While browsing State Records NSW Photo Stream on Flickr I came across this photo of The San, Sydney Adventist Hospital. One can easily while away a few hours browsing this site
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
Preserve or Perish
Gail Davis, Senior Archivist at State Records NSW, stepped in at the last minute to present the seminar
Managing Local Collections to our members and guests yesterday.
We thank State Records and Gail for her fact-filled presentation and the takeaway of detailed handouts . Although she had never given this presentation before and had not had an opportunity to view the slides before facing our group Gail, a long-time employee of State Records, did an amazing job in sharing their contents with us. Gail made what had the potential to be a dry subject most interesting by illustrating her talk with stories and examples from her time at State Records.
The topics Gail covered in two and a half hours were:
Archival collection management systems
Arranging and describing your collection
Collection policies, donor forms and accessioning
Conservation and preservation strategies
Developing an access policy
So you want to digitise your collection
Storage: avoiding the pitfalls
This content has provided much food for thought for society representatives at the seminar. As well as members from our Society your blogger chatted with members of societies from Manly-Warringah, Willoughby and Wyong and with staff members from the neighbouring Ku-ring-gai Library.
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| Gail Davis at Ku-ring-gai |
The topics Gail covered in two and a half hours were:
Archival collection management systems
Arranging and describing your collection
Collection policies, donor forms and accessioning
Conservation and preservation strategies
Developing an access policy
So you want to digitise your collection
Storage: avoiding the pitfalls
This content has provided much food for thought for society representatives at the seminar. As well as members from our Society your blogger chatted with members of societies from Manly-Warringah, Willoughby and Wyong and with staff members from the neighbouring Ku-ring-gai Library.
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| Ku-ring-gai Library staff |
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| Happy attendees |
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Free Workshop at KHS - Open to All
State Records, in partnership with the Royal Australian Historical Society, will be holding a series of free workshops on Managing Local Collections in regional NSW between July and December 2012.
The session will include the following topics:
• Compiling and managing databases
• Digitising records and photographs
• Paper collection indexing, housing, storage, and temperature control
• Providing access to records
• Arranging and describing collections
• Accessioning procedures
• Do’s and Don’ts of storage
On Wednesday August, 8th The Ku-ring-gai Historical Society will be hosting one of these workshops with Janette Pelosi at its rooms 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon from 10:30 am until 1:30 pm. All interested parties are invited to attend this event. Please contact the Society via email, khs@khs.org.au, or telephone, (02) 9499 4568, to indicate your attendance.
The session will include the following topics:
• Compiling and managing databases
• Digitising records and photographs
• Paper collection indexing, housing, storage, and temperature control
• Providing access to records
• Arranging and describing collections
• Accessioning procedures
• Do’s and Don’ts of storage
On Wednesday August, 8th The Ku-ring-gai Historical Society will be hosting one of these workshops with Janette Pelosi at its rooms 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon from 10:30 am until 1:30 pm. All interested parties are invited to attend this event. Please contact the Society via email, khs@khs.org.au, or telephone, (02) 9499 4568, to indicate your attendance.
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