Daily Archives: 15 August 2016

New Norcia Library Lecture 2016

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

State Library of NSW: Australian Religious History Fellowship

Australian Religious History Fellowship
Annual. Award of $20,000
Applications will open 22 August and close 19 September, 2016

The specific focus of the Australian History Religious Fellowship is for the study and research of any aspect of Australian religious history of any faith. The successful Fellow will be based at the State Library of NSW, although it is understood that it may be necessary to also work within other institutions and archives, and use resources outside the Library.

The Australian Religious History Fellowship was established in 2010 with a generous endowment from an anonymous benefactor.

For more info: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/fellowships/australian-religious-history-fellowship