NSW Local Studies Librarians meeting
NSW Local Studies Librarians’ Meeting
Burwood Library 2 Conder Street, Burwood and online zoom link is here
Link for booking for Burwood Library and online
12 March 20204 9.15 am to 4pm
9.15 Welcome, Burwood staff
9.30 – 10.10 Cecily Grey, Vice President, Burwood and District Historical Society and John Johnson, committee member and Local Studies Librarian, Canada Bay. The history and achievements of the Burwood and District Historical Society.
10.15 - 10.55 Helen McDonald, Local History Specialist and Kristin Ovidi, Library Officer, Readers & Research, Sutherland Morning Frozen in Time: Saving and storing acetate negatives at Sutherland Library.
11 – 11.30 Morning Tea
11.30 – 12 General Business
1. Wider Local Studies meeting June 2024
2. Collecting Lunar New Year
3. NSW Heritage Policy survey
4. New Committee members
5. Ellen Forsyth, SLNSW, Contemporary Collecting in Local Studies, PhD research into how public libraries collect recent content and how representative it is.
6. Other including eois for Disaster preparation
12 – 12.15 Maria Savvidis, Specialist Librarian, Manuscript Collection SLNSW Pride Line Collecting.
12.15 – 12.50 Hayden Walsh, First Nations Advisor, and Dr Penny Stannard, Head of Curatorial & Research, Museums of History NSW, First Nations Strategy and approaches to First Nations history projects.
12.50 - 1.00 General business continued
1 - 2 Lunch - not this is not provided as part of this meeting
2 - 2.40 LS in a Flash: 10 slides 5 minutes part 1
- Megan Crook, Librarian, Local Heritage, Shoalhaven Preservation Station at Nowra Library.
- Katarzyna Malicka, Local Heritage Librarian, Burwood, Burwood Council’s preparations for its sesquicentenary celebrations in 2024.
- Marilyn Gallo, Heritage Services Fairfield, Intangible Heritage: Becoming custodians of community archives
- Christian Darby, ePrograms Librarian, Waverley Library, Family history digitisation at Waverley.
2.30 - 2.45 General business continued
2.45 – 3.15 Brendan Somes, Collection Strategy Coordinator and Boris Nazarov, Librarian, Published Materials Website collecting by the State Library of NSW including Pandora.
3.15 – 4pm LS in a Flash: 10 slides 5 minutes part 2
- Veronica Shaw, Library Officer, Community Programs & Engagement, Parkes Shire Council The Lonely Scanner. (online)
- Craig Garret, Project Officer, Talking Together, Bega Valley Talking Together Project local stories and the impacts of Covid and the local lockdowns. (online)
3.30 – 4pm Other business