Monday, 9 May 2011

Investigative Exercise 1: Blogs John Oxley Library

The blog as a whole does a very good job at raising awareness of some of the libraries extensive collection of historical records, photographs and collection of personal belongings from previous generations as well as discussing resent events at the library

Each post is centred around of different topic or issue including historical information as well as notes on where to find information related to this topic within the library for an intuition with what is obviously a wide and varied collection this is an effective tool to raise awareness of what the library has to offer

This particular post discusses the temperance movement in Australia particularly in Brisbane this short entry gives the reader an intimate sense of events with exerts from people’s diaries and newspaper clippings while prompting the reader within a list of the sources used to gather this information

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