🎄🎅And now… a QDC Image to celebrate the End of Year 🎄🎅

Happy holidays, dear colleagues! Photo by Jack Bain (1959). Christmas views of City Hall, Brisbane, Queensland. Click here for more yesteryear pics from the Christmassy City Hall series.

🔦 Highlights for the Year

🎄Library Reward and Recognition event, November 🎅

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Maryann Loneragan wins the peer-nominated Giraffe Award for Initiative and Innovation (pictured with Kendall Kousek, Resource Team Leader)

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🎄 Long Service Awardees, November 🎅

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LRS goes Mexican: Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad!

…. followed by a visit from our Secret Santa…

With a visit by Mr David Hensley

Mr David Hemsley (left), donor of the L’Estrange materials in the QUT Alumni Donations Collection. Mr Hemsley very kindly donated and fitted a lens to RAH L’Estrange’s camera in Majella’s office, on 23 November 2022. The camera was part of the original donation of glass plates, lantern slides and photographic hardware from his mother Mrs Patricia Hemsley. Mr Hemsley is a grandson of photographer RAH L’Estrange.

But wait, there’s more (2022 highlights)

✨ We congratulated our LLT monthly Success Champions: Adam, Marina, Steve, Maryann, Mary, Greg, Donna, Chris, and Nat

✨ We awarded our Peer QUT Values Awards to: Nat, Marina, Steve, Jill, Maryann, Chris, Rani, Greg, Mary, Jingyue, Bryn, Kathryn, Wing, Susan, Adam, and Majella

✨ We created a Readings Team, headed by Jingyue. Lots of ‘forming, storming, norming and performing’ with Bryn, Greg and Maree

✨ We welcomed Kendall, Rosie and Maree

✨ We said farewell to Jean and Kathryn

✨ We worked from home due to the January/ February COVID wave, and in February/ March due to floods caused by the ‘Rain Bomb’. Followed by staggered WFH with the introduction of the Hybrid Working Policy from October

✨ The MLRS became QUT’s Mentor in the ALIA Mentor program. She was invited to join an ALIA panel at ‘Decoding Selection Criteria’ in December, and also presented at another ALIA webinar in November

✨ We continued to progress the Primo View in Library Search to make Indigenous materials more discoverable

✨ We introduced the Rialto ordering platform within Alma, making ordering so much easier and transparent to LRS and Liaison Librarians

✨ We met virtually with 30 vendors, attended by LRS product owners and interested Liaison Librarians

✨ We navigated the chopping waters surrounding the establishment of new Read and Publish Agreements (largely negotiated by CAUL), in partnership with OSC

✨ The MLRS and the UL successfully progressed a partnership between CSU and SAGE to fund an Indigenous LIS student on placement at QUT

✨ We saw more great partnering, between the QUT Readings team and Collection Access, link checking to improve the student experience

✨ We revelled in the huge community engagement with QDC collections via social media platforms (including postings by QUT Media and Comms), and JSTOR. Not to mention Jill’s interview on ABC National!

✨ QDC enjoyed new equipment, and associated processes. Also, lots of great help from Collection Access, Library Advisors, and fieldwork students

✨ QDC gave great support to QUT Records, Marketing and Comms, Alumni, and Chancellery staff on queries received by the Uni

✨ QDC partnered with GP colleagues in a series of awesome displays of themed QDC images, staged by Stephanie J., and Ishara

✨ [Lowlight!] Cybersecurity attack on Thurs 22 Dec, resulting in IT lockdowns lasting until early Jan.

🎄QUT Digital Collections: Nov & Dec 🎄

Left: GP Level 6 Display (Australian Flora); Right: GP Level 6 Display (Around the World in 1966)

• Thanks very much to Ishara at GP for the great V Block Lv 6 Quarter 3 (Australian Flora) and Quarter 4 (Around the world in 1966) displays. Both displays feature the Bain/ O’Gorman collection images.  Watch out for Jan 2023 still thinking re a theme…
• Great help always from CA staff at GP and KG with digitisation of items. Brett Rock (CA GP) working on digitising a beautiful book re Brisbane 1823 to 1923 loaned to us by Dr Lyndal O’Gorman and Phil, Ricky and Cameron were always great additional help with scanning and assessing slides
• Over the summer Kate Thomas, Jacque Quinn and David Cohen, when they have capacity, will assist with metadata for items and Wiki commons. Training will be provided by Jill
• Zach Dominello and Helen McMahon are continuing to assist with various metadata and other tasks with QDC. One hour per week usually from their desks. This will be more over the summer as they have capacity
• Google Arts and Culture now has 1297 QUT Digital Collections images loaded in the preview area. Continuing to work with Google Arts and Culture staff re the launch for World Environment Day 5th June 2023. Jill working on writing engaging exhibitions/ stories re the images.  Bit more cumbersome and time consuming than we initially thought re the layout and getting the items in, however they display very cleanly
• For the seventh successive year QDC has three entries in the annual GIF it up competition run by the Digital Public Library of America.. A big thanks to Arabella who is a very talented newly graduated student (2021) in Creative Industries at QUT (Animation). Arabella created these GIFs from 1955 fashion drawings drawn by an Education student Phyllis. Top three entries on this page. There were only four entries from Australia so three from QUT is terrific
• Linda Bull finished a very productive fieldwork placement from Curtin University on 1st of November. Linda was of great assistance to QDC work and had 10 days with QDC and 5 days with other areas within QUT Library. As part of her placement, Linda wrote a short article published on the 30 November State Library of Qld Memory eNews
• Linda also found, scanned and described some early images of The Bank of Australasia in Queensland and Northern New South Wales. They were scattered throughout old photograph albums donated by a QUT academic Dr Lyndal O’Gorman (the photographer’s granddaughter).

Total number of accesses for 2022 – drum roll please:

✨🥁 269,860 Accesses 🥁✨ A 28.6% increase on 2021 ✨✨

Total number of accesses in Nov: 24,359

November & December 2022: Specific Collection Use

* numbers affected by site lockdown from 22 December onwards, due Cybersecurity attack

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