au from 1 - 10 October 2009. (An email inviting
participation in the survey will be sent in late September with a hot link to
the survey itself).
The Heritage Trades and
Professional Training Project is being managed by Heritage Victoria on behalf
of HCOANZ. The project is being undertaken by a collaborative team from Godden
Mackay Logan Pty Ltd, La Trobe University and the Donald Horne Institute for
Cultural Heritage at the University of Canberra.
For further information about
this project, please contact the research team c/- Amy Guthrie, amyg@gml.com.au.
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4) First Heritage
Connections colloquium - JCU, Cairns
Chinese cultural heritage
in China and North Queensland
Date & Time: Thursday
24th September / 1.45pm for a 2.00pm start
The Cairns Institute invites you
to meet their guests visiting from China and join them for the first colloquium
in the Heritage Connections series. The series can be seen as an
evolving conversation about heritage in Asia/Pacific and the tropical region.
This first conversation is an opportunity to explore Chinese cultural heritage
in China and Australia.
For further information, see
the attached flier.
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5) APT LA 2009 Conference
Have you registered for the APT
LA 2009 Conference? If not, take the time right now. On line registration is easy and fast.
Highlights...
·
In-depth
workshops on Architectural Ceramics, Seismic Retrofit, and Injection Grouts
·
Two-day
Documentation Symposium sponsored by GSA with support from AIA HRC and the
Getty Conservation Institute
·
Tours of Fox
Studios, Hollywood and the historic Biltmore Hotel
·
Field sessions to
explore Pasadena Landmarks, the Getty Conservation Institute, Architecture and
Landscapes, 18th Century Missions and Palm Springs
·
Awards Banquet
and COF Installation at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
·
Workshop Dinner
and HABS/Peterson Awards at the historic Fred Harvey Restaurant and Cocktail
Lounge at Union Station
·
Keynote speaker
Kevin Starr and College of Fellows speaker Richard Englehardt
Hotel Reservations...
Staying at the Millennium
Biltmore Hotel is an experience that will transport you back to its opening in
1923 (expect for all its current modern conveniences, of course!). In addition
to the lobby and grand hallway designed to resemble a Spanish palace, we will
enjoy using its several ballrooms, each decorated in sumptuous Beaux-Arts
splendor. Guest rooms are elegantly furnished and feature new bedding, high
speed Internet access, satellite TV, and more.
Take a photo gallery tour of the hotel and then make your reservations now to ensure that
you get the APT discounted rate of $185USD. Our group code is ASSPR. The block
is released on October 9.
Note this change...
Field Session FS5 An
Afternoon at the Getty Conservation Institute will depart from the hotel at
10:30 am, Wednesday, November 4 (instead of 1:00 pm). You will return at 5:00
pm. Please make not of the change as you make your plans.
Questions...
Contact Dana Saal, APT
Conference Manager, at dana@apti.org.
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6) Conference
announcement - International conference on Structural Health Assessment of
Timber Structures
First announcement:
Structural Health
Assessment of Timber Structures - SHATiS'11
Lisbon, Portugal
16 - 17 June 2011
Scope and aims
Structural health assessment
of timber structures embraces different procedures intended to evaluate the
safety and serviceability of the structure and assuring, extending or
sustaining its predicted service life. Service life sustainability can be
promoted at the construction stage by incorporation of monitoring systems or by
providing tools and procedures that can assist experts to deliver accurate
reports about the structural condition and safety of timber structures in
situations when due to visible deterioration or change of use the viability of
these structures is questioned.
Conservation and assessment of
timber structures is based on a multidisciplinary approach, embracing wood
properties, wood degradation, performance of joints, timber structural
behaviour and timber design. This work often involves the need for reliable non
destructive testing methods.
All the activities are carried
out having in mind the need to provide information about the mechanical
properties of timber members, the mechanical behaviour of joints and to assess
the conservation problems of the structure, which is essential to a reliable
structural safety analysis. The analysis will give guidance to the
conservation, replacement or strengthening works needed to ensure an adequate
safety level.
SHATiS'11 conference aims at
bringing together researchers and professionals involved in the field,
constituting a forum for exchanging of experiences and discussing of subjects
related to the appraisal and conservation of timber structures, including
innovative methods and application of new technologies for monitoring,
diagnosis, repair and strengthening of timber structures.
