👀 This Month’s Image…

Bain, Jack (1972) Big Pineapple, Woombye, Queensland.

The Big Pineapple is a heritage-listed tourist attraction at Nambour Connection Road, Woombye, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Peddle Thorp and Harvey, Paul Luff, and Gary Smallcombe and Associates. It is also known as Sunshine Plantation. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 March 2009. The 2-level Big Pineapple is 16 metres (52 ft) high and was originally opened on 15 August 1971. It is situated on a 165-hectare (410-acre) site. (Wikipedia)

🔦 Highlights

Congratulations to Jingyue Wu, the new Resource Coordinator (Readings) (HEW6). Here, Jingyue explains her model at the Lego Serious Play workshop held at Gardens Point, which focused on the Library’s quest for a seamless student customer service experience.

Also attending from LRS: Kendall, Donna and Majella

R U OK to Play Games morning tea – Sep 8th: As devised and hosted by LRS Games Mistress, Donna Powell, colleagues at KG came along to play!

Murri School – Success Champions: Chris, Marina and Nat receive their Success Champion certificates for sourcing and seamlessly delivering print books donated by QUT to the Murri School – and in time for September’s author’s talk by Aunty Lesley Williams!

As part of his Executive Immersion Program, the MLRS, Kendall and Jill took Ken Beutel (Executive Director of QUT College) on a 20 minute sprint around the LRS Resources team, the conveyor belt (which amused him!), and the QUT Digital Collections space.

🔎 Issues (from last month and emerging)

• Licences, negotiations, talking with vendors… renewal season.

⛷️ Major Future Activities

Welcoming Rosie M to LRS in the ongoing HEW4 0.7 role!

Finalising the new Readings Team, and backfilling Jingyue’s old HEW4 role

👐 Indigenous Strategy

• Being progressed by the UL – consultation forum with Indigenous QUT academics planned to discuss the proposed Indigenous Primo View and Cultural Sensitivity notices for Primo and QDC
• Kate Harbison completed her review of collection materials using LCSH ‘Aboriginal Australians–Folklore’, with a view to adding the descriptor ‘Aboriginal Australians–Religion’. Kate also added LCSH ‘Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)’, as appropriate. Steve will now update the metadata

Owned Services

📈  Information Resources:

• CAUL Content Coordinators’ meeting: renewal season focus, including invoice deadlines; new Read & Publish offers in the works; reports from the Licensing Working Group, and the Law Content Working Group
• Virtual vendor meetings: EBSCO (databases), ProQuest, Elsevier, Institute of Physics, LexisNexis (hybrid; onsite at GP), EBSCO (VP catch-up).

📷  QUT Digital Collections:

Total number of items in QDC, September 2022 – 6,733

Total number of accesses, September 2022 – 23,906

September 2022: Specific Collection Use

• Great help as always from CA staff at GP and KG with digitisation of items. Brett Rock (CA GP) is digitising a beautiful book on Brisbane 1823 to 1923, loaned to us by Dr Lyndal O’Gorman. Rosie and Cameron (CA KG) are helping with other tasks. Mostly, a couple of hours each per week in the QDC area as the scanner and slides are needed.
• Zach Dominello and Helen McMahon continue to assist with various metadata and other tasks. One hour per week usually, from their desks.
• The old projector and camera is functional again and we can scan 80 images very quickly with a high quality scan.  Still some Photoshop work, and all the other tasks re description to do before images make it live to QDC
• Google Arts and Culture now has 1249 QUT Digital Collections images loaded in the preview area. QDC continues to work with Google Arts and Culture staff re the launch for World Environment Day on 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 the items in, however the images display very cleanly.

