Links for November reading include a visual feast of libraries around the world; info on NSW Local Govt; Pest Management; and a video by Team Digital Preservation.
Quick poll: do your readers use gloves when accessing archives
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?
It’s Blog Action Day and the topic is climate change (and archives?)
You may wonder how an archives can contribute to saving the planet? Well, here we will introduce you to the newest building at the Western Sydney Records Centre which can boast of being world class in using the latest innovations in environmental technology.
Satisfaction Survey 2009 – we need you!
Yes, it’s that time of year again and the State Records Satisfaction Survey is now available. If you have visited our reading rooms or used our online resources in the past year we’d love to hear from you.
Archival links for September 2009
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.
Digi Man strikes again! [video]
Remember him? We previously posted a link to the YouTube video featuring Digi Man in “Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation”
New blog series starting next week
Next Monday sees the introduction of a new series of posts “Moments in Time…” and a new blogger….Rhonda Campbell our photographic expert!
The criminal underworld of Sydney in the 1840s [video]
Scandals, Crime and Corruption: History Week 2009 will be a wild journey through the dark shadows of our past. Discover the scandals, crime and corruption that have shocked us over time and shaped our history, sometimes in unexpected ways.
In keeping with this criminal theme we have put together this entertaining video Registry of Flash Men. It is a unique insight into the criminal underworld in Sydney during the 1840s.
The video features extracts from the journal Registry of Flash Men narrated by its writer ‘William Augustus Miles’ (aka Fabian LoSchiavo)
The journal was an official surveillance record by William Augustus Miles who was Superintendent, then Commissioner, of Sydney Police in New South Wales from July 1840 to July 1848. Miles held the belief that much crime was caused by the contamination of innocent people, and that most of the crime in Sydney was the result of former convicts mixing with free immigrants. He believed that the criminal class required constant surveillance by the police.
- View the complete manuscript and transcription (State Records website)
Watch this space for…A Day in the Life of a State Archive
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.