Sunday, 7 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ Conference Day 1 afternoon

Anni Turnbull kicked off the afternoon session, discussing how the State Library of New South Wales uses archival materials for web stories. Romany Manuell followed Anni to discuss how Monash Uni Library is seeking to improve diversity in its collections. Our next speaker, David Greenhalgh, wasn't able to attend, but made a film about the Kenneth Tyler Archives at the National Gallery of Australia, which was played and will hopefully be made available online. Up next was Jane Black, from the Australian National Botanic Garden, highlighting some of the library's collection and archives. I was the last speaker of the day with a virtual tour of the Adelaide Central School of Art Library. Day 1 finished with the conference dinner at Muse at East Hotel - Muse is a book shop as well as a restaurant, so appropriate for librarians.
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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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Saturday, 6 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 0.5


 Arrived in Canberra on the Wednesday afternoon after a straightforward trip. Bumped into Jim Whittington (Art Gallery od South Australia) at the hotel.We had a cup of tea together before heading down to the Nayional Portrait Gallery for the opening drinks. During drinks, I discovered that Stuart Kells, our keynote speaker  and I had been on the same flight from Melbourne when he recognised me from the flight and came over and introduced himself. I was also treated to a tour of the NPG's library by Libby Coates. It's smaller than my library wirh a smaller collection. Apologies that I neglected to take any pics.


Curator Chris Chapman with Jin Whittington (Art Gallery of South Australia) and Margaret Shaw (National Portrait Gallery).

After drinks, Jin and I joined fellow art librarians and archivists from New South Wales, Hong Kong, Christchurch and Auckland for dinner at Ovolo Nishi. Delicious food, served as shared plates, and plenty of it. The restaurant was very accommodating of our large group.

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