👀 This Month’s Image…

🎃 🎃 🎃 💀 💀 💀  HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  💀 💀 💀 🎃 🎃 🎃

Can you see all three spiders’ webs in the photo taken by Jack Bain in 1959? Nature gets its spooooky on!

🔦 Highlights

LRS welcomed back Rosie Milanesi, following a few practice runs, this time for real 🙂

…. welcomed Maree Colledge for six months, to the Readings team. Maree made her mark immediately, by winning day 1 of the OA Week Wordle championship 💐

… and thanked Linda Bull (on left; Curtin fieldwork student) for her excellent work with QDC over 15 weeks.

• A couple more stand-up desks have been installed, to help with comfort levels
• MLRS assisted former QUT Library Associate Director Carolyn Young several times with her enquiries around subscriptions and agents

🦉 Keeping Us Up at Night

• Licences, negotiations, talking with vendors, new Read & Publish (open access agreements)… renewal season
• Gearing-up to start the Summer Semester Readings rollover
• Juggling QDC projects.

⛷️ Major Future Activities

• Planning for 2023.

👐 Indigenous Strategy

• Being progressed by the UL – consultation with the Office of the Pro-VC (Indigenous Strategy) around the proposed Indigenous Primo View and Cultural Sensitivity notices for Primo (and QDC)
• Steve updating collection material metadata to make it more discoverable via the proposed Indigenous Primo View
• Uncle Cheg’s recent request for flags to be placed on the spine of Indigenous material is being expedited
• QDC’s #QUTYARNS soon to be expanded. 

Owned Services

📈  Information Resources:

• CAUL Content Coordinators’ monthly meeting: renewals focus; Read & Publish offers still under negotiation; reports from the Licensing Working Group, and the Law Content Working Group on CAUL statements around data privacy, and ebook requirements to maximise student access
• Virtual vendor meetings: ProQuest, Emerald, Ovid, Thomson Reuters, Institute of Physics, IGI
• IRC meeting #3 held:
  • Gabrielle Hayes gave an insightful presentation on the Science LL Team’s project, “Indigenous Perspectives in Science Collection Audit”
  • Library Resource Allocation spend is on track for this time of year
  • one-off resource bids lodged for decision were discussed. All were endorsed. Two new strategic subscriptions were endorsed to be run as one-year paid trials, out of one-off funds; five new small subscriptions were endorsed on an ongoing basis, using remaining subscription bid funds from the June IRC meeting
  • it was agreed that vendors be encouraged to involve the Library when they contact academics regarding new model textbook subscription schemes (these fall outside typical textbook adoptions). Recent example: Wiley Higher Education’s ‘equitable access’ scheme, which was not endorsed by IRC
• A number of phone conversations had by MLRS with the Wiley Higher Education rep around their new scheme… A templated response was developed for use by LLs
• MLRS presented to the ALIA Mentoring cohort on interviews: a view from the interviewer’s perspective.

📷  QUT Digital Collections:

Linda Bull (Curtain fieldwork student), Adam Hall (assisting, from the Resource Team), and Jill Rogers (Digital Collections Librarian) in the QDC corner, working with the Bain/ O’Gorman slide collection

Closer view of QDC’s slide digitisation ‘gear’

Total number of items in QDC, October 2022 – 6,783

Total number of accesses, October 2022 – 28,068

October 2022: Specific Collection Use

• 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. Cameron (CA KG) helps with other tasks in QDC.
• 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.
• The old projector and 48 megapixel camera is now functional again and we can scan 80 slides very quickly with a high quality scan. They are ARW files that get transferred to TIFF and then Jpegs. Still some Photoshop work and all the other metadata and research tasks re: description to do before they make it live
• Google Arts and Culture now has 1,247 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 is working on writing engaging exhibitions/stories re the images.  Bit more cumbersome and time consuming than we initially thought re: the layout and getting items ingested, however they display very cleanly.
• Linda Bull will finish her 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. Linda has written a small piece for SLQ’s eMemory News
• Jill has been partnering with ALIA to transition a QULOC digitisation group to an ALIA Digital Community of Practice.

