minutes_18_november_2022_shellharbour_city_library_and_online_local_studies
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NSW Local Studies Librarians meeting
Local Studies Librarians’ Meeting 18 November 2022
Shellharbour Library and online
18 November 2022 Shellharbour City Library 76 Cygnet Avenue, Shellharbour City Centre and online
Minutes
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.
Paul Rowe, Vernon Systems Ltd. Product Overview: Using eHive to catalogue and share your collection online.
- ehive system, hosted by Vernon Systems
- can use to manage the collection in private, but can share publicly, or only have it private
- ehive.com/info.ehive.com (includes pricing)
- has facets to refine searches (base on search results options)
- can include multiple images per catalogue record
- clear rights management, can include cultural permissions and creative commons
- option to permit community to add comments/tags
- tag cloud for most popular categories in your collection
- visual summary of items available – browsable access
- can have multi-user access with different levels of access for different staff members
- can generate reports – for example can download all your ehive records
- there are public and private views of records (so can have information you don’t want to be public
- can clone records
- some analytics – number of visits and popular items
- all New Zealand museums have collections in ehive
- can style the layout to match local style guides
- integrated with Trove
questions
- high resolution images will use storage space faster (they count in the storage volume)
- Vernon CMS has more advanced systems, used by larger organisations
- Parramatta uses Veron CMS https://zoom.us/j/93120037155?pwd=aGNhVWlNMFZ6Sk1zaVRNdTBvRVZ6dz09
- North Sydney uses ehive https://zoom.us/j/93120037155?pwd=aGNhVWlNMFZ6Sk1zaVRNdTBvRVZ6dz09
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