Gillian Oliver’s professional

p r a c t i c e b a c k g r o u n d

s p a n s i n f o r ma t i o n

management in the United

Kingdom, Germany and

New Zealand. Her research

interests reflect these

experiences, focusing on the

information cultures of

organisations. This is a key

component in the work she

is undertaking with Frank

Upward, Barbara Reed and Joanne Evans on the

reconceptualization of records management as recordkeeping

informatics. She has a PhD from Monash University,

Australia. As recipient of an Erasmus Mundus scholarship

awarded by the European Commission, she was Visiting Scholar at

Tallinn University in 2009. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the

Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute,

University of Glasgow and at The Open Polytechnic of New

Zealand. She has represented New Zealand’s information studies

education sector on the National Librarian’s strategic advisory

forum and in 2013 was appointed to Archives New Zealand’s

Archives Council. She has been a member of the New Zealand

Library and Information Management Journal editorial board since

2006, is Editor of Archifacts, the journal of the Archives and

Records Association of New Zealand and co-Editor-in-Chief of

Archival Science.

On the occasion of the

International Archives Day 2013

the National Archivist

Mr Charles J. Farrugia

requests the pleasure of your company at the lecture

“The Archivist in the Digital World:

importance of continuous professional development”

by Dr Gillian Oliver.

The event which is in collaboration with

the Malta Library and Information Association (MaLIA)

will take place at

the National Archives, Hospital Street, Rabat

on

Tuesday 11 June 2013 at 6.00 pm