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
11.25 Read Watch Play - Tweeting about reading around the world. http://readwatchplay.wordpress.com/ Jenn Martin, Auburn Library @wateryone
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
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
5. The 200 year journey from Pride and Prejudice to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - Vassiliki Veros @vaveros
12.15-12.30pm Pinterest and Rebelmouse for Readers Advisory - Amy Heap, Wagga Wagga Library @amyheap
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
1.25 Walter Mason - travel writer and speaker with a special interest in spirituality @walterm
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