Queensland Memory - Outreach
Overview
The State Library of Queensland provides public libraries, museums, galleries and archives with the opportunity to learn new skills and practices in the area of image digitisation. The Queensland Memory - Outreach project is an Online Public Access in Libraries (OPAL) funded initiative.
Its four main goals are:
- to improve the level of public access to state-wide image resources
- to increase the number of unique Queensland digital images to form a more complete pictorial record of the state
- to encourage and empower staff from Queensland local public libraries and other cultural institutions to digitise their local images, making them available online, and to effectively manage their documentary heritage collections and
- to develop an understanding of documentary heritage collections belonging to regional cultural organisations.
Activities
Outreach staff deliver image digitisation workshops to Queensland cultural organisations. These workshops are conducted onsite and give attendees the necessary skills to manage, scan, edit, preserve and catalogue images in their photographic collection. The project also gives participating organisations the ability to contribute images to Picture Queensland, in turn opening up Queensland’s rich pictorial heritage to a worldwide audience.
Picture Queensland contributors
Several Queensland cultural organisations have successfully digitised their images and made them available on Picture Queensland. For more details on these organisations, visit the Contributor page.
To contribute to Picture Queensland
To find out more about contributing to Picture Queensland, visit the Contributor Resources page or fill in a web form to lodge your interest.
Last updated: 20th March 2008
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