Celebrating 30 Years of Looking Forward
Preservation, digitisation, and using social media to engage with the community: Lessons from the Australian War Memorial
Speaker: Mal Booth, Head of the Australian War Memorial Research Centre, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
VALA is delighted to present one of the leaders in field of digitisation and implementing social networking.
Hear Mal explain how the Australian War Memorial has addressed the issues of preservation of the collection,
increasing online access, and engaging with the community.
About Mal Booth
Mal Booth became Head of the Research Centre at the Memorial in September 2001. His focus has been on the digitisation of records of war, and promotion of the Research Centre and its collections. Over the period 2006 to 2008 he curated the Memorial's major summer exhibition for 2007-2008 "Lawrence of Arabia & the Light Horse". He was recently made Chair of the Memorial's Web Strategy Group and consequently is responsible for the Memorial's new web directions and its use of social media. Prior to joining the Memorial he was Director Economics Analysis at Defence Intelligence Organisation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma in Economic History, and is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Australia. Mal completed the Museums Leadership Program in 2005.
Not a VALA member?
Visitors are welcome at VALA meetings - just come!
Want to join Committee and the speaker for dinner (your expense) afterwards?
Dinner RSVPs only by 5.00 p.m. Tuesday 26 August: vala@vala.org.au or (03) 9725 2725
Venue
Tutorial Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
(On-site parking available – have gold coins available for the parking fee.
Public transport via tram.)
Date
Wednesday 27 August 2008
5.30 p.m. Wine and nibbles 6.00 p.m. Meeting
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