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1. Apologies : Ellen Forsyth State Library of NSW

2. Attendance:

Therese Scott Ashfield
Monique Akauola Sutherland
Gaye Stinson Burwood
Jane Broadbare Mosman
Margaret Penson Lithgow
Claude Broomhead Canada Bay
Suzanne Micallef Parramatta
Jody Gaskin Parramatta
Amy Swan Camden
Teresa Lock Blue Mountains
Naomi Oliver Blue Mountains
Helen Cowan Wingecarribee
Lim Goodarzi Canada Bay
Amy Heap Riverina Regional Library
Jenn Martin Auburn
Merilyn Hills Hornsby
Janet Johnson Kuring gai
Vassiliki Veros
Sarah Hajjar Bankstown
Will Lane Cove
Melanie Mutch Warringah

3. Book clubs

Melanie from Warringah spoke of her phenomenally successful book club program. Melanie said that customers wanted books for their own book clubs and they also wanted book clubs to join. Warringah have a set of 10 books in a box. It consists of:

*book *folder which contains bookmarks, a sheet to write down what book has been given out to each person and a readers guide to the book.

There are 187 books in the collection.
Notes are either from google or are generic book club notes

Don’t need to have a librarian there to facilitate the book club. They had no book clubs at Warringah so they ran a seminar ‘ how to run a book club’. There are now 163 book clubs!

There has been positive feedback to Council about it. It ticks all the boxes: lifelong learning and a love of reading. They are stored across four branches and are on a first come first served basis: no reservations. The charge is $25 a year per book club, 6 weeks loan and no renewal. Warringah have a $7,000 budget for the book club and they buy from bookdepository.com and Australian books from book shops. Melanie recommended buying trade paperbacks. They also have a set of Kindles to borrow and they are preloaded and a Sony to borrow. Please contact Melanie for any more information.

4. Pinterest : Jenn Martin

This is a way to share and curate images online. Each image has a home on the Internet and is collected at pininterest. It is popular with designers, architects, institutions eg: Smithsonian. Wagga and Parramatta Libraries have pininterest accounts. Want to participate? Please contact Mylee Joseph, State Library mjoseph@sl.nsw.gov.au

5. Readers advisory seminar March 6 State Library

Bookings are now open and the final program will be available soon.
The theme is ‘Read Your Way around the world’.

6. Read Watch Play : Twitter reading group 2013.

There are monthly themes and all are encouraged to participate at the end of each month to respond to the reading they have done that month related to the themes.

7. General Business

Vassiliki mentioned that in American Libraries RA librarians have a weekly twitter chat about RA skills, how to develop programs, hints and tips etc. #readadv
Jenn mentioned read watch play as people from all over the world can find out what you are reading. Need to get familiar with twitter to aid professional development. Libraries that have twitter feeds should promote it on their blog.
Merrilyn mentioned that all new staff at Hornsby are given training in Readers Advisory work. They are told about twitter –read watch play-, blogs etc.

8. Around the table what we are reading:

Therese : Letters from Berlin
Amy : A possible life : Sebastian Faulks
Patchwork planet : Anne Tyler
David Copperfield: Charles Dickens (on iphone)
The secret life of buildings
Is it just me : Miranda Hart
Helen: Entitlement : Jessica White
Jenn : Middlemarch :George Eliot
Naomi : Your vigour for life appals me : Robert Grubb
Teresa: All that I am : Anna Funder
Sarah : What they never tell you : Kay Stammers
Merilyn : Sarah Paretsky thriller
Janet : Tree of Man : Patrick White
The mountain : Drusilla Modjeska
Vassiliki : A basic renovation : Sarah Antonelli
The Lizzie Bennet diaries (Blog)
Gaye: Alaska
Chris : The best exotic Marigold hotel : Deborah Moggach
Monique: The Rosie Project : Graeme Simsion
Crossing to safety : Wallace Stegner
Sense and Sensibility : Jane Austen
Margaret : Death comes to Pemberley : P.D. James
Claude: The Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald
That deadman dance
Lim: I am legend : Richard Matheson
The cardinals blades
Suzanne: Anthony Horowitz series ‘Power of 5’
Will: Princess of Sarka
On the road: Jack Kerouac
Melanie: The Lizzie Bennet diaries
The Rosie project : Graeme Simsion
Bailey: Jasper Jones : Craig Silvey
Merilyn : Beautiful : Jessica Watson
Jane: Flight behaviour : Barbara Kingsolver
Homer and Langley : E. L. Doctorow
Amy: Chasing the light: Jesse Blackadder
Goon squad : Jennifer Egan Shiver: Nikki Gemmel

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