Posts Tagged Access

QArchives – Christine Yeats

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Well, I have always felt there is really no justification for investing a lot of resources and efforts into accepting archives in the first place, then arranging and describing them ….putting all that effort into looking after them if, at the end of the day, we don’t promote the use of the records.

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Are some records more open than others?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by

Are you thinking of putting some of your collection online? Have you already uploaded photos to sites like Flickr? Deciding what and how you put material online presents a set of issues a little different from mounting an exhibition or providing access on site.

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Twitter as a promotional tool for collections – some different approaches

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

A quick look at some examples of the promotion of cultural collections on twitter…

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RAPPSIG recap: What Happened at the 2010 Seminar “Reference & Access in the Digital Age”

Posted on May 19, 2010 by

On 12 May the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) – NSW Branch and the ASA Reference Access and Public Program Special Interest Group (RAPPSIG) co-hosted a seminar looking at the impact of digitisation and other digital initiatives on archival reference and access in the 21st century.

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Creating a digital gallery (part 5 – putting it all online)

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

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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Creating a digital gallery (part 4 – digitisation and transcription)

Posted on January 21, 2010 by

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”

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Creating a digital gallery – Macquarie through the magnifying glass (or part 3 – research)

Posted on January 20, 2010 by

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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Creating a digital gallery (part 2 – conservation check)

Posted on January 19, 2010 by

11:54am – Oddly enough, the majority of conservation required is actually to repair damage sustained from old conservation techniques.

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Creating a digital gallery (part 1 – the planning committee)

Posted on January 18, 2010 by

9:27am – There are two people in the ‘meeting room’. They are part of a larger syndicate group called the ‘Exhibition Committee’. Members come from far and wide across the organisation – I hear talk that they each represent a different phase of the project.

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Watch this space for a behind-the-scenes look at creating an online gallery

Posted on January 14, 2010 by

To start the New Year off with a bit of fun: next week we bring you a new series, written by Bea Scanned (a close friend of Ann Item, who brought you the Day in the Life of a State Archive series).

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Macquarie 2010 – celebrating 200 years

Posted on January 1, 2010 by

On this day, 200 years ago, Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales. State Records NSW has put together a digital gallery to celebrate Macquarie, who was governor of New South Wales from 1 January 1810 – 1 December 1821.

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Results of the ‘glove’ poll

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

The ‘glove’ poll has been closed and the results are in. It’s almost neck and neck with nitrile gloves (29%) vs cotton gloves (26%).

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Quick poll: do your readers use gloves when accessing archives

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

On the whole the preferred choice of glove is nitrile. I’m curious to know whether your readers have a ‘glove preference’ when accessing your archives? Or if readers are required to wear them?

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A Day in the Life of a State Archive (part 4)

Posted on September 10, 2009 by

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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