Agenda for 10, 11 and 12 June 2025 wider local studies
Wider local studies was on 10 - 11 June for the online seminar, and 12 June for discussion session.
- 9.00am AWST (Western Australia);
- 10.30 ACST (South Australia and Northern Territory),
- 11.00 AEST (ACT, NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) and run to 13.30pm AWST; 15.00 ACST, 15.30 AEST.
10 June 2025 agenda Times are shown in AEST.
Jo Cooper, State Library of South Australia to chair
11.00am Welcome to the seminar and Acknowledgement of Country
Local studies and inclusion
11.05 am Abby Hoverstock and Laura Ruttum Senturia Denver Public Library
Between 2020 and 2022, Special Collections and Archives staff at the Denver (Colorado) Public Library designed and oversaw a diversity audit of their nearly 6,000 manuscript and photograph collections. Abby Hoverstock, Manager of Archives, and Laura Ruttum Senturia, Archives Access Supervisor, led the process. Audit results highlighted the need for reparative cataloging to collection descriptions, among other issues. Their team formed a Diversity Audit Action Committee to research, propose, and adopt necessary descriptive changes for a variety of people and communities in their collections.
11.50 am Dr Ellen Forsyth State Library of NSW Collecting with your community: local studies collections - deliberate practices of inclusion or collection silences?
Slides including citations for presentation by Ellen Forsyth
12.30 - 1.00pm 30 minute break
Ellen Forsyth, State Library of NSW to chair
10 minute talks
Slides for 10 minute presentations 10 June 2025
- 1.00pm Holly Millward Educational History Site Studies - Material for the Classroom and at Home NSW
- 1.10pm Teishan Ahearne Local history from the bottom up Victoria
- 1.20 pm Ellen Coates Collecting Movies and TV in local history Victoria
- 1.30 pm Louise Riley A Monumental Task: trying to keep track of local plaques and markers NSW
- 1.40pm Jenny Ryan Hands on Heritage Workshops Queensland
- 1.50pm Jo Cooper Spindle – Find Your Thread Through South Australia. LibrariesSA and State Library of South Australia state wide implementation of Recollect South Australia
11 June 2025 agenda Times are shown in AEST.
Nicole Hilder, Port Phillip Library Service, Victoria to chair
11.00am Welcome to the seminar and Acknowledgement of Country
Oral history
11.05am Dealing with legacy oral history (and other) items where there is no paper work/provenance - Maria Savvidis State Library of NSW and NSW OH president to talk about NSLA Procedural guidelines: Risk assessment in oral history recordings
11.30 am Dr. Christopher Cheng (Jan A. Chiu) Let’s Guard the Candlelight : Un-silencing Our Multilingual Past through Oral History
11:50am Dr Anisa Puri from the Language Data Commons of Australia. Her project Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections aims to identify and create a list of precarious oral history collections in Victoria that are held outside of major cultural institutions. The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project
12.10 Matthew Burgess State Library of NSW on digital preservation will include Digital preservation coalition free resources + free online training see the video for the links
mentioned in chat
12.50 - 1.20pm 30 minute break
Annabelle Tonkin, State Library of Queensland to chair
10 minute talks
Slides for 10 minute presentations 11 June 2025
- 1.20pm Kyla Stephan Impact of Cyclone Alfred Queensland
- 1.30pm Glenn Harper Flickr: making local history images accessible Victoria
- 1.40pm Samantha Figueroa Local Aboriginal Community Oral Histories NSW
- 1.50 Amy Sheaffe Events and Outreach Queensland
- 2.00 Kerrie Shaw When a collection Snowballs NSW
2:10 Uncovering local history collections Mia Peardon, Margery C Ramsay scholarship recipient 2025
Finish 2:30pm
The 12 June 2025 discussion session was for 90 minutes starting at
- 9.00am AWST;
- 10.30 ACST,
- 11.00 AEST.
This session was not recorded.