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GLAM Peak
www.glampeak.org.au
Meeting No.14
Monday 4 March 2019
Conference Room, Ground Floor, ALIA House, 9/11 Napier Cl, Deakin ACT
Co-Chairs: Liz Jack (NSLA) and Robin Hirst (AMaGA)
NOTES
1 Welcome
Robin Hirst acknowledged the Traditional Owners of the land, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, and
welcomed GLAM Peak to Canberra. Liz Jack and Robin Hirst, as GLAM Peak Co-Chairs, welcomed
participants and introduced GLAM Peak representatives. Sue McKerracher welcomed members to ALIA
House.
2 GLAM Peak Action Plan
Chaired by Alex Marsden (AMaGA)
The revised national framework from October 2017 improved the clarity of the 7 principles, where the
key actions were formed. In updating the action plan, GLAM Peak is adding members’ individual efforts
to the plan to indicate how members are supporting these actions.
Collaborate
• The production of the GLAM Peak advocacy booklet.
• Advocacy continues with joint advocacy plans between AMaGA and NAVA.
• FAHS is publishing the digitisation of collections, seeking funding and community grants.
• FAHS is in talks with Minister Fifield and Shadow Minister Burke forming a Friends of History
within Parliament.
• AAH will have an election strategy focusing on skills and workforce development and is working
with the Department of Education and Training, ARC and partnering with industry. AAH also
producing an innovation and skills agenda.
• ASA developing GLAM pages and promoting the work of GLAM Peak.
Share
• Continued maintenance of the website and twitter account.
• The Indigenous cultural competency is finalised.
• AMaGA will be releasing and has shared copies of the Indigenous Roadmap with GLAM Peak.
• NSLA developing role specific training for GLAM workers interacting with Indigenous collections.
Champion
• The high level gap analysis of mapping the progress in digital access at a macro level is urgent but
underway. This feeds into the work by Michael Parry.
Align
• NAA has the ICA conference in October in Adelaide, with an Indigenous focused summit after
this. Louise Doyle to send Secretariat further information on this.
• NFSA to host Digital Directions in October or November 2019.
• GLAMSLAM is being held in March at the State Library of NSW.
• Updates to any work that champions GLAM sector or GLAM Peak can be emailed to Secretariat
and can be provided to HASS for further promotion.
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Connect
• Digital Access Plans are underway.
• Ross Latham provided an update on Tasmania:
o Little has changed in Tasmania since the initial survey.
o What has been indicated is a need for movement in the digital space and there is a great
appetite for additional training to become available.
o TasManac, the state-wide online delivery platform is to have a 2020 launch date.
o Launceston was able to receive funding through Smart Cities to provide VR experiences
and to digitise collections. This is indicative of how alternative revenue is sought to
continue the effort to digitise collections in Tasmania.
▪ It is seen to contribute to economy with digital access needed for tourism and
promotion, visitor economy and tourism industry
o This is paving the way for a $10m ask from government with the aim to invest in
infrastructure within the state.
o Ross will write up a ‘How To’ guide to a state digital access plan based on his work and
learning in Tasmania.
• Western Australia update:
o Lottery West grant was obtained by AMaGA WA to provide professional development
throughout the state.
o Department of Arts would like to create a digital platform and has allotted $30,000 to
achieve this offering the services to community groups and regional organisations first,
inviting major institutions later. This is achieved through help from the WA Museum.
Enable
• Extensive resources were developed through the workshop program and have been made
available on the website.
• AMaGA has an update of Museum Methods underway.
Protect
• No further updates added in meeting.
3 Advocacy Plan
Chaired by Sue McKerracher (ALIA)
Sue McKerracher led a workshop focused session to achieve election priorities for the GLAM sector.
• There are the agreed upon priorities for GLAM Peak which make up the position statements:
o Digital collections from creation to preservation
o Indigenous Cultural Competencies
o National research infrastructure
o Copyright law reform
• In thinking what would be the sector’s top three election asks GLAM Peak were asked to
consider:
o If the ask is easily understood by voters
o If the ask has national impact
o If the ask is quick and easy to achieve
o Is the ask affordable
o Will the ask make a powerful soundbite
• GLAM Peak workshopped priorities and concerns in the sector to narrow or group concerns. The
full whiteboard list is attached with presentations and papers.
