Staff publications, conference papers and presentations

2018

Staff	Event	Date/Location	Title of paper/presentation
Paula Bray	Monash University Sensilab	6 February Melbourne	DX Lab - Building experiences with Cultural Heritage Data
Paula Bray	Pause Festival ACMI	7 February Melbourne	DX Lab - Designing with Cultural Heritage Data
Paula Bray	Australian Digital Alliance	9 February Canberra	Future Creative
Jenna Bain	VALA 2018	13 February Melbourne	Cultural Collections and the Machine: an idiosyncratic pairing challenging the Library paradigm
Rachel Franks	Making Media History. 10th Conference on Australian Media Traditions	15-16 February Adelaide	A Paper Trail: tracing traditions of crime reporting in The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Paula Bray	Charles Sturt University Study Visit at SLNSW	17 April Sydney	DX Lab: Experiments
Rachel Franks	Humanities in the Regions	10-11 May Launceston	Supporting Research through Pedagogical Programs
Paula Bray, Luke Dearnley	UNSW Art and Design Meetup	21 May Sydney	3D web technologies in the DX Lab projects Loom and Meridian
Rachel Franks	2SER Breakfast Radio	30 May Sydney	The Bridge Street Affray, 1894: why police started carrying guns in Sydney
Lynne Billington	ANZREG Conference 2018	30 May-1 June Adelaide	The State of Authorities at the SLNSW
Peter Brotherton	ANZREG Developers' Day 2018	1 June Adelaide	Participated on technical panel and delivered a presentation on test automation
Meg Keneally, Rachel Franks, Dave Warner	Airtight Alibi: Mystery and Crime Festival	4 June Sydney	Deadly Words: crime writing essentials
Euwe Ermita	Rosetta Advisory Group - 9th Annual Meeting	4-6 June Los Angeles	Preservation and Digital Access at the State Library of NSW
Meg Brayshaw, Gabriella Edelstein, Rachel Franks, Paul Giles	What If? Reading Worlds of Possibility	14-15 June Sydney	Finding a Voice vs the Authoritative voice: writing, publishing and remaining curious
Rachel Franks	What If? Reading Worlds of Possibility	14-15 June Sydney	True Literature: reimagining the literary canon as a suite of true crime texts
Rachel Franks	9th Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand	2-4 July Auckland	Picturing Sydney: using portraiture to offer a biography of a colonial city
Rachel Franks, Maggie Patton	Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing	10-12 July Sydney	The Tenacity of the Template: guiding the reading experience from the medieval period to the modern day
Rachel Franks	Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing	10-12 July Sydney	Murder, Motivation and Mass Production: unpacking the extraordinary industry of true crime texts
Elise Edmonds	Recording, narrating and archiving the First World War International Society for First World War Studies	9-11 July Melbourne	Of the greatest value: the European war collecting project
Alison Wishart	Recording, narrating and archiving the First World War International Society for First World War Studies	9-11 July Melbourne	An Archive of Humanity: the records of the NSW division of the Australian Red Cross and the First World War
Melissa Jackon, Marika Duczynski	NAIDOC Week talk: Because of Her, We Can! Showcasing items from the Library's Indigenous collections authored by or relating to remarkable Aboriginal and Tores Strait islander women	9 July Sydney	Indigenous Services talk: "Because of Her, We Can!"
Melissa Jackson, Marika Duczynski	Department of Planning and Environment's NAIDOC week celebration event on Ruby Langford Ginibi and Cora Gooseberry	11 July Sydney	Department of Planning and Environment's NAIDOC Week celebration
Amy McKenzie, Anne Reddacliffe, Bonnie Wildie	IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) 84th World Library and Information Congress	24-30 August Kula Lumpur, Malaysia (presented by video link)	Dressed to the 746s: Australian Librarian Style
Rachel Franks	2SER Breakfast Radio	25 August Sydney	Australia's Oldest Cold Case: the murder of Contable Joseph Luker, 1803
Paula Bray	Charles Sturt University Study Visit at SLNSW	28 August Sydney	DX Lab
Paula Bray, Kaho Cheung	'Marking Time' Professional Historians Association National Conference 2018	31 August Sydney	DX Lab
Rachel Franks	History Week	3 September Sydney	Execution as Entertainment
Geoffrey Barker	Heritage in the Limelight: the Magic Lantern in Australia and the World Conference	4-6 September Canberra	Beaufoy Merlin, Showman and Photographer, 1840-1873
Rachel Franks	History Week	6 September Sydney	Why Do We Read True Crime?
Elise Edmonds	Different pasts, foreign countries symposium The Centre for Applied History and the Department of English, Macquarie University	7 September Sydney	Beneath the clock tower: a storytelling experiment at the State Library of NSW
Paula Bray	Guest lecture at UTS for the 'Visualising Experience' in the Visual Communication program (design School)	9 September Sydney	Design-thinking process for #NewSelfWales
Louise Anemaat	Exploration and Memory Conference	13-15 September Greenwich, UK	Unseen Art of the First Fleet
Joy Lai	Presentation to UTS Photography and Situated Media students	3 October Sydney	Role as SLNSW photographer with emphasis on techniques used to digitise Holtermann negatives and paintings from the collection
Jenna Bain	Royal Australian Historical Society Conference 2018	19 October Port Macquarie	Pre-conference workshop: Amplify presentation and training
Rachel Franks	International Dickens Fellowship 112th	29 October Sydney	Dickens, Crime and the Rise of the Police Detective: changes in policing in England and Australia
Aimee Knight, Rachel Franks, Amy McQuire	Digital Writers' Festival	30 October Online	True Crime
Rachel Franks	2SER Breakfast Radio	31 October-3 November Sydney	The Dread Sprite of the Creek: the murder of Frederick Fisher, 1826
Euwe Ermita	NSW Resource Description and Discovery Network	2 November Sydney	Linked Data Building Blocks - description and discovery
Paula Bray	National Digital Forum	20-21 November Wellington, New Zealand	DX Lab + 80Hz//more punk than GLAM
Rachel Franks	Annual Conference of the Bibliographic Society of Australia and New Zealand	29-30 November Brisbane	A Marginalised History: the art of John Rae in the minute books of the City of Sydney
Paula Bray	Arts Centre Melbourne	3 December Melbourne	DX Lab
Paula Bray	Digital Humanities Pathway Conference	7 December Sydney	#NewSelfWales - GLAM panel discussion
Rachel Franks, Richard Neville	Colonialism and its Narratives: rethinking the colonial archive in Australia	10-11 December Melbourne	Thomas Bock's Sketches of Bushrangers: brutality behind beauty
Rachel Franks	ABC Radio National: Nightlife	20 December Sydney	Alexander Pearce, Cannibal

