February ’22
Left: Clark, James (1893) North Brisbane from Kangaroo Point 1893 Brisbane Flood (customs house on right)
Right: Clark, James (1893) Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane (Queensland), 1893 Flood.
🔦 Highlights
- Month starts and ends with WFH… again: COVID, then the ‘Rain Bomb’ floods of 2022
- Move to online PPRs (no more stitching PDFs together!!!!!)
- Early sneak peak of OpenAthens backend (wrangled by the stellar IA team), confirms QUT’s highest resource use is for the most fund-hungry products: Ebook Central, Elsevier, SAGE Journals, ProQuest databases, Wiley Online Library
- LRA provisionally confirmed as on par with 2021’s LRA. Working on Alma fund allocations in time for March IRC
- LRS ‘Welcome Back to 2022’ morning tea in the courtyard
- LLT: Strategic Planning 2022
- L’Estrange Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension camera with rolling blind shutter (c1900) stylishly displayed in MLRS’ office following its move from KG Library display cabinet. MLRS very happy!
⛷️ Major Future Activities
- IRC March meeting – will generate activity
🔎 Issues (from last month and emerging)
- Service delivery with staff gaps continues from 2021 (1 less RL, and 2 less RAs)
- Alma response time slowness still under investigation by Ex Libris
👐 Indigenous Strategy
- Project to enhance discovery of Indigenous content via a Library Search Primo View continues. Includes validation that Dreamtime Stories are sensitively catalogued (DDC, and LCSH)
- First QULOC ISRG (Indigenous Strategy Reference Group) meeting held. Catherine Haden has joined the MLRS, and gives greater balance to the QUT presence (liaison, and collections). The two joint convenors gave fascinating Songline introductions to themselves, and this awesome standing agenda item will be rotated around members
Owned Services
📈 Information Resources:
- Rialto (a marketplace within Alma) implementation phase begins, for eight weeks. Regular meetings held between Rialto team, IRC Liaison Leads and LRS. Discussions held with QUT Finance regarding implications of currency choice for invoicing
- UL and MLRS met with LinkedIn Learning regarding the leveraging of their content for professional staff development across QUT
- Vendor (virtual) meetings: ClickView, and The Lens
- Exploration of QUTex student access to QUT-licenced information resources
- Urgent bids for the start of semester 1, and reinclusion of subscription title moves, endorsed by IRC
- VALA postponed until June
- Great CAUL webinars/ virtual meetings: OER Collective (Pressbooks pilot); Bold Minds series: The Leader Within: Create the culture that you want to be part of; Discovering more about CAUL; CAUL Content Coordinators Annual Meeting including Read & Publish panel (over two afternoons)
- Developing Procedures document to complement the new IRC Terms of Reference
- Discussions around VR funding picked-up from 2019 (following COVID-induced hiatus)
- Progressing paperwork to extend the three-year Panel Arrangement with ProQuest, EBSCO, and James Bennett for monographs and AV (4/2019-3/2022), in conjunction with QUT Strategic Procurement
📷 QUT Digital Collections:
- WFH in Feb has slowed testing of the new slide scanner purchased from the US (asset labelled and installed with the new high end camera). Testing how it all works: 95% there. This will significantly help in turnaround times for scanning of the 35 mm slides. We are fine tuning this equipment and hopefully it will be good to use soon.
- Google Arts and Culture platform partnership will give QUT a great place to showcase our exhibitions/ stories and curated collections for world wide access. Mark Harvey signed but no follow-up as yet from Google Arts and Culture Melbourne Office. Jill has sent an email, following up.
- Jill will be applying for grants when we have a significant amount of content in Google Arts and Culture. Jill successfully completed (in Nov 2021) Grant Writing for Digital Collections in Libraries and Museums. We have limited grant options in Australia, but they will be explored – with outside (particularly, US), more likely.
