Exercise 9 - Kuringai Municipality
http://www.kmc.nsw.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp
Location.
Kuringai is a north shore area between Chatswood and Hornsby, consisting of Gordon, Lindfield, Killara, Pymbl, St Ives and Turramurra. As executives are promoted in their jobs in Sydney they often move to the north shore, and then continue to move to the most exclusive suburbs if their promotions continue. It is a very safe area to live in.
Nationality Distribution
Kuringai Municipality has more than one third of its citizens born overseas. One third of its citizens moved from overseas in the last five years. Eighty percent of its citizens speak English at home, and 7% speak Chinese.
Occupations
The main occupations (10% each ) are Health care, Finance, Insurance, Education and Retail.
Educational Facilities
Their are many famous high schools, but little in the way of universities, only UTS kuringai campus
Library
http://www.kmc.nsw.gov.au/www/html/64-library.asp
Kuringai Municipality has its central library at Gordon with sub-branches at Lindfield, Killara, St Ives and Turramurra.
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Exerice 8 - Robots - Automated Delivery System, Hunt Library
This automated storage system may be similar to Macquarie University's Library system. An electronic tag must be attached to each book. The video talks about "serendipity" - finding a book in the wrong location, which was just what you wanted , but you never knew existed. Now a person can sit on a bus with their laptop and see a display (apparently cover pictures included) of the books which should be near any suitable reference they find. Whether the computer driven system will find a new way to lose books or their access through keywords , we have to wonder.
UTS University Library is digging a big hole in the ground in Ultimo to install a similar automated system. As with outsourcing cataloging, they must feel the reduction in costs will justify any difficulties that arise.
(Filter Bubbles
The second video item, Eli Pariser: beware online "filter bubbles" appears to be more sinister. Search routines shaping what people find. Maybe the answer would be some kind of unfiltered search, but users would need to be much more clever with keywords, or else would need a new kind of software to help.)
This automated storage system may be similar to Macquarie University's Library system. An electronic tag must be attached to each book. The video talks about "serendipity" - finding a book in the wrong location, which was just what you wanted , but you never knew existed. Now a person can sit on a bus with their laptop and see a display (apparently cover pictures included) of the books which should be near any suitable reference they find. Whether the computer driven system will find a new way to lose books or their access through keywords , we have to wonder.
UTS University Library is digging a big hole in the ground in Ultimo to install a similar automated system. As with outsourcing cataloging, they must feel the reduction in costs will justify any difficulties that arise.
(Filter Bubbles
The second video item, Eli Pariser: beware online "filter bubbles" appears to be more sinister. Search routines shaping what people find. Maybe the answer would be some kind of unfiltered search, but users would need to be much more clever with keywords, or else would need a new kind of software to help.)
Exercise 7, Podcast - State Library, R.H. Mathews,
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/podcasts/events/martin_thomas_nba.html
Martin Thomas of the State Library gives a 40 minute talk on R.H. Mathews work and childhood experience, explaining how a man without university training, and one who says his first real friends were aboriginal children, published 2200 pages in respected journals around the world and became Australia's first academic anthropologist. Martin has been sifting through Mathews documents in the library.
Its a little unnerving listening with no pictures, and after missing the name of Mathews first Journal publication I had to wait 30 minutes to hear it again. However remembering the days before television, serials and documentaries on the radio were often quite exciting. There appear to be 2 hours of question time at the end.
Mathews came from a small town outside Goulburn. He saw surveyors having a good profession and the opportunity of travelling, a romantic experience. He left home at 18 and then working as a surveyor he joined the Royal Society of NSW and visited their reading room. 20 years later he published a journal with the society about a sacred and mythical aboriginal site near Singleton. The society sent their publications to similar societies all over the world. Mathews continued to publish about other sites including one near Coolangatta (in the Shoalhaven region) in other journals around the world. Aboriginal people went to the sites and told him about the ceremonies and legends. Many of the sites are now overgrown and difficult to find.
A very interesting 40 minute talk. It is well structured as after a few minutes one has the main points and is waiting for the details to be filled in.
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/podcasts/events/martin_thomas_nba.html
Martin Thomas of the State Library gives a 40 minute talk on R.H. Mathews work and childhood experience, explaining how a man without university training, and one who says his first real friends were aboriginal children, published 2200 pages in respected journals around the world and became Australia's first academic anthropologist. Martin has been sifting through Mathews documents in the library.
Its a little unnerving listening with no pictures, and after missing the name of Mathews first Journal publication I had to wait 30 minutes to hear it again. However remembering the days before television, serials and documentaries on the radio were often quite exciting. There appear to be 2 hours of question time at the end.
