April ’22
👀 This Month’s Images…
Left: Bain, Jack (ca. 1930) ANZAC Square, looking towards Central Railway Station, Brisbane. Right: Faces of The Fallen (PDF)
🔦 Highlights
Steve Grasso: LRS’ ‘Innovation’ Success Champion for March. More details on SharePoint.
Majella took her first extended rec leave since March 2020, making the most of the Easter and ANZAC Day public holidays 🤗🤗
🔎 Issues (from last month and emerging)
- Jean’s last day is 3rd of June. We are very sad that she loves her boat more than her colleagues 🙂
- Service delivery with staff gaps continues from 2021 (1 less RL, and 2 less RAs)
- Non-award students and access to QUT-licensed eresources: learned that commercialisation of material is a red flag in QUT licences.
⛷️ Major Future Activities
Recruit for a replacement Resource Team Leader.
👐 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) using the AITSIS Subject Thesaurus
Owned Services
📈 Information Resources:
- Completed! Wrangling of the 2022 active subscriptions spreadsheet in preparation for IRC’s annual List of Subscriptions review. Now available to IRC members
- Increasing contact from vendors wishing for face to face meetings, prompted by the upcoming, rescheduled VALA conference in Melbourne, 14-16 June.
📷 QUT Digital Collections:
QUT’s ANZAC Day Tweets featuring QDC images used in a QUT News feature
The man in the back left corner of the photo is the college’s first principal from 1914. His son Raymond also went off to war but, sadly, did not return. He died at #Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. #LestWeForget #ANZACDay @qutlibrary
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The man in uniform is JA Robinson, a young teacher who went to war, lead the battalion that captured the German tank Mephisto, returned home & became principal of Qld Teachers’ Training College. He’s remembered in a sculpture at QUT’s Library.
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There’s hidden bravery and sadness in this 1914 wartime photo from the #QUT Digital Collections. It shows teaching lecturers and students at #GardensPoint a few months after #WorldWar1 broke out.
QUT’s #ThrowbackThursday Tweets featuring QDC images
Been over the river to #KangarooPoint lately? This photo from the #QUT Digital Collections was taken in 1954. The view looks a bit different now! #ThrowbackThursday #filmcamera #Brisbane #StoryBridge #BrisbaneRiver @qutlibrary (28 likes, 1 retweet, 1 comment)
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This photo spread on Brisbane’s ‘new’ Central Technical College appeared in The Queenslander in 1915 & is now part of #QUT’s Digital Collections. The majority of these buildings are still standing at #GardensPoint campus. Recognise any? #ThrowbackThursday @qutlibrary @QUTAlumni
QUT’s #Flashback Tweet to the first QUT Classic (1990)
#Flashback to the first fun run at #QUT in May 1990. Lace up those running shoes and register for this year’s QUT Classic: Sun 1 May 2022. From 7am Gardens Point (This is from an Inside QIT publication digitised/ held by QDC)
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Gardens Point display of QDC images
Stephanie Jacobs and Jill Rogers chose the theme of Picnics / Camping for the latest Level 6 Display at GP Library. A great way to fill up both sides of the glass wall with interesting and engaging images. This is a quarterly display and will be refreshed in June/July.
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Feedback from Helen McMahon regarding a Metadata course relevant to QDC
I recently undertook the four-week online Metadata and Description for Digital Special Collections course offered by the Library Juice Academy. This course started by defining and looking at the different types of metadata, how it is shared and how metadata supports the use of a collection. We examined six specific metadata schemas, choosing three of these for our assignment on comparing metadata schemas, looking specifically at their purpose and use. I compared Dublin Core, Metadata Description Object Schema (MODS) by the Library of Congress and the Visual Resources Association (VRA Core) used mainly by Museums, Art Libraries and Art & Architecture Collections. This comparison allowed a very good understanding of why and how schemas differ. I then selected one of these (VRA Core) to construct a metadata record of a provided resource. Overall, this course had a very balanced approach between theory and application and gave me a much deeper understanding of how metadata choices affect the use of the collection. This will further inform my thinking with specific regard to the Digital Collection, but also in my general professional development. The access to the class forum and discussion/feedback from the tutor were also wonderful resources. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants a fuller understanding of metadata and its use.
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- Jill Rogers is working with Google Arts and Culture to get a spreadsheet together that can be ingested into QDC site on the GA&C platform. It’s taking some time, as there need to be modifications around our existing export options. Jill is working with Matthew Kerwin (Senior Developer, DBS) to get this correct, so it is seamless longer term.
- Jill Rogers is working with Alumni Office and QUT Records to answer external queries via the QDC email account regarding past student awards.
