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9.30 - 9.40

• Acknowledgement of Country
• Welcome to the Library
• How the Day / Tech Will Work

9.40 - 10.40 Alex Brown - Fantasy trends including young adult titles

Alex Brown is a librarian, local historian, author and writer, and an Ignyte Award winning critic. Much of their writing covers Black history, librarianship, YA, and speculative fiction.

For more information about the work of Alex please see their website.

You can see the slides for their presentation here

10.45 - 11.30 Allison from Galaxy Bookshop talking about fantasy trends and topics.

Allison's presentation

11.30 - 11.45 Morning Tea

11.45 - 12.15 5 minute talks

• Leyla Bhathela Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture club see the presentation here and the text of the presentation here
• Renata Rekiel “let's go Polish” (and other languages) see the presentation here
• Shazia Iftikhar readers' advisory training at Canterbury / Bankstown see the presentation here
• Sabrina Ekstein and Isabella Oldfield on graphic novels see the presentation here
• Amy Heap being on the RA Working Group, a member's view

12.15 - 12.30 Breakout session for morning talks & RA tools

Breakout groups to be moderated and questions provided

• introduce yourself in chat with name/library/something you have read or watched recently and a three word (okay up to five word) description of it
• what is a new idea you will be using from the talks this morning?
• what author or titles will you be investigating for your collection?
• at least one idea from this morning that you can try in your library this week
• at least one idea from this morning that you can try in your library in the next month
• what is your favourite readers' advisory tool and why (share in chat or by voice, and add the details to the wiki later)?

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 2.30 Declan Miller from Stick Mob on graphic novels. This is a from a partnership including the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

2.30 - 2.45 Breakout session

Breakout groups to be moderated and questions provided

• introduce yourself in chat with name/library/something you have read or watched recently and a three word (okay up to five word) description of it
• at least one idea from Stick Mob that you can try in your library this week
• at least one idea from Stick Mob that you can try in your library in the next month

2.45 - 3.00pm seeking new volunteers for the steering committee to plan 1 - 3 meetings a year and a seminar. You can volunteer for one year. We will need new volunteers because otherwise there will be no 2023 seminar. It takes 1 - 4 hours a month (but varies each month). Must be able to reply to emails.

Wrap Up and Thank You!

Zoom Poll and (slightly)longer evaluation