Read your way around the world 6 March 2013

2013 RA seminar - Read Your Way Around the World Theme: Travel Writing and World writing #ra201310.00 Welcome to the State Library of NSW.

Tweets for the day, via Grabchat

10.10 Travel Writing Panel: Lance Richardson: Travel Writer, Sydney Morning Herald @lancerichardson Michael Taylor: Photographer for Lonely planet and Getty images Dominic Dunne: Author of “Adventures of a compulsive traveller”

10.50 Australian Fiction - Melanie Mutch, Warringah Library and Therese Scott, Ashfield Library @theresescott1

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11.25 Read Watch Play - Tweeting about reading around the world. http://readwatchplay.wordpress.com/ Jenn Martin, Auburn Library @wateryone

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11.45 10 slides in 5 minutes 1.Celebrating Walcha Historical Society 50th year - Donna Garred Walcha Library 2.Travelling book project for NYR2012 - Suzanne Micallef Parramatta Library

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3.Club Celluloid - Amy Heap Riverina Regional Library @amyheap and Jessica Brown Wagga City Library presentation here

4.Travel podcasts/blogging - Jenn Martin Auburn Library @wateryone

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5. The 200 year journey from Pride and Prejudice to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - Vassiliki Veros @vaveros

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https://www.slideshare.net/PublicLibraryServices/lizzy-bennet-diaries-transmedia-fiction-by-vassiliki-veros

12.15-12.30pm Pinterest and Rebelmouse for Readers Advisory - Amy Heap, Wagga Wagga Library @amyheap

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and Ellen Forsyth, State Library of NSW @ellenforsyth Rebelmouse presentation

Lunch 12:30 to 1:10 - Macquarie Room Reading maps (you can see the maps at this link, and read the titles by scrolling down the page and click on attachments - this will take you to another page)

1:10 Multicultural Readers Advisory Oriana Acevedo, State Library of NSW

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1.25 Walter Mason - travel writer and speaker with a special interest in spirituality @walterm

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2.00 Allyx Lathrope and Helene Byfield from Kinokuniya @KinokuniyaAust

2:50 Beth Yahp is an award-winning author, editor and creative writing teacher of adults and children. She has published short fiction and travel/ memoir feature articles in Australia, South-east Asia and Europe.

This seminar was presented by the NSW Readers Advisory Working Group