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School Library Spotlight: St Stephen's School
By Lise Legg
Issue 120, Term 1 2022
y officers – most working on a part-time basis. I am responsible for budgets, staffing, acquisitions including digital, and I also take a few digital literacy, information literacy and reading classes on one campus. Our very able team of teacher librarians collaborate with classroom teachers to ensu
Building a reading culture: A selection of articles from FYI and Synergy
By Pat Pledger
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
site (researchgate.net/profile/Margaret-Merga-2) where I found many useful articles. ‘Anatomy of a dissertation: What Emily discovered about gendered literacy’ by Carol A. Gordon (2015) also emphasised the importance of free voluntary reading but advised not to label books according to boy or girl i
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
ts will be absorbed by the visual presentation, and teachers will appreciate the range of quality material available. SCIS no. 1764544 Indigenous Literacy Foundation www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au ILF is a charity that aims to address the literacy levels of children in remote Abor
Issue 75 Summary
By Editor
Issue 75, Term 4 2010
ni Mehta, Education Services Australia New and revised subject headings Pam Kadow, Education Services Australia Digital participation, digital literacy and schools Cassie Hague and Ben Williamson, via Curriculum Leadership Journal School libraries: Making a difference Kerry Neary, via Cu
Issue 70 Summary
By Editor
Issue 70, Term 3 2009
llege Learning and Teaching Resource Centre, VIC Seven skills students desperately need Meris Stansbury, eSchool News Independent learning and literacy Via Curriculum Leadership Journal Development of a subject specialist library: GTAV Orbis Library Libby Hillman, GTAV Librarian Websi
Issue 48 Summary
By Editor
Issue 48, Term 1 2004
The Book Bunker Jenny Katauskas, Book Bunker Books of the Future Ben Haywood, via The Age SCIS news Release of Mathematics/Numeracy and Literacy Online Content Margery Hornibrook, The Le@rning Federation SCIS 2004 Welcome Anne Camfield, SCIS Discovering Democracy: Resources in
Issue 38 Summary
By Editor
Issue 38, Term 3 2001
ware Package Steven Haby, SCIS SCIS Agency Profile – Victoria Mavis Heffernan, Statewide School Library Support Centre, VIC School Libraries, Literacy Week and the Let’s Read Expo Mary Ellen Ray, DEET Cataloguing News
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ALIA Merit Award Congratulations to Michelle Ellis, Senior Curriculum Advisor. Library and I nformation Literacy, with the NSW Department of Educat i on and Training (Michelle is also the Manager of the New South Wales SC IS
With ASLA '97 but a year away, Celia Otley is out to entice delegates to the Northern Territory
By Celia Otley
Issue 18, Term 3 1996
s Conference will be ASLA with a difference as we are combining with the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and the Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA). Quite coincidentally it is the Northern Territory's turn to host all three conferences in 1997! As we are all f
New Zealand News
By Jenny Carroll
Issue 21, Term 2 1997
nference in Wellington, scheduled for July 25 and 26. Speakers include Mary K. Chelton co-founder of Voice of Youth Advocates and Sam Edwards, visual literacy expert from the University of Waikato. The NZLIA Conference will be held in Wanganui on the 16, 17 and 18 of October. Of particular interes
The Ever-Rising Popularity of Graphic Novels
By Michael Jongen, Helen Kain
Issue 125, Term 2 2023
ovels can be successfully used across the curriculum and arguing that teacher librarians need to advocate for their value. She illustrated how visual literacy has become an important part of the English Curriculum and how graphic novels can add value to the school library collection. Karen supplied
School library spotlight: Campbelltown Performing Arts High School
By Cathy Costello
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
rmation landscape and the information needs of the school community. Teacher librarians have recognised the need to provide students with information literacy and critical thinking skills to cope with the deluge of available information online. As information specialists, this places teacher librari
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
t banter they asked me what it meant to be a librarian in the age of Google. My answer — that the need for resource curation, information and digital literacy, and knowledge management was greater than ever — came as no surprise to them. They instantly comprehended that this age represents not a dim
Brisbane Cath. Ed. Skills teachers with ‘C.L.I.C.ed’
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
Since the beginning of 1994 Brisbane Catholic Education have conducted Computer Key Teacher training courses to enable the presentation of a Computer Literacy Inservice Course to school personnel. On present numbers, by the end of 1995 this course will have trained more than 200 Key Teachers from 10
Making Sense
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 21, Term 2 1997
His paper is titled Sense: the Final Frontier . Meaning, or sense, is at the heart of literacy, English teaching and all structurings of knowledge and thus provides an obvious focus for the conference's language day, however, it is one of the least understood and therefore most unsettling topics i
ASLA Conference and Awards 2023
By Australian School Library Association
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
e tours of local school libraries and bookshops, as well as a selection of masterclasses. The main conference will include sessions on topics such as literacy, dynamic spaces, and key skills for future learning, and will feature two keynote speakers, Lee Crockett and Dr Margaret Merga. Lee Crockett
School library spotlight: Cerdon college
By Nancy Sylaprany
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
authors to read, and expanding their reading interests. I also work more intensively with six English classes in relation to students with identified literacy needs, and I work with classes across Key Learning Area (KLAs) with inquiry and research tasks. This may involve developing library guides or
School Library Spotlight: Tarneit P-9 College
By Susan Grieve
Issue 128, Term 1 2024
oom, providing materials and resources that enhance the curriculum and teaching strategies,’ she states. Central to the library’s role is promoting literacy and a love for lifelong learning. Susan is passionate about creating programs and initiatives that engage students with reading and learning.
Setting yourself up for success in Term 1 as a teacher librarian
By Serena Bourke
Issue 136, Term 1, 2026
during the Term 1 Staff Development Day — even half an hour has proven invaluable to show current staff what resources are available for curriculum, literacy and whole-of-school information needs (NSW Department of Education, 2021). These sessions can often spark “aha” moments when planning units f
What the School Library Survey has taught me
By Jen Sheridan
Issue 117, Term 2 2021
rk with the teacher librarian I’d like the school to build intentional, curriculum-based teaching programmes that incorporate information and digital literacy, literary competencies, future learning skills (21st-century skills), and inquiry learning.’ – Australia 2020 ‘We live in a digital world