Topics
Theme A: Codes and guidelines
for structural safety assessment
Theme B: Learning from case
studies
Theme C: Condition assessment
of timber members and joints, including non-destructive methods
Theme D: Structural
monitoring, conservation and strengthening
Organizing committee
Chairman: Jose Saporiti
Machado (LNEC)
Members: Jose
Carlos Rodrigues (IICT)
Jorge Branco (UM)
Lina Nunes (LNEC)
Paulo Lourenco (UM)
Pedro Palma (LNEC)
Teresa Fonseca (LNEC)
Institutions involved in
the organization
LNEC: National Laboratory of
Civil Engineering
UM: University of Minho
IICT: Tropical Scientific
Research Institute
Local
LNEC, Lisbon, June 16-17, 2011
Key dates
Deadline for abstract submission
- 1st of June 2010
Notification of abstract
acceptance with review comments - 30th of September 2010
Deadline for paper submission
- 1st of December 2010
Notification of papers
acceptance with review comments 31st of January 2011
Deadline for submission of
final version of the papers - 15th of March 2011
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7) Global Heritage Fund on CNN
This Week: Reviving Historic Sites
Global Heritage Fund (GHF) was
featured on CNN's Conscious Capitalism (link below):
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalHeritageFund/87862c27b8/9ba319e95b/017e5ef9fc
This is great exposure for GHF
and their global cause - to save endangered world heritage sites in developing
countries.
CNN has filmed a one hour
special on GHF for Impact Your World which will air in late October. A shorter
preview will start to show in major markets next month. CNN is highlighting GHF's
leadership in heritage preservation and engagement with local communities, and
the destruction and loss of our heritage sites over the past ten years.
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8) ICOMOS Documentation Centre
blog: recent posts
Website: http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/
§ Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009 (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/great-barrier-reef-outlook-report-2009.html)
§ Proceedings of the conference "Paisajes Historicos
Urbanos - Metodologia de Gestion del Patrimonio Urbano" - ICOMOS Argentina
(http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/proceedings-of-conference-paisajes.html)
§ Moscow Heritage at Crisis Point - Updated, expanded edition (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/moscow-heritage-at-crisis-point-updated.html)
§ Cultural landscapes and cultural routes: Shared issues
and challenges for the Australian members of the ICOMOS International
Scientific Committees (ISCs (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/cultural-landscapes-and-cultural-routes.html)
§ IFLA News Brief, no 22 and 23 - 2009 (landscapes) (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/ifla-news-brief-n-22-2009-landscapes.html)
§ DOCOMOMO E-Proceedings - "SOUTH CITY - Modernist
Urbanism in the Southern Hemisphere: Past, Present, Future" - Symposium,
January 22-23, 2009 (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/docomomo-e-proceedings.html)
§ ICCROM Conservation Series - New PDF's available (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/09/iccrom-conservation-series-new-pdfs.html)
To subscribe to the ICOMOS
Documentation Centre, send an e-mail message (in "text" and not "html" format)
to majordomo@icomos.org with "subscribe doc-centre" as the only line in the
message body.
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9) Database Officer, Museum of
Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House
Database Officer
Museum of Australian
Democracy
Old Parliament House
APS 6
Reference: 31106
Housed in one of Australia's
most prominent national heritage listed buildings, the Museum of Australian
Democracy at Old Parliament House is the first and only museum in Australia
dedicated to telling the story of the journey of our democracy.
The museum provides a range of
innovative exhibitions, tours, interpretation, education programs and public
activities that inspire and challenge visitors to explore democracy from its
ancient roots to the present day and possible futures.
The Museum of Australian
Democracy at Old Parliament House is looking for an experienced, capable person
for the role of Database and ICT Officer. As a member of a small team, the
Database and ICT Officer is integral to the effective management of the ICT
support, the intranet and the collection and building database, along with
digital image management, which facilitate, document and provide mechanisms to
report on building, conservation and collection projects.
A key component for this
position will be implementing the assessment and reporting requirements in the
Heritage Management Plan, which arise out of the National Heritage Listing
under the Commonwealth EPBC Act 1999.
Selection documentation may be
obtained from www.moadoph.gov.au/about, by calling (02) 6270 8291 or emailing recruitment@moadoph.gov.au and quoting the above position number. Further
queries about the position can be directed to Ree Kent (02) 6270 8221 or email ree.kent@moadoph.gov.au.
Applications must be
received by COB Wednesday 23 September 2009
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10) Archaeology Manager
(Maternity Leave Position) , GML
Archaeology Manager (Maternity
Leave Position)-Contractor or Employee
§ Leading Australian heritage consultancy
§ Indigenous and non-indigenous heritage
§ Management and technical role
§ 12 month, full time contract
Leading Australian heritage
consultancy, Godden Mackay Logan, is seeking a temporary Archaeology Manager to
join our team.
