Collection Development
|
Responsibility
|
Progress at October 2006
|
1. Identify possible sources and acquire 25 Colin Thiele missing books.
|
LRA, MC
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
2. Create 20 biographical profiles for AustLit.
|
Volunteers, CDM
|
Achieved. 22 files were created by 8 volunteers over 47 hours
|
|
|
|
3. Identify 15 higher degree theses relevant to Lu Rees Collection that are dated from 1998 and acquire. (Search Australian digital theses and AustLit; AUSTROM existing list locates 52 theses.)
|
LRA, Library
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
Access
|
|
|
4. Enter data on AustLit database. (Equivalent of 4-5 hrs per week)
|
LRA
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
5. Complete outstanding EAD files.
|
LRA
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
6. Create 5 new research files.
|
LRA
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
7. Update 10 existing research files.
|
LRA
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
Service to clients
|
|
|
8. Review & report to MC on reference services from 2000 by mid-year 2006. LRA Management Committee to consider & recommend priorities for 2007.
|
LRA, MC
|
Deferred until 2007
|
|
|
|
9. Support 2006 May Gibbs Fellow, Nadia Wheatley. (Check missing titles in book collection, inform author & publishers, update research file, update AustLit)
|
LRA & CDM
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
10. Link 5 updated EAD files to LRA web site Author-Illustrator List.
|
LRA
|
Not achieved
|
|
|
|
11. Complete list of small collections of artwork.
|
R Howes, Volunteers
|
Partially achieved - ongoing
|
|
|
|
12. Call for scholarly papers for refereeing and publication in Lu Rees journal.
|
CDM
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
13. Produce Jubilee 25-year issue of Lu Rees journal.
|
I Groves, B Alderman, MC
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
14. Provide support for overseas Taiwainese researcher.
|
LRA, CDM
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
15. Draft an article for submission either to Magpies, Classroom, English in Australia, or Papers by October 2006.
|
LRA, supported
by CDM
|
Held over until 2007
|
|
|
|
16. Provide LRA brochures for the CBCA National May 2006 conference for placing in conference satchels.
|
LRA
|
Achieved, but Expertise Events lost, then found them too late for the Conference. Brochures returned to LRA.
|
17. Improve profile with stakeholders within UC. Achieved
|
LRA
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
18. Design a project for 2007 to exploit new objective: ‘network proactively to guide and maintain links with other organisations and collections’.
|
MC
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
Preservation & Conservation
|
|
|
|
|
|
19. Liaise with Library to determine measures to safeguard collection in case of emergency, and produce a brief guide.
|
LRA, Library
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
20. Arrange, describe and rehouse one small collection of papers/artwork, create a finding aid and mount finding aid on Lu Rees Archives web site.
|
LRA
|
Deferred until 2007
|
|
|
|
21. Conduct Omnibus Books Publisher 3rd working bee, Jan 2006.
|
Volunteers
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|
Financial Aspects
|
|
|
|
|
|
22. Create projects for special funding for 2006-2007.
|
MC
|
Partially achieved
|
|
|
|
23. Form a sub-committee to identify and seek funds for projects identified.
|
MC
|
Achieved
|
|
|
|