A meeting place for people who manage archival collections
Posted on September 30, 2009 by Anthea Brown
By no means exhaustive, how could it be? Too many archival websites, too little time. Below is a broad spectrum of interesting reading and viewing from around an archivally themed internet.
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Posted on September 10, 2009 by Ann Item
The viewing! It’s 9am and our savvy web surfer is here. In fact, he arrived a bit earlier than the opening time and has been patiently waiting in the reader’s lounge with a cup of tea.
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Posted on September 9, 2009 by Ann Item
OK, it’s retrieval time; OMG, how exciting! The clerk on retrieval duty is on her way to collect me. Boy, does she have a long way to walk. The retrieval staff at State Records NSW walk, on average, 10-12km a day. According to her GCC pedometer she has already walked 15,564 steps.
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Posted on September 8, 2009 by Ann Item
- from request to delivery
[or: The Amazing Adventures of Dame Nellie Melba's Probate Packet]
Well, it’s ‘tomorrow’ and the pre-order is under way. Our savvy web surfer submitted the pre-order form yesterday and the archivist on ‘pre-order duty’ has received my details.
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Posted on September 7, 2009 by Ann Item
- from request to delivery
[or: The Amazing Adventures of Dame Nellie Melba's Probate Packet]
Someone just found me on the internet! I’m listed in a database called Archives Investigator – the online archival catalogue at State Records NSW. Not all of the 7+ million items stored here have been listed in the system so I feel [...]
Posted on September 4, 2009 by Anthea Brown
It is a light-hearted look at some of the procedures and policies we have in place to make State archives accessible in the reading room at Western Sydney.
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Posted on September 1, 2009 by Katharine Stuart
Metadata works much the same way as a card index catalogue – it provides information about a particular object. This information can be quite basic or incredibly detailed, layered and complex depending on your needs.
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Posted on September 1, 2009 by Fiona Sullivan
This is a roundup of some interesting links that we’ve stumbled across over the last month or so. If you’re interested in Archives 2.0, Conservation, Archival Processing and Research tools click here.
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Posted on July 31, 2009 by Bill Speirs
The most important aspect of the Temora Community Archive Project is that through it, Temora has developed a way to effectively preserve and manage its unique community records over the long term. We worked on the assumption, that if the community had a better alternative…they would use it. They do.
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by William Oates
The exact location of the photo is critical to the process. Without knowing your location on the planet, you cannot work out the location of the sun to get the date and time.
Continue ReadingAccess A Day in the Life admission register Archives 2.0 Armidale arrangement and description blog CAN Charles Sturt University Regional Archives cinema conservation costumes digital preservation digital records distributed management flickr fragile records glass plate negatives handwriting hunter region maps military Moments in Time Newcastle nurse online gallery paleography photographs plans poll Powerhouse Museum Remembrance Day researchers schools social media sticky tape storage Temora theatre tips Twitter University of Newcastle Library University of New England and Regional Archives University of Wollongong Library video
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