Happy Birthday to the School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) whose members are meeting in Auckland and via video conference this afternoon to celebrate their 10 year anniversary, and to conduct the 2010 AGM. We extend congratulations to current SLANZA President, Senga White and to recently announced President-elect Fiona Mackie, and wish the [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2010
Educational Lending Right (ELR) is an Australian cultural program administered by the Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. ELR scheme makes payments to eligible Australian creators and publishers whose books are held in school libraries. 600 schools have been invited to participate in this year’s Educational Lending Right school library [...]
The SCIS team extends greetings and best wishes to school library staff everywhere as International School Library Day 2010 is celebrated today in Australia. Diversity Challenge Resilience School Libraries Have it All This year’s theme reflects well the reality of students, schools and collections diversifying, of the challenge of new buildings and technologies, and of [...]
You can read the latest issue of Connections online. Copies have been mailed to all Australian schools. There are articles of interest for everyone involved in school library activities. Let us know what you think of this issue. Thinking about ebooks Ebook demonstration at Web 2.0 expo, San Francisco 2010, courtesy of Flickr Stephen Abram [...]
