Anyway some new info I only got a couple of days ago is that Tuesday 4/11/2008 is as of this year a public holiday in Melbourne. As to how secret this is not even the locals know. I was arranging for us to visit the NLA in the morning and talking to Catherine at the NLA when she tried to book the time in and couldn't. She had to go away to find out that this is now Family and Community Day in the ACT. Since it is set up for the first tuesday in November rather than the date 4/11 they really should have called it booze and bet day since that is what most of them will be doing.
So the tour of the NLA is now set for Wednesday 5/11 in the morning and below is the schedule they have given me.
9.15 - 10.00 General introduction to library operations
10.00 - 10.10 Tour main reading room, travel to stacks via tube room (Catherine)
10.10 - 10.15 Stacks
10.15 - 10.25 Inter-library loan
10.30 - 10.45 Preservation 10.45 - 11.15 Librarian technicians presentation.
Wednesday afternoon will be the NGA just a couple of hundred meters up the road.
Due to the public holiday on 4/11 the general part of all the venues would still be open on that day but the library staff will generally will not be there so no tours on offer. A couple of options we have is to either just take a general gander through
- the New Parliament House and NFSA,
- visit War Memorial in morning (research room will be closed) and shop or whatever in the afternoon,
- or skip New Parliament House and NFSA altogether and look at some of the other attractions around Canberra on the Tuesday and War Memorial on Thursday as per original plan. Questacon is not just for kids and Cockington green or the Deep Space Communication complex are also fun, whilst if you really want to go wild there is always the zoo.
2 comments:
Who said organising any event is uneventful!!
All part of the process and hopefully whatever is sorted now will be worth it once in Canberra.
I like the photos that you have added Trina, they certainly add atmosphere to the page.
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