Archival Collections
This project is exploring more efficient and cost-effective ways of cataloguing and archiving heritage collections.
This will enable them to be made available to the public sooner, with content description lists and copyright information searchable via Trove and Libraries Australia.
Achievements
- Compilation of guidelines for library staff assisting donors to prepare personal digital archives for transfer to NSLA libraries.
- Fast access to archives report (2010).
- The Lists report: making collection lists searchable through Trove (2010).
Working group members
- Marie-Louise Ayres, National Library of Australia (project manager)
- Kevin Marsh, State Library of Western Australia (project manager)
- Lynette Aitchison, Northern Territory Library
- Tracy Bradford, State Library of New South Wales
- Antoinette Buchanan, Libraries ACT
- Nicola Frean, National Library of New Zealand
- Tony Leschen, State Library of South Australia
- Kevin Molloy, State Library of Victoria
- Ian Morrison, State Library of Tasmania
- Suzanne Saunders, State Library of South Australia
- Karen Stone, State Library of Queensland
Image: Northern Territory Library
Project updates
Heritage Collections Forum
Senior collection specialists from all NSLA libraries came together for the Heritage Collections Forum in Sydney.
Publications
Guidelines: assisting donors to prepare their personal digital archives
Second and final edition of guidelines prepared by the Archival Collections project group. (2011)
Progress report: Description and Cataloguing project
Update to NSLA on the progress of the Description and Cataloguing project, and proposal for a sub-project to develop models and guidelines for making collection lists searchable via Trove. (March 2010)
Project report: making collection lists searchable through Trove
Recommendations for the creation of searchable descriptive lists for archival collections. (November 2010)