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• W323519676 abstract "Ideas on how to make local history services popular based on experience of taking a closed access local history collection housed in an obsolete area of the library, to one that is popular and readily accessible to the community and which has an identity separate to that of the library service. Discussed are the services established, their promotion and outcomes over the past six years. The historical background to the service is highlighted and the personal requirements needed to implement a high quality service described. Edited version of a paper presented at the second national Alia local studies conference Guildford WA 12-13 November 1999 Those who work in the local history field know the importance of the collections--have seen the wonders they hold. How do we share those wonders and also how do we make local history collections not only popular but able to keep the visitors coming back? This is a problem that many local history staff are faced with every day. Most people see history as a boring subject they were forced to take at school. They may not view local history as being interesting or having any entertainment value. Much of a local history service's success or failure therefore lies with the local history manager. So what attributes does the local history manager need to have to make a service popular? The best word to describe it is that buzz word of the 80s and 90s, multiskilling. They need to know about preservation, research, cataloguing, publishing, public relations, business and collection management, marketing and most importantly an understanding about what visitors want. What do they come to see, learn, experience and what will bring them back? The importance of promotion In these times of council amalgamations, service classifications, business units and competitive tendering, local history managers need to look closely not only at their services but also their client needs. As the keepers of local history they need to come out of the often mysterious and hidden collections to start promoting local history to the people who ultimately determine the survival of history services. At the age of seventeen I started work at the City of Elizabeth Library in South Australia. Upstairs on the first floor, tucked away in the farthest corner was a very small room in which the local history collection was housed. Access to this room required courage on behalf of the interested person. First, you had to know of its existence. Then you would need to climb a very steep staircase, pass the city librarian's office, the reference area, staff tearoom and a storage room. The only good point was that someone had actually considered adding a local history room to the plans when the library had been built in 1969. The local history officer, who was employed for nine hours a week, had looked after the collection for many years and was stereotypical of some people's image of a librarian. She had hair tightly pulled up, half glasses perched on the end of her nose and seemed quite old (bearing in mind I was only seventeen and everyone over twenty five seemed old to me). At that time I had little understanding of local history collections but I was drawn to this room and would often sneak up in my lunch hours to look through old photographs and newspapers. The local history officer eventually grew tired of trying to maintain the collection in such a small amount of time and resigned. After her departure a number of people took on the position but they too grew weary of the strain of trying to keep pace. Sadly, the local history room was locked for ten years and only occasionally opened on request or to add to the ever growing pile on the desk and floor of local history material. In 1993, after a branch library which I had managed for eight years closed, I was asked if there was a department within the main library in which I would like to work. I had given this considerable thought and wanted to take on local history as I was sure I could make people as interested as I had been. …" @default.
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