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Category Archives: Archives Made Easy
Staff Picks [1870 Convict records disposal schedule]
My favourite archives are those which elucidate – what records were created, how they functioned, how they changed over time, if they were transferred to another agency…
RAPPSIG recap: What Happened at the 2010 Seminar “Reference & Access in the Digital Age”
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.
April 2010: Link roundup post
Just some of the interesting items we have found online.
What are your tips for dating photographs?
Many images in our collection have come to us with only the barest of details attached. Your knowledge, interest and enjoyment in identifying dates and locations is helping us to fill in some of the blanks and, in turn, provide better access to the State’s archives.
March 2010: Link roundup post
Estrays, logbooks, museum grants and more…….
February 2010: Link roundup post
Just some of the interesting items we have found online.
January 2010: Link roundup post
Our first link post for the year of just some of the interesting items we have found online.
The Archivist and The Aardvark [a comic strip]
Here’s a blast from the past: we recently ran across the short-lived but much loved in-house comic strip The Archivist and the Aardvark. Created by Michael R Allen it was first published in an internal staff newsletter in 1976.