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"Navigating our business history" symposium at SLQ

The State Library of Queensland will host a symposium for historians, business leaders, educators and researchers, Navigating our business history on 19 June 2013 .

The symposium will be an opportunity to open up discussion around the important role of Queensland business history in the broader historical context of Queensland and Australia.

The symposium will challenge participants to consider and discuss the impact and influence of Queensland’s business history on our cultural, economic and social landscape.     

Designed for historians, business leaders, researchers, students, educators, librarians, and those working with their own business stories and heritage collections, the symposium will feature keynote addresses from Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO, distinguished Australian historian and author, and Dr David Allison, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.  Each keynote will be followed by a panel discussion facilitated by renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster Geraldine Doogue.

For further information regarding this event and bookings please consult the following webpage - http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about-us/media-releases/2013/navigating-our-business-history

Diary returns to Australia after 150 years

This diary is an account of Tom Bird’s experiences, observations and thoughts recorded on board the ship Sultana during a voyage from England to Australia in 1862. The ship sailed from Plymouth and reached Moreton Bay, Queensland 90 days later on the 31st October.

Having arrived at his destination, found lodgings and taken up employment he resumed writing the diary and recorded details of his daily life and work in Brisbane, from the 1st January to the 16th January 1863. He added the date 17th January clearly intending to continue the diary but at this point something happened….

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2013/04/15/new-accession-return-of-diary-to-australia-after-one-hundred-and-fifty-years-in-england/

New collection at SLQ: James Toohey World War One Diaries

With the centenary of the outbreak of World War I approaching in 2014 the John Oxley Library has been fortunate to receive the diaries of a young World War I soldier, Gunner James Toohey, from South Brisbane.

James Toohey was born in 1895, the son of Peter Toohey and Kate O’Kane of Logan Road, South Brisbane.  Toohey Forest in Brisbane’s south is named after the family.  Before World War I James was a telephonist and enlisted on 7 September 1915 as a gunner with the Field Artillery Brigade 3, Reinforcements 14.  His unit embarked from Sydney on board the RMS Osterley on the 15th January 1916, arriving in Egypt in February. 

More on the John Oxley Library Blog -

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2013/04/30/new-accessions-james-toohey-world-war-i-diaries/

Results of Queensland’s Collections, Access and Digitisation

The State Library of Queensland has completed the Queensland’s Collections, Access and Digitisation Survey 2013. Sent to organisations throughout Queensland that house historical collections, the survey shows a very busy and diverse state of collecting of Queensland memory. Survey participants let us know that Queensland memory can be found in libraries, Indigenous Knowledge Centres, archives, museums, historical societies, associations, family history centres and small collecting institutions.

Find out more about the result on the John Oxley Library Blog - http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2013/05/06/queenslands-collections-access-and-digitisation-survey-summary/

NEW - Australian South Sea Islander Blog

August 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the first arrival of Australian South Sea Islanders transported to Queensland. To commemorate this significant event this blog has been created to discuss, share and celebrate Australian South Sea Islander heritage, culture and stories. Over the following weeks, the Queensland Museum, State Library of Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art will all be contributing stories. We also welcome and encourage your input, either as a guest blogger or by adding your comments under each blog article.

The Australian South Sea Islander Blog is coordinated by Imelda Miller from the Queensland Museum. If you would like to contribute to the blog Imelda can be contacted via email - imelda.miller@qm.qld.gov.au 

We hope you enjoy following the Australian South Sea Islander Blog over the coming months as we approach this important anniversary.

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/assi/ 

Imperial pensions Index 1898-1912

Queensland State Archives has released a small new on line index created fromSeries ID 6781, Registers of Imperial Pensions Country Accounts, 1898-1912 created by the Treasury Department.

This series consists of registers of personal accounts for pensions paid through the Treasury to persons who were previously employed by the Imperial Government, living in such places as Rockhampton, Mackay, Charters Towers, Roma and Townsville.

Information provided include: name of account holder; regiment (mostly Chelsea, East India Co., Greenwich, R.I. Fusiliers, Army Reserve, Returned, Royal Irish Constabulary, Navy Civil Pension; quarter; papers details; cheque sent; amount; address; remarks (sometimes including date of death), etc.

View the index at:http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Indexes/Other/Pages/Imperial-pensions-1898-1912.aspx

My address is: 435 Compton Road Runcorn QLD 4113 info@archives.qld.gov.au

My website is: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au

Nurses examinations Index 1915-1925

Queensland State Archives has released a new index compiled fromSeries ID 17342, Registers of Nurses, with Examination Resultscreated by the Nurses Registration Board of Queensland.

View the index at:http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Indexes/Professions/Pages/Nurses-1915-1925.aspx

To learn more about records relating to nurses and the nursing profession please refer to Brief Guide 53: Nurses (PDF, 113KB).

My address is: 435 Compton Road Runcorn QLD 4113 info@archives.qld.gov.au

My website is: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au

Indigenous Languages webpages - State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland has recently updated their Indigenous Languages webpages to the new format with a selection of  resources to support language workers and communities. Find out more on the John Oxley Library Blog -

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2012/09/06/new-state-librarys-indigenous-language-webpages/

70th anniversary of the bombing of Townsville during World W

July 2012 marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Townsville by the Japanese military during World War Two.

How many raids were conducted? What was the damage?

Go to the John Oxley Library Blog to discover more...

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2012/07/24/70th-anniversary-of-the-bombing-of-townsville/

Myles Sinnamon - State Library of Queensland