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Programs
Conference Program
Speakers
 Keynote
Speaker - Robert McNulty
Mr. McNulty is the founder of Partners for Livable Communities, an organisation
that has become a leader on issues of livability, quality of life & civic
development concerns throughout America. A sought-after facilitator and accomplished
public speaker, Mr. McNulty has worked in over 300 communities in America and
has traveled extensively in some 100 countries around the world. He is also
a frequent writer, editor and contributor on urban strategies, and has written
for The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications.
 Alan Bundy
Dr Alan Bundy AM BA DipEd MLitt MLib PhD FALIA retired in 2005 as foundation
university librarian and director of the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library
of the University of South Australia. He is currently editorial director
of Auslib Press, program director of Auslib Conferences, and principal
consultant of Auslib Library Consulting which specializes in public and
joint use library planning, feasibility studies and reviews. He was a
keynote speaker at the first international conference on joint use libraries
held in the UK in July 2007.
Alan is the editor of seven editions of the Directory of Australian Public Libraries and has edited the quarterly journal Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services for twenty years.
He has twice been president of the Australian Library and Information Association, and since 2005 the president of Friends of Libraries Australia. In that year he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his contribution to libraries, information literacy and education. Address: PO Box 622 Blackwood SA 5051 email alan.bundy@auslib.com.au
 Khoa Do
Khoa Do is a film director, screenwriter and teacher who has had extensive
experience working with the most disadvantaged in our community, inspiring
them and guiding them to incredible success.
Khoa's own story is also amazing - arriving in Australia as a refugee on a tiny fishing boat crammed full of people to becoming the 2005 Young Australian of the Year is a journey of courage, resilience and hope amidst incredible opposition. Growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Khoa recalls going to school with sticky-taped shoes and coming home to find out that their electricity had been cut off because the family couldn't afford to pay the bills.
In 2004, he was the youngest film director in Australian history to be nominated
for an AFI Award for Best Director and has received many awards for his work
in the community and with young people - Young Vietnamese Australian of the Year
Award 2000, Young Citizen of the Year Award 2001 and the Young Australian of
the Year Award 2005. As well, Khoa has been nominated for a number of Australian
film awards. His first short film was shortlisted for a 2001 Academy Award,
and in 2003, he won the IF Independent Spirit Award for his filmmaking.
He has represented Australia internationally as a youth delegate (Action 2000
Anti-Racism Initiative in Canada), and has travelled widely speaking on youth
issues, motivation and inspiration.
In January 2005, Khoa was announced as Young Australian of the Year, the first
ever filmmaker to have been awarded the accolade. In his spare time, Khoa loves
watching the State of Origin footy, his mum's cooking, and singing karaoke out-of-tune.
 Charmaine McVea
Charmaine McVea is a psychologist and psychodramatist, who works with
people to build creativity and vitality in their lives and relationships.
She established a private psychology practice in 1988 and since then
has consulted with business, government and community organisations,
in areas of team development, professional supervision, future search
and conflict management. Charmaine has a long association with the
Queensland Training Institute of Psychodrama, where she runs training
in group work and leadership for organisational and counselling professionals.
She is a member of the executive of the Australia and New Zealand Psychodrama
Association, has published articles in psychodrama practice and research,
and has conducted post-graduate psychodrama training in Australia,
New Zealand and Asia.
Charmaine has a Masters degree in organisational and counselling psychology,
is a certified psychodramatist, and is currently completing a PhD.
 Keynote
Speaker - Catherine Palin-Brinkworth
Catherine Palin-Brinkworth had a hugely successful corporate career with breakthrough thinking, building high performing sales teams in tough competitive industries. She is currently non-executive Chairman of Horwath Brisbane, a prominent accounting firm. She runs two training companies, a management advisory business, and speaks professionally on leadership and change issues world-wide.
Catherine has a Masters Degree in Social Ecology, and a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is a former Global President of the International Federation for Professional Speakers.
 John
Binnion
I worked in Victorian Public Libraries for thirty–eight years until
2005. I was manager of three different library services. Initially at Coburg
Public Library followed by a few years at the Goulburn Valley Regional
Library based at Shepparton. I then worked at Eastern Regional Libraries
Corporation (ERL) covering the outer eastern metropolitan area of Melbourne
. At ERL I was Regional Library Manager for many years and then Chief Executive
Officer for the last five years. ERL provides service to the residents
of three municipalities with a combined population of 395,000 people.
During my career I was involved in various professional organisations.
I have a strong interest in the development of cooperative/collaborative
activities between public library services either on a geographic or
a state wide basis. For a few years before I finished working I was convenor
of the SWIFT project committee with the objective of the implementation
of a Victorian information portal through a consortia based utilisation
of information and communication technologies.
I went through the amalgamation program of Victorian Local Government
and the almost simultaneous introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering
(CCT) in the mid 1990s and survived.