2017

Staff	Event	Date/Location	Title of paper/presentation
Jenna Bain	ALIA Information Online 2017	13-17 February Sydney	From New York to Nimbin: amplifying our sound archive via open-source and the machine
Paula Bray	ALIA Information Online 2017	13-17 February Sydney	The lab culture: does the petri dish approach work?
Paula Bray	Museum Next Melbourne ACMI	15 February Melbourne	Made With, Played With, Remade
Kate Curr	IFLA Public Libraries Mid Term 'STEAM into Sydney' 2017	13-17 March Sydney	Made with, Played with, Remade: The DX Lab as a disruptor
Paula Bray	Canberra National Museum internal staff talk with cultural heritage sector	5 April Canberra	DX Lab
Jenna Bain	ALIA Leadership Forum	8 June Sydney	Amplifying the State Library's Sound Archive via Open-Source Collaboration
Euwe Ermita	Rosetta Advisory Group - 8th Annual Meeting	13-14 June Sheffield, England	Digital Building Blocks: Rosetta's Plug and Play Ability
Amy McKenzie	ALIA New Librarians Symposium	23-25 June Melbourne	From selling insurance to buying rare books for the State Library of New South Wales
Jenna Bain	Keeping it Real Symposium	31 July Albury	From New York to Nimbin: Amplifying Our Sound Archive via Open-Source and the Machine
Paula Bray	ALIA Online - Data Unleashed	8 August	Data Unleashed DX Lab
Paula Bray	UX in Higher Education Conference	29 August Melbourne	Creating Innovative Digital Experiences
Alison Wishart, Anne Hocking, Karen Flynn, Damien Cassidy, Anni Turnbull, David Berry, Jenna Bain	Oral History Australia Conference 2017	13-16 September Sydney	From Interview to Access: Managing oral histories at the State Library of NSW
Anna Brooks, Lang Ngo, Nichola Parshall, Catherine Thomson	ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference 2017	4-8 September Copenhagen, Denmark	Rebuilding Holtermann's triumph: from plate to pixel
Jenna Bain	Oral History Australia Conference 2017	15 September Sydney	From New York to Nimbin: Amplifying Our Sound Archive via Open-Source and the Machine
Jenna Bain	Centre for Volunteering meet-up	28 September Sydney	Digitial Volunteering at the State Library of NSW
Euwe Ermita	Data Unleashed NSLA	8 October Melbourne	APIs
Euwe Ermita	The Day to Day of Digital Collecting and Preservation	10 October Melbourne	Ingesting for Preservation and Access
Paula Bray	Hack Reality Spark Festival	17 October Sydney	DX Lab Experiments
Jenna Bain	Australasian Sound Recording Association Conference	25 October Canberra	From New York to Nimbin: Amplifying Our Sound Archive via Open-Source and the Machine
Jenna Bain	Royal Australian Historical Society Conference	27 October Cowra	From New York to Nimbin: Amplifying Our Sound Archive via Open-Source and the Machine
Cecilia Harvey, Kate Hughes, Lang Ngo	AICCM National Conference Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material	1-3 November Katoomba	Poster sessions: 2015 Framed Collections Store move; Treatment of the Wentworth Papers
Louise Anemaat, Catherine Thomson, Barbara Dabrowa (Senior Conservator, Frames, Art Gallery of New South Wales)	AICCM National Conference Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material	1-3 November Katoomba	Relocating a Framed Collection
Paula Bray	Collaborating Around Collections, Australian National University	8 November Canberra	DX Lab
Andy Carr	Maitland & Beyond Family History Inc.	15 November	Exploring Family History at the State Library of New South Wales
Paula Bray	Remix Summit Sydney	7 December Sydney	21st Century Arts Infrastructure - Blurring Digital and Physical