📖  QUT Readings:

• Transitioning to the new Readings Team – RTL and Coordinator identifying projects
• Getting ready for Summer Semester rollovers
• Liaising with the Canvas implementation team, working towards a seamless integration with Talis
• Great results in the Semester 2 link checking partnership with Collection Access:
  

  Sem 2 2022 Units checked by CA	Links checked	Broken links found	% of links broken	No of students enrolled in Units with broken links
  154	6,224	360	5.80%	11,584

  The broken link % has gone down from 9% in the Semester 1/ Full year list link checking, to 5.8%. This will be due the Sem1/ Full year lists being from a smaller range subject areas, and being reliant upon a lot of Reports and documents that were linked to Government, WHO, UN etc which are regularly moved on the host site. The broader subject areas would have included a larger % of links to QUT owned content where there is less chance of links changing.

💐External Engagement & Bouquets

QUT (Corporate account) – Twitter: 

#FlashbackFriday to Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to Queensland in March, 1954. Image from our QUT Digital Collections and captured by Jack Bain, grandfather of #QUT lecturer Dr Lyndal O’Gorman. #QueenElizabethII #QueenElizabeth #FBF  [1 retweet, 4 likes]

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As a tribute to #QueenElizabethII, we look back at her first #Royal visit to #Brisbane in 1954 where Queen Street buildings were decorated for her arrival. Images captured by Jack Bain, grandfather of #QUT lecturer Dr Lyndal O’Gorman. https://bit.ly/3DaS7SB @qutlibrary [4 retweets, 21 likes]

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Happy Spring! Did you know today is #NationalWattleDay proclaimed in 1992? This photo was beautifully captured by Jack Bain in July 1965. #Spring #Wattle #AustralianFlora [2 retweets, 21 likes]

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FaceBook – QDC images shared by external accounts:

Naldham House: aka AUSN (Australian United Steam Navigation) building, is a heritage listed office building located at 193 Mary Street, Brisbane City. It was built from 1864 to 1889, it was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on the 21st of October in 1992. The photo was taken in 1982. Courtesy of Cynthia O’Gorman of the Qld University of Technology Digital Collection. [Old Brisbane Album: 143 likes, 16 comments, 6 shares]

💐 Don’t remember seeing this before, a lovely building. Thanks for sharing

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The National Hotel, corner of Queen Street and Adelaide Street, Petrie Bight, Brisbane City in 1982. It is situated within 30 yards of the Howard Smith’s Wharf. Courtesy of Cynthia O’Gorman of the Qld University of Technology Digital Collection. [610 likes, 139 Comments, 48 shares]

💐 Awesome picture. Love it!

💐 Many a good night there when it was the Dance Bar. Till it was pulled down

💐 I remember going there for their smorgasbord lunches in 60s…I think it was about $1.75 for all you could eat

💐 Tragic it’s gone – what a landmark!

💐 Many a great night was spent there in the Eighty’s.. Warren’s Bar was great

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Baptist City Tabernacle Church, 163 Wickham Terrace, in the Brisbane suburb of Spring Hill in 1982.
It was designed by Richard Gailey and built from 1889 to 1890. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on the 21st of October in 1992.
Courtesy of Cynthia O’Gorman of the Qld University of Technology Digital Collection. [110 likes, 14 comments, 12 shares]

💐 Aside from the old cars and the signage on the chemist (which is still there today), nothing else in this picture has changed

💐 one of only a fraction of brisbane streets where, taking the photo from the same perspective, nothing has changed, including the trees

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Loganholme, Queensland, one teacher school 1895. This former school house was built at Loganholme, Queensland, Australia, and was opened in 1873. It was sited facing the Pacific Highway near the former Cotton Companys Road, now part of the Logan Motorway, with David Freeman as the first teacher. After the Loganholme State School was relocated further west towards Drews Road in 1974, the building was moved to Brisbane at the Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education… [278 likes, 18 comments, 40 shares]

💐What a great photo and such interesting information. Thankyou for sharing them both Lindsay.

💐 I appreciate this so much my husbands family had a property they called Drew’s

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With the Carnival of Flowers parade coming up on the 17th of September in Toowoomba this year here are some images of the Botanic Gardens from September of 1974. They were taken by Jack Bain and held by QUT Digital Collections [16 likes, 1 share, plus: 17 likes, 1 share]