Annual General Meeting Details

10.00 am, 17 October 2009

Bank of Queensland Room, 4th Floor, State Library of Queensland.

Guest speaker:  Dr Helen Klaebe will speak on her work with the SLQ 'Responses to the 2008 Apology’ project.

On the 13th February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples on behalf of the Parliament of Australia. The State Library of Queensland, with assistance from Queensland University of Technology and Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, captured responses to this historic event. ‘Responses to the 2008 Apology’ digitals stories were created as part of a pilot collection with a research team from the Queensland University’s Creative Industries Faculty, led by OHAA member Dr Helen Klaebe, in partnership with Indigenous interviewers and artists. The team included a mix of Indigenous community practitioners/researchers who already use storytelling and new media, but had not made digital stories or recorded oral history interviews. The State Library of Queensland is the only Australian State Library to have undertaken a major role in the collection of digital storytelling. It has led the way with their Queensland Stories digital storytelling program.