2003 National Conference
Famous People: Famous Collections
Issues of significance in the establishment and access to person
specific collections in libraries, archives, galleries and museums
14-16 September 2003
Conference Aims
To broaden knowledge of these collections and share with others the issues that such collections create in relation to access and use including building design, digitisation and funding
Keynote Speaker
Phil Reed, Director, Cabinet War Rooms, London
Phil Reed has been the Director of the Cabinet War Rooms, a branch of the Imperial War Museum in London since 1993. His key responsibilities include maintaining an historic site, enabling maximum public access, developing exhibitions and creating and executing strategies for education and marketing personnel. Phil has responsibility for ten curatorial and twenty front-of-house and shop staff; external relations, liaising with media, government departments and handling VIP visits. Currently Phil is overseeing an ambitious plan to return the ground plan to its 1941 configuration including the restoration of the Churchill Suite of rooms and creating a museum to be dedicated to the life of Sir Winston Churchill.
Workshops: Winning Your Organisations Support: Marketing and Promotion
This workshop will focus on strategies for librarians, archivists
and other cultural custodians to position themselves as assets to their
organisations. Archives and special collections are not widely understood
even by their host organisations and this session will consider
communication strategies and ways to add value to core organisational
programs to garner support for you, your library, archive or special
collection
Facilitator: Fiona Lange, Lange Hill Marketing
Workshop: Communication through Display and Exhibitions
This practical workshop will address tips for modest DIY displays
through to advice for those staging more substantive exhibitions. Regardless
of an exhibitions size, careful consideration should be given to developing
a theme, design issues, selecting appropriate records and objects, preparing
text and catalogues plus special issues associated with travelling and
digitising exhibitions
Facilitators: Kathy Gargett, State Records of SA; Marie Boland, Enfield and
Port Adelaide Council
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BHPML acknowledge conference support from Albox Australia - a product
development company specialising in the design of leading edge products for
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For further information contact the Conference Convenor
Jenni Jeremy
Academic Librarian
University of South Australia Library, Magill Campus
St Bernards Road
Magill, South Australia 5072
Ph +61 8 8302 4457