Post Haste the Millennium:
Opportunities and Challenges in Local Studies

12-13 November 1999

2nd National Local Studies Conference, Rose and Crown Hotel, Guildford, Western Australia

Program

Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday 12 November 1999
9:15am	Opening: Cr Charles Gregorini, JP, Shire President, Shire of Swan
9:30am	Opening plenary session: Dr Alan Bundy, University Librarian, University of South Australia; Director, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, SA. Progress and potential: local public libraries and Australia's cultural heritage at century's end
10:30am	break
	Concurrent sessions
	Managing resources	Swan valley stories	Links to community
11.00am	Josette Mathers, Christian Brothers, WA. Preserving and accessing sensitive material	Pam Buselich, Mercy College, WA. Early to the vineyards: a celebration of viticulture in the Swan Valley amidst changing diversity	Sheila McHale, MLA, Member for Thornlie, WA. From the macro to the micro: local studies as an essential link in the social, political and cultural framework - millennium or no millennium
11:45am	Gai Copeman, City of Thuringowa, QLD. Regional imaging of community history using CD-ROM technology	Jan Pittman, Guildford Grammar School, WA. Guildford Grammar School Archives: past, present and future	Hon Phillip Pendal, MLA, Member for South Perth, WA. Bringing May Gibbs home to South Perth
12:30pm	break
1:30pm	Jennifer Sloggett, Ku-ring-gai Library, NSW. Anniversaries - what do we celebrate?: access and identification for the new millennium	Dr Patrick Bertola, Curtin University of Technology, WA. Midland Westrail Workshops History Project	Elizabeth Rummins, Historian, WA. A Singapore journey - local studies style
2:15pm	Dr Alison Gregg, Fremantle City Library, WA. Here to stay?: planning and managing an oral history collection	Trish Kotai-Ewers, Fellowship of Australian Writers, WA. 'Living museum' or snail?: the relocation of Tom Collins House from Servetus Street to Allen Park, Swanbourne	Geoff Moor, City of Canning, WA. Telling the Boans story: a department store through the eyes of its customers
3:30pm	Isabel Smith, State Records Office, WA. Managing electronic records for the future	Irene Stainton, Aboriginal Affairs Department, WA. Heritage matters: an Aboriginal perspective	Brenda McConchie, AIMA Training and Consultancy Services, ACT and Robyn Collins, State Library of SA. Mining the collection: seeking and sharing the gold for the public good
4:15pm	Mimi de Taille, Fremantle City Library, WA. Unearthing the hidden gems in your collection: a practical approach to local studies cataloguing	Tom Perrigo, National Trust of Australia, WA. Management of heritage places: how wrong have we got it?	Jen Ford, National Archives of Australia, WA. Anniversaries and celebrations: Commonwealth records of local interest
5:00pm	close of sessions
6.00pm	Pre-theatre dinner A pre-theatre dinner will be held in the historic Padburys Café Restaurant, which is across the road from the conference venue. Padbury House and Store was built in 1869 by Walter Padbury, who first arrived in Western Australia with his father in 1830
8.00pm	Theatre performance The Garrick Theatre will perform Tales of Old Guildford in their historic venue, built in the 1850's as a convict depot. There is ample time to stroll from Padburys Café Restaurant to the Garrick Theatre in time for the performance.
Saturday 13 November 1999
	Concurrent sessions
	Telling the story	Nuts and bolts	Milestones
9.00am	Jenni Woodroffe, ALIA Local Studies Section, WA. Balwarra: the story of a garden and its creator	Roger Horgan, ALIA Local Studies Section, WA. Casting a family Net: Internet resources for genealogy in 2000 and beyond	Anthea Harris, Perth Mint, WA The centenary of the Perth Mint: a local study of an international celebration
9:45am	Anne Carter, Loreto Convent, WA. What's in the package now?: a critical review of the early history of Perth's private girls schools	Grant White, Newcastle Region Library, NSW. Creating a content-rich local studies Web site, with particular reference to the Newcastle experience	Shauna Booth, Centenary of Women's Suffrage Committee, WA. Suffrage centenary - celebrations and chronicles
10:30am	break
	Different voices	Nuts and bolts	Outreach
11:00am	Dr John Yiannakis, Tuart College, WA. Hellenes in Hesperia: an outline history of the Greek presence in Western Australia	Malcolm Traill and Donna McAleese, Albany Public Library, WA Triple trouble: the challenges of indexing a remote local studies collection from three separate locations	Linda Allery, City of Playford, SA. Getting the bug: new century, new ideas
11:45am	Dr Jan Ryan, Edith Cowan University, WA. Ghosts: reinventing the souls of the past	Dr Maggie Exon, Curtin University of Technology, WA. DB or not DB?: choosing and using databases in local studies	Jan Partridge, Curtin University of Technology, WA. Friends of local history groups
12:30pm	Lunch time activities There is an extended lunch break on Saturday so that delegates may explore the many historic places around Guildford. There are a number of galleries, speciality and antique shops to be discovered: The Guildford Museum, run by the Swan-Guildford Historical Society will be open for delegates. St Matthew's Church, Stirling Square will also be open. Lynda Haythornthwaite, historic guide, will lead a 45-minute walking tour for delegates, commencing from The Rose and Crown Hotel at 1:15pm.
2:15pm	Professor Cora Baldock, Murdoch University, WA. Immigrants and transnational caregiving	Dr Cathie Clement, Public Historian, WA. Technology, technique and tenacity: tools for tackling local history	Rosslyn Marshall and Lesley Wallace, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA. Providing outreach programs on a shoestring
3.00pm	Closing plenary session Professor JD Hendry, County Heritage Officer, Cumbria County Council; Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK. Local history at the millennium: priorities in the United Kingdom
4:00pm	break
4:30pm	Farewell function On behalf of the Shire of Swan, a Farewell Function will be hosted by the Shire President, Cr Charles Gregorini, JP, in the Midland Town Hall. Commenced in 1906, the Town Hall was not completed until 1924 and has recently been refurbished. The clock tower is a noted landmark of the district.
5:30pm	sessions closed
Sunday 14 November 1999
9:00am-9:30am	Walking tour A repeat Walking Tour is being offered by Lynda Haythornthwaite, departing from the Guildford Museum, corner Swan and Meadow Streets, Guildford.
10:00am-1:00pm	Champagne brunch As a 40th anniversary function of The National Trust of Australia (WA), a champagne brunch will be held at historic Woodbridge. The construction of this Victorian building commenced in 1884 and Mr Charles Harper and his family moved into their new home late in 1885. The first classes of Guildford Grammar School were taught in the billiard room. In 1921 Woodbridge was leased as a preparatory school for boarding and day pupils. It was taken over by the Public Health Department in 1942 as a home for aged women. The house was vested in the National Trust, restored under the direction of Marshall Clifton, and opened to the public in 1970. The day includes a tour of this historic home, champagne brunch and a performance by Age Link Reminiscence Theatre.