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School library spotlight: Mercy College, Coburg
By Anne Girolami
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
ing students and staff use the library and seeking their feedback on how to improve the services or programs, as well as keeping abreast of trends in school libraries, is important to enable the Library Team to deliver effectively. Are there any current issues or challenges facing your library? Ho
The future is bright
By Authored by Future You and SCIS
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
STEM skills like never before. How can schools foster a greater understanding of the possibilities of working in STEM for girls, and what role can school libraries play in that education? As part of a two-part special on primary schools and STEM, Connections spoke with astrophysicist and author P
ELR interview with Kim Brunoro
By Education Services Australia
Issue 123, Term 4 2022
y Survey provides up-to-date library data that ensures Australian creators and publishers can receive compensation for the free use of their books in school libraries. Why is it important for school library staff to participate in ELR if they’re invited? School library staff are in an important p
Love and Autism
By Kay Kerr
Issue 125, Term 2 2023
to not just neurodiversity, but diversity in general? I’ve actually just started my Master of Children’s Librarianship and I’m the biggest fan of school libraries. I can still vividly picture my primary school library. It was incredible. It had this sunken reading den that the librarians and the
The DANZ Childrens Book Award
By Kate Foster
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
‘ASLA is thrilled to be a supporting partner of the DANZ Awards. We’re particularly excited as this will not only be an award but also a resource for school libraries to choose books with positive representation.’ The judging process aims to highlight books offering the very best and most accurate
1,000 reasons to support Australian book creators
By Jackie French
Issue 97, Term 2 2016
Publicity Manager | HarperCollins Publishers Australia Email: [email protected] [1] Estimated through an annual, national survey of school libraries. Eligible creators will receive an annual payment if their estimated book count is 50 books or more, and the payment is $100 or more.
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 97, Term 2 2016
Brisbane and Perth in June. Resource management in schools Our New Zealand workshops gave me the chance to see some of the innovation going on in school libraries. At SCIS, we’ve become really interested in how you manage your school resources, whether they are in the cloud, on the network, in t
From the desk of a SCIS cataloguer
By Mavis Heffernan
Issue 95, Term 4 2015
The SCIS cataloguing team regularly source, receive, and catalogue a range of print and electronic resources suitable for use in school libraries. Electronic resources include websites, apps, and ebooks, and are available for SCIS subscribers as easily downloadable files using the Special Order Fil
Bring the teachers in: enticing teachers into the library
By Brett Moodie
Issue 90, Term 3 2014
nd in turn, achieve greater patronage from staff and students. These new initiatives were obviously supplementary to the traditional strategies that school libraries use to stimulate engagement: blog posts, participating in staff meetings, sorting resources for departments, and working with classes
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
Perhaps the most obvious one is the departure of Pru Mitchell as SCIS Manager. Who could possibly replace Pru, a veteran and acknowledged guru in the school libraries industry? Well, I thought I might give it a go. My name is Ben Chadwick. I have been at ESA since January 2012, initially working wit
Supporting Australian book creators
By Laura Armstrong, Gus Gordon
Issue 92, Term 1 2015
ts. With your help, authors and book creators will receive compensation for income potentially lost as a result of copies of their book being held in school libraries. Feedback from participants The feedback from participants is valuable information to identify areas where we can improve our pro
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 34, Term 3 2000
11 /pubs/man ifest.htm The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and UNESCO have . cooperated in presenting a concise manifesto on school libraries that should be read by Teacher Librarians. Content includes a mission statement, legislation, goals, staffing and management. SCIS 10
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
ring many fascinating aspects of Science, these links would reward further investigation by Science teachers or those with an interest in Science. School Libraries: Empowering Learning http://www.dse.nsw.edu.au/stand.cgi/staff/ F1.0/F1.8/index.htm Developed for Teacher Librarians in NSW stat
Bollards to you too: ASLA XVI Conference Report
By Nigel Paull, Wendy Smith, Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
ck, both highlighted the ways in which libraries represent and are custodians of local and national culture. They touched on what this might mean for school libraries. Separate sessions by Keith Gove (Curriculum Corporation) and Ashley Freeman (Charles Sturt University) identified the centrality of
The Gold Coast campus of Griffith University and Ipswich City Council both answer the plea of schools...
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
an get action and lobbying should be directed through your state branch of ASLA or contact the national president Norma Jeffrey on (09) 2644100. ALIA School Libraries Section national president Anne Plowman (Fax: 02 5641083) is also prepared to look at the issue. From past Letters to the Editor ther
Letters to the Editor
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 11, Term 4 1994
a: ALIA Schools section, Resource Centre Teachers Association (an association of the South Australian Institute of Teachers) and the South Australian School Libraries Association. We meet as a joint committee to share ideas and lobby as one voice for teacher-librarians in South Australia. At the l
What's New
By Katrina Kolt
Issue 11, Term 4 1994
Herald Sun on CD-ROM The Herald Sun on CD-ROM is a valuable product for school libraries. It provides full text searching of the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun, and is updated quarterly. At a time when the provision of current information is imperative, this CD-ROM certainly overcom
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
and the Arts' Educational Lending Right project. We launched a new product, the SCIS Authority Files, which has been received with much enthusiasm by school libraries. In November 2000, the Curriculum Corporation Board endorsed a strategic plan for SCIS for 2001-2002. We have three major goals The
ELR, or the super fund you have when you don’t have a super fund
By Nadia Wheatley
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
s a count of their total book holdings, and can be completed in just a few clicks. The survey creates a national estimate of holdings in Australian school libraries, which is then used to recompense registered book creators for having their work freely accessible in schools. Participation is highl
Genre wars
By Martin Gray
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
library has moved to sorting its fiction collection by genre and has reported a 20 per cent increase in borrowing. Naturally, this has interested the school libraries in town. I decided to run a poll to see whether making the change was worth it for our school. Twenty-six per cent of the 100 respo