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NSW Local Studies Librarians meeting
Local Studies Librarians’ Meeting 21 November 2023
Tamworth Library and online
Bookings are essential - [[ |please book here] ].
Zoom link for [[ | meeting is here] ]
Draft agenda
9.30 Welcome
9.40 Pride (R)evolution exhibition at the State Library for local studies implications, Bruce Carter
Mapping Queer North Sydney: Online mapping of LGBTIQA+ community stories and memories in the North Sydney area Yasmin Greenhalgh (Collection Development Librarian) and Kelly Mitchell (Historical Services Curator), Stanton Library, North Sydney Council
Plus discussion about collecting with your LGBTIQA+ community
10.40 Morning tea
11.00 City of Parramatta – Heritage Archives and Cultural Collections A presentation of our collections, that document and illustrate, the history and heritage of our City. Janelle Blucher Coordinator Research and Collections, Parramatta
includes 10 minutes q and a and discussion
11.40 3. Oral History Conference in Launceston presentation from Bega, Goulburn and Orange.
plus 10 minute discussion of oral history
12.20 - 1.20 lunch find your own in Parramatta (or where ever you are for the online participants)
1.20 - 1.30 linking lunch and local studies
What did you see at lunch time that would be potential to collect or document/interview (including those online)
1.30 - 2.00 10 slides in 5 minutes
- 'Preparing and presenting a bilingual talk on Chinese market gardeners: colleagues, collaboration and community Angela Phippen, Ryde
- ‘‘Local content on Indyreads’, John MacRitchie, Georges River
- “The Challenge of preserving our digital world’ Simone Taylor, Dubbo Regional Council
- Learnings from our latest local history exhibition in a public library Alison Wishart Bayside Council
2.00pm
- “Assembling a Heritage Tour of Parramatta” Uli Holmes, Host and Guide, Parramatta
2.30 pm General business
- Call for committee members
- National local studies meeting 7 and 8 June online and call for short talks
- Documenting Past local studies enquiries
- Conservation on a budget
- How to improve cataloguing - for example racist and other inaccurate information, and use of cataloguing notes
- Next meeting/venue - importance of venue being able to manage hybrid hosting as have at least as many people participating online as onsite, so hybrid is essential (not optional)
3.30 Parramatta Library tour
The meeting will be streamed, recorded and made available online. Your participation in this meeting is your agreement to this.