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School libraries transform
By SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa)
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
School libraries across New Zealand are supporting a nationwide campaign to ensure that every child has access to a well-resourced library with a specialist librarian who can help them develop a lifelong love of reading. Many children in schools in Aotearoa do not have that right. SLANZA (School Li
Students Need School Libraries (and teacher librarians)
By Cherie Bell
Issue 128, Term 1 2024
Students Need School Libraries is a volunteer-run campaign with the purpose of enabling and enthusing relevant stakeholders to advocate for higher quality, well-staffed school libraries in their communities. The committee – which is small in number but mighty in experience – is dedicated to educati
The importance of school libraries in the Google Age
By Kay Oddone
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
The Age (Preiss 2014) speak of funding pressures in Australian schools — but this is not just a local phenomenon. ' The calamity of the disappearing school libraries ' (Kachel 2015), published in The Conversation last year, deplores the closure of school libraries and the perceived redundancy of
School libraries enhancing student wellbeing
By Jackie Child
Issue 105, Term 2 2018
f time, home, playground and classroom. It is a safe place where students can come to chill out, meet, talk, study, make and play. For many students, school libraries have always been a place of refuge from the playground or extreme weather. School libraries, like so many public libraries, are ch
School libraries and sustainability
By Katalin Mindum
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
cal solutions to sustainability challenges, both within their schools and in their broader communities. There seem to be three basic areas in which school libraries could be engaging to help achieve the necessary culture change to enable their immediate and broader communities to work towards more
School libraries supporting literacy
By Stephanie Ellis
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
the key factors in effective library programming: teacher collaboration. Below is a summary of the activities and strategies that were shared. How school libraries can support literacy Book of the week Promote a selected book either using your library management system, or by making a quick a
Leigh Hobbs on school libraries and storytelling
By Leigh Hobbs
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
What role, if any, did school libraries play in developing your love of storytelling? When I was a child at school — in the pre-computer and internet early 1960s — the school library was my centre of exploration and discovery. I had friends of course and liked mucking around in the school yard, b
Students need great school libraries
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
In the face of widespread budget cuts and the reduction in qualified staffing of school libraries across the globe, 2018 saw the formation of two grassroots campaigns — Australia’s ‘Students Need School Libraries’ and the UK’s ‘Great School Libraries’. Both campaigns set ambitious, yet important, g
The magic of school libraries
By Belinda Cameron
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
ort staff member are on display. They delight even the most avid Harry Potter fans. With COVID-19 momentarily halting the usual community events in school libraries all over the world, we have had to cancel our Harry Potter Evening. However, as Dumbledore reminds us, ‘Happiness can be found, even
Morris Gleitzman on the uniquely contributive role of school libraries
By Morris Gleitzman
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
schools — something I have been doing for about 30 years. I speak to lots of school library staff, because of my long-held interest in the health of school libraries. Over the last 18 months, this has been particularly so because my predecessor, Leigh Hobbs, made the health of school libraries a sp
New Zealand school libraries respond to COVID-19
By Glenys Bichan
Issue 114, Term 3 2020
ry when no-one can enter it? The lockdown made us all reflect on our practice and on the questions, ‘Who are we?’ and more importantly, ‘Why are we?’ School libraries are a place of transformation for our students and our staff. Students can flourish, grow and explore there. How do you provide that
The positive potential of ebooks within school libraries
By Trish du Temple
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
er-resourced and under pressure, struggling to service the increasing number of students seeking help, and at risk of burnout themselves. I believe school libraries can help. They have an opportunity to provide resources to improve students’ mental wellbeing, strengthen resilience and better equip
School libraries: miracles and madness
By Jackie French
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
The first school I went to burnt down. This was not my fault. The library didn’t burn down, because there wasn’t one — just a classroom with a shelf of books. I won third place in the lottery to read one of the two or three new books donated each year: The Magic Pudding . Three weeks later, it was
Working together to ensure student access to high-quality school library services
By Holly Godfree
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
ur students and teachers to higher achievements. Right now, in a time of fear, change, doubt, and division around the world, we can argue that strong school libraries are a balm and a bolster to proactively help young people and educators to best meet the challenges we face. And, yet, high-performin
Fathers reading week: a case study for the Great School Libraries campaign
By Lucy Chambers, BAHons; DipLib; MSc; MCLIP
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
Summary The UK Great School Libraries Campaign1 invites school librarians to submit case studies, to demonstrate how their library contributes to teaching and learning in the school. I take you through the process of writing a new case study based on Fathers Reading Week. Note: the word ‘Fathers’
Improving Retrievability in School Libraries
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
use of SCIS Authority Files in a library software system is designed to deal with this problem and so improve retrievability of resources by users in school libraries. The library software system may use the data from SCIS Authority Files to assist the user in a catalogue search by inserting two k
EAL/D in school libraries
By Nicki Moore, Martin Gray
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
t being the most common form of assistance. If these numbers are reduced to only government schools, that is 81 of 98 schools, 82%. This shows that school libraries often play a role supporting LOTE students in a range of roles. As a general trend, the more EAL/D students a school has, the more se
On-Line Services for School Libraries
By Lance Deveson, Beverly Pianta
Issue 2, Term 2 1992
general science and geography journals. Many of the journals indexed are excellent yet inexpensive products of the CSIRO and are readily available in school libraries. It covers topics such as environment, earth science, astronomy and technology with an Australian emphasis. Sage can be accessed vi
Easy access to library services: public and school libraries working together
By Adie Johansen
Issue 116, Term 1 2021
Since 2015 we’ve been modernising our library service for the Manawatū community and embracing change. Our vision is simple: to be ‘the best little library in New Zealand’. A library is more than just an avenue for books. Libraries are community hubs where you can learn, create, feel safe and eng
School libraries then and now - in the digital environment
By Lance Deveson
Issue 120, Term 1 2022
Once again I feel very privileged to have been invited by the Connections staff to write an opinion piece. This time it is on how school libraries have changed over the past 30 years and how they might look in the rapidly evolving digital environment. How time flies when you’re having fun! Thirty