• Some white board statements included:
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o We are custodians of national cultural heritage and we need increased capacity to
collect, preserve and make accessible
o We need to promote content held by cultural institutions – public value campaign
o We need to re-evaluate Indigenous collections and engagement with Indigenous people
o FAHS would be better placed in Arts rather than Environment
o We would like more children to benefit from visiting Canberra on school trips
o Humanities researchers need to be at the table along with science councils
o Expansion of industries – Creative Clusters UK
• With some longer term asks:
o Workforce: national cultural apprenticeship scheme for young people
o Digital access to collections: more digital content, security for government records,
interoperability, long term preservation, sustainability
o New national HQ for NAA in Parliamentary Zone; big new building for NFSA
o Cultural Infrastructure Australia: storage; research, physical and digital infrastructure;
hub and spoke model for digitisation (NFSA) and upload to national platforms (Trove) of
community collections
o Review of national research priorities; research relationships
o Built heritage should be an interest at a federal level.
• The potential priorities that fit the criteria:
o We need a national cultural framework but in the absence of this, we need:
▪ An end to the efficiency dividend for national cultural institutions
▪ Funding to digitise magnetic tape – 25 year deadline; $15m for WWII content;
$30m for NFSA, $25m for NAA – how much for others?
▪ $100,000 per annum for FAHS operations plus grants funding program for small
community organisations
• Next steps from this are to:
o Have meetings with politicians with booklet
o Write to party and election HQs
o Activate supporters with call to action
The outcome of the workshop was to focus in the short term leading up to the federal election on
ensuring cultural organisations are exempt from the efficiency dividend.
The key messaging:
• Every year, for no good reason, our national cultural institutions lose $x million or 2% of their
funding.
• Our National Gallery, Library and Museum (list) have been caught up in a federal government
efficiency dividend designed to curb the growth of government departments employing
thousands of workers.
• The efficiency dividend is regularly described as a blunt instrument which has a disproportionate
effect on smaller agencies.
A one page statement of this focus is to be drafted and included in the GLAM Peak advocacy booklet.
4 UNESCO Memory of the World
Chaired by Liz Jack, presented by Ros Russell and Michael Piggott.
Presentation on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee consideration of how to
address the lack of coherent, collaborative, nationally coordinated, all-encompassing collection policy
framework for the whole of Australian documentary heritage. With no way of knowing how well the
current stock of documentation reflects Australia and the Australian people and what is missing. Such
material (text, non-text, audio-visual and virtual digital documents) are found in collections managed
across the GLAM sector, and in numerous additional settings including in non-heritage organisations,
businesses, churches and private hands.
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• Common understanding that this is a challenge that is facing the sector, it is in the best interest
for UNESCO Memory of the World Committee and GLAM Peak to improve their relationship.
• A goal for UNESCO Memory of the Word Committee is to be associated in some way with GLAM
Peak.
• A resolution that the organisations, having shared goals, should work together.
5 Platforms for HASS
Chaired by Kylie Brass with Dominic English and Ryan Winn, representing the Department of Education
and Training
This open session with department officials was chaired by Kylie Brass with questions and discussions
from GLAM Peak members.
• There is a sense from the speakers that there is not yet a cohesive set of priorities in the GLAM
Sector.
• The National Research Infrastructure is emblematic of projects and architecture that
demonstrates sharing and collaboration which align with key priorities.
• Key priorities and focus areas are biology and environmental issues.
• GLAM Peak organisations are collecting organisations and the challenge exists as many data sets
are not created in our organisations.
o GLAM Peak was encouraged to workshop the gaps and broader social and economic
impacts of the sector and to seek ways in which GLAM data can contribute to focuses
and priorities which current structures are not allowing for.
o GLAM Peak was also encouraged to consider what benefits there could be to other
recipients.
A New Approach
Chaired by Tina Parolin
Apologies from Kate Fielding, who was unable to attend the GLAM Peak meeting. Tina gave GLAM Peak
updates on A New Approach.
