Interested in becoming a volunteer?
Volunteers play a vital role in many
organisations. At QEM volunteers gain experience, develop existing
skills and learn new skills by:
- registering objects, documents and films
- scanning photographs
- transcribing oral testimony
- general
database entry
- historical research
- updating our
website
- customer service
- membership
promotion
- collecting
material for newsletters
- archive assistance
- putting together information
packs
- helping with exhibitions
and
displays
- outreach
work with Memories of Energy Groups
(MEGs)
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| Group of QEM’s
Brisbane volunteers in Redcliffe after the 2003 Christmas
lunch. |
Help is always needed, welcomed and greatly appreciated.
Each year QEM offers
volunteer work, including training, to between three and twelve
enthusiastic people. Most of the volunteers work for one or
two days each week. Some worked for the electricity supply
industry for many years and came to us to share their knowledge
and experience. Others have no previous experience in any
industrial or museum work.
Regardless of their work history, it will be their enthusiasm,
willingness to learn and the ability to work alone or in a
team that will help volunteers to get the most out of their
experience with QEM. In addition, volunteers here with us
at our Brisbane sites must not be afraid to get dirty –
sometimes very dirty!
However, it is all good fun and there is plenty to learn.
If you'd like to become a volunteer at the Queensland Energy
Museum, please contact the Director, Dr. Jan King by email: director@energymuseum.com.au.
Volunteers
Queensland Energy
Museum has a team of dedicated volunteers who donate their
time, energy and skills to the museum in a variety of ways.
Eric
It is with great sadness that we have to report that one of our most dedicated volunteers, Eric Andrews, passed away in December 2007. Eric was generous with his time and spent many hours at QEM’s Windsor Archive site. His passion was research and his last article, about Edward Barton appears on our Research Page. QEM will always be grateful for the work Eric did with us while he was here. We will miss Eric, his humour and his strength of character.
Tony
Recently
my contribution to the Sounds Electric! exhibition was accumulating
research and assisting with the production of displays. I
entered record sheets of our related exhibits into our historical
database and scanned photos. Other tasks included photographing
bus tour visitors and historical objecs for brochures. I have
also contacted the radio and newspapers on behalf of the museum
and performed general offfice duties. I wish to assist the
museum to the best of my capabilities.
Jim
As
a retired professional electrical engineer who worked in the
electricity supply industry for 36 years, I provide technical
input and advice to QEM. Most of my professional life I worked
in Queensland. For 2 years after graduation I worked for a
major electrial manufacturer in England - where I wrote my
first computer program in 1960!!
My
recent activity has been in sorting and recording the details
of the large number of electricity meters in our collection.
These range from a very early electrolytic meter through dc
mercury motor meters, the familiar Ferrari disk meters, to
recent electronic meters.
Previously
I recorded the details of the major items of equipment in
our collection, at the same time gathering information on
the equipment from a number of sources. We are always pleased
to have visitors and to be able to show them some of the highlights
of what we have. Our collection of technical items is growing
slowly. We are always looking for additional material, for
we are sadly lacking many commonly used items. Just because
an item is common doesn't mean it is of no interest to us.
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