Dear Australian lists, and Cultural partnerships list, I've been invited to give a presentation to the staff of the State Library of NSW next month, as part of a series of presentations to the (relatively) senior staff by different "key audience groups" about how that group uses the library services. It's a bit like a one-man focus group. For those not from Australia - this is the country's oldest public library and has an unrivalled collection of original materials about the early history of the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLNSW They also are starting to get very active in Wikipedia themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SLNSW
I have been asked to talk about how the "typical Wikimedian" would use their services and how it could be improved. Whatever the "typical" wikimedian is... 1) I would appreciate if anyone could send me through any thoughts that they already have about using the State Library of NSW (online or offline) and I will convey them. 2) I would very much appreciate "user stories<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story>" about what YOU, as a Wikimedian, do with YOUR library - and how YOUR library makes this easy/hard. 3) Equally, if you want to have a play with their website, and send me your thoughts, here it is: Main page: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/ Manuscripts and images catalogue: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/ SimpleSearch.aspx [book] catalogue here: http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/ Personally, my initial thoughts are to talk about things like: - image licensing and access policies/fees (copyright etc.) - difficulty of citation of original materials (do I use the 'digital order number', the 'call number', the URL etc?) But I'm very very interested in hearing what YOU do and what YOU would like to see from a major library, in the idea world, about how they could serve us as an audience. Sincerely, -Liam
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