====== Marketing and Programs Working Group Meeting ======
Wednesday 2 March 2019
Oran Park Library, Camden Libraries

Attendance:



**Presentations**

**Oran Park Library**. 
Oran Park is part of the Camden LGA, the fastest growing LGA in Australia. 
Brewster Hjorth Architects. Opened in June 2018. 2,500m2 total with 1150m2 library space at $16 million budget. The library is people centric and focuses on programs not collections. 

Camden Library presentation can be viewed here {{ :oran_park_library_programming_4.pptx |}}

Some elements of the library include:
  * 3 staff per shift 4 hours and rotate regularly
  * No Physical Desk, staff have a roving service with iPads and communicate with each other via iMessage
  * No drop out zones for WIFI, they have multiple points
  * Apple TV, Interactive Wall, 3D Printer, interactive local heritage table
  * Cashless - everything is through the Kiosks
  * Increase in usage by 0-12 year olds
  * Tour of the library was given at the end of the meeting
  * Planning a seed library in future and gardening workshops 
  * Garage door in the children's area will open out onto a synthetic grass area for activities

**Penrith Library** A presentation was given by Michelle Pearman, Inclusion Officer for Penrith Libraries on the award winning Inclusion program. 


The presentation can be viewed: {{ :penrith_library_presentation_-_inclusion_program.pptx |}}

**Publishers Forum**
Last year the Group co-hosted a Publishers Forum with Librarians Choice at Green Square Library. Librarians Choice has wound down now and the Group has decided to take it on as a project. Melanie Mutch from Hornsby will be leading this, if anyone wants to help out please get in contact with her.

**Joint Meeting with Reference Group**
It was agreed that the next Marketing and Programs Group meeting would be a joint meeting with the Reference Group on August 7 at Blacktown Library

**Round Table**
**Wollongong**
  * Holding Pride Month activities again
  * Comic Gong 
  * Finding that Panels are working well
  * Partnering with the Disability Trust to do panel talks re people with disabilities who identify as LBGTI+
  * Queer Stories - facilitated talks with podcast
  * Book Bites - lunchtime activity where people can read pages from a book
  * Small Talk - Monthly program where 3 speakers talk for 20 minutes each on topics that they want

**Georges River**
  * Philosophy Talks with Professor from USYD
  * Living Library - 3 presenters
  * Pride Month
  * Panel discussions also working well for NAIDOC and Refugee Wekk
  * Science Talks

**Liverpool**
  * Creating partnerships to run programs who do it better than the library
  * Moon Landing collection
  * Harmony Day - interactive art work. Workshops were help with the community at the Powerhouse and then panels installed at Library. Launched with panel discussion and performances
  * 1:1 Tech Help - Assistive Technology Centre being created with electric desk and high contrast keyboards
  * Accessible Collection
  * Children's Services Unite have helped renovate the Children's Library from an Early Educators point of view
  * Library staff undertaking Design Thinking training and will lead Council
  * Library involved in Smart City Strategy and through this have been invited to talk a the Emerging Leaders Forum with WSU
  * Have been doing a lot of internal marketing.

**Ryde**
  * Now have an Adults and Kids marketing brochure
  * Banjo the Bandicoot Library Mascot being launched with a Where's banjo activity
  * Possum Pouches knitting program

**Fairfield**
  * Studio space going well.
  * Looking at creating content that can go straight into the catalogue
  * Artistic programming and small business workshops
  * Looking at using diverse staff for programs

**Lithgow**
  * Ukulele Group going very well between 40-50 participants
  * Tarot, table top gamming
  * Creative writing Group
  * Maths 4 Fun
  * Try anything once

**Canterbury/Bankstown**
  * Sustainability talks - native plants
  * Panel for Seniors Week
  * eCommission focus group on developing programs for seniors
  * Yoga/meditation/wellness talks
  * Using volunteers to deliver programs
  * Be Healthy and Active talks
  * Guided tours of Bankstown Library
  * Outreach visits to playgroups
  * Be Connected Intergenerational Tech Help

**Penrith**  
  * HSC Lectures
  * SWF - Stephen Carroll
  * Science Week - Gut Health and NDIS Lawyers
  * resume writing/interview workshops
  * Tech Savvy Seniors
  * Write your own Memoir
  * Tech Help Desk 10am-12pm Mon-Sun - guide individuals through tech
  * Pop Up Library
  * Harmony Day and NAIDOC week
  * Dungeons and Dragons very popular

**Ku-ring-gai**
  * Library Bus 30th anniversary
  * Tell your stories

**Hawkesbury**
  * Moving to new LMS and RFID
  * Working with Waste Education Officer for workshops
  * War on Waste Festival - Boomerang Bay workshop. Documentary showing.
  * SWF - Mathew Condon and Tom Keneally
  * Tech Savvy Seniors and Tech Help

**Port Macquarie**
  * Library has left the building - outreach program
  * Changing focus to partnerships
  * 10 Street Library Kits for the community working with the community college
  * Local Talks - 10 minutes each

**Cumberland**
  * Form Filling Service with TAFE
  * Streamlining programs across 8 branches
  * community Reading week
  * Quiet Hours in the Library for people with Autism
  * reading Buddies - volunteer help with reading with rewards after school

**Campbelltown**
  * Launched Sponsorship and Partnership Prospectus to seek sponsorship for programs, events and technology
  * Launched new LBGTI+ collection and libraries are now part of ACON's Welcome Here network
  * ArtLib - Artists giving talks in the Library
  * Renovating main branch introducing RFID and creating a reading space
  * Game of Thrones Trivia night