With her Monash colleagues she has developed innovative, integrated, multi-disciplinary approaches to records management, archival and information management education at postgraduate and undergraduate levels within the framework provided by records continuum and information continuum theory. In 1998-9 she led the SPIRT research project that developed a framework for standardizing recordkeeping metadata, has been Research Director of the Records Continuum Group since 1997, and is currently Director of the new Monash Enterprise Information Research Group. Sue McKemmish was editor of Archives and Manuscripts in 1997-8 and is a Laureate of the Australian Society of Archivists. Before joining Monash in 1990, she worked for 15 years as an archivist with the National Archives of Australia and the Public Record Office of Victoria.