See what a small volunteer organisation has been doing to make archives accessible, especially since launching web and images online in the past six months (mainly just me, over several years and in past six months with one other volunteer working on the KHS archives since the old guard left ca 2003).
In this 50th year of the town of Kununurra - with a young but fascinating, Ord River National Development history, we are searching for past residents of Kununurra and the East Kimberley. If you know someone please send them to http://www.kununurra.org.au/your-kununurra-history
If your institution has archival material on the Ord River Project, Northern Development, or Kimberley history in general, consider sharing these with KHS as copies or please feel free to send links to relevant collections online to be entered into finding aids.
If your institution has photographs or other digitised collections you might consider two group pools started by KHS on Flickr "Ord History in (Other) Archives" and "Kimberley History in (Other) Archives" - These are requesting other archival institutions to add relevant digitised images to the pool (See KHS "Groups" on the Flickr pages).
For many more options of viewing all photographs from the KHS Archives - Viewing as "Sets", in "Subject Themes" and/or as "Collections" (The Flickr platform is very easy to use with some useful and powerful sort options for collection arrangement in sets and collections) - See all KHS online images available directly from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/ or from our main website at http://www.kununurra.org.au/ or now available via searches on Trove via Picture Australia on Flickr.
If your (non profit) institution does consider using Flickr, then please read "Almost FREE Flickr Pro accounts for Non Profits" from http://www.kununurra.org.au/info-for-non-profits/almost-free-flickr-for-non-profits
I am interested to know what ASA professional archivists on "ArchivesLive" think of this (amateur archivist's) approach to accessibility.
Kind regards,
Andrew Barker
KHS President
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