==== The 2011 Readers Advisory seminar held at the State Library of NSW on Wednesday 9 March 2011 ====

The theme for this seminar, by popular demand, was Fantasy. You can look at [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nsw_risg/sets/72157626107580013/|photographs from the seminar]].

Brent Weeks, author of The night angel trilogy and The black prism presented by Skype. @brentweeks
    
Rowena Specht-Whyte, an Aurealis Awards judge will introduce you to Australian fantasy. 
[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lmyhNwotgreHY5lp-opxiKqWdxKUC4YG/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

The Aurealis Awards' list of Fantasy Novel winners is within the full list of winners in all categories at this link:
The judges' report from 2009 for the Fantasy Novel category is at this link.

Five slides in two Minutes – mini talks including Heather Thomson, Anne Duffield and Martin Mantle (non-Western motifs, disability and fantasy literature)

[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1icKquCIa1Tfota-GN0p7gpBqa-xA05_v/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X4iNEiyP-ZcIQJoe--sZy7LXuEp7-Ogu/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a4aVJnBWn58N5Uo6i5AW7QScZyGNZcWW/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

Stock quality health check Ellen Forsyth 

Sofia Morales from Galaxy Books provides an introduction to the sub genres of Fantasy – What’s hot, what’s not, what’s going to be hot over the next 12 months

[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MyjkKVHLHs68wmxN2WyoH-1WfclQt-hA/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

What is your fantasy? Small group discussion about Fantasy book read for the day led by Jenn Martin

Sally Dowling, Acting Children's and Young Adult Librarian at Waverley will bring a young adult librarians perspective

RA and Twitter Vassiliki Veros from City of Sydney Library provides some great ideas and examples

[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v6bLJXH2uXy22mHhpTNltIKBvhX06qA8/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

Bookbinge and Readit2011 Cathy Johnston

[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IaB5jpXl6PPxnNIvYcMp0vnBvQjf0NNY/view?usp=sharing|presentation here]]

Garth Nix author of Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series, Troubletwisters (with Sean Williams) and much much more


#ra2011 and you can even [[https://www.redbubble.com/people/nswrisg/portfolio|buy a t-shirt with this tag on it]].

You can read further reports on the seminar from Cathy Johnston ( [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-one.html|part one]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-two.html|part two]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-three.html|part three]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-four.html|part four]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-five.html|part five]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-six.html|part six]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-seven.html|part seven]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-eight.html|part eight]], [[http://achivasregalmoment.blogspot.com/2011/05/dragons-in-metcalfe-ra2011-part-nine.html|part nine]]), and find out about the popularity of the slideshows from this seminar (lots and lots of people have been looking at them).