A meeting place for people who manage archival collections
Posted on February 8, 2010 by Fiona Sullivan
“Web 2.0 and 3.0 will not change archives. But they do provide tools with which archives can change themselves. Doing so will require many old and different questions to be re-examined.”
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by Gionni DiGravio
The Jarry – Gray manuscript was purchased in March 2001 as an early settler’s diary by the University of Newcastle Cultural Collections’ then archivist Denis Rowe. Mr Rowe retired soon after and it stayed under lock and key until late 2005….
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Posted on February 1, 2010 by Rhonda Campbell
This image is of what is considered Sydney’s main street….George St.
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by Richard Gore
…This small group of documents shows how a relatively trivial incident came to the attention of the Colonial authorities in late June/early July 1866, and how it was promptly dealt with. The papers were duly filed by a clerk of the Colonial Secretary’s Office, and there they remained undisturbed for 120 years.
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Posted on January 28, 2010 by Anthea Brown
Our first link post for the year of just some of the interesting items we have found online.
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by Anthea Brown
Here’s a blast from the past: we recently ran across the short-lived but much loved in-house comic strip The Archivist and the Aardvark. Created by Michael R Allen it was first published in an internal staff newsletter in 1976.
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Posted on January 22, 2010 by Bea Scanned
8:53am – Physically, and perhaps philosophically, I am a digital version of my original self. I am reporting from inside ‘the network’. It appears my investigation is almost at an end.
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Posted on January 21, 2010 by Bea Scanned
The latest “Day in the Life of…” from an archive in the State Records NSW collection. This informative series focuses on how to add a digital gallery to your website, featuring our latest online exhibition “Lachlan Macquarie: visionary and builder”
Continue ReadingPosted on January 20, 2010 by Bea Scanned
3:13pm – I listen as some of the Macquarie ‘docs’ tell fond stories of the good ol’ days, known as B.M. (Before Microfilm). Researchers in the reading room would get excited to see Lachlan Macquarie’s initials “LM” personally scrawled by him…
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Posted on January 19, 2010 by Bea Scanned
11:54am – Oddly enough, the majority of conservation required is actually to repair damage sustained from old conservation techniques.
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