Queensland Local Studies Group Meeting, 13 June 2014 Venue: Brisbane City Council Archives, Moorooka Attendees: Raylene Jensen Joanne Secombe Leonie Taylor Kyla Stephan Jayne Fitzpatrick Kate Harbison Annabel Lloyd Catherine Cottle Elizabeth Alvey Pat Gee Sue Prenzler Beth Wilson Kelly Ashford Eileen Dwane Stephanie Ryan Scenic Rim Library Services Queensland State Archives Redland Libraries Gold Coast Libraries Toowoomba Library Brisbane City Council Brisbane City Council Archives State Library of Queensland Fryer Memorial Library, UQ Moreton Bay Regional Council Logan City Council Library Service Gympie Regional Libraries Moreton Bay Regional Libraries State Library of Queensland State Library of Queensland Apologies: Sunshine Coast Libraries Various SLQ Jane Harding, Noosa Welcome and introduction by Annabel Lloyd, Brisbane City Council Archivist Elizabeth Alvey (UQ, Fryer) – Fryer Library The origins and history of Fryer Library. Open to the public but closed access. Retrieve on demand but some off-site storage so may take 3-5 days if at Gatton. Some restricted collections. Collecting areas Australian literature: Every title published in Australia that is literature (although s and self-publishing are muddying the waters here) Personal Papers – primarily in the area of Australian literature Records, including trade union history and history of Queensland radicalism. 8000 Rare books (including Woodcock collection of rare books) Artworks – mainly those attached to collections Photographs. Hayes collection Eunice Hangar collection of drama Ephemera in the areas of gallery files, theatre groups, political organisations Architectural plans and drawings (arranged by company but there is a map searching tool) Photographs being digitised on UQ espace (https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/) Annabel Lloyd (BCC Archives) – Information about the Archives and resources for searching for House Histories Roles of archivist: Retention, appraisal, disposal all to preserve the record. Providing community access becoming increasingly important - community, planners, historians and researchers, students, council officers. BCC archives started in 1994- and had moved through various locations. Is now co-located with Museum of Brisbane storage which makes roles and overlaps easier. Three collections archive, reference collection (published material), Brisbane Images 200k (13k digitised) House history Brisbane heritage control provides for additional controls over pre 1946 buildings in ‘heritage areas’ and all buildings built before 1911. This means you require a heritage study for any DAs. Annabel uses and email template and a guide for this research to send to people enquiring. Also advises them about professional historians if they do not have cannot do it themselves. Have to be careful about providing advice about construction dates etc. Brisbane City Council holds building records and other materials that can be used for research. Tour of BCC Archives and the MoB storage area Round table and cool tools session Joanne Secombe - Queensland State Archives Demonstrated the “Resources for History Curriculum” pages at QSA http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/historycurriculum/Pages/historycurriculu m.aspx Resources for teaching WW1 – particularly aimed at Grade 9 http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/historycurriculum/Pages/World-War-I(1914-1918).aspx WW1 resources http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Resources/Pages/First-World-War.aspx Discussion about promotion of these resources to groups and schools. Kyla Stephans – Gold Coast City Council Libraries Demonstrated Museum Dance Off http://whenyouworkatamuseum.com/ ABC open object (https://open.abc.net.au/projects/object-stories-29ff4ez#/discover0 came to GC for workshop but no attendees – good though! Conferences are turning up that we have not been alerted to – are there any tools we can use to ensure we know about them in advance? Held their first cemetery tour in collaboration with heritage unit – very successful though some unanticipated problems with moving people round. Mini museum in the box Boag exhibition Kate Harbison – Brisbane City Council (Wynnum Local History) Demonstrated the Australian Curriculum ( http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/) and Queensland Studies Authority (https://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/) websites Demonstrated Scootle (https://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/home) and the Learning Place (http://education.qld.gov.au/learningplace/). Both have some publicly available content, and you may be able to get access to scootle. Demonstrated the Atlas Obscura – just for fun! http://www.atlasobscura.com/ Planning for LH section in new library New LMS so making information pages for these. Beth Wilson – Gympie Regional Libraries Has been contacting the Teacher librarian network with great success. Having them come to library and see what is available. Next pupil free day they are coming to create collections/tools that will be useful for their teaching. Started a WW1 discussion group – good attendance. Has started working on oral histories. Eileen Dwane -State Library of Queensland New resources for genealogy and WW1 at SLQ Jayne Fitzpatrick -Toowoomba Library Library moves mean she has part of the regular library at the front of the LH library less staff and longer hours Planning for LH section in new library. Got a staff member digitising images one day a week. Raylene Jensen - Scenic Rim Library Services Workshop using Comic book! App to create Anzac Day comic strips. Worked well with older children. Borrowed a box of stuff from Q Museum – great hands on material. Sue Prenzler - Logan City Council Library Service Her role is as the local heritage specialist.... within Cultural Services, rather than the library although she sits in the library. The role is evolving and more about this will be shared at future meetings Logan Witness will be added to Trove Part of her role will be applying for and using grants so seeing ideas for funding sources and projects. Discussion about this and the project at Stradbroke, where Lisa and Elizabeth did had kids ask 5 questions of people they admire, also a photo story in Toowoomba of Sudanese community Leonie Taylor - Redlands City Council Got funding from SLQ for Playback Project . However their OH collection is largely digitised so is doing sections of remainder. Workshop at SLQ. Planning to embed the audio into history pin. Had history pin training and invited social media and communications people. Maker Space. Small museums conference in August Stephanie Ryan - State Library of Queensland Researching John leak. First VC but a difficult person to actually find! Indexed names of people in photos of The Queenslander Talks Family history month in August ... Shauna Hicks pushing Kelly Ashford - Moreton Bay Regional Libraries Playback Three events for heritage week - All about journeys. Pat Gee - Moreton Bay Regional Council Cemetery tour too New library opening at a North Lakes Next meeting: June 2014 – Gold Coat City Council, Helensvale Library