Sunday, 7 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 1 morning

Day 1 took place at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Margaret Shaw, librarian at the NPG, welcomed us to the conference. She introduced the NPG's director, Angus Trumbull, who outlined plans for a much bigger library at the NPG. I enjoyed Jude's welcome to country and her wish that the songlines would see us safely home again. She was followed by our keynote speaker, Stuart Kells. I had won Stuart's book, Shakespeare's Library, in an ALIA Facebook competition but hadn't bought it with me, so at the book signing, I bought his book, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders. After morning tea, the first speaker was Megan Lotts of Rutgers University Library. As Romany Manuell said, we gotta get a badge-maker. Megan has also produced two libguides on button-making and their exhibition spaces. Megan has published a number of papers on library outreach, partnership and makerspaces. Search Google Scholar for her papers (she has a profile there too). Julie Lê of the Costume Institute at the Met, New York, followed Megan to talk about using Instagram to promote a collection. Despite being overshadowed by their Gala, the account has been incredibly successful. After Julie, Dr Lucy Hawthorne of MONA spoke about MoKnow, an internal resource-sharing website, created in Google Sites (but soon to be migrated from there).

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