ANZLAG workshop 2009

Australia and New Zealand Library and Archives Group
London Workshop Friday 8th May

Venue: Basement Seminar Room at the Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, London WC2B 4LG. Click here for directions

Provisional Programme:
10.30-11.00 Registration and welcome (Coffee and tea)

Session 1: 11.00 - 12.00 – Exploration and Travel
Chair:
Dr Frank Bongiorno, Senior Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London
Speakers:
Amanda Engineer, Archivist, Archives and Manuscripts, The Wellcome Library, London
Journeys Down Under: Stories of two 19th Century Naval Surgeons
Dr Rob Allan, ACRE Project Manager, Climate Monitoring and Attribution Group, Met Office Hadley Centre
The international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstruction over the Earth(ACRE) initiative: the need for historical Southern Hemisphere weather observations.

Lunch 12.00 – 1.00
A sandwich lunch will be provided

Session 2: 1.00 – 2.30 – Labour and trade unions
A panel discussion exploring resources for and the experience of studying labour history and politics in the UK
Chair:
Ian Henderson, Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College London
Panel:
David Clover, Information Resources Manager & Librarian, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Research Library Services,
Chris Coates, Librarian, Trades Union Congress (TUC) Collections, Holloway Road Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University
Dr Frank Bongiorno, Senior Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London

Session 3: 2.30- 3.30 European collections of note
Speakers:
Dr John Cardwell, Archivist, Royal Commonwealth Society Collections, University of Cambridge
Arlette Apkarian, Librarian, CREDO (the Centre of Research and Documentation on Oceania : Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) Maison Asie Pacifique, Provence University.

Registration £10 (£5 students and unwaged) payable on the day to assist with catering costs

Please register in advance to david.clover@sas.ac.uk