Significant persons in the starting of the society include Phyllis Mander-Jones, and Robert Sharman who became the editor of the journal Archives and Manuscripts[3][4][5]
The inaugural meeting of the Society was held at the Australian National University in April 1975.[6] The first biennial conference was held in 1977.[7]
^Macmillan, David S. (David Stirling); Fischer, Gerald Lyn. Archival concepts and commandments; Library Association of Australia. Archives Section (1957), Australian business archives, Archives Section, Library Association of Australia, retrieved 27 September 2018
^Sharman, Robert (November 1985), "Thirty years of 'Archives and Manuscripts' -Series of seven parts- Part 3: Periodical fits of morality", Archives and Manuscripts, 13 (2): 118–126, ISSN0157-6895
^Australian Society of Archivists Incorporated, Papers of Robert Sharman, retrieved 27 September 2018
^"Archivists meet In Canberra". The Canberra Times. Vol. 50, no. 14, 777. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 16 May 1977. p. 7. Retrieved 7 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.