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minutes_18_november_2022_shellharbour_city_library_and_online_local_studies [2022/11/20 15:53] ellen.forsyth_sl.nsw.gov.auminutes_18_november_2022_shellharbour_city_library_and_online_local_studies [2022/11/20 22:06] (current) ellen.forsyth_sl.nsw.gov.au
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 **Minutes** **Minutes**
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 +25 participants onsite, 46 online
  
 **Margie Kirkness,** Library Manager, Shellharbour City Library welcomed us and  **Margie Kirkness,** Library Manager, Shellharbour City Library welcomed us and 
-acknowledged that we are on Dharawal country and acknowledged the country that each of the libraries participating are on. Margie highlighting the importance of hybrid meetings.+acknowledged that we are on Dharawal country and acknowledged the country that each of the libraries participating are on. Margie highlighting the importance of hybrid meetings.  
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 +The video below is the recording of the presentations at the meeting. 
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 +{{youtube>re6q9aSW6Vo}} 
  
 **Paul Rowe**, Vernon Systems Ltd. Product Overview: Using eHive to catalogue and share your collection online. **Paul Rowe**, Vernon Systems Ltd. Product Overview: Using eHive to catalogue and share your collection online.
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   * includes handwritten text recognition – supports Latin character sets (90ish% accuracy)   * includes handwritten text recognition – supports Latin character sets (90ish% accuracy)
   * example site from Texas Wesleyan University https://archives.txwes.edu/ and Baylor https://digitalcollections-baylor.quartexcollections.com/ and Harris Park Public Library https://www.digitalarchive.hcpl.net/   * example site from Texas Wesleyan University https://archives.txwes.edu/ and Baylor https://digitalcollections-baylor.quartexcollections.com/ and Harris Park Public Library https://www.digitalarchive.hcpl.net/
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 +3.30 - 4 pm General Business
 +1. Protecting local government photographs - What is the protection after 7 years? How do you ensure items are retained?
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 +  * Need to make sure you have the items before they are deleted/removed, plus make sure you have permissions
 +  * People need to investigate what category of records the photographs go into 
 +  * Possible future speaker from State Records on record deletions especially photographs
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 +2. TROVE: Is there value in being harvested by TROVE? Which libraries are currently on TROVE? If not why not?
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 +  * Northern Beaches – referrals via Trove so increases local use
 +  * General discussion about the discoverability from Trove as a positive things
 +  * Value in adding items to Trove
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 +3. Local Studies enquiries
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 +  * Research can be quite involved and take a great deal of time. Do any libraries let clients know the dollar value of this work?
 +  * Discussion of quotes for professional research
 +  * Question of cross charging in council – some have tried, but most no charging for internal research
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 +4. Do house history workshops generate more research/questions from clients?
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 +  * Small follow up on the research – from Mosman
 +  * Some increase in Goulburn (training provided between Goulbourn and Queanbeyan)
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 +5. Oral History Australia Biennial Conference 2022.
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 +  * Feedback from Fran and Julie – good feedback from the panel session they presented in, wonderful opportunity to showcase their work, ideas to think about from other sessions - how to create new history with the Aboriginal community, and thinking about how to do this. Crisis oral history collecting – 
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 +Question about significance assessment – wanting to know how to prioritise archives for digitisation and other work
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 +6. Next meeting – venue and topics – and need to be able to run a hybrid meeting like at Marrickville or Shellharbour – this is not optional since we had 46 people online and 25 onsite.  Needs to provide high quality sound and vision for online and onsite.
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 +7. Eligibility for travel subsidy for this meeting - [[https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/public-library-services/services/forms|see details here]]
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