Have you been watching Underbelly: Razor last night? One of the episodes a couple of weeks ago was based on a court deposition from our collection. It makes for very chilling reading and goes into much depth over the 101 pages of the transcript.
It’s not often our records turn up on tele but there are as many stories referring to the trials and tribulations of life in our collection as there are pages in our archives.
To paraphrase from TV : 10 million items and counting…
A special newsflash to our Archives Outside readers to let you know that the Open Day Booking Form is now open for business!
There are limited spaces available in some workshops so make sure you book in early.
We’re looking forward to meeting some of you in person!
#srnswopenday
On 14 September we passed the two year mark for the Moments in Time series here on the blog. You have helped us to date and locate around 115 photos from our collection and we want to say thank you!
To mark this milestone we have compiled a book, appropriately titled “Moments in Time” over on the blurb.com website. The 70 page book contains images from both our Moments in Time blog series and Flickr photostream and it includes comments made by you!
The book can be ordered directly from the blurb.com website and comes as a hard cover or a soft cover…
Thank you!
Last week we mentioned that State Records is having an Open day on Friday 28th October. There’s been a lot of buzz and excitement around here, loads of coffee and brainstorming.
We’ve gathered together mugshots of some real life Underbelly: Razor characters below. Do they look like their TV counterparts?
It was some time ago now but you might remember the post we wrote in April 2010 asking your opinion on providing a digital camera in the reading rooms for researchers to use. We received some great advice and suggestions in that post on the possible pros and cons and we are happy to announce there is now a digital camera up and running in the Kingswood reading room.
The set-up is slightly different to what was initially imagined:
We hope this new, free service will be as useful to our researchers as that at the Public Records Office of Victoria (now with two cameras in the reading room and one recently installed at their Ballarat office).
The USB stick can also be used in conjunction with another digital services now provided in our reading room- researchers can now make digital copies from fiche or film.
The camera is a Canon EOS 60D with Canon EF28mm f1.8 lens attached to LPL CS II Copy Stand. The software ‘EOS Utility’ comes with the camera. We also have a AC adapter (canon Ack-E6) so there is to need to keep charging batteries.
There is also a second camera that will be set up soon this was donated by Ancestry.com. Canon rebel T1i (American equivalent to out 550D) with 50mm Marco lens and Kaiser stand .
Our sister blog, Future Proof, recently wrote a piece that we thought would be of interest to you. Called Digitisation Dilemmas the post highlights nine risk factors to be aware of when undertaking digitisation projects.
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.
an online program designed to help archivists learn about some of the most commonly used social media (or Web 2.0) tools…a way to encourage employees to explore and expand their knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0 by having them do “23 Things
