After the amazing seminar on fantasy and readers advisory work which was held in 2011, you said that you now wanted to explore history.  The planning team have been busy to bring this to you.

The program includes Jesse Blackadder, author, short story writer and freelance journalist, Captain Justin Jones of RAN on the Navy reading list, Martin Mantle is back by popular request, to give us more information about disability in fiction (two minutes was not enough).

Heidi Colqhoun from Blue Mountains and staff from UTS library will be telling us how they are promoting the National Year of Reading (and will be giving us all some great ideas).  There will be lightning talks and much more.

Have a look at the program below.

Program

9.30 am tea/coffee in the Dixson Room
10.00 am Welcome
10.10 Captain Justin Jones of RAN, Director, Sea Power Centre - Australia
10:50 Martin Mantle Disability in fiction
11.15 Jesse Blackadder

12: 10 - 1.00 lunch in the Friend Room

1:00 live tweet up for #think and #nyr12 - don't worry if you don't tweet - this is a session for everyone
1:30 Belinda Tiffen from UTS
1:55  Heidi Colqhoun from Blue Mountains
2:15 five minutes 10 slides - lightning talks on readers advisory work
2:40 - 3:10 afternoon tea

3:10 Hear from staff at Kinokuniya Bookshop about their hot history titles.
4.00pm finish

4.10pm Help Celebrate World Read Aloud Day.  We will be having a read out loud session after the seminar.  We know some of you will have to leave to catch planes, trains and so on, but we hope some of you can stay for this.

If you are tweeting, blogging etc about the day please use #ra2012.

Contact Ellen Forsyth with any questions about the day.