NSW Local Studies Librarians meeting

12 March 2024 9.15 am to 4pm

Present: Aleem Aleemullah, Gillian Allen, Naomi Bassford, Tully Boundy-Collis, Donna Braye, Adrienne Brown, Dominic Caron, Janelle Collins, Megan Crook, Tara Eagleton, Margaret Farlow, Ellen Forsyth, Marilyn Gallo, Jessica Graham, Gialy Ly, John MacRitchie, Jenny MacRitchie, Helen McDonald, Sue Miller, Holly Millward, Maribel Morales Rosales, Michelle Nichols, Kristin Ovidi, Dean Palmer, Angela Phippen, Geoffrey Potter, Karen Richardson, Michelle Richmond, Dr Penelope (Penny) Stannard, Emilia Stubbs Grigoriou, Haysen Walsh, Alison Wishart, Kasia Malicka, Jaclyn Chan, John Johnson

Online: Alinde, Brigid Whitbread QPRC, Courtney Simpson, Erin Tierney - Kiama Library, Fran - Goulburn, Hang Xie Willoughby City Library, Jane Britten Woollahra Library, Jason Slattery, John Merriman - Blue Mountains Library, Katherine Day, K O'Sullivan, Liz Peters, Mandy Vaccaro (Albury), Maria Savvidis, Maria Paterson, Megan Pitt, Ravneet Gill, RobinK, Ruth Bingham - Central West Libraries, Sarah-Louise - Cumberland Libraries, Simone Taylor, Vanessa, Veronica, Wendy Gallagher

• Welcome, Burwood staff

• Cecily Grey, Vice President, Burwood and District Historical Society and John Johnson, committee member and Local Studies Librarian, Canada Bay. The history and achievements of the Burwood and District Historical Society.

• Helen McDonald, Local History Specialist and Kristin Ovidi, Library Officer, Readers & Research, Sutherland Morning Frozen in Time: Saving and storing acetate negatives at Sutherland Library.

11 – 11.30 Morning Tea

• General Business

1. Wider Local Studies meeting June 2024

2. Collecting Lunar New Year

3. NSW Heritage Policy survey

4. New Committee members

5. Ellen Forsyth, SLNSW, Contemporary Collecting in Local Studies, PhD research into how public libraries collect recent content and how representative it is.

6. Other including eois for Disaster preparation

12 – 12.15 Maria Savvidis, Specialist Librarian, Manuscript Collection SLNSW Pride Line Collecting.

12.15 – 1.00 Hayden Walsh, First Nations Advisor, and Dr Penny Stannard, Head of Curatorial & Research, Museums of History NSW, First Nations Strategy and approaches to First Nations history projects.

1 - 2 Lunch

2 - 2.40 LS in a Flash: 10 slides 5 minutes part 1

1. Megan Crook, Librarian, Local Heritage, Shoalhaven Preservation Station at Nowra Library.
2. Katarzyna Malicka, Local Heritage Librarian, Burwood, Burwood Council’s preparations for its sesquicentenary celebrations in 2024.
3. Marilyn Gallo, Heritage Services Fairfield, Intangible Heritage: Becoming custodians of community archives

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2.30 - 2.45 General business continued

2.45 – 3.15 Brendan Somes, Collection Strategy Coordinator and Boris Nazarov, Librarian, Published Materials Website collecting by the State Library of NSW including Pandora. View their slides, with links here

3.15 – 4pm LS in a Flash: 10 slides 5 minutes part 2

1. Veronica Shaw, Library Officer, Community Programs & Engagement, Parkes Shire Council The Lonely Scanner. (online)

- Christian Darby, ePrograms Librarian, Waverley Library, Family history digitisation at Waverley