2016

Staff	Event	Date/Location	Title of paper/presentation
Paula Bray, James Boyce (Grumpy Sailor)	Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Australasia (EVAA) Conference, University of Canberra	5-6 March Canberra	Loom. Every Thread Has A Story: Removing the search box, what and why?
Paula Bray	Insight Informed Innovation: How to Get the Most out of User Research	7 April Sydney	DX Lab
Rachel Franks	7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	29 June–1 July Sydney	Habeas Corpus: the wrongful imprisonment of Steven Avery
Anne Reddacliff and Rachel Franks	7th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	29 June–1 July Sydney	The Militant Suffragette: memoir of a political movement or a true crime tale?
Alison Wishart	Australian Historical Association - From Boom to Bust	4-8 July Ballarat	Marketing Patriotism and Bottling Sunshine
Scott Wajon	The Future of Public Sector Digitisation Conference	26-28 July Sydney	The Digital Excellence Program: The First Four Years, Panellist discussing digitising non-paper records and cultural collections
Damien Cassidy	World Library and Information (IFLA) Congress	13-19 August Ohio, USA	Dr Perfectionist: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quantity
Paula Bray	ALIA URLs (University and Research Libraries’ Group) Seminar ‘Data and Libraries: Harnessing the Possibilities’	8 September Canberra	How, Why & What went on in the first year of the DX Lab: data visualisations put through the microscope
Alison Wishart	Victorian Museums & Galleries Conference Phillip Island	6-7 October Phillip Island	Interrogating Photography and Making the Most of Your Research
Dana Kahabka	The 9th AICCM Book, Paper and Photograph Materials Symposium: 'Light, Colour, Structure'	10-12 October Canberra	Use of MicroCT to visualise the 3D structure of Pith Paper
Michael Carney and Lars Rutz	Australian Society of Archivists National Conference	19 October Sydney	Managing acquisitions of Heritage Collections in the State Library of NSW
Elise Edmonds and Ann Peck	Australian Society of Archivists National Conference	19 October Sydney	Literary giants: revealing the Angus & Robertson collection
Jenna Bain	NSW.net Digital Frontiers Conference	28 October Sydney	Amplify: Crowdsourcing Transcript Tool
Euwe Ermita	NSW.net Digital Frontiers Conference	28 October Sydney	Building a digital ecosystem: foundations and opportunities
Robin Phua	NFSA Digital Directions Symposium	11 November Sydney	Digital Excellence Program, Successes, Challenges and The Future
Alison Wishart	Symposium: Food and War	25 November Melbourne	The Material Culture of Food and War

2015

Staff	Event	Date/Location	Title of paper/presentation
Maggie Patton	ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference: At the Edge	2-7 February Sydney	Digitisation - Now What?
Louise Anemaat	American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies 2015	20 March Los Angeles, USA	Natural Curiosity. Unseen Art of Australia’s First Fleet Natural Curiosity. Unseen Art of Australia’s First Fleet
Elise Edmonds	Institute of Historical Research, University of London	20-21 March London, UK	London and the First World War
David Berry	Generations Meeting Across Time 14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldy	27 - 30 March Canberra	Tracing your ancestors in the digital age: the digitisation of collections at the State Library of NSW
Robin Phua	CeBIT Global Business Technology Event 5–7 May 2015	6 May Sydney Olympic Park	Will Cloud Computing Help the State Library of New South Wales as a Centre of Digital Excellence?
Paula Bray	Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums (LODLAM) Summit 2015	29-30 June Sydney	Live presentation of Loom
Ronald Briggs, Andy Carr and Rachel Franks	Australian Society for Sports History Conference 2015: Sporting Traditions XX: Old Stories, New Histories	30 June - 3 July Darwin	A Sporting Chance: Indigenous Sports Collections at the State Library of NSW A Sporting Chance: Indigenous Sports Collections at the State Library of NSW
Elise Edmonds	Australian Historical Association Conference: Foundational Histories	6-10 July Sydney	A Collecting Legacy
Euwe Ermita, Lynda Billington	International Group of Ex Libris Users (IGeLU) Conference	2-4 September Budapest, Hungary	One system to rule them all - an epic journey to manage our collections
Sally Hone	National Oral History Australia Conference	9-12 September Perth	Muslims and CALD – Oral Histories at the State Library of NSW
Wendy Holz	NSW and ACT Association of Family History Societies Annual Conference	11-13 September Port Macquarie	Gems of the Mitchell Library
Paula Bray and Louise Denoon	Museums and the Web Asia Conference	5-9 October Melbourne	What’s this lab about anyway?
Paula Bray, Kate Curr	National Digital Forum 2015	13-14 October New Zealand	Building the DX Lab from scratch: what is this and why do it?
Damien Cassidy	Australian Sound Recordings Association (ASRA) Conference 2015	18-20 November Sydney	Dr Perfectionist: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quantity
Paula Bray, Kate Curr	Interactive Design Association (IxDA)	26 November Sydney	Building the DX Lab from scratch: what is this and why do it?
Paula Bray, Louise Denoon	Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Leadership and Innovation Forums 2015	3 December Sydney	Finding the Innovation Sweet-Spot

