2. Acknowledge country
Alice Eather
Yuya Karraburra
I walk between these two worlds
A split life
Split skin
Split tongue
Split kin
Everyday these worlds collide
And I’m living and breathing
This story of black and white
4. School Libraries
Challenged
2017 Softlink survey:
- 62% of respondents feel their library is not
adequately resourced including staffing & budget;
- 23% report a budget decrease
- 22% report a staffing decrease
12. � The collection
� Traditional Literacy &
love of reading
� Information (critical &
Digital) Literacy
� Connections
13. Vision statement:
Our vision is to provide services that connect all learners at Mt Alvernia College to
the literacies needed for living and working in today's world
Mission Statement:
The Mt Alvernia iCentre provides physical and digital spaces and resources, a
specialist team and professional practices that enable our community to experience
and learn the literacies of a connected world.
These essentials underpin our
vision and mission statement:
Motto: learning and literacies for a connected w
15. What about qualifications?
Do they matter? Value for money: teacher first, librarian second
Value in providing broad perspective
Value in giving advice and providing ideas
Value in providing leadership in ICT
Value in teacher librarians qualities
(Lupton, 2016)
What do school principals think?
16.
17. Q2. What principles
and values should be
fundamental to all
school libraries
regardless of context?
19. Love of learning
� Curiosity
� Experimentation
� Risk taking – making mistakes – be
prepared to fail – feel safe – laugh at
ourselves
� Learning space not a testing space
match
the
curriculum
20. User needs
• Find answers & prove ability (grades)
• Multiple copies (fiction & non-fiction print)
• Differentiation (print & digital)
• High interest
• Multiple formats – print – digital – audio - video
• Input into selection
• To exist in the collection
• Space – inviting, easy to navigate & apt
Australian Library and Information Association via Twitter
22. The advisory role of the Teacher-
Librarian cannot be
underestimated and a good
knowledge base is essential to
providing students with books they
want to read (La Marca and
McIntyre, 2006, p.35).
Knowing Readers
YA /Children’s book expert
23. 5.42 million followers on Twitter
3.1 million likes on Facebook page
2.2 million followers on Instagram
3.12 million subscribers to YouTube
channel
The Fault in our Stars reached #1
through pre-orders before it was
published – went on to sell 23 million
copies world wide.
Turtles all the way down was a similar
story – sales were embargoed till
midnight Tue Oct 10 – sold 129 000
copies in the first week.
26. “6.12 It strikes the Committee
that there is a fundamental
need to collate some hard
data to ascertain how many
teacher librarians there are in
Australia’s primary and
secondary schools; to identify
where the gaps are; and to
start to extrapolate the links
between library programs,
literacy (especially digital
literacy, which is as important
as regular literacy and
numeracy skills), and student
achievement” (Commonwealth
27. But what is hard data?
A book borrowed is NOT a book read”
(Helen, 2010 – 2018)
28. Example
Campfire Program
2018 PD Budget:
Working with Dr Lyn Hay as a
Consultant
• Professional knowledge of
gathering evidence
• Keep us on track & accountable
• Provides feedback for CLT &
classroom teachers
• Provides goals for 2019
Operational Plan & budget
priorities
35. Tell your story
2015 Edutech Conference in Brisbane, both
Kate Torney, CEO of the State Library of
Victoria, and Dr Ross J. Todd, Associate
Professor in Library and Information Sciences
at Rutgers University, stressed to delegates
of the Future Libraries stream that if libraries
are to thrive, then they must share their
story.
40. References
ABC Radio. (2017). Universal Basic Income: the Future? [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-rutger-bregman-rpt/10053806
Adams, S. (2009a). What games have to offer: information behavior and meaning-making in virtual play
spaces. Library Trends, 57(4),676 - 693.
Australian Library and Information Association. [@ALIANational].(2018, August 8). Are you joining the webinar
starting in 10 minutes? http://bit.ly/2KAEGfS #ALIA [Tweet]. Retrieved from
https://twitter.com/ALIANational/status/1027372628741259264
Commonwealth of Australia. (2011). School Libraries and Teacher Librarians in 21st Century Australia [PDF].
Retrieved from
https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_representatives_committees?url=ee/sch
oollibraries/report/index.htm
Edmistone, L. (2017, June 22). Always a place for pen and paper in schools’ as school libraries go digital. The
Courier Mail.
