The 2011 Readers Advisory seminar held at the State Library of NSW on Wednesday 9 March 2011
The theme for this seminar, by popular demand, was Fantasy. You can look at photographs from the seminar.
Brent Weeks, author of The night angel trilogy and The black prism presented by Skype. @brentweeks
Rowena Specht-Whyte, an Aurealis Awards judge will introduce you to Australian fantasy. presentation here
The Aurealis Awards' list of Fantasy Novel winners is within the full list of winners in all categories at this link: The judges' report from 2009 for the Fantasy Novel category is at this link.
Five slides in two Minutes – mini talks including Heather Thomson, Anne Duffield and Martin Mantle (non-Western motifs, disability and fantasy literature)
Stock quality health check Ellen Forsyth
Sofia Morales from Galaxy Books provides an introduction to the sub genres of Fantasy – What’s hot, what’s not, what’s going to be hot over the next 12 months
What is your fantasy? Small group discussion about Fantasy book read for the day led by Jenn Martin
Sally Dowling, Acting Children's and Young Adult Librarian at Waverley will bring a young adult librarians perspective
RA and Twitter Vassiliki Veros from City of Sydney Library provides some great ideas and examples
Bookbinge and Readit2011 Cathy Johnston
Garth Nix author of Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series, Troubletwisters (with Sean Williams) and much much more
#ra2011 and you can even buy a t-shirt with this tag on it.
You can read further reports on the seminar from Cathy Johnston ( part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine), and find out about the popularity of the slideshows from this seminar (lots and lots of people have been looking at them).