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**Presentations and video from 17 September 2020 Wider local studies**

**COVID-19 collecting**

This section has a series of short presentations from people in different states and territories about how they have been collecting local studies information about the pandemic

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Mark Gilbert from the State Library of South Australia will speak about the use of social media to promote the use of Recollect to capture the community’s experience of COVID-19

Bronwyn Miller from Richmond Tweed Regional Library, working in Byron Shire Council  in NSW will talk about how she has been recording oral histories of library staff and photographing the local area during the pandemic.

Jaimee-Lee Prow Community Development officer from Blackall-Tambo Regional Council worked with the local community to create the series  'COVID Chronicles' 
Links to the stories on Facebook (see below)

[[https://www.facebook.com/1159484084079943/videos/822114791607370/|ANZAC DAY]] 
 
[[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=845590055966104&extid=yj1PrjeCiEaHwMdX |Agriculture ‘Food for Thought’]] 

[[https://www.facebook.com/110085534041177/videos/1144978235901827/|When History Knocks]]  

[[https://www.facebook.com/110085534041177/videos/273929107189609/|Love through a Pandemic]] 

[[https://www.facebook.com/110085534041177/videos/879275595911933/|Education]]
  
[[https://www.facebook.com/110085534041177/videos/257258445385078/|Covid Kids]]  

[[https://www.facebook.com/110085534041177/videos/620583461869050/ |Our Older People]]  

[[https://www.facebook.com/110085534041177/videos/3192378547465425/|Jab & Go Flu Vax]]  


Discussion of COVID-19 collecting (15 – 20 minutes)  
  * what people have collected (formats, volume of items) 
  * how they are planning on cataloguing, preserving and making available 
  * are there collection plan/policy implications or was this kind of collecting already included? 

  * Part 2 50 minutes we may not get through all the planned topics
  * Discussion - How were people collecting ephemera  pre-pandemic?
  * Is there local ephemera you can salvage especially about things which won’t be the same (arts events) and cancelled events? 
  * [[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/news-corp-to-cut-jobs-in-restructure-towards-digital-newspapers/12294970|Impact of changes to local newspapers]] – what are the emerging news sources if your newspaper closed/changed format   
  * What is the impact of this change to local newspapers on your local studies collecting? 
  * Are there any interesting new sources of information which have emerged? 
  * What other work are you doing in local studies?
  * Suggested topics for next meeting (in 2021)