GML provides high level
heritage advice on major development projects and undertakes benchmark projects
for public sector clients. We offer innovative and responsible archaeology and
heritage consultancy services of the highest quality. Our multi-disciplinary
in-house team of consulting staff has expertise in built heritage, conservation
planning, archaeology, industrial sites management and interpretation.
We are looking for a dynamic
person who is able to manage a team/s, and within time and budget
constraints. You will have a degree in archaeology and at least 6 years
experience, with a particular focus on consulting in historical archaeology
and/or indigenous archaeology. Experience or interest in other areas of
heritage management would be an advantage. Essential skills include team
management, excellent writing and other communication proficiency, stakeholder
engagement, management of small and large-scale fieldwork projects and
extensive experience in preparing archaeological assessments, research designs,
archaeological management plans, heritage impact statements and other advice
reports. You will also need an excellent knowledge of all relevant
heritage legislation and guidelines and a demonstrated ability to obtain
excavation permit(s) from the relevant consent authority.
GML offers an exciting range
of projects, and professional development and advancement opportunities.
This is a full time position,
offered on a contract or employee basis, and based in our main office in inner
Sydney. We also have a small office in Canberra and undertake interstate
work. The role is to fill a maternity leave vacancy, however there may be the
opportunity for ongoing employment.
Salary will be negotiable for
the right person.
GML is an AS/NZL ISO 9001:2000
quality certified company.
For more information please
contact Anne Mackay or Richard Mackay on (02) 9319 4811. Send your
application to positions@gml.com.au by 25 September 2009.
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11) Accountant (permanent
part-time), GML
Accountant (Permanent
Part-Time)
§ Financial and management accounting role
§ Part-time (c15 hours over 2-3 days)
§ SME Heritage Consultancy
§ Inner-Sydney Location
Leading Australian heritage
consultancy is seeking an experienced SME Accountant to join our vibrant
multi-disciplinary in-house team of experts in built heritage, urban planning,
archaeology, industrial sites and interpretation.
We are looking for a dynamic
person, who is innovative and thinks strategically, and who is able to work as
part of a team. You will need at least 5 years experience, with a
particular focus on financial and management accounting in a SME
environment. Essential skills include financial and management reporting,
systems maintenance and enhancement (including MYOB proficiency within an
integrated practice management system), cost analysis, budgeting and
forecasting, project reporting and analysis (including WIP data), and team
management and mentoring. Importantly, you will have strong commercial
awareness, excellent communication ability (written, oral and inter-personal),
and the initiative, drive and creativity to be self-directed, forward thinking
and advisory.
Ideally, you will have CPA
qualifications, however we will also consider tertiary professional accounting
qualifications with relevant experience.
This is a senior part time
position, based in our main office in inner Sydney. The Accounts team
also includes a full time Account Administrator and a part time Accounts Clerk.
Salary will be negotiable for
the right person.
GML is an AS/NZL ISO 9001:2000
quality certified company.
For more information,
including a position description, please contact Katie Hartsorn or Claire Geary
on (02) 9319 4811. Send your application to jobs@gml.com.au.
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12) Operations Coordinator GML
Operations Coordinator
§ Multi-faceted role - Operations, HR, Administration
focus
§ SME Heritage Consultancy
§ Inner-Sydney Location
Leading Sydney-based heritage
consultancy is seeking an experienced operations/administration all-rounder to
join our vibrant multi-disciplinary in-house team of experts in built heritage,
conservation planning, archaeology, industrial sites management and
interpretation.
We are looking for a dynamic
person who can multi-task, juggle competing pressures, and is able to work as
part of a team. You will need at least 2 years experience in a similar
role, with a particular focus on providing a range of support services within
an SME environment. Essential skills and knowledge include office
administration, HR, OHS, IT, day-to-day operations functions and exposure to
statutory requirements. Importantly, you will be a fabulous organizer and will
have strong commercial awareness, research acumen, excellent communication
ability (written, oral and inter-personal), and the initiative, motivation and
drive to be self-directed and forward thinking. You will also have strong
MS Office skills and experience in leading a small team.
Ideally, you will have
tertiary qualifications (Diploma or above) in business, HR or a related
discipline, and certified OHS training.
This position is based in our
main office in inner Sydney.
Salary will be negotiable for
the right person.
GML is an AS/NZL ISO 9001:2000
quality certified company.
For a position description or
more information please contact Katie Hartsorn or Claire Geary on (02) 9319
4811. Send your application to jobs@gml.com.au.
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