Conference Program

7.00: Registration Opens
7.15: Breakfast
9.10: Conference Opening
9.25: Keynote Address 1

John Blyberg ( Darien Library, Connecticut, USA ) - Airplanes, Rock and Roll, and Sourdough: User Experience Design and the 21st Century Library

10.25: FE Technologies Sponsor Presentation
10.30: OCLC Morning Energy Break
11.00: Concurrent Session

• Jane Cowell – Strategic Analysis of Public Library Collections
• Sue McKerracher - National Year of Reading 2012
• Debra Rosenfeldt - Frontline Victoria : Reader Development Training Online

11.50: Public Libraries and ALIA – Margaret Allen

11.50   Registration (Half day) Desk open

12.20: Launch National Standards and Guidelines for Public Libraries
12.25: Networking Lunch
13.35: Concurrent Session

• Sue Hutley speaking on behalf of Sherrey Quinn - National Standards and Guidelines for Australian Public Libraries
• Debra Rosenfeldt -Dollars, Sense and Public Libraries: The Economic Value of Public Libraries
• John Blyberg, Cindi Trainor and Kathryn Greenhill - Darien Statements : why you should decide your own core philosophy?

14.30: Future of Public Libraries – Panel Discussion with PLWA representative – Sheena Joyce, WALGA representative – Ricky Burges and SLWA representative – Margaret Allen

15.10:Access Office Industries Afternoon Energy Break
15.40:Southern Scene Sponsor Address
15.45: Keynote Address 2

William Yeoman (The West Australian) - Text as Score/Library as Performance Space: Musical Analogy in a Digital World

16.35: Conference Close – PLWA President
16:45: Conference Drinks