Trove New Strategic Advisory Committee representative part 2

Front row: Catherine Clark, Alison Dellit, Lisa McIntosh, Anna Raunik. Back row: Maggie Patton, Laurie Atkinson, Marie-Louise Ayres, Jennifer Carmody, Jane Miller (Chair) Absent: Cassandra Gorton and Nicole Hunt
The Trove Strategic Advisory Committee (TSAC) is the principal body through which the National Library seeks strategic input from Trove Partners. The Committee is central to ensuring Trove meets the needs of both contributing organisations and the broader Australian community.
In last month’s Partner spotlight, we spoke with one of our new TSAC representatives Catherine Clark, CEO and State Librarian, State Library of Western Australia about joining the Committee. Read the May Partner spotlight to learn more.
This month, we are delighted to speak with Maggie Patton, Head of Collection Acquisition and Curation, State Library of New South Wales, to hear about the knowledge and experience she brings to the Committee, along with her reasons behind joining TSAC.
Maggie has worked in the library sector for over 40 years. She started her career assisting readers with their research and other enquiries in council run libraries before joining the State Library of New South Wales as a Reference Librarian. Since this time Maggie has worked at the State Library of New South Wales in a variety of roles.
Maggie has worked on external projects, with major international organisations like UNESCO Memory of the World and Google Arts & Culture and has extensive experience in digitisation projects. This includes selecting material, working with a range of content platforms and increasing access to collections and information.
Maggie shared with us why she chose to nominate for TSAC.
‘I nominated to join the TSAC committee for the opportunity to contribute to the development of Trove, particularly in evaluating access to current content along with improvements to the platform and interface. I am also interested in the impact of born digital collections to the development of Trove.’
Maggie’s strong experience with the library sector, collecting institutions and digitisation projects is invaluable to the development of Trove.
‘While understanding my role is to represent the whole membership, as a nomination from the State Library of NSW I also bring perspective from a major collecting institution which has been a contributor to Trove from its inception.’
When asking Maggie how she feels about being elected, Maggie said:
‘I am pleased to be elected and frankly surprised. I will enjoy working with representatives from contributing organisations and the broader Australian community.’