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September 2013

Tuesday, 3 September, 2013

Learning Programs and Workshops

 

9am—10am

Learn how to use the Library's new microform equipment, including scanning, saving and sending newspaper articles. Bring your USB stick and email login details to take full advantage of this session.

Location: Newspapers Reading room on LG1

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Wednesday, 4 September, 2013

Films and Performances

 

6pm—8pm

Theatre

Ten Canoes (2006)

Directed by Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr. With Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil and Richard Birrinbirrin

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Wednesday, 11 September, 2013

Learning Programs and Workshops

 

2pm—3pm

IT Training Room 1/2

New to the Library? Or a regular who's not sure how it all works? Join us for tips on searching the catalogue, requesting collection material, and using our online resources. This session includes a tour of the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room, and the Main Reading Room. 

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Thursday, 12 September, 2013

Friends

 

6pm—8pm

Conference Room

White Gloves Evening: Recent Acquisitions in the Pictures Collection

The Friends of the National Library of Australia will host a one-night-only viewing of recently acquired items in the Library's extensive Pictures Collection. This is your chance

to get up close and personal with significant items from Australia's history. Curator Nicki Mackay-Sim will give a brief talk and will be on hand to provide guests with additional information about the items as they move about the viewing.

Includes refreshments served in the Friends Lounge.

Thursday 12 September, 6 pm

Conference Room and Friends Lounge

Bookings: www.nla.gov.au/bookings/friends or 02 6262 1698

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Wednesday, 18 September, 2013

Learning Programs and Workshops

 

2pm—3.30pm

Ferguson Room

Learn to search British census records, birth, death and marriage registers, Australian electoral rolls, convict indexes and much more.

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Films and Performances

 

6pm—8pm

Theatre

Nicholas Nickelby  (2002)

Directed by Douglas McGrath. With Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent and Jamie Bell

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Tuesday, 24 September, 2013

Friends

 

6pm—8pm

Conference Room

BOOK LAUNCH

Underground Australia by Michael McKernan

Join author Michael McKernan as he discusses his new book Underground Australia. In the bowels of a Sydney pub, the publican poses with his hand in chains: a reminder of the time when the underground store was a convict cell. A family, thrown out of home during the Great Depression, sets up house in a cave. Women sort mushrooms in a disused railway

tunnel in the 1950s; a jazz band rehearses beneath the Royal George Hotel. With images by some of the country's bestknown photographers, including Jeff Carter, Wolfgang Sievers and Frank Hurley, Underground Australia will take you on a journey to an amazing hidden world.

Tuesday 24 September, 6 pm

Theatre

$20 Friends/$25 non-members

(includes refreshments and book signing)

Bookings: www.nla.gov.au/bookings/friends or 02 6262 1698

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Thursday, 26 September, 2013

Talks, Seminars and Conferences

6:00PM—7:00PM

Theatre

Renowned writer and broadcaster Drusilla Modjeska will deliver this year's annual Seymour Biography Lecture on the craft of biography, autobiography and memoir.

Bookings open September 1, 2013.

The Seymour Biography Lecture is supported by John and Heather Seymour, Australian Book Review and the National Library of Australia

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Learning Programs and Workshops

 

3 pm—4 pm

Ferguson Room

The Library has a fascinating collection of oral histories of which many can be accessed online. Find out about this fantastic resource and how to make the most of it for your research or pleasure.

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