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School library spotlight: Nemarluk School

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 135, Term 4, 2025

started exploring how to build a library, what has it revealed to you about the complexity of cataloguing and library systems, and about the role of libraries in schools more broadly? Yvette I’m definitely a reader, I love books. I go to the public library, I’m part of book clubs, and for m

Teacher librarian leadership and generative AI: An opportunity for leading innovation

By Matthew Boggon

Issue 130, Term 3, 2024

eb 2.0, and is therefore worthy of providing statewide support to develop teachers’ AI skillsets. The implications for this AI revolution on school libraries and teacher librarians are extensive. These implications, succinctly discussed by Oddone (2023), confront issues such as the accuracy of inf

School library spotlight: University High School, Melbourne

By Stephanie Ward

Issue 123, Term 4 2022

bounce ideas off one another as it creates a sense of community and growing something and setting goals together which I can appreciate that not all libraries get the opportunity to have. My role can be more administrative than some of the other teacher librarians on my team. I’m responsible for

Metadata to enhance diversity, connection and belonging

By Catherine Barnes

Issue 123, Term 4 2022

School libraries are dynamic, innovative and exciting places, but they are also a place for diversity, connection and belonging. Ben Chadwick (2020) explains: ‘Some things are fundamental  to providing a library service. Of course, you need a decent collection of resources, but you also need to sup

School library spotlight: The King's School Senior Library

By The King's School Library team

Issue 127, Term 4 2023

s, one librarian and one library assistant. The library team is overseen by the Dean of Digital Learning and Innovation, who is responsible for three libraries across the King’s Schools’ campuses. In the Senior School, the teacher librarians’ role involves teaching wide reading lessons and promoti

Supporting Australian book creators

By Alison Lester

Issue 110, Term 3 2019

I love school libraries and it makes me feel sad and angry when I hear about schools closing their libraries. The library should be the engine room of every school, a place where students and teachers can go and be expertly steered to the information they need. And, this information might be digi

ELR: big win for Aussie authors

By Amanda Shay

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

Have you ever thought about how lucky Australian school children are to have to access Australian-made content in their school libraries? One copy of an Australian-made book may have been purchased for your school library and can now be borrowed hundreds of times. Yet, the author was only paid

Supporting Australian book creators

By Daniel Hughes

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

ross Australia. These payments compensate them for income potentially lost as a result of their books being available for loan in educational lending libraries. As numerous Australian authors and illustrators have attested, ELR enables them to continue doing what they do best — creating great books!

Supporting Australian book creators

By Ruilin Shi (with thanks to Jeannie Baker)

Issue 111, Term 4 2019

stralian book creators, including Jeannie Baker, lose income through the free multiple use of their work in Australian public and educational lending libraries. That is why the two Australian Lending Right Schemes (ELR and PLR) are so important to all of them. The Educational Lending Right (ELR) s

ELR interview with Kim Brunoro

By Education Services Australia

Issue 123, Term 4 2022

y 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 position

Supporting Australian book creators

By Sally Rippin

Issue 115, Term 4 2020

ces, so most of the time they were packed away in storage or wistfully handed down to a family friend. Sometimes we lived in countries where public libraries stocked few books in English or we knew we wouldn’t be there long enough to bother getting library cards. This is where I would rely on scho

Educational Lending Right

By Article by Education Services Australia (ESA)

Issue 136, Term 1, 2026

ian literature community. Each year, ELR surveys schools to understand how many copies of Australian book titles are available for loan in our school libraries. The data is provided to the Australian Government’s Office for the Arts – data which, in turn, ensures Australian authors, illustrators a

ELR Interview with Alice Pung

By Article by Education Services Australia

Issue 124, Term 1 2023

Alice Pung is one of Australia’s most-loved writers; her books appear in libraries around Australia. Alice’s first novel, the prize-winning Laurinda, was recently adapted for the stage and presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company. Alice spoke to Connections about libraries, Laurinda, her most r

The story of Story Store

By Joanna Baynes

Issue 127, Term 4 2023

Joanna Baynes began her library career while still a student at school, then moved on to public libraries, before finding her dream job at King’s School, working with and for boys aged between 4 and 13 years. I loved my 35 years at King’s. Life was always busy and challenging, but in the back of

Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25: Sally Rippin

By Interview article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 129, Term 2 2024

that this might prompt an overhaul in our education system and hopefully mean that all children will get the teaching they need. With some school libraries experiencing budget and staffing reductions in 2024, as well as some being dissolved into classroom libraries, do you believe libraries and

The Great Aussie Book Count 2021-22

By Michelle Harvey

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

This up-to-date library book count data ensures Australian creators and publishers can receive compensation for the free use of their books in school libraries through the Australian Government’s ELR program. Five minutes is all it takes! And don’t let the name fool you: ELR is not your typical ‘s

Get ready to count …

By Article by Education Services Australia (ESA)

Issue 134, Term 3, 2025

llects up-to-date library book count data to ensure Australian creators and publishers receive compensation for the free use of their books in school libraries. Education Services Australia (ESA) assists the government by collecting this data from Australian schools. …the more you support authors t

The future is bright

By Authored by Future You and SCIS

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

ills 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 Professo

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 134, Term 3, 2025

ddressing this. It will be interesting to see if he and the department are open to funding training for school library staff and ensuring that school libraries in South Australian government schools have trained library staff. As well as a wonderful opening address the conference included engaging

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 125, Term 2 2023

ts (ELR) survey each year? ELR is a great way of ensuring that Australian creators are rewarded for their efforts from books which are held in school libraries. Each year ESA works with the Office of the Arts to ensure that they have accurate data to base the ELR payments on. Thank you to those sc