NSW public library readers' advisory seminar 18 March 2025
Slides for the presentations for the seminar
9.30 Welcome to the State Library and Acknowledgement of Country – Cameron Morley Head Public Library Services
9.35 Introduction to the day
Part 1 Readers’ advisory interview
9:40-10:45: Chair - Lauren Watkins, Kiama Library
9.40 – 10.15 Back to basics - Readers’ Advisory Interview – including in-conversation examples
10.15 – 10.45 Readers' advisory interviews for young people - Bec Shelberg – Stanton Library, North Sydney (includes 10 minutes question time)
10.45 - 10.55 Activity - What ideas you will be taking back to your work.
5-min break - stand/stretch
Part 2 Diversity
11:00-12.00: Chair - Lauren Watkins, Kiama Library How to ensure diversity in readers’ advisory
11.15 Presentation from ALIA Disability group readers’ advisory. Social bibliotherapy by Amy at Tamworth Library(includes 10 minutes question time)
11.45 ALIA Disability member Sonya Moon (Libraries Tasmania) about including diversity in readers’ advisory from a mental health perspective
11.50 – 12.00 5-minute talk - First Nations collections – Shaye Malsem (Albury) (Via zoom)
12:00-1:00 Lunch - provided for onsite participants
Optional activity at lunch time – talk to a someone you have not met. Ask them what they’ve read lately. If you get asked – a challenge is to reply with three appeal terms instead of a book synopsis/summary (this is to focus on appeal and not plot)
Part 3 Taking action
1.00 – 1.40 Chair Ita Hanssens, Tamworth Library
- Collection diversity to support readers' advisory Yasmin Greenhalgh Stanton Library, North Sydney (includes 10 minutes question time)
- The smaller library experience; diversity in displays Lauran Mills, Gerringong Library
- Summer holidays reading challenge Catilin Tunstall Wagga Wagga Library
Part 4 training and resources 1:40-2:40: Chair Ita Hanssens, Tamworth Library
5 minute talks
1.40 – 1.45 Readers’ advisory staff training Jodie Dolden & Lani Kilpatrick-Coles (Hornsby)
1.48 – 1.53 Literary Mocktails as readers’ advisory tools Gabrielle Cundy (Blacktown)
1.55 – 2.00 Multicultural loan increases - Jolana Voeks (Clarence Regional Library, Grafton)(via Zoom)
2.02 – 2.07 Professional reading group - Rachel Franks (State Library)
2.09 - 2.14 Young Adult Book Club - Danielle Hillard (Newcastle Libraries)
2.16 – 2.26 Readers’ advisory training for staff - Joanna Kondaxis and Emma Boyd (Inner West Libraries)
2.28 – 2.40 Combined question time
2.40 – 3.10 afternoon tea 30 minutes
Part 5 An overview of readers' advisory resources
3:10-3.45: Chair – Aaron Wilkes Richmond Upper Clarence Regional
3.10 – 3.20 Resources show and tell - online resources list, please contribute to it https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1srd6MqKu4QPT7piEoVo5AVxixbbXW7rz4EWhXvB4T44/edit?usp=drive_link
3.20 – 3.30 Cataloguing to support readers' advisory Ngarie Macqueen (Ngarie Macqueen and Richmond-Upper Clarence Regional Library)
3.30 – 3.40 State Library resources and readers' advisory training Ellen Forsyth (SLNSW)
Closing 3.40 – 4.00pm Seminar evaluation, and invitation to a follow-up readers' advisory meeting which includes discussion of Understanding Australian readers research.
Join us Tuesday, 6 May 2025 10:00am-12:00pm to share ideas from the 2025 reader's advisory seminar, to discuss Understanding Australian readers research implications for readers' advisory work and to share what you are doing in readers' advisory work at your library. https://sl-nsw-gov-au.zoom.us/meeting/register/jPtsSGR6SIynjwOzl5i2Pw#/registration
Travel assistance is available for NSW public library travelling more than 100 kilometres to participate in the onsite part of the seminar.