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CASE Notes February 2005
CASE Notes
February 2005
Life after CASE: A national organisation beckons
As any vaguely business-minded person would know, the only way ahead is to keep moving. Stand still and before you know it you're so far behind your image is the size of a full stop on a blank page that's quickly turning.
Australian editors have come a long way since creating the Council of Australian Societies of Editors. CASE was conceived informally in 1998, bringing together eight state society delegates to plan and implement activities that would benefit Australian editors at a national level. CASE's document Australian Standards for Editing Practice was published in 2001.
CASE's more recent venture, and one which followed on naturally after the Standards document, has been the creation of an accreditation process for editors. Accreditation fosters recognition of and confidence in the profession, and confers credit on editors.
But accreditation would be impossible to implement if CASE remains an informal body. Without a formal status, CASE has no control over its finances-it cannot open a bank account-and has no means of protecting its members from liability.
The next natural step for editors is to create a national organisation. What this means is that CASE would be disbanded and an incorporated association would be registered in the name chosen by its members (see below). The national organisation will play a supporting role towards the state societies. It will primarily concern itself with promotional and professional issues and outcomes for its members in Australia-and at some stage even beyond. The exact structural model, its composition and functions have yet to be detailed. An Issues Report on the formation of a national organisation is due in July this year.
Editors need a voice which represents their interests nationally and internationally. A national organisation of editors will seek to advance the editing profession and find ways to ensure a highly regarded and sustained presence in related business and professional spheres.
The National Organisation Working Group is looking for volunteers to help it with its historic transition. Particularly welcome would be the input of any member who has experience in and/or knowledge of governance models for nonprofit organisations.
Haya Husseini Convenor, National Organisation Working Group Council of Australian Societies of Editors www.case-editors.org
NEW NAME NEEDED
It's your national body: you choose the name. The aim of our new national body is to advance the editing profession of Australia. In the long run it may look for potential membership from neighbouring countries such as New Zealand and Singapore. It needs a professional name that reflects our image. We hope to launch the new name at the national conference in Melbourne in October. Here are some suggestions in alphabetical order:
Editors Australia Editors' Guild Institute of Professional Editors Professional Editors' Association Society of Editors The Company of Editors ..................... (your suggestion)
Please send your choice (one name only please) by Friday 15 April to: susan@seaviewpress.com.au or Susan Rintoul Seaview Press PO Box 234 Henley Beach SA 5022