41. References
Fell, A. (2018). Generation next: Meet Gen Z and the Alphas [PDF]. In McCrindle Blog. Retrieved from
https://mccrindle.com.au/insights/blog/generation-next-meet-gen-z-alphas/
Ferracane, J. (2017, February). Where have all the school librarians gone? My Child.
Heiss, A. (2018). Growing up Aboriginal in Australia. Carlton: Black Inc.
Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A. J., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the challenges of
participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century [White paper]. Retrieved from MacArthur
Foundation websitehttp://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-
E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF.
La Marca, S. & Macintyre, P. (2006). Knowing readers: Unlocking the pleasures of reading. Carlton, Vic.:
School Library Association of Victoria.
Lupton, M. (2016). Principals’ perceptions of the role of the teacher-librarian. School Libraries Worldwide,
22(1), 49-61.
42. References
Mourdoukoutas, P. [PMourdoukoutas]. (2018, July 21). Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save
Taxpayers Money [Tweet]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/PMourdoukoutas/status/1020654721655242754
Publishers Weekly. (2017). ‘Turtles’ Helps Lift Sales 8% In Early October. Retrieved from
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/75176-turtles-helps-lift-sales-
8-in-early-october.html
Softlink Australia. (2014). Australian School Library Survey [PDF]. Retrieved from
https://www.softlinkint.com/downloads/2014_Softlink_Australian_School_Library_Survey.pdf
Softlink Australia. (2016). The 2016 Softlink Australian and New Zealand School Library Survey [PDF].
Retrieved from https://www.softlinkint.com/downloads/2016_SLS_Participant_Summary.pdf
Softlink Australia. (2017). The 2017 Softlink Australian and New Zealand School Library Survey [PDF].
Retrieved from
https://www.softlinkint.com/downloads/2017_Softlink_Australian_and_New_Zealand_School_Library_Survey_
Report.pdf
Hinweis der Redaktion
Yes I hit a Nun. I would like to think my six year old self was responding to a perceives injustice but I can’t guarantee that I wasn’t just thinking “stuff you Sr Maria - two can play at that game”!
That was 40 years ago & I am positive Sr Maria believed she was acting in accordance with school practices and supporting a home environment that valued discipline. Isn’t it interesting to wonder what practices we do today that in 40 years time might be viewed with distaste or worse the butt of a joke at a library conference😂
School libraries matter - Well presumably as we are a room full of teacher librarians we would all agree that school libraries do matter. And we’re not alone - there are others who believe this too, such as exiting Children’s Laureate, Leigh Hobbs who was quoted in this term’s SCIS publication, Connections, as saying that he is “absolutely convinced about … the value of school libraries and school librarians” (2018, p.1).
But do they – how do we know? Where is the proof? In fact, the article about Hobbs takes three pages but apart from providing a couple of Hobbs’s personal opinions, it never does really tell the reader how the school library is invaluable and irreplaceable. I’m wondering if you all secretly stress, as I do, that not only do I make no difference in the school but that the kids would still learn even if the library wasn’t there. My 17-year-old son like to tease me and say that society doesn’t need libraries anymore that all we really need are free WiFi sticks placed prominently around the place.
Ask participants to think about and list the top 3 services that make them valuable in their school context.
Qualifications – might we remove collections from an essential given that library techs/aides could in fact do that work. Comment on Mandy Lupton’s work that suggests why would a Principal spend budget money on a teacher-librarian if a library tech could do the work. Comment on Anne Weaver’s challenge to get rid of the ‘sacred cows’.
Different from Softlink Survey – No 1 Space – No 2 Collections – No 3 Information Literacy – designers of the survey didn’t even give the choice of fostering a love of reading but provided opportunity for free responses in a field below the survey and reported that many TLs reported this as important to them – it would be super interesting to have school Principals complete some of these questions and to compare the results
Risk taking – Dr Judith Locke as observed the "overparenting" phenomenon emerge in the 15 years she has been treating children and teenagers as well as in her university research
All eyes on the end user (most importantly the student at the core) – classic eg. - we might put a lot of energy into choosing and managing a great LMS designed for information retrieval but if the students don’t find what they need – their experience will be that Google provides better information
Marca, S. L., & Macintyre, P. (2006). Knowing readers: Unlocking the pleasures of reading. Carlton, Vic.: School Library Association of Victoria.
Participation – The literacy of partiipation – those who are illiterate will be the wrong side
Of a new digital divide – use John Green example - Also discuss Joyce Valenza Sally research video
Teach kids to be critical – BS detectors are very important in a digital age that has bought us fake news etc – show
New course being advertised by ASLA