This lecture examines opportunities for better collaboration between museums, archives and libraries. It will cover:
How improved collaboration (especially in discovery services and data exchange) can deliver significant benefits to collecting institutions users;
Some of the models and standards that support collaboration; and
The National Library s new discovery service, Trove, and how it will help improve collaboration.
Introduction
Today I will discuss the opportunities for collaboration among the different sectors that constitute Australia’s collecting institutions: in other words, collaboration among the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sectors.
I have always believed that these sectors could do more than they have done to foster collaboration, where that will benefit our users.
It was created as an Arcadian-style English public garden, but Perth's Hyde Park has seen a tent city, duck shooting and an awful lot of complaining over its 120-year history.
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“Convicted for offences against good order” – that was the fate of many women in the early 20th century in Australia.
Their crime was not so much being drunk in public or selling their bodies, but to fail social expectations. Regardless of the circumstances leading them down this path. Women simply don’t behave like that.
Historian Leigh Straw analyses this past battle for gender equality.
The Geoffrey Bolton Lecture 2020
What does it matter so long as you get the money? presented by the State Records Office of Western Australia. November 18, 2020.
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Kimberley locals complained that city Perth people 3,500km away had no idea of the conditions they worked in. Neck chaining was considered the “most effective and humane” way of restraining prisoners as it “left their hands free”. Police authorities supported their use and influential pastoralists endorsed their use to get Aboriginal people off their cattle stations.
However, in 1905, the infamous Dr Walter Roth’s royal commission on the condition of the natives
exposed WA to worldwide criticism about the ill-treatment of Aboriginal people. While police regulations allowed ankle chains in jail, there were no such regulations regarding neck chains. These would remain on the prisoners for the period of their sentence despite there being no legal authority allowing the practice. This was, one senior government witness told Roth, an “informally accepted practice of the last 30 years”.
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A member of parliament has renewed calls for an inquiry into NSW
Premier Gladys Berejiklian s office after a report found
evidence of documents being shredded relating to a $250 million
grants scheme.
The State Archives and Records Authority report determined that
the Premier s office broke the law by shredding the
documents.
However, the Authority has revealed that they will not be taking
any action, leading to outcry from many.
One of these people is Greens MP David Shoebridge who has
renewed his calls for an inquiry into the alleged grants