Your Treasures at the State Library of Victoria

While on this idea of soliciting contributions from the users, I like the blog 'Your Treasures' in the State Library of Victoria website. Users contribute heritage treasure they have and other users are asked to contribute who might have the some information relating to the posted treasure. The Library also attach link(s) which bring users' attention to items held in the collection which relate to this treasure.

The Hyperlinked Library

Just had a riveting tea break with a Colleague who attended this Seminar at Macquarie University yesterday. For those who are interested to follow this up, the seminar was conducted by Michael Stephens. His blog can be accessed at: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2005/11/do-libraries-matter-on-library-librarian-20.html

Through the sharing of information, another Colleague made a suggestion about collection of poster images around NSW soliciting locals to contribute the digital images and load them into Flickr. This contributes to our Ephemera collection. A prize event can also be organised where a good image can be rewarded, and maybe the awarded image can be used as a starting point for a creative writing exercise (poetry, short stories)-- again, drawing on the local creative communities to participate and sharing while enriching the cultural life of NSW. We can get some sponsors for these activities as we do for the @Mitchell projects.

wk8 Answer boards and social searching

We can do Australian lexicons with Sydney origin, questions and answers pertaining to history of Sydney, its people, culture, intellectual life-- embedding delicious tags of public libraries' local history section throughout the state of NSW, as well as State Library's collection. This adds another dimension to the Telephone Enquiry Service.