Looking north

Looking north is the Library's new Discover atmitchell Collections site
There must be heaps of material [photos and docs] out there that people would love to contribute in a wiki type interactive collection. e.g. this photo of the corner shop in Greenwich Rd circa 1920’s.

When all the baby boomers retire and go online and start their family histories and dig through those old boxes of photos and ephemera – there will be a huge untapped reservoir of free and enthusiastic labour to help Mitchell Library build such sites.

Some news from George Bush about his memoirs, Library & microfish

Lake Wendouree

We travelled to Ballarat recently for a wonderful wedding. The drought has been severe in Victoria turning Lake Wendouree into a football oval. Prospectors with metal detectors have found coins, guns, knives and all manner of things on the Lake bed.
The State Library of Victoria opened a new storage facility at Ballarat in 2006. More than 100,000 newspapers; 25,000 boxes of manuscripts; 750,000 serial volumes were moved into the store on the campus of the University of Ballarat.

I should have a look at my friend Michael's blog for inspiration - Mike learned to love blogging in 2007 by doing a blog for his friend, Olive Riley. At 108, Olive is the oldest blogger in the world. www.allaboutolive.com.au The Library has archived Olive's blog in PANDORA
Mike's blog about family art stories is at http://familyartstoriesrubbo.wordpress.com/

Have just started reading The secret agent by Joseph Conrad first published in 1907. It is available electronically at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/974 but I am reading the Library's copy at N823.912/47
It is now midnight and probably too late to read on .........