Come celebrate Sydney’s
Rare Book Week again!
Sydney is once again celebrating Sydney Rare Book Week
(25 to 29 October) with an exciting free online program this year. Every day at 4 pm, a panel will discuss the importance of books, memorabilia, historical records and collecting, followed by a Q&A session.
Bring your afternoon tea and join us!
You need to register separately for each event
– registration details are provided for each session.
Wednesday 27 October: The Sydney Harbour Bridge:
an Australian icon
Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia’s cultural icons, recognised worldwide. But how much do you actually know about this famous bridge? Join us for this panel discussion with speakers from the University of Sydney, the Powerhouse Museum and Moore Theological College to delve into the bridge’s history: its design, planning and construction, the people involved, the political climate and societal impact. This one-hour online event will feature a panel discussion, followed by ample time for audience questions. Bring your afternoon tea and beverage of choice and join us to be informed and entertained.
Read more about The Sydney Harbour Bridge: an Australian icon
Panel moderator:
Julie Sommerfeldt
Manager, Rare Books and Special Collections, the University of Sydney Library
Panel speakers:
Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Australian History, University of Sydney.
Anni Turnbull
Curator at MAAS and her expertise includes the social history of Sydney and NSW. This includes significant sites of Sydney, and in particular the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Anni aims to incorporate people’s stories in museum and library collections and make them accessible through oral and video histories, exhibitions, web stories and podcasts.
Erin Mollenhauer AALIA(CP) ASAAM
Team Leader, Library & Archives at the Donald Robinson Library, Moore College, where she has worked since 2012. She is responsible for the rare book collection and the Samuel Marsden Archives, a collecting archive focusing on Anglicanism and evangelical Christianity. She holds a Master of Information Studies (Librarianship) from Charles Sturt University, and a Graduate Diploma of Archives and Records Management from Curtin University.
Dr Cameron Logan
Urban and architectural historian and director of the postgraduate program in Heritage Conservation at the University of Sydney. He is currently working on a book on the adaptive reuse of buildings, and developing a project about architecture and the urban crowd. He is the author of Historic Capital: Preservation Race and Real Estate in Washington, DC (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), which was awarded the Society of Architectural Historian’s Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award. He is co-editor of Fabrications: the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.