New Norcia Library Lecture

Date: Friday, 14 October, 2016
Venue: New Norcia Library, New Norcia Benedictine Community, WA
Cost: Costs; $80 per librarian and $40 per student, The day includes a cemetery tour, lunch, morning and afternoon tea and the sessions. Tickets numbers are limited to 100.
Tickets: http://www.newnorcia.wa.edu.au/products/group/events-and-special-items/26

Dr Toby Burrows, Manager of the eResearch Support Unit in Information Services, University of Western Australia, will be introducing us to events and places into which manuscripts survive. He worked for two years in the U.K. with manuscripts and their stories from the dispersed collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

The Little Free Library movement is making tracks in W.A. Soraya Majidi of Albany Public Library and Laura Parker of Gingin will offer insights into a library service that fulfils a niche. Their consequential experiences alert us to potential dynamics and social benefits another means of outreach may bring to our communities.

Former, long term New Norcia Librarian, Sue Johnson will be your guide for this year’s opportunity to learn about a different aspect of New Norcia’s history — an after lunch tour of the New Norcia cemetery.

Clare Menck, author of Mundaring Weir forestry settlement, 1923-2011, will also take us into the labyrinth of social outcomes — the challenges of producing “readable” reports that seek to avoid being mere “dust collectors”. The report that Clare will use to illustrate her ideas is now available as an e-book, via the State Library of Western Australia catalogue: http://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4505139_1