Getting the most out of Trove and PROV
Date:
With:
Helen Morgan
Rating:
ALL
Summary:
Discover how the National Library of Australia’s Trove discovery service can support and enhance your research and writing projects through digitised newspapers, archives, pictures, maps, full text sources and more. This hands-on workshop will also introduce you to archival research principles, with a focus on Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), and explore how Trove can help you make the most of PROV and other archival collections.
Details
You will learn:
- Basic and advanced strategies for searching Trove’s digitised newspaper zone
- Tagging and list creation in Trove to manage your research
- What other zones in Trove (e.g. maps, archives and pictures) have to offer
- How to identify relevant records at Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) to flesh out your (Victorian) Trove discoveries
- How these strategies can be applied in other archival collections and why they can make a difference to your research and writing
About Helen Morgan
Helen Morgan is a writer, professional historian, archivist and hands-off philatelist. She is the author of Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Stamps (Atlantic Books, 2006) and chapters in Is Digital Different? (Facet, 2015) and Do Archives Have Value? (Facet, 2019). Helen co-edits The Australian Women’s Register, the first external resource harvested into Trove. Her research interests include problematising sources and working with biographical, archival and bibliographical data in public domains.
Venue:
Registration for this event ended on 01 November 2019 - 4:00