 Les Berry
For over 20 years Les Berry, Director of 'Image Makers' a team of Brisbane based consultants, has been assisting Australian organisations to manage and proactively facilitate these changes, particularly in the area of improving standards of service and communication with customers.
Image Makers clients includes a broad spectrum of private enterprise businesses (large and small), a diverse range of government departments and institutions plus various industry associations.
Les will be presenting an inspiring session, 'Keeping People Connected', in which he will outline simple and effective strategies for enhancing customer service levels and business growth. The importance of 'first impressions' and how our 'manner' and the choice of the 'words' we use when talking to customers can either encourage or discourage repeat visits and ongoing use of library facilities.
 Veronica Lunn
Dr. Veronica Lunn is a Senior Consultant with the AECgroup and
is the leader of AECcommunity research & strategy. Veronica
is the author of “Multicultural Library Services in NSW Public Libraries” (2001),
was a recipient of the Mainard Scholarship for Local Government (1995), a
finalist in the NSW Business Woman of the Year Award (1997), and was a lecturer
and tutor at the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Institute. She has
a passion for public libraries and has worked with libraries for over 35
years, both as a Library Manager and as a consultant. Veronica and her team
at AEC have completed over 40 strategic library reviews across the country
in recent years.
 Keynote Speaker - Noni Hazlehurst A.M.
Noni Hazlehurst is one of Australia's most distinguished and respected actors. In addition to her 2005 AFI award winning role in Little
Fish opposite Cate Blanchett, Noni's performing career includes leading feature film roles in Candy, Waiting (joint Best Actress San Sebastian Film Festival), Fran (AFI Best Actress Award) and Monkey
Grip (AFI Best Actress Award).
In television drama, Noni won an AFI Best Actress award for the telemovie Waiting
At The Royal, and was the female lead in The Shiralee, Naked
Under Capricorn, Nancy Wake, Waterfront, Ride
on Stranger and in the recent ABC telemovies Stepfather
of the Bride and Curtin. Noni is currently starring in the Channel Seven television series City
Homicide.
Noni's theatre credits include Frankie and Johnny in the
Clair de Lune, Whore in a Madhouse, On Our
Selection, Traitors, Cut and Thrust Cabaret (in London's West End) and for the Sydney Theatre Company: Hamlet, No
Names No Pack Drill, The Man From Muckinupin, The
Conquest of Carmen Miranda, Precious Woman, Navigating, the 2003 sell-out season of The
Breath of Life, and in 2006, Woman In Mind.
Noni has been a much loved member of the ABC Play School team for more than 20 years, and hosted Better
Homes and Gardens for 10 years during which the program won five Logie awards. She has co-hosted the Logies, directed the AFI-nominated telemovie The Fish Are Safe for the ABC, as well as having extensive experience in comedy, variety, radio, education programs, presenting, singing, writing and recording.
Noni has also won a Variety Club award for Achievement in Television, a Critic's Circle Award, a Film Critic's Award, and the Flinders University Convocation Medal. She received an Order of Australia in 1995 for services to children and children's television. Most recently Noni was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Flinders University in South Australia.
 Kelly Czarnecki
Ms. Czarnecki, Technology Education Librarian for teens
and youth at ImaginOn, the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County,
holds a Ed.M in Educational Policy and MS in Library Science from the University
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Kelly came to PLCMC after working four years
as a young adult librarian in a public library and one year in an academic
library. She is co-leader of Eye4You Alliance Island, a project to offer
library services in the 3D environment of Second Life for teens. She works
to engage teens at her library in building new literacies that will give
them competitive skills in the school and eventually work environment.
Kelly has been invited to present at the American Library Association
Midwinter Conference on gaming in 2007, North Carolina Library
Association Technology and Trends Conference, Computers and Libraries,
Five Weeks to a Social Library, and several libraries throughout the US.
Her projects have appeared in American Libraries, School Library
Journal, YPulse, and the Young Adult Library Services Association. She
is currently working on a Gaming column for School Library Journal, a
book chapter with Information Today, and teaching an online class for
librarians of YALSA.
 Lea
Giles-Peters
Lea Giles-Peters commenced her appointment as State Librarian in October 2001.
Lea was the first woman to be appointed to the position. Lea has had an extensive
career with senior management and academic positions in librarianship, government,
education and information systems. Lea represents the State Library of Queensland
on the Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL) and is formerly a member
of the Board of Directors of Public Libraries Australia. Lea serves on a number
of Boards and committees for government and educational organisations, including
the Brisbane City Council, Griffith University and the University of Queensland.
She is a member of the Lyceum Club in Brisbane.
Lea has a particular interest in the role of libraries in community capacity
building, Indigenous library services and women and leadership. Previous positions
include Director of the Northern territory Library and Information Service; Assistant
Secretary, Northern Territory Department of Housing and Local Government and
Manager, CSIRO Library Network and Information Services.
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