Today is International Archives Day!
To celebrate we thought we would highlight the diversity of Archives in New South Wales by picking 6 examples.
Women’s Fire Auxiliary (Wagga Wagga)
The value of auxiliary fire fighters had been proved where air raids had ravaged overseas countries and the Wagga Wagga WFA spent three months doing their course of fire fighting.
Twitter as a promotional tool for collections – some different approaches
A quick look at some examples of the promotion of cultural collections on twitter…
Can you identify this post office?
This week we have an unidentified Post and Telegraph Office. It looks to be one of the first established buildings on the street as there are no other identifiable buildings in sight.
This image is part of NRS 4481 – the photographs were taken by officers of the Government Printing Office during the years c.1870-c.1920. and cover a wide variety of subjects, including: public buildings, railways, tramways, street scenes, harbour views, Sydney University, groups of people, ships, public occasions, the Botanic Gardens, military camps, wharves, dams and waterways, statues and slums.
We have many other undated photographs in Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these images please let us know.
May 2010: Link roundup post
Are you interested in #collectionfishing, the war cabinet of the United Kingdom in WWII, International Archives Day 2009, protecting digital information, the power of data or the semantic web? If so we have a link for you!
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…
Digitisation and the Small Archives
As the Archivist in an organisation whose core business is education, providing digital access to the collection has been primarily a response to providing access for the Archivist rather than a desire to reach a wider audience.
Our first year blogging – Archives Outside turns 1 year old
We haven’t forgotten you ‘lurkers’.
Yes, you know who you are. You might not have left a comment or written a post but you have become a regular reader and visit us often. Thank you :)
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.