Draft agenda for 10, 11 and 12 June 2025 wider local studies
Wider local studies will be on 10 - 11 June for the online seminar, and 12 June for discussion session.
Book for 10 June 2025, day 1 here
Book for 11 June 2025 day 2 here
Book for 12 June 2025 day 3 here
On 10 and 11 June 2025 the sessions will start at
- 9.00am AWST (Western Australia);
- 10.30 ACST (South Australia and Northern Territory),
- 11.00 AEST (ACT, NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) and run to 13.30pm AWST; 15.00 ACST, 15.30 AEST.
10 June 2025 draft agenda - note this is subject to change. Times are shown in AEST.
11.00am Welcome to the seminar and Acknowledgement of Country
Local studies and inclusion
11.05 am Abby Hoverstock and Laura Ruttum Senturia Denver Public Library on the diversity audit of their special collections (like local studies collections).
11.50 am Ellen Forsyth State Library of NSW Collecting with your community: local studies collections - deliberate practices of inclusion or collection silences?
12.30 - 1.00pm 30 minute break
10 minute talks
- 1.00pm Teishan Ahearne Local history from the bottom up Victoria
- 1.10pm Holly Millward Educational History Site Studies - Material for the Classroom and at Home NSW
- 1.20 pm Ellen Coates Collecting Movies and TV in local history Victoria
- 1.30 pm Louise Riley A Monumental Task: trying to keep track of local plaques and markers NSW
- 1.40pm Jenny Ryan Hands on Heritage Workshops Queensland
- 1.50pm Kerrie Shaw When a collection Snowballs NSW
- 2.00pm Jo Cooper Spindle – Find Your Thread Through South Australia. LibrariesSA and State Library of South Australia state wide implementation of Recollect South Australia
Finish 2.20pm
11 June 2025 draft agenda - note this is subject to change. Times are shown in AEST.
11.00am Welcome to the seminar and Acknowledgement of Country
Oral history
11.05am Dealing with legacy oral history (and other) items where there is no paper work/provenance - Maria Savvidis State Library of NSW and NSW OH president to talk about NSLA Procedural guidelines: Risk assessment in oral history recordings
11.30 am Dr. Christopher Cheng (Jan A. Chiu) Let’s Guard the Candlelight : Un-silencing Our Multilingual Past through Oral History
11:50am Anisa Puri from the Language Data Commons of Australia. Her project Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections aims to identify and create a list of precarious oral history collections in Victoria that are held outside of major cultural institutions.
12.10 Matthew Burgess State Library of NSW on digital preservation will include Digital preservation coalition free resources + free online training
12.50 - 30 minute break
10 minute talks
- 1.20pm Glenn Harper Flickr: making local history images accessible Victoria
- 1.30pm Kyla Stephan Impact of Cyclone Alfred Queensland
- 1.40pm Samantha Figueroa Local Aboriginal Community Oral Histories NSW
- 1.50 Amy Sheaffe Events and Outreach Queensland
2:00 Uncovering local history collections Mia Peardon, Margery C Ramsay scholarship recipient 2025
Finish 2:20pm
The 12 June 2025 discussion session will be for 90 minutes starting at
- 9.00am AWST;
- 10.30 ACST,
- 11.00 AEST.
This session will not be recorded. Come along to this discussion session to talk about ideas from the previous two days and to connect with colleagues from across Australia. For this session it would help to have webcam and microphone.