Author: alexghealey
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Digital exhibitions and Knight Lab TimelineJS
While testing out MS Sway as a platform for digital exhibitions, I wanted to explore the free TimelineJS tool offered by Knight Lab. Knight Lab are a team based at Northwestern University, making free to use open source tools to support visual communication of information. You can read more on their website. Flipping the exhibition…
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Digital exhibitions & MS Sway
Scrolling digital exhibitions have become increasingly popular as a way to tell engaging stories online. Used by popular media and journalism, their high visual appeal makes them valuable for sharing information about archives and rare books. There are a range of different tools and platforms available, but I was interested in exploring how well suited…
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The Cryer Collection at Wakefield Local Studies Library
An avid collector This spring I had the pleasure of spending some time exploring the fascinating Cryer Collection of scrapbooks and manuscript volumes held by Wakefield Local Studies Library, as I undertook a scoping project to evaluate the condition and significance of the collection. The accumulation of the collection is attributed to John Cryer (c.1781-1864),…
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The Trevelyan Family Archive Project
Background to the project Between 2016 and 2023 I was employed by Newcastle University to catalogue and promote use of the Trevelyan family Archives. The Trevelyan family have their roots in the South West of England, but the generations associated with the collections at Newcastle were based at the National Trust property Wallington, near Morpeth…
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ARA’s Accessible Learning Toolkit
In 2020 as Chair for the Archives for Learning and Education Section (ALES) of the Archives and Records Association (ARA) I lead on the creation of a successful bid to to the ARA’s Research and Advocacy Fund for the creation of an Accessible Learning Toolkit. The aims of of the toolkit were to encourage and…
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The ACPO Archives
The ACPO Archive project was a multi-faceted cataloguing project based at Hull University Archives at Hull History Centre. The project involved listing a large archive collection generated by the Association of Chief Police Officers, and other collections management tasks. It also included design and delivery of outreach activities and regular reporting to representatives of the…
AGH Archives 