This meeting is for NSW public library staff.
Draft agenda
NSW Local Studies Librarians’ Meeting at Tamworth Community Centre, 3A Darling Street, Tamworth
21 November 2023 9.15-4pm
9. 15 - 9.30 Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
9.30 – 10.10 Naomi Blakey, Museum Operations and Visitor Engagement, First City of Light and the Country Music Festival, one city with a rich history
10.15 – 10.50 Mark Petts, Director, Imaging Australia New Zealand Scanning Microform by Scanpro (online)
10.55 – 11.15 Morning Tea
11.20 - 12 Roz Thomson, Community Partnership Office and Kim Manwarring, Manager Community Services, Muswellbrook Shire Council, In Our Own Words: An Aboriginal Oral History Project (TBC Online?)
12 – 1 General Business
1. Simone Taylor, Local Studies Officer, Dubbo, Time Management: a group discussion. Attendees are invited to discuss and share techniques used in handling the unique demands of local studies (Simone online)
2. NSW State Government’s new Arts, Culture and Creative Industries policy currently under development and open for submission (Simone)
3. Wider Local Studies and RAHS conference reports from those who attended and are present at this meeting.
4. Other items
5. Next meeting venue and topics
Lunch 1- 2 Find your own
2 – 2.40 Miranda Heckenberg, Consultant, Endless Access – Digitising Tamworth Regional Council’s Cultural Collections
Local Studies in a Flash
2.45 – 2.50 Jo Oliver, Specialist Local Studies, Wollongong Bonnie Vale: art, photos and oral histories in an exhibition (online)
2.50 – 2.55 Craig Garret, Project Officer, Talking Together, Bega Valley, Talking Together Project local stories and the impacts of Covid and the local lockdowns (online)
2.55 – 3 Marilyn Gallo, Heritage Services Fairfield, Bite the Bullet – Digitisation of Fairfield’s vertical file collection (online)
3 - 3.05 Megan Pitt, Collection Team Leader Library Resources, Tamworth Library’s Local Studies Collection (online)
3.05 – 3.30 Final matters
The meeting will be streamed and recorded. Your participation is an acceptance of this. Note the presentations will be recorded, the discussions will not be recorded.
Travel assistance is available for NSW public library staff travelling more than 100 kilometres to this meeting see https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/public-library-services/services/forms