Mathews came from a small town outside Goulburn. He saw surveyors having a good profession and the opportunity of travelling, a romantic experience. He left home at 18 and then working as a surveyor he joined the Royal Society of NSW and visited their reading room. 20 years later he published a journal with the society about a sacred and mythical aboriginal site near Singleton. The society sent their publications to similar societies all over the world. Mathews continued to publish about other sites including one near Coolangatta (in the Shoalhaven region) in other journals around the world. Aboriginal people went to the sites and told him about the ceremonies and legends. Many of the sites are now overgrown and difficult to find.
A very interesting 40 minute talk. It is well structured as after a few minutes one has the main points and is waiting for the details to be filled in.
Exercise 6- Social Bookmarking - Library Book Review Sites
The Tasmanian State Library's reviews on the story of a mass killer were an extreme example of reviewing, since many would like to follow the crowd , reading a most pleasurable experience. However Stonnington library has reviews such as that for Oscar and Lucinda which I almost read for my Blog- 20 Literature presentation. Reviewers tell of their difficulty reading the book. But some admit that their are new and unusual ideas. maybe we could use such experience to rewrite a plot with a different ending. We can use new ideas in many ways. Only one or two people are neaded to develop ideas in a new direction. More than one can develop much faster.
Since a little print in electronic format is of negligible expense, and lots of good ideas can arise from an enormous amount of generally uneventful writing, I agree with the reviewer system, and would encourage it.
Exercise 5 - Libraries with a social networking site .
These sites allow libraries to disseminate information which could only be previously given to a limited number of clients by fliers or a poster.
While Facebook is dangerous for inexperienced or immature users, as readers can take advantage of the physically or financially, the library can use it properly by controlling which information flows in and out.
The library can find more ideas about how the public will receive their activities and projects. They can plan for a much better result on some occasions.
These sites allow libraries to disseminate information which could only be previously given to a limited number of clients by fliers or a poster.
While Facebook is dangerous for inexperienced or immature users, as readers can take advantage of the physically or financially, the library can use it properly by controlling which information flows in and out.
The library can find more ideas about how the public will receive their activities and projects. They can plan for a much better result on some occasions.
Exercise 3 - Dublin City Public Libraries Photostream
The Dublin City Libraries have sets of photos on different topics. One is
documents which includes are handwritten record of the weather from 1716 to 1734. Unfortunately you have to go to the library to see past the first page.
The libraries photostream is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dublincitypubliclibraries/
Dublin Library
.... inside
and the weather document years (1716 to 1734) at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dublincitypubliclibraries/2057038824/in/photostream/
I have picked the most interesting pictures from the upper level of many categories. Other pictures include inside and outside of library buildings, community scenes, social events and activities and many other documents.
The Dublin City Libraries have sets of photos on different topics. One is
documents which includes are handwritten record of the weather from 1716 to 1734. Unfortunately you have to go to the library to see past the first page.
The libraries photostream is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dublincitypubliclibraries/
Dublin Library
.... inside
and the weather document years (1716 to 1734) at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dublincitypubliclibraries/2057038824/in/photostream/
I have picked the most interesting pictures from the upper level of many categories. Other pictures include inside and outside of library buildings, community scenes, social events and activities and many other documents.
Exercise 2 - John Oxley Library Blog (Brisbane State Library)
http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/
http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/
The John Oxley Library blog gives several articles each week for several areas.
These articles change each week. One is usually from the Local History
Section often more than 100 years ago, giving a detailed biography and
also some interesting and unusual event in detail. Last week, from the 25th to 30th October, all 3 articles were historical. Actually , I find their historical articles the most interesting.
Today's article (30/10) was the biographical one. It was about Sir Arthur Hodgson who bought 67,200 acres on the Darling Downs in 1840. In 1842 he married the daughter of the NSW Chief justice. She was a trained artist. They had 11 children. They produced premium wool. In 1868 Sir Arthur became a member of the Queensland Assembly. Then in1869 he became Colonial Secretary in the Lilley ministry. Soon after he returned to England with his wife. A collection of medals, pictures and accounts were bought at auction in Somerset England recently. A video shows the shipment being opened at the John Oxley, Library.
The article on 29th October was about the Tindale geological Collection. Fron 1920 to 1974 Norman Tindale mapped aboriginal tribes and their languages in Australia. This was exciting to learn. Due to the movement of tribes during the second world war, this distribution changed dramatically.
The article on 25th October was about the gas fire near Roma in 1908. It burned for 45 days and was extenguished by a special steel chamber built in Brisbane. Tourists from as far as New Zealand, paid 1 pound each to travel by train to see the fire. This story is more exciting than many engineering documentaries on "Discovery" on Foxtel.
The historical stories on the blog all capture exciting and interesting information. i found earlier local information blog entries more factual and often not very interesting.
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