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Museums, collections and history – Part 2 of 2

This is a continuation of Museums, collections and history – Part 1 of 2 The first cross-institutional exhibition mounted by Museum of Victoria was the ‘Story of Victoria’ which opened in 1984, the sesquicentenary of permanent European settlement in Victoria. Displays… Continue Reading →

2015/07/15 0

Museums, collections and history – Part 1 of 2

In 1954 Richard T.M. Pescott wrote the first book-length history of the National Museum of Victoria, looking back at the 100 years since the institution was founded as the Museum of Natural and Economic Geology in 1854. The work, Collections… Continue Reading →

2015/07/09 0

On museum metadata

As it’s Museum Week, I’m going to take this opportunity to share some photos I took on a recent trip to the Melbourne Museum and the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia. My interest in documentation and metadata means that, apart… Continue Reading →

2015/03/25 0

No Exit

Since starting my PhD the number of digital tools I use has increased. The current list includes Microsoft Office products, Zotero, Evernote and Trello, and I have talked to people about Mendeley, Scrivener and more. As an archivist, and someone… Continue Reading →

2015/03/17 0

Something 2 Work 2

This post comes with a soundtrack. Different people work in different ways. Some need to read, write and think in silent solitude, while others can be happily productive in a cafe while conversation, music and noise swirls around them. Some will… Continue Reading →

2015/03/04 2

Preserving records for ‘Forgotten Children’

Today the news is filled with stories about the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2014) and the Government’s reaction to its findings. Of the 800 or so children currently in mandatory closed… Continue Reading →

2015/02/12 4

The library, the museum, and me

I love libraries and library buildings, from the huge New York Public Library to the British Library complete with Kings Library Tower rising up through its St Pancras site; the grand State Library of New South Wales, the venerable Bodleian… Continue Reading →

2015/02/11 0

Collections

Collections are filled with layers of meaning. I am sure many of you will know the wonderful scene in High Fidelity where Rob Gordon is sorting his record collection. Though I don’t think I could sort my CD collection end… Continue Reading →

2015/02/04 0

Wrangling PDFs

It’s more than ten years since I did my Masters, and a lot has changed. One of the big differences is the number of PDFs I have to deal with. In 2002 it was virtually zero. Now, a little over a… Continue Reading →

2015/01/30 4

Rotters

Yesterday I was reading an article in The New Yorker which contained a statistic that shocked me. But first, a tangent. Citing things on the web is a challenge. The New Yorker article I want to refer to here is… Continue Reading →

2015/01/21 4
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