NSW Readers Advisory Working Group meeting minutes
24th November 2010, Manly Library.
*plus a couple of late arrivals who missed the attendance sheet.
Apologies: Virginia Ghezzi (Camden)
– state wide reading
The plan is for a state-wide reading group using Twitter or other social media such as blogs and Flickr for everyone not just library staff. To get this underway we need a distinctive title for the year and a theme for each month, which can be described with a catchy hashtag. (Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post.
You create a hashtag by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. Use hashtags in your tweets, preceding key words. It can be helpful to do a little research first, to find out if the subject you're tweeting already has an established hashtag. With hashtags you can track other tweets on the same subject/tag).
Ideas for themes have already been placed on the WIKI, but more ideas and discussion are needed. The Twitter Reading Group should then flow into the Year of Reading in 2012. Hopefully this event will promote reading across all ages and areas as well as increase loans. Brainstorming then took place with Ellen writing furiously on the whiteboard. By the end of the meeting we had come up with:
Overall theme = #Readit2011
The results of this session will be put on the WIKI to provide further opportunity for commentand editing. You can contact the RA Steering Committee directly to comment or suggest changes, before it goes into the public arena.
Vassiliki reported on results, success and observations of the 2010 challenge. It was recommended that the 2011 challenge use themes and tie in with the themes for the Twitter Reading Group. The Challenge also needs to be recorded on the WIKI and encourage the use of twitter for interaction between participants.
Bookbinge worked well this year. There is merchandise available. Please note there is no monetary profit for any Library or Library organisation in this project. The merchandise is a Red Bubble Product and that company retains the profit from the sale of goods.
- who and where
All library staff involved in RA are invited to contribute to the WIKI. You can apply on-line or contact a member of the Steering Committee. Writing privileges are usually approved within 24 hours. This will allow you to add agenda items for meetings and suggest topics for the RA Seminar, as well as share tips, information and RA news.
– mini talks for RA Seminar
The call is out for people to present mini talks for the next RA Seminar on 9th March 2011. The theme for the Seminar is Fantasy. Topics can include almost anything related to RA from things you’ve done to ideas you would like to share with others. The only restriction is you are limited to 2 minutes for your presentation and the use of 5 or less slides is optional. Contact anyone on the Seminar Organising Committee to contribute, or just contact Ellen. Action: Ellen to prepare sign to promote.
-ideas for Adults
It was felt the program of summer reading for children should also be extended to adults and ideas to do this were canvassed.
This produced an interesting range of reading with many notes taken for further reading.
This will be at Nowra (Shoalhaven Libraries) on 18th February 2011.
This meeting will focus on ideas for the National Year of Reading 2012
The RA Seminar will be held at the State Library on 9th March 2011.
Watch the WIKI for the agenda and Seminar program.