The Inmagic Museum
Users Group meeting was held at Emerald Hill Heritage Centre at South
Melbourne on Friday 9 May 2014. Twenty-two people attended from a range of
organisations including public
libraries, historical societies and small museums and archives. The
heritage centre was opened in its current location in November 2013 and
is located as part of the Emerald Hill Library. The City of Port
Phillip covers suburbs from Elwood to Port Melbourne.
Kay, the history librarian, provided an introduction to the development
of the heritage centre and its collection and then Sandy spoke about
the databases and the digitisation program.
As well as an annual
allocation of money for the digitisation of photographs, money is also
allocated for the digitisation of newspapers for
Trove. Many of the early electoral rolls have been scanned and
made available using ISSUU software. An A-Z listing of City of St Kilda
correspondence in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century is
also available and digitised images are available
for some items. The issue of copyright of previously unpublished
material was discussed.
Heritage and Art
databases have been catalogued using DB TextWorks and the records are
then accessed via Spydus, the library’s cataloguing software and
incorporated with records of items from
the library local history collection. Low resolution images are linked
to the catalogue records and copies of images can be ordered.
Additional information about the Emerald Hill Heritage Centre is available at
http://heritage.portphillip.vic.gov.au/Home . The catalogue and other digitised resources can be accessed in the Research Resources section of the heritage website.
Many thanks to the staff at the Emerald Hill Library and Heritage Centre for allowing us to visit and especially to Kay and Sandy for showing us part of the collection and explaining how DB/TextWorks is used in conjunction with Spydus to catalogue their collections.
