About Geoff Shera Bibliothequeist

Geoff works in the Brisbane City Council's Mt Ommaney Library which is a public community library which has a multi-language collection.
Geoff is interested in new media and information literacy and literature and filmmaking and green spaces. He has been round site when a few Australian feature and short films and videos have been made and has served as a secretary on a number of community organisations including the Brisbane Independent Filmmakers and (in the the 1970s) Friends of the Earth in Canberra and Centenary Little Athletics.
Geoff has also worked for a number of years as a volunteer tutor to people who do not have english as a first language. He has an arts degree in professional writing from the Canberra College of Advanced Education (with a major in history from studies at the Australian National and Griffith Universities and a Diploma of Library and Information Services.
He has published a few slim literary volumes including Brizbin Boy Canberra Girl and Death on the Dole Australian Poems, songs and stories.
He is also a Justice of the Peace (Qualified) and has produced and directed a number of short motion pictures including Brigitte Bardot of Indoropilly and Citizen Queen a documentary satire about what young people really thought about the absurd notion of an english monarch as the Queen of Australia. He has edited or read for a number of writers, directors and producers including Davida Allen, Glenys Rowe, Gerard Lee, Chris Noonan, Doan Nguyen and A.D.Hope.