A guide to using Issuu and exploring the Museum’s digitised content
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Last updated: SD 20/04/2023 Museum of the Order of St John 2 Contents What is Issuu? p. 3 Museum of the Order of St John collections on Issuu p. 4 First Aid p. 4 Annual Reports p. 4 The St. John Cadet p. 4 The St. John Camp Cadet p. 5 What’s On guide p. 5 How to use Issuu to explore the Museum’s collections p. 6 Arrangement p. 7 Viewing items p. 7 Performing a search p. 9 Sharing items p. 10
What is Issuu?
Issuu is an electronic publishing platform which enables PDF documents to be converted into digital publications that can be shared via links or embedded into websites.
The Museum of the Order of St John uses Issue as a platform to host some of its publicly accessible digital collections for people to view and use for personal research purposes only. Users may not reproduce content from the collections on Issue. You do not need to log in or create an account with Issuu in order to view the Museum’s publications.
Please note that this website features external advertisements which appear on the sides and bottom of the screen when you view Issuu.
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Museum of the Order of St John collections on Issuu
The Museum of the Order of St John currently hosts four sets of digitised collections on Issuu: a small collection of First Aid Journal, from the Museum’s Library collection, some Annual Reports from the Archive collection, issues of The St. John Cadet and The St. John Camp Cadet, youth publications from the Archive collection, and the Museum’s What’s On guide.
First Aid
First Aid began in 1894 and was an independent monthly magazine for the ambulance and nursing services (comprised of members of St John Ambulance, the British Red Cross Society, and St Andrew’s Association) The publication also includes The St John Gazette while it was published. These publications are now classed as a historical record, and any first aid advice presented within them is not in accord with current recommended practice.
Please note that the issue for 1907 is missing, and that the issues for 1929-1938 are only available to view in-person at the Museum.
Annual Reports
The modern Order of St John’s Annual Reports were produced from the very early days of the modern Order’s inception. The Museum is currently able to provide access to Annual Reports on Issuu from 1868-1970.
These records tell us about the Order’s members, their roles and ranks, promotions, admissions, and obituaries. They tell us about the work of the Order overseas, the insignia, statutes, and reports on the Chapter. The Annual Reports also play a key part in telling the history of St John Ambulance by providing information on medical training, reports on the health of the nation, information about technological advances in healthcare, and details of the formation and disbanding of various nursing and ambulance units over time. They tell us how important the work of our first aid volunteers is, how it was done, and where it took place.
The St. John Cadet
The St. John Cadet was the first magazine created specifically for the St John Ambulance Cadets. It was first published in May 1946 and continued to be published quarterly until January 1955. Please note that he Museum does not hold a complete run of this publication, but has provided access to a digital copy of each issue in the collection.
The publications contain news and information for Cadets, accounts of first aid competitions and awards, stories and opinion pieces, news from Cadet Divisions across England, Wales, and internationally, quizzes and competitions, photographs, and contemporary advertisements for various healthcare equipment and medicines.
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The St. John Camp Cadet
The St. John Camp Cadet was a special edition of The St. John Cadet, published only during the 7-day Cadet Coronation Camp in August 1953. The newsletter was published for each day of camp to share news, reviews, activities, programmes for the day, competition information, and insights into camp life.
What’s On guide
The What’s On guide was first created in February 2023 and replaced the Museum’s information leaflet. The guide is published twice a year, and features information about the upcoming events and activities that are open to the public.
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How to use Issuu to explore the Museum’s collections
The Museum’s area on this platform can be accessed by using this link: https://issuu.com/museumoftheorderofstjohn and the homepage will look something like this:
You do not need to log in or create an account with Issuu in order to view the Museum’s publications, so please ignore the ‘log in’ and ‘try now’ tabs at the top of the page (circled in green below).
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Arrangement
The homepage (or ‘publications’ tab) shows all of the items that the Museum has uploaded to issuu. Due to the platform’s formatting, the items do not appear in any particular order. You can view this page by clicking on the following link: https://issuu.com/museumoftheorderofstjohn/docs
The ‘stacks’ tab shows the items arranged by collections or ‘stacks’ (i.e. First Aid Journal, Order of St John Annual Reports, The St. John Cadet, The St. John Camp Cadet, What’s On Guide). You can view this page by clicking on the following link: https://issuu.com/museumoftheorderofstjohn/stacks. From this page, you can choose to view a single collection by clicking on the relevant stack icon.
Viewing items
You can either view an item by selecting it from the complete list of items on the homepage or from a particular collection’s ‘stack’, as explained in the ‘Arrangement’ section above. Please note that the Museum is providing online viewing access only and the digitised items on issuu may not be downloaded.
To view an item (e.g., the O.S.J.J. Annual Report for 1872), click on the image for the item that you want to view. Doing so will show the screen reproduced below.
From this page, you can view the item by either clicking on the white arrow to the right of the page (circled in green below) to flick through the pages, or scroll through the pages using the slider at the bottom of the page (circled in yellow on the following page).
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This view can be quite small, depending on the size of your computer screen. To zoom in, use the slider at the bottom of the screen (circled in green below). To view the item in full screen mode, click on the white square (circled in yellow below).
By clicking on the white square, the item will then take over your entire computer screen as shown below. You can then view the item by either clicking on the white arrow to the right of the page (circled in green below) to flick through the pages, or, scroll through the pages using the slider at the bottom of the page (circled in yellow below). You can also zoom in by using the slider at the bottom of the screen (circled in blue below). To take the item out of full screen mode, click on the white square at the bottom of the screen (circled in red below).
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Performing a search
The Museum’s items on issuu have OCR capabilities, which mean that they can be word-searched.
You can perform a word search in either the normal or full screen mode by clicking on the spyglass at the bottom of the screen (circled in green below). The spyglass appears in the same location on the page when you are in the normal view (below) and also when you are in the full-screen view as shown on the last page.
Clicking on the spyglass will launch the search function at the top of the screen (circled in yellow above).
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can perform word searches of the item here, using words of phrases
The example on the following page shows a word search for ‘medical’. The results at the top of the screen (circled on green below) show that there are 13 results for the search, and you can scroll through these results using the two small white arrows (within the green circle)
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Sharing items
You can share a link to the publication you are viewing when you are in the ‘normal’ view (as shown below) by clicking on the ‘share’ button (circled in green below).
Once you have clicked ‘Share’, you then have the option of copying and pasting the provided weblink into an e-mail. Alternatively, you can share the publication on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Twitter, by clicking on the relevant platform icon.
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