In this final episode in our Mammoth Moves series, Collection Managers Jennifer McNair and Claire O’Meara (now Senior Archivist, RMIT University Archives), Historical Services, Victoria Police Museum, share their challenges of moving a museum postponed during lockdowns, a mammoth undertaking even during normal circumstances.

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

In this episode of cardiCast, Charm Watts, Manager, Collection Logistics, Powerhouse, shares the mammoth undertaking of moving an entire museum collection of predominately large collection objects to a new collection storage facility.

Powerhouse Museum – Powerhouse Castle Hill

Moving and Packing Matrix

Theme Music by Professor Kliq, Work at night, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

In this episode of cardiCast – the first in a three-part series on “mammoth moves” – Neville Quick, Manager Collection Storage and Logistics at Museums Victoria, talks Mammoth collection storage moves, on the scale of moving an entire museum. Nev is well respected in the museum sector, working in collection storage and logistics for 30 years. There is not much he hasn’t experienced or skill sets he hasn’t acquired in the course of his work, so it was interesting to ask Nev if he ever encountered something he could not move. He also has many words of wisdom about maintaining a positive attitude and calm outlook when dealing with stressful problems encountered with large scale projects. Please note this interview was recorded before the Merri-Bek collection storage flood.

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

Hi cardies, we’re doing a fundraiser, or ‘the Great newCardigan September Donation Drive’ to use its full name. We haven’t run a fundraiser in almost four years. We’ve drawn down our funds, reduced our costs, and relied on a small number of regular and ad-hoc donors – thank you, we appreciate you a lot! However, we need to keep newCardigan solvent, meaning we need your help to keep going for another year.

We’re also revamping our Discord server to foster more discussion and sharing. Alissa has all the details for you.

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wadawurrung country.
Edited on unceded Wurundjeri country.

In our last episode in our GLAM after Twitter series, Hugh speaks with Eleanor Colla about email newsletters, Twitter, professional communication and identity, and the separation between “work” and “career”.

Eleanor has worked in tertiary research libraries across Australia since 2016, but has recently left the GLAM sector to see what being a project manager is all about. Eleanor’s interests are in how to best integrate library services within the broader tertiary environment,  the nexus of information, research, and project management, the role of cross-boundary professionals in tertiary institutions, and library advocacy.

little library (ish) links
Information Literacy Weblog
Pop Culture Library Review
Musings about librarianship
Information wants to be free (Meredith Farkas)
Newslet
New Books Network

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

In the third in our GLAM after Twitter series, Hugh speaks with Mita Williams about blogging, the impact of social media on the blogosphere, and the future of GLAM blogging.

Librarian of Things
43 Folders
Aus GLAMR – blogs
Power Law (Wikipedia)
In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Reclaim Hosting
Jason Kottke
MetaFilter

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Anishinaabe and Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

In the second in our GLAM After Twitter series, Hugh speaks to Sae Ra Germaine, Deputy CEO of CAVAL, volunteering addict, and conference organiser. Sae Ra has run over twenty conferences both in the technology and GLAM communities, and the overlap between them.

Sae Ra talks about the differences between community and corporate conferences, the work that conferences do for a profession or group, and what Twitter did for and to conferences as learning opportunities, community events, and spaces.

Linux Australia
CAVAL
VALA
Choice overload: Finding the right tool for the job (conference) 

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

Hugh speaks with Alissa McCulloch about what it was like to develop a professional identity at the height of “Library Twitter”. What was it that made the experience so intoxicating, and so powerful? What did it do for the Australian library profession? And what dangers were already lurking there, unnoticed?

Alissa is a metadata strategist with responsibility for metadata quality analysis, standards alignment, workflow design, reparative description and data flows beyond the catalogue.

Cataloguing the Universe: a work in progress
@[email protected]

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wadawurrung and Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

For a few years, Twitter was the place to be if you wanted to keep up with the latest professional developments in GLAM. But just like the saying about going bankrupt, Twitter got worse “slowly, and then suddenly”. In our upcoming series we will talk to four GLAM workers about what made GLAM Twitter so great, and the benefits and possible futures of other ways we communicate and collaborate as professionals.

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country. Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.

Our special series on bespoke and unusual GLAM collections continues, with Ray Langenfelds from CSIRO’s Aspendale atmospheric science laboratories.

Ray spoke with Hugh Rundle about the Kennaook/Cape Grim Air Archive – how it started, the surprising back-story of the canisters used to store the original samples, and why this very unusual archive is so important to global science.

Further reading:

Cape Grim Air Archive (CSIROpedia)

The cleanest air in the world is at Tasmania’s Kennaook/Cape Grim. It’s helping solve a climate puzzle (ABC Online)

Before it was Cape Grim, it was known as Kennaook (CSIRO)

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country. Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.