- The QUT News item led to Jill being interviewed for 10 minutes by ABC Radio on Anzac Day (audio file on MediaHub)
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Total number of items in QDC, April 2022 – 6,646
Total number of accesses, April 2022 – 15,260
| Date | Hits | Coll.s | EPrints | Doc.s | Full. | Abs. | Users | Countries |
| 2022-04 | 15,260 | 16 | 2,426 | 2,309 | 7,774 | 7,486 | 7,230 | 132 |
| Totals | 15,260 | 16 | 2,426 | 2,309 | 7,774 | 7,486 | 7,230 | 132 |
April 2022: Specific Collection Use
| Collection | Use |
| #QUT YARNS | 44 |
| Alison Jones Technical Production | 193 |
| Asia Pacific Images 1970s-1990s | 3,230 |
| Bain/ O’Gorman | 2,798 |
| CRC for Construction Innovation | 264 |
| Cilento Gift Scripts | 111 |
| QUT Alumni Donations | 2,838 |
| QUT Conference Proceedings | 41 |
| QUT Film Screen & Animation | 96 |
| QUT Landscape Architecture | 340 |
| QUT Publications | 728 |
| QUT Stories | 1,216 |
| QUT Visual Arts | 33 |
| Queensland Law | 1,168 |
| Sugar Industry Collections | 828 |
| Susan Caulfield-Leclerq Dance Programs | 121 |
📖 QUT Readings:
Jingyue undertook a very worthwhile efficiency project to archive 1,117 reading lists (878 in batches, 239 individually) for units no longer offered at QUT, dating from 2020-2022. She also unlinked 52 current lists from old units after considering the digitisation attached to these lists linked to both current units and old units.
Further, Jingyue unlinked old units from 2021-2022 lists that link to multiple units. This work ensures that digitisation requests are only associated with current units in future. Simply rolling lists over each year results in redundancies in the QUT Readings system.
💐Bouquets
QUT Readings – from a Liaison Librarian
…the response of the Readings staff to queries has much improved. Both in timeliness and in the information they provide.
QDC – community engagement
This article was published by QUT news for ANZAC Day. Two of the men in the image were prominent Brisbane educators (Dr John Shirley and James Alexander Robinson). They are connected to the World War One German tank now at Qld museum, and the Gallipoli campaign. Images and further links can be found via QUT Digital Collections here.
(Posted 23 April 2022) 41 likes, 5 comments, 9 Shares. Sample comment:
Thank you so very much for sharing this photo. Part of our lost history.
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This image ca. 1881 was taken in Milton, Brisbane by Robert Augustus Henry L’Estrange. Held by QUT Digital Collections.
Milton Brewery is visible to the left in this image. Milton Road is the dirt road. Milton train station, train line is to the right of this image.
John Fenwick (1823-1900). His Droving Diary 1863, together with a bio is available here and his obituary in Trove. Born in Newcastle, England in 1823, he married Ella Louie Wright and immigrated to Melbourne in 1854 following the Gold Rush. He applied for numerous leases in the Burdekin area out from the new settlement of Bowen in Queensland in the early 1860s. He wrote a diary covering 10-25 Nov 1863 which is at the first link. His property was not successful and he came to Brisbane in 1864, setting up business as a hide and skin dealer and then a stock and station agent. His obituary details his connections with numerous organisations including the Freemasons.
(Posted 26 April 2022). 145 likes, 8 Comments, 26 shares
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Does anyone know of an older labelled tree in Brisbane? 1859 Olive tree City Botanic Gardens is just along from Alice Street, near the river path. I took the tree plaque image 16th April 2022 and the page is from a Four Volume Horticultural Survey done by Landscape Architects students Queensland Institute of Technology in 1984.
(Posted 17 April 2022). 59 Likes, 12 comments. Sample comment:
Thanks for sharing.. I look forward to seeing it next time I visit Brissie 🙂
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Some mystery buildings in this one from the L’Estrange collection held by QDC. Any information on the surrounding buildings??
Unidentified (ca. 1920) Bradley and Holland (importers of cars and commercial vehicles, cnr Adelaide and Albert Streets, Brisbane, Queensland.
(Posted 13 April 2022). 90 Likes, 42 comments, 7 Shares. Sample comment:
Imagine what London and other European cities would be like now if their beautiful old buildings had been allowed to be demolished! Short-sighted Brisbane developers and local authorities only saw quick profit, not long term tourist dollars.
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City Hall was opened in 1930 by QLD Governor Sir John Goodwin, and then officially opened on 8 April 1930 by Lord Mayor William Jolly. For 30 years it was the tallest building in Brisbane.
These photos from 1956, 1986, and 2005 were taken by Jack Bain and Cynthia O’Gorman and are held by QUT Digital Collections. Further information via captions in the photos.
(Posted 8 April 2022). 197 Likes, 8 comments, 23 shares. Sample comment:
Enjoyed many, many Concerts there in the 1950/60’s…… Very happy memories I cherish till I die.
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Kelvin Grove Teachers College Group 1965 – Class 2E. Heather Grainger is the last female standing on the right in the photo [Photo donated donated by Heather Grainger’s niece].” (Ack: Qld University of Technology)
(Posted by a member of the public, 25 April 2022). 190 Likes, 117 comments, 6 shares.
2nd photo from 1964 also posted (24 April 2022), with all 30 teachers named. ❤️593 Likes, 297 comments, 35 shares.❤️
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St. Patrick’s Tavern, Brisbane, ca. 1873. (Ack: Queensland University of Technology)
(Posted by a member of the public, 27 April 2022). 121 Likes, 27 comments, 3 shares.