Following on from Sophie Cunningham was the best practice sessions. I chose to attend People of the Book with Chris Jones, manager of Great Lakes Library. Chris shared how his library had created their book club sets collection. The collection started via Chris's own book club donating copies of books to the library once they had read them. They now have a collection of around 102 sets with 31 registered book clubs. Each book club that registers with the library has to purchase one book club set for the library each year. This is very similar to how other libraries have been doing it.
Chris said the greatest challenge has been the success of the program and how to manage storing the collections. To generate interest, put the collection/kits on display and offer annual book club events.
Chris was kind enough to donate some sets to our library to start us of. We have since purchased more sets - I think we now have about 20 and we will soon launch the collection and start registering book clubs.
The last session of day 1 was a very interesting panel session discussing indigenous voices in literature. Panel members were Dr Anita Heiss, Nicole Watson and Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing. All panel members agreed that they are writing Aboriginality to educate the non-indigenous. And the process of writing has allowed them to follow a journey to their identity. It was a very interesting session and they did suggest webpages to find lists of good indigenous titles to have in your library but my tablet battery went flat so I didn't catch them.
Nicole Watson is a Brisbane girl and she mentioned something interesting which I didn't know about and am wondering if it is fact or fiction. She said that there are a number of Boundary Roads in Brisbane and apparently if you are aboriginal you can not cross a Boundary Road as you will be killed. Can anyone out there verify this for me or has heard of this before? She also described Brisbane as a city of addiction to construction. This prompted me to think of tunnels!!
I have once again run out of time so will post thoughts about day 2 tomorrow.
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