Four LAs have assisted over the summer with metadata research for QDC when able: Kate T, Jacque, Stephanie J. and David C, from GP. Stephanie installed a great ‘summer’ photo display from QDC on level 6 at GP (see left – photo by Stephanie)
- Helen McMahon (LA in Creative Industries KG) has finished her STEP program in QDC. Helen and Jill learnt a lot from each other and Helen will continue to assist QDC 1 hr per week on an ongoing basis
- QDC is developing a deeper relationship with QUT’s Archives Support Officer
QUT Digital Collections total items: 6,602
Feb 2022 Accesses: 19,574
| Date | Hits | EPrints | Doc.s | Full. | Abs. | Users | Countries |
| 2022-02 | 19,574 | 5,156 | 2,234 | 8,159 | 11,415 | 8,758 | 127 |
| Totals | 19,574 | 5,156 | 2,234 | 8,159 | 11,415 | 8,758 | 127 |
Feb 2022: Specific Collection Use
| Collection | Use |
| #QUT YARNS | 34 |
| Alison Jones Technical Production | 336 |
| Asia Pacific Images 1970s-1990s | 3,923 |
| Bain/ O’Gorman | 3,733 |
| CRC for Construction Innovation | 413 |
| Cilento Gift Scripts | 114 |
| QUT Alumni Donations | 3,573 |
| QUT Conference Proceedings | 31 |
| QUT Film Screen & Animation | 205 |
| QUT Landscape Architecture | 466 |
| QUT Publications | 934 |
| QUT Stories | 934 |
| QUT Visual Arts | 65 |
| Queensland Law | 2,315 |
| Sugar Industry Collections | 1,127 |
| Susan Caulfield-Leclerq Dance Programs | 18 |
JSTOR News/ Statistics
We will continue to partner with JSTOR community collections in 2022 with our items being harvested (still in progress) and hyperlinks (done) to our individual items.
📖 QUT Readings:
- Rollover and list checking for Sem 1/Full Year 2022 underway
- Testing for AskQUT upgrade
- IA team coordinating QUT Readings / OpenAthens changes re: autoproxying in Talis and URL maintenance
- Talis review of Blackboard/QUT Readings LTI parameters.
💐Bouquets
QDC – academic engagement
prominent, retired Qld Architect & UQ Academic, Don Watson
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Good morning
By accident I found the following record for 1969: here.
Do comparable lists exist for other years?
I am compiling entries for a Biographical Dictionary for Queensland Architects – to extend the date range of earlier books published in 1984 and 1994.
Such lists as the above, are very useful (as are any records relating to their training).
Regards, Don Watson
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After sending some records via email and adding them to QDCS, and working with David Hunter (QUT Records), Don Watson replied. Together, David Hunter and Jill are digitising and putting appropriate records into QUT Digital Collections. This will take some time and we will advise Don when more are available for him to peruse.
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7.02.2022
Hi Jill
Thanks very much
They are useful records for research.
Certainly the blue if they contain lists of graduates, but all if they have lists of students/prize winners etc.
Even the subjects taught especially if they say who’s the lecturer.
Both staff and students are of interest.
Thanks again
Best wishes, Don
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11.02.2022
Good morning Jill
There are very useful – it’s wonderful to be able to anchor an architect’s career with their graduation – even better with prizes they have progressively won.
It will take quite a while to transpose the data (and a bit of a delay before I start – I am busy for the next month)
Thank you so much – it’s all excellent.
I look forward to seeing anything else you discover.
Best wishes, Don
QDC – community engagement
Lost Ipswich, 14th Feb 2022
Old images taken by Jack Bain from the roof of the Wintergarden theatre ca. 1928. The Wintergarden theatre was opened (1925) and demolished in 1979. Held by QUT Digital Collections https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/6530/
130 likes, 19 comments 4 shares.
Selected comments:
These pictures never fail to amaze me, so interesting to see way back when.
Awesome photo.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see all these buildings in person.
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Old photograph taken by Jack Bain ca 1928 “Looking over Ipswich from Denmark Hill”. 171 likes, 12 comments and 15 shares.
Selected comments:
Great photo. We’ve never seen it before. We can see our house! If you look at the dark pole sticking up above up above the roof of the house in the foreground, our place is to the left to the pole in Martin Street, Woodend.
Amazing. I can see my old school CBC next to the Church and behind the school, the old Hall. We “learned” to dance there. Very regimented Male “predators “ on on side and the “protected species” on the other. Our school concerts and Presentation Nights were BIG events…never forgot seeing on of my very austere teachers, Brother Bertho, sculling a beer. But he was a great coach in League. Our Teams were unbeatable!! Great memories!! Thanks for the photo!