About this Event
Inspired by the Sydney Writers Festival? Want to enrich details in a current manuscript? Or maybe you have the beginnings of an idea for a writing project and aren’t sure how to progress. Come along to this half-day program aimed at helping you develop your writing project.
This event will take place in the Dixson Room, Ground Floor, Mitchell Building, State Library of NSW.
The program includes the following sessions:
Talk by Dr Rachel Franks
Rachel Franks holds PhDs in Australian crime fiction and in true crime texts. A qualified educator and librarian, her extensive work on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences, as well as on radio and television. An award-winning writer, she is the author of An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (2022).
Rachel is the coordinator of scholarship at the State Library of NSW.
Eresources for research
This session will cover the Library catalogue, the best online databases (ones for free as a Library member), and primary source databases such as Migration to New Worlds and Early Experiences of Australasia.
Secret librarian tools!
An overview of card catalogues, indexes, guides and other excellent research tools that are not online.
Inspiring Australia’s writers
View the collections that have inspired literary classics and bestsellers by Patrick White, Kate Grenville and other Australian authors.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
State Library of New South Wales, 1 Shakespeare place, Sydney, Australia
AUD 20.00 to AUD 25.00
