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 the resilience required by library staff, systems and associations.
It also reminds us that good school libraries deliver positive outcomes in so many areas: cultural diversity, multiliteracies, literature and community learning.
Further information about International School Library Month is available from the International Association of School Librarianship and 2010 Coordinator Marie O’Brien.
A number of celebration events and awards are part of this significant day.
Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year Award 2010
Congratulations to Janice Wilson from Lake Tuggeranong College, ACT for winning the Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year 2010 awarded by the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) and Pledger Consulting (LinksPlus/Weblinks).
Described as a curriculum leader and effective manager in a very complex school library-public library environment, Janice exemplifies the criteria for this award as an exceptional Australian teacher librarian in a school setting whose professional practice has a positive impact on student achievement and information literacy. ASLA describes the role of a teacher librarian as having three key professional specialisations: curriculum leader, information specialist, and information services manager.
ASLA NSW Teacher Librarian of the Year 2010
NSW Teacher Librarian of the Year 2010 is Elizabeth Greef, St Andrew’s Cathedral School. Elizabeth’s citation refers to her work managing the resourcing of new programmes in the school including the International Baccalaureate and Gawura, the school’s indigenous program.
ASLA Tasmania Teacher Librarian of the Year 2010
Tasmanian Teacher Librarian of the Year is Kate Reid, of the Kindergarten – Year 8 Library at The Hutchins School Tasmania
Connect with @katemreid on twitter
Western Australian School Library Association
WASLA is holding an International School Library Day dinner in Subiaco tonight to celebrate the announcement of awards.
WA Teacher Librarian of the Year is Jane Graham, Wesley College, South Perth
WA Library Officer of the Year is Bronwyn Hogg, Helena College
School Library Association of Victoria online
SLAV celebrates today by inviting you to join in an Elluminate online webconferencing session at 11.00am (AEDST – check your time zone here) to launch the 2012 National Year of Reading (NYOR). Get your headset on, follow the link to Elluminate and join Sue McKerracher who will present details of the NYOR and the promotional material that is available for you to use in gaining support and interest at your school.
So how did you spend International School Library Day? We’d love to hear about it.
A representative from The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Librray of Victoria, Andrew McDonald visited our school library. He spoke to our involvement students and other interested students about The Inky awards 2010. The INKYs are Young Adult book awards voted for by students from a Longlist & then a Shortlist through the CYL website “Insideadog”. Students received ‘Inky’ badges and bookmarks as souvenirs of the day