2014

Staff	Event	Date/location	Title of paper/presentation
Mylee Joseph and Kathryn Barwick with Cecile Paris and Stephen Wan, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	VALA Biennial Conference	3-6 February Melbourne	Hunters and collectors: seeking social media content for cultural heritage collections
Simon Cootes	VALA Biennial Conference	3-6 February Melbourne	Marking up NSW: Wikipedia, Newspapers and the State Library
Maggie Patton	Digital Humanities Australasia 2014	18-21 March Perth	A Great War story: creating a digital future for the European War Collecting Project
Rachel Franks	The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2014	3-6 April Osaka, Japan	Collaboration: Negotiations in Publishing and Project Management
Kate Hughes	Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) Symposium Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Conference	7-9 May Sydney	Paper and pigments of First Fleet era natural history watercolours
Elise Edmonds	5th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	18-20 June Hobart	Their own voices: diaries from the Great War
Rachel Franks	5th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	18-20 June Hobart	Playing with Gender and the Stories of Sherlock Holmes: the most important (wo)men in the life of the world's greatest consulting detective
Rachel Franks and Simon Dwyer, Central Queesland University	5th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	18-20 June Hobart	Realism and Relevancy: Portrayals of the Theatre in Ngaio Marsh's Enter a Murderer (1935) and Light Thickens (1982)
Vicki McDonald	IFLA Satellite Meeting	12-14 August	Adapting library spaces to enable collection engagement by diverse audiences.ppt
Rachel Franks and Ellen Forsyth	ALIA Biennial Conference	15-19 September Melbourne	Adventures in collaboration: library and information workers as 'Master Builders' of knowledge
Vicki McDonald	ALIA Biennial Conference	15-19 September Melbourne	From format to function: achieving transformational change.ppt
Jerelynn Brown	NSW Public Libraries Conference	11-14 November	Libraries reflecting communities: digitising NSW newpapers

2013

Staff	Event	Date/location	Title of paper/presentation
Rachel Franks	The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2013	4-7 April Osaka, Japan	Connectedness: Communities of Crime Fiction Readers
Rachel Franks and Jillene Bydder, University of Waikoto, New Zealand	4th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	24-26 June Brisbane	Sleuths and spies: the rise of the 'Everywoman' in detective and thriller fiction of the 1920s
Rachel Franks, Donna Lee Brien, Central Queensland University and Marta Usiekniewicz, University of Warsaw	4th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	24-26 June Brisbane	Murder, they cooked: the role of food in crime fiction
Kirsten Thorpe	IFLA World Library and Information Congress	18-23 August Singapore	Protocols for libraries and archives in Australia: incorporating Indigenous perspectives in the information field
Renee McGann and Anne Reddacliff	Family History Conference; NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies	20-22 September Canberra	Researching family history at the State Library of NSW.pptx
Sally Hone	Biennial National Conference of the Oral History Association of Australia 2013	21-24 September Adelaide	Documenting extreme weather events: the March 2012 Wagga Wagga floods or Wagga Wagga floods conference paper
Mylee Joseph	LIANZA 2013	20-23 October Hamilton, New Zealand	Catalysts, innovation and online engagement @SLNSW
Kate Hughes	Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) National Conference	23-25 October Adelaide	Garling Conservator Project 2013: Documenting and treating the TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours
Michael Carney with Holger Aman, librarian NSW Law Courts	ALIA National Library Technician Symposium	30 October-1 November Canberra	Judges, governors and changing libraries
Louise Anemaat	Annual Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference	22 November Sydney	What you see. And what you get: Investigating a collection of natural history watercolours from the 1790s