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The Austinmer ProjectPublic Private Partnership
Paper presented to the Local Studies Librarian’s Seminar
Wollongong October 2015
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Where is Austinmer?
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Presentation Outline
• Project History and Background
• The Partnership Model
• Project Policies and Procedures
• Project Implementation
• Project Evaluation
• Providing Access
• The Next Steps
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Austinmer Beach 1940s
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Austinmer 1930s
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Project Background
My journey from growing up in Austinmer to recording Austinmer’s stories:
Public libraries Special arts libraries Film, radio and television Cultural policy, planning and management
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GENERATING UNIQUE CULTURAL CONTENT IS THE FUTURE
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Growing Up at Austinmer
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Digital Oral History
OHAA NSW 2004
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
Memory Bank Inc.
2010 - the next Project?
Digital storytelling course ACMI
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Project Partnership Concept
To research Austinmer’s history via Digital Oral History recordings and to lodge the recordings in
a library to ensure public access
• Identifying potential partners - Australia Street Company (pro bono)- University of Wollongong, Archives - Local Studies, Wollongong City Library
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Pro Bono Work
• Australia Street Company Directors commitment to 1 project each per annum including:
- Mentoring
- Consultation facilitation
- Oral histories
• Sue Boaden Cultural Planner (sole trader 2013) continued the commitment
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Setting the Project FrameworkNegotiating: • Project Purpose • Project scope – pilot project • Project management• Resources• Evaluation and review• Committed to OHAA standards- Software - Digital recording equipment and settings- Conditions of release
- Indexing - Digital recording standards – including the NLA/OHAA
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Project Purpose
To document Austinmer’s social and cultural history through digital recordings of resident
and visitor recollections.
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Software and Equipment
Based on OHAA and NLA advice:
• Audacity software (open source)
• Edirol RO9HR recorder
• TASCAM DR-40
• 24-bit/48kHz
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Partnership Agreement or Formal Letter?
• Project Cooperation Agreement- 10 pages, 35 Clauses + 1 Appendix- covered rights and obligations, responsibilities, intellectual property, insurance, record keeping, indemnity, termination and so on.
• Letter - 1 page, based on donation of recordings etc. to WCL, noted initiative of ASC and resourced by ASC. Signed and agreed 2012.
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Whale on Austinmer Beach 1950s
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The Whale in the Roomor
Who pays?
Australia Street Company/SBCP = equipment, travel, software, postage, time.
Wollongong City Library = liaison, uploading, LMS management, time, postage, marketing.
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Suite of Project Templates
• Pre-interview Form
• Formal invitation to participate template
• Clearance Form
• Index Form – from Word to Excel
• Interview Follow up Form
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Project Policies and Procedures
The Project is based on a shared commitment to the following procedures :- Initial phone contact- Written follow up with Pre-interview form- Pre-interview meeting to familiarise and identify photos/ documents- Interview based on details in Pre-interview form and agreed images- Pre-interview digital photo for the file - Standard interview introduction format- Interview focus on Austinmer - Post-interview, sign Release form - Post interview - images/ documents scanned at Local Studies and returned- Written follow up to interviewee- Interview indexed – names and subjects- No transcript - Interview downloaded (WAV and Audacity) to hard drive + USB- Documents scanned and downloaded to USB- Files electronically transferred and mailed to Local Studies
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Austinmer – Lett Family Builders
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Project Implementation to 2015
• 8 interviews • Formal notification of partner move from Australia
Street Company to Sue Boaden Cultural Planner (sole trader)
• Evaluated 2014 by Austinmer Project Working Party:Evaluation Criteria:- Access- Viability- Quality- Governance and management- Participation
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Austinmer Faces
Molly Armstrong Kevin Grew
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More Faces
Roma Bates Marge Gilleland
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Faces from the Past
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Next Steps
• Promotion and marketing
• Explore launching in another suburb
• Editing Austinmer Project sound bites and images for the Wollongong City Libraries web
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Accessing project content
• 2012 First interviews receivedRecorded and stored as a manuscript
• 2014 Library purchases BLIS – digital archive
• 2015 Start experimenting with BLIS, storing audio recordings and maps
Process for storing/archiving new project interviews is revised
Improved access and enriched content