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School library spotlight: Campbelltown Performing Arts High School
By Cathy Costello
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
What is your job title, and what does your role entail? As a NSW Department of Education employee my job title is that of teacher librarian. I particularly appreciate that it emphasises our teaching role by putting it first. As an educator, I view my role, first and foremost, as that of a teacher. M
School library spotlight: Macleans College
By Christine Hurst
Issue 110, Term 3 2019
What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I am the library manager and my role is a mixture of behind the scenes and ‘front of house’ tasks. An ordinary day — if there is such a thing in high school libraries — could involve acquisition and purchases, showing a class how to access the
Celebrating Children's Book Week with the CBCA
By Jane O'Connell
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
Australia’s rich history of storytelling is an important part of our culture. It helps us to make sense of who we are and how we live, and the theme for Children’s Book Week 2016 captures this history beautifully. Australia! Story Country opens up a world of opportunity to engage young readers by he
School libraries supporting literacy
By Stephanie Ellis
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
Makerspaces. Innovative learning environments. Online communities. Augmented realities. Digital citizenship. In these times of rapidly changing technologies, increasing amounts of information, and often futile attempts to keep up with the latest trends in school librarianship, it is sometimes handy
Working with pupil library assistants in primary schools
By Lucy Chambers
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
Background I am a member of a team of professional primary school librarians in the Schools Library Service (SLS) in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is in central London and has a mixed demographic, ranging from some of the wealthiest people to some of the po
Developing low-budget literacy programs in schools
By Sue Bursztynski
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
Writer in residence Last year I retired after many years in the library and classroom, and focused mostly on my writing. However, as I was missing my students, I signed up as a volunteer with the Ardoch Foundation. Ardoch is a children’s education charity focused on improving educational outcomes fo
School library spotlight: Yarra Valley Grammar
By Dr Mark Merry, Miriam Meehan
Issue 112, Term 1 2020
Dr Mark Merry Please tell us about the new YarraValley Grammar Research Centre andwhy the school has invested in it? There was a reasonably shallow view at one stage that libraries were going to go out of fashion because everyone could sit at home and do their research online. That misses the point.
Book launches: connecting schools, students and local authors
By Jenna Hildebrand
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
Reading culture As school library staff, we strive every day to establish libraries and resource centres as places that support our students’ reading and information literacy. In our relentless quest to promote reading for pleasure, one major challenge is the structured class context. We need to lo
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 121, Term 2, 2022
Some things are fundamental to providing a library service. Of course, you need a decent collection of resources, but you also need to support students to discover it, explore it and use it to meet their interests and research needs. Now, imagine a student came into your library and asked if you had
School library spotlