Today is International Archives Day!
To celebrate we thought we would highlight the diversity of Archives in New South Wales by picking 6 examples.
Twitter as a promotional tool for collections – some different approaches
A quick look at some examples of the promotion of cultural collections on twitter…
MayDay 2010 – Saving our Heritage
Australia’s archives, galleries, libraries, museums and heritage places are gearing up for the national MayDay campaign in a bid to protect the nation’s heritage from avoidable disasters.
April 2010: Link roundup post
Just some of the interesting items we have found online.
Results of poll on Web 2.0 Stakeholder engagement
The results of the web 2.0 stakeholder poll are in! The poll asked the question “How does you organisation engage stakeholders with Web2.0?”
Macquarie 2010: the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone (Newcastle)
Follow the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone laid in 1818 at the Newcastle breakwater.
Poll: Stakeholders & Web 2.0
Government 2.0 is a key means for renewing the public sector; offering new tools for public servants to engage and respond to the community; empower the enthusiastic, share ideas and further develop their expertise through networks of knowledge with fellow professionals and others.
Emerging Technologies For the Provision of Access to Archives: issues, challenges and ideas
“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.”
Remembrance Day 2009
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.