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**9.40 – 10.20am General Business** | **9.40 – 10.20am General Business** | ||
- | | + | ** - Local studies audit update:** Local studies audit results are still being compiled. Some of the notable areas that require further discussion and assistance for public libraries are - no preservations plans, 70% of respondents didn't have a preservation plan; lack of disaster plans; staffing time for local studies; Indigenous heritage material. Possible assistance and training in these areas to be considered. Digital material is still increasing. How is the data used from the audit? - Data is used to provide training and support of projects that further enhance local studies access. Portable local studies outreach was a direct result of the audit from 5 years ago. Are we archiving web material on our own websites? Not currently being done by most libraries. |
- | - Wider Local Studies sessions | + | |
- | - INDY READS, Ellen Forsyth, SLNSW | + | ** - Wider Local Studies sessions:** Once a month drop in sessions on 1st Wednesday of the month at 2pm. These are combined Wider local studies (national local studies discussion) and NSW public library discussion. |
- | **10.25 – 10.55am Grace Karskens**, Emeritus Professor | + | ** - INDY READS, Ellen Forsyth, SLNSW:** Currently no further progression on uploading local studies oral histories and ebooks to Indyreads. Odilo has undergone some staff changes as well as being based in Spain and dealing with the consequences |
- | **1 1- 11. 10am Short Break** | + | ** - Wiki training:** Please contact Ellen or Kate O' |
- | **11.15 – 11.55am Kate Eastick**, Exhibition Curator Albury LibraryMuseum. Collaboration | + | ** - Possible topics for discussion at next meeting:** Mice, mould and other pests. Archiving websites. Possible buddy system between libraries to assist local studies staff. Any other topics of interest, please let a committee member know. |
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+ | W & F Pascoes will be closing in June. The digitisation part of the business has been sold but microfilming will cease when they close. Other companies for microfilming to be considered. | ||
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+ | **10.35 – 10.55am Local Studies in a Flash: 10 slides in 5 minutes** | ||
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+ | ** - Alison Wishart, Community History Project Officer, Rockdale.** Community History Harmonisation Project | ||
+ | Alison is auditing the local studies collection for Bayside | ||
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+ | ** - Angela Phippen, Programs Librarian, Local Studies Ryde.** Using social media to publicise Ryde’s Chinese market gardeners during the Lunar New Year festivities | ||
+ | For Lunar New Year 2021 promotion | ||
+ | Angela chose 6 short biographies and photos of Chinese market gardeners to promote on social media highlighting the research that can be found in archives. Angela aimed to provide more engagement through interactions | ||
+ | You can see all the posts here [[https:// | ||
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+ | **10.55 - 11.35am Grace Karskens**, Emeritus Professor | ||
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+ | Grace provided an interesting insight into how she uses local studies collections in her research. Consider using different areas to look at for history research such as houses, roads and maps and essential local records. People and landscapes provide further information and details in her research. Previously a lack of Indigenous history was provided in schooling, however historians now look at the broader history and include Indigenous and convict history. This has also occurred with the women' | ||
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**12 -12.40pm Dr. Erik Champion**, Emeritus Professor at Curtin, Hon Research Prof at ANU and Hon Research Fellow at UWA. Virtual heritage: tools, projects, hopes and challenges. | **12 -12.40pm Dr. Erik Champion**, Emeritus Professor at Curtin, Hon Research Prof at ANU and Hon Research Fellow at UWA. Virtual heritage: tools, projects, hopes and challenges. | ||
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+ | Erik presented a view of virtual heritage, combining virtual reality with cultural heritage as a way of explaining and engaging in cultural heritage. Interactive history can be used to view different perspectives and express concepts such as intangible heritage. Some of the challenges facing virtual heritage include copyright, software standards that are unable to be shared and cost of equipment. Gaming set ups can be programmed to interact with history and provide an opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with the public. His [[https:// | ||
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**12.45- 2pm Lunch** | **12.45- 2pm Lunch** | ||
- | **2 -2.40pm Tim Pike** Collection, Facility Project Manager, Bathurst Regional Council The Central Tablelands Collections Facility: The evolution | + | **2.00 pm-2.05pm, 2.22 pm-3.15 pm Tim Pike - Collection, Facility Project Manager, Bathurst Regional Council, ‘The Central Tablelands Collections Facility, or What to do with lots of stuff!’** |
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+ | Tim Pike gave a very interesting presentation about the background and planning of the new Central Tablelands Collections Facility being built in Bathurst, which will house and service the museum objects, artworks and records from the Bathurst region. | ||
+ | [The presentation was paused temporarily soon after Tim commenced his PowerPoint presentation at 2.05 pm, as he lost internet access, before recommencing at 2.22 pm] | ||
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+ | Ellen Forsyth talked about the [localstudies] FW: Untapped: the Australian Literary Project email that she emailed today. | ||
+ | Donna Braye mentioned that Ellen Forsyth had suggested she write to the State Library of NSW requesting that someone write a workshop on virtual heritage or creating a heritage game. | ||
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+ | Angela Pippen said that there is a great project happening in Ireland – “Beyond 2022 : Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury ” project, that is doing a virtual reconstruction of the interior of the courts building burnt in 1922, and putting copies of digitized copies of duplicate records that survived elsewhere on this website. A little demonstration is available on this website https:// | ||
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+ | Michelle Nichols reported that the Hawkesbury Library and Hawkesbury City Council were both closed due to the flooding, and she was working from home. Michelle said the the new bridge was supposed to be flood free, but it went under water within 24 hours, before the dam water was released, so it is not very effective. | ||
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+ | A discussion was held about the closing of [W. & F.] Pascoe’s microfilming and digital conversion services. Michelle [Nichols or Richmond??] said that the microfilming will be operating until the end of June, then the digital conversion services section [which has been sold] will be moving to Hornsby. Donna Braye said that it should work really well with the new owners. John Johnson from Canada Bay said he was presently surprised dealing recently with Gosford Micrographics, | ||
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+ | Kate Eastick gave an informative presentation looking at 2 exhibitions she worked at with community groups before Covid, and her experiences presenting these exhibitions during the Covid period, and her reflections on the benefits and challenges of curatorial collaboration. | ||
+ | The first exhibition presented was the art exhibition ‘Earth Canvas: Art in Ag : Linking Artists with Regenerative Farmers’, with programs including a writer’s festival, workshops and on farm events, and working with six artists. | ||
+ | The second exhibition presented was ‘Nurses on Call : Celebrating the Year of the Nurse and Midwife’. When Covid came in the proposed hospital display in collaboration with Albury Wodonga Health had to be moved entirely online. The move online meant a change of content, and utilising Council resources for website design and hosting, and learning a log about online processes and permissions, | ||
- | **2.45 – 3pm Local Studies in a Flash: 10 slides in 5 minutes** | + | **Next meeting:** |
- | - Alison Wishart, Community History Project Officer, Rockdale. Community History Harmonisation Project | + | Donna Braye advised the next meeting is planned for November. The meeting is supposed to be held at Moree next. It will be either online or at Moree. |
- | - Angela Phippen, Programs Librarian, Local Studies Ryde. Using social media to publicise Ryde’s Chinese market gardeners during the Lunar New Year festivities | + | Online Zoom meeting closed at 3.59 pm. |
- | **3 - 4pm General Business** | ||
- | - Local studies audit update | ||
- | - Wider Local Studies sessions | ||
- | - INDY READS, Ellen Forsyth, SLNSW | ||
- | - Next meeting | ||
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