• Funding of $1.65 million over 3 years has been dedicated with this being a think tank into the
perceptions of arts and culture.
• It sets out to seek community and bipartisan support for the arts.
• The project acts an as independent voice about the benefits of investment into public life, using
critical evidence to support this.
• The think tank aims to drive and communicate the public benefits of investment in the sector.
o This can be supported by being shared through the networks of GLAM Peak.
• GLAM within the scope of A New Approach is inclusive of visual arts, gaming, literature,
language, craft heritage, community practice as well as galleries, libraries, archives and
museums.
• The research working group is focusing on why and how private funding is made, what cultural
assets exist, and what happens when there is little to no investment in the arts.
• Findings currently:
o Cultural funding in the arts over the past decade indicate that overall funding is stable,
while there have been some changes total investment has plateaued since 2011. Per
capita investment is declining and is it not growing with the population.
7 Secretariat Report
Chaired by Lucinda Davison
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• GLAM Peak advocacy booklet copy is near complete and will be sent to designers to be ready
prior to the election
• Establishing the administrative and financial records required
• Answering enquiries from the digital collections website
• Gathering questions for a follow up survey of participants
• Monitoring online content
Financial report shown to GLAM Peak and will be sent to members after meeting.
8 Other business
None – Robin moved to use time to expand on the advocacy workshop and the next steps with the
election. Change approved.
9 Advocacy with the election
Chaired by Robin
• A focus is needed on both major parties’ cultural policies.
o There must be attention to frame what GLAM Peak want into the national framework.
o Ending the efficiency dividend is a major focus.
o Working with phraseology, message to the effect of a Fair Share for Culture.
▪ When working with the Labor Party emphasis on the lack of National Framework
works well.
• The aim is for an election promise but for that we must be specific.
• There is a need for a delegation of people to meet with key people and politicians.
o There will need to be an open call to available GLAM Peak members to attend these
meetings, the more the better.
• Friends of GLAM could also be a good idea to think about with a new flavour of government.
o This will be an agenda item for the next meeting.
Other summaries:
• Resolved to write a letter of support for UNESCO Memory of the World as there are shared
goals.
• NCRIS/NRI:
o Position statement as a first priority
o Kylie Brass to report back on research impact
o Thinking how GLAM Peak can aid, possibly through consultation.
Next meeting to be held in July with the following meeting in October.
10 Next Meeting
GLAM Peak Meeting No. 15 will be held on DATE TBC 2019. Venue tbc.
11 Summary of Actions
A. Booklet to be completed and distributed to GLAM Peak members (LD)
B. Meeting with politicians or relevant people to be organised (AM)
C. Open call for GLAM Peak members to attend these meetings (AM)
D. Letter of support for UNESCO Memory of the World committee to be drafted for approval (LD)
E. Ross Latham to create a guide to developing a state digital access plan from the success in Tasmania
(RL)
F. Circulate revised GLAM Peak Action Plan for all members to update (LD/ALL)
Contacts:
Alex Marsden director@amaga.org.au
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Sue McKerracher sue.mckerracher@alia.org.au
Lucinda Davison Lucinda.davison@amaga.org.au
Participants:
Name Organisation
Sue McKerracher Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
Robin Hirst Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)
Alex Marsden Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)
Lucinda Davison Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)
Liz Jack National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA)
Alison Dellit National Library of Australia (NLA)
Barbara Lemon National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA)
Kylie Brass Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH)
Kelly Gellatly University Art Museums Australia (UAMA)
Meg Labrum National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)
Louise Doyle NAA/Council of Australasian Archives and Records
Authorities (CAARA)
Ross Latham Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities
(CAARA)
Gionni di Gravio University of Newcastle; Australian Society of Archivists
(ASA)
Don Garden Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FAHS)
Ian Thilthorpe ICOM Australia
Tina Parolin Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH)
Stephen Forbes Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD)
Guest Speakers:
Name Organisation
Dominic English Department of Education and Training
Ryan Winn Department of Education and Training
Ros Russell UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee
Michael Piggott UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee
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