📖  QUT Readings:

• Storming, norming, performing: the new Readings Team formed this month. Members are: Jingyue Wu (Coordinator), Bryn Roberts, Greg Steele, and Maree Colledge
• Getting ready for Summer Semester rollovers
• Liaising with the Canvas implementation team, working towards a seamless integration with Talis
• Encouraging Talis to create a collapsible table of content, or a floating navigation bar, following a suggestion from Prof. Abby Cathcart around readings lists for Indigenous subjects

💐External Engagement & Bouquets

FaceBook – QDC images shared by external accounts:

The Hornibrook bridge (opened 4/10/1935) is a heritage listed road bridge on the Hornibrook highway over Bramble Bay, Brighton to Clontarf in the Moreton Bay Region. The bridge was designed by Manuel Hornibrook and was built from 1932 to 1935. Following the established Ted Smout Memorial Bridge which opened in 2010 the original Hornibrook Bridge was mostly demolished, after being used since 1979 as a pedestrian and bicycle bridge only and today stands as a small jetty like feature where locals fish. Image taken in Feb 1957 by Jack Bain. 🤩 🤩 [Old Brisbane Album – 912 Likes, 106 comments, 130 shares / Bygone Brisbane and Vintage Qld – Likes 214, 15 comments / History Groups of SE Qld – 44 likes, 4 comments, 6 shares] 🤩 🤩

💐 Remember paying the toll of 2 shillings (I think) to a fellow dressed in a crisp white jacket and a white pith helmet.

💐 Sorry to see so much of this heritage bridge demolished but that’s how we do things b/ful Post Offices, Banks & so many more.

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Bank of Australasia, Ipswich: From a time when the bank manager lived in the attached residence. These photographs, circa 1926 show the exterior and the interior of the Bank of Australasia, Ipswich, Queensland. Jack Bain (the photographer) worked for the Bank of Australasia and worked in many branches over his career from the 1920s to his retirement in 1966.

The Bank of Australasia is a heritage-listed former bank at 116A Brisbane Street, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Reed & Barnes and built in 1878. It was constructed in 1878 with an attached manager’s residence. [Lost Ipswich – 279 Likes, 34 comments, 18 shares]

💐 Thanks for the photos and the original history of this beautiful building.

💐 Love those old buildings.

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A lot of effort went into this night display at McWhirters for the first Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip visit to Brisbane in March 1954. Taken by Jack Bain held by QUT Digital Collections. [Old Brisbane Album – 23 likes, 3 comments]

💐 A far cry from what the department stores did on her death 🙁

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Second Wickham Terrace Presbyterian Church, Brisbane, 1890. This church, which replaced the first one on the corner of Creek Street, was opened on 6 November 1887. The Railway Department later resumed the property including the church, and in 1901 when Central Station came into use the building became a repository for Railway Department records. From 1929 to 1941 it was used as a gymnasium. In 1942 it was leased to the Congregational Church who remained until 1960. The building has now been demolished to make way for new roadworks in the area. [Old Brisbane Album – 232 likes 26 comments 14 shares]

💐Love the architectural style of these lovely old churches & cathedrals. They’d cost a King’s Ransom to build today.

💐Great photo. Also highlights how much money churches had (have).

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Spring Hill Fair (16th), Brisbane, 1990. Held annually since 1973 in September in Spring Hill, adjacent to Brisbane’s CBD, this popular fair has markets, food and entertainment. [Old Brisbane Album – 612 likes, 75 comments, 43 shares]

💐Looks like photo taken just outside the late Celia McNally residence, founder of the fair. Sadly, after having been rerouted down Water Street, it was never the same.

💐Spring Hill Fairs were the best! Loved going through the back streets and yards finding lots of treasures and bargains!

💐Picked up some cool collectables at the Spring Hill fairs over the years…the interesting thing was the people selling from the verandahs of their little workers cottages…old, worn out quaint little buildings…often the stumps & stairs were replaced with bits of wood & bricks.