NAIDOC Week is held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The 2010 National NAIDOC theme is ‘Unsung Heroes-Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way’.
On the Hunt for the Lost Threlkeld Manuscript
An original manuscript Journal belonging to the late Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld, missionary to the Aborigines in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie areas in the 1820s onward has been digitised and uploaded to the University of Newcastle’s Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region.
Can you locate this foreshore?
Where is this jetty?
June 2010: Link roundup post
Sydney photographs by suburb, Privacy and Web2.0, Stonehenge in Texas and more…
Follow the “2nd Annual Web 2.0 in Government” conference on Twitter
Follow the action at the “2nd Annual Web2.0 in Government Conference” on Twitter.
The Archivist and The Aardvark [another comic strip]
Ready for another slice of archival humour? The Archivist and the Aardvark is back!
Tips for Dating Photos – “The List”
Back in April we asked you What Are Your Tips for Dating Photos? We had such a huge response that we decided to place all the tips together in one print-friendly file (PDF) for you all to download and use.
Making our digital nation [a YouTube video]
Rose Holley talks about digital volunteers and the amazing things they are achieving. She also speaks about the innovative crowdsourcing projects at the National Library of Australia.
Can you identify this Harbour?
Unidentified Harbour….it is Sydney or coastal NSW?