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NSW Local studies Librarians' meeting
Marrickville library 29 March 2022 9.15am - 4-14pm
MINUTES
In person attendees:??
Virtual attendees:??
Acknowledgment and Welcome to Country/housekeeping
9.30 - 10 Marrickville Library tour – first session.
9.30 - 10 Info sharing - Australian Heritage Festival, History Week, general business, next meeting
10.05 - 10.45 Mary Lou Byrne, Librarian, Mosman Library Services Mosman Faces: Ten years of telling Mosman’s stories on film.
10.50 - 11 Local Studies in a Flash Kimberly O’Sullivan, Cessnock Showcasing your Local Studies collection via a YouTube channel
Michelle Nichols, Hawkesbury TBA
11 - 11.30 Marrickville Library tour – second session.
11 - 11.30 Info sharing - Australian Heritage Festival, History Week, general business, next meeting
11.35 - 12.15 Michelle Richmond, Northern Beaches Navigating the Department of Lands Website
12.20 – 12.40 Local Studies in a Flash
Alison Wishart, Bayside Challenges and learnings of the 'Flashback Friday’ online sessions held during the COVID19 lockdown.
Justin Yeomans and John MacRitchie, Georges River, We Are Georges River a project which consisted of an outdoor photographic exhibition during Covid19 lockdown and the use of QR codes linking to a dedicated website.
Brigid Whitbread, Queanbeyan-Palerang Treasures from the tip
Michelle Goldsmith, Central Coast, Moving beyond ‘Can everyone see my screen?’ Online family history programming during lockdown and beyond
12.45 – 1.45 Lunch
1.45 - 2.30 Recollect team presentation: Recollect is a Special Collection Management and Community Engagement platform. Roger Mills, formerly of Northern Beaches Council and now an implementation consultant for Recollect reseller partner in Australia, spoke about the Recollect implementations he's done over the past year. Tyler Hersey, Business Development Manager and Gavin Mitchell CEO at Recollect provided an introduction and overview of the Recollect product, its capabilities and applications for libraries and local studies collections.
2.35 - 3.15 Nagat Abdalla, project team, Melbourne. Nagat resented “Cooking recovery and connections. A project led by public housing residents to support COVID19 recovery and the wellbeing of the residents of the nine towers in North Melbourne and Flemington
3.15 - 4 Alinde Bierhuizen, Curator at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Alinde spoke about how Fairfield City Open Libraries and Fairfield City Museum & Gallery have used Recollect to develop the Fairfield City Heritage Collection website. Alinde spoke about the pros and cons of the system which generated interest and answered many questions.
4 - 4.15 last item was presented by Amie Zar, from the Inner West Libraries. Amie presented a short video on the Inner West Library Service made for the Slovenian Public Libraries.
Close 4.15pm
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