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Readers advisory seminar 21 March 2023. 



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[[Minutes readers' advisory seminar]]- summary version

**Morning session chaired by Yasmin Greenhalgh - Stanton Library**

**9.30- Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country**

**9.35- on site Hsu-Ming Teo** - Novelist and Professor at Macquarie University. Hsu-Ming Teo is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, and the Head of the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature (MCCALL) at Macquarie University. Her publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2020), The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (2017), and Cultural History in Australia (2003).  {{ :wiki:the_romance_genre.pdf | Presentation is here}}

She is currently working on Repairing the Past, Repurposing History: Conflict, Colonialism, and Exoticism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction. Hsu-Ming is an associate editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies and an editorial board member of the Journal of Australian Studies. Her first novel Love and Vertigo (2000) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for several other awards. Her second novel Behind the Moon (2005) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Hsu-Ming served on the advisory panel of the Man Asian Literary Prize from 2007 to 2012 and judged the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. She judged the NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 2007, and the NSW Premier’s History Prize in 2013 and 2017. She has served on the judging panel of The Australian/ Vogel’s Literary Award since 2020. She has also been a peer reviewer for ArtsNSW/CreateNSW, and the Australia Council for the Arts.

**10.30- onsite stand and briefly discuss an idea from first session**. Online - stand and share an idea in chat from the first session. 

**10.35- on site Ian McCallum and Sherrey Quinn** from Libraries Alive on the readers’ advisory conversation/interview. 
 
{{ :wiki:ra_seminar_presentation_21march_2023_ppt_final_libraries_alive.pdf | Presentation here}}

{{ :wiki:ra_seminar_slnsw_21march2023_full_paper_4april23.pdf | Paper with the content of presentation}}

**11.25- 5 minute talks** - a mix of onsite and online

  * Sarah Garland - Blacktown -Book matchmaking service {{ :wiki:bmm_service_-_example.pdf |example of form}}, {{ :wiki:scan_garlas_2023-03-17-16-23-30.pdf |example of response }}, [[ https://au.openforms.com/Form/cedece06-7a3f-4a37-80f9-72dc9447dd3a | Link to form]]
  * Suzanne Micallef - Ryde - Summer showcase and more {{ :wiki:ra_seminar_21_march_2023_presentation_ryde.pdf | Presentation is here}}
  * Skye Jones - Newcastle - Your summer stories {{ :wiki:skye_slnsw_yss_showcase.pdf | Presentation is here}}
  * Sharon Muscat - The Hills - Select Reads- curated themed displays and Grab & go bags {{ :wiki:the_hills_select_reads.pdf | Presentation is here}}
  * Pat Annetts - Newcastle - [[https://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/library/explore/the-library-lounge | Library Lounge]]

**12.10 - 1.10 Lunch** 

**Afternoon session chaired by Ita Hanssens - Tamworth Library**

**1.10- on site Oriana Acevedo** from the State Library of NSW on including books in languages other than English in all library displays and materials for display requests for bulk loans confirmed. This can assist readers' advisory services.{{ :wiki:readers_advisory_acevedo.pdf | Presentation is here}}

**1.25- Joanna Kondaxis and Ngarie Macqueen** on contemporary fiction and romance in the Adult Fiction Stock Quality Health Check {{ :wiki:top_500_romance_and_contemporary_genres_final.pdf | Presentation is here}}

**1.55- on site Ellen Forsyth** from the State Library of NSW on the mechanics of the adult fiction stock quality health check {{ :wiki:readers_advisory_forsyth_2023.pdf | Presentation is here}}

**2.05 breakout rooms and onsite discussion**
  * how will you use one of the ideas from today in your work place - onsite talk to someone near you, online please share by using chat

**2.15- on site Kelly Makepeace** 
Kelly Makepeace is the Early Childhood Literacy Officer at Central Northern Regional Library based in Tamworth NSW. With over 25 years of experience working as an Early Intervention Educator, Primary Teacher and Speech Language Pathologist, Kelly is passionate about supporting parents to embrace their role of first teacher. Kelly is the Program Manager – Implementation of the Tamworth Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL); a whole-of-community early language and literacy initiative and a member of the Australian DPIL Book Selection Committee. Recently she developed and implemented the CNRL Speech Language Pathology Collection; a resource to help parents and educators model early speech and language milestones as they read with their children. Kelly believes public libraries are ideally positioned to lead the promotion of early language and literacy learning from birth by connecting key stakeholders and providing free access to resources and services.  {{ :wiki:cnrl_training_day_1_.pdf | Presentation is here}}

Kelly discussed the Central Northern Regional Library Speech Language Pathology Collection. Children living in some Tamworth communities are more than four times as likely to be developmentally vulnerable in language and communication domains before they begin school compared to the state average, (AEDC, 2018). Programs such the Speech Language Pathology Collection are a response to this community need. The Collection is a resource for parents, educators and library staff to use at home, in the classroom or during Storytime. The books are wonderfully fun and engaging and model age-appropriate speech sounds, vocabulary, language forms and concepts such as action verbs, adjectives (descriptive words) and prepositions (position words). Each book contains a list of language and speech targets as well as activities to reinforce milestones. QR codes also link the books to the Central Northern Regional Library website and other digital resources.

**2.30- Amy Rake**   
  * Children’s Services Officer Tamworth Regional Library
  * Convener ALIA Disability Group 
  * Disability Advocate
Amy discussed the importance of disability inclusion in the library, using disability resources and some programs that can be adapted to suit the needs of all libraries.  


**Afternoon tea 2.45 - 3.05**

**3.05- on site Sarah Ayoub** is a journalist, bestselling author and academic with a PhD in migrant Australian YA literature. Sarah Ayoub is a freelance journalist, bestselling author and academic based in Sydney, Australia. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, SBS, Marie-Claire, ELLE, Sunday Life, Sydney Review of Books, and more, and regularly appears at Australia's major literary festivals.

She is the author of teen novels Hate is Such a Strong Word, The Yearbook Committee, and The Cult of Romance; an author of children's picture books The Love that Grew and Nice and Slow; and a contributor to the anthology Arab, Australian, Other.

Sarah attained her PhD with a thesis examining migrant narratives in Australian teen lit and currently lectures in journalism and writing at the University of Sydney and the University of Notre Dame. She is interested in the intersections of gender, culture and society and is passionate about cultural diversity in the arts. She has been a Stella Prize Schools Ambassador, hosted writing workshops with the Australian High Commission in Brunei, and most recently been a judge for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards. She is a writer-in-residence of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and sits on the board of the Australian Society of Authors. {{ :wiki:state_library_2023.pdf | Presentation is here}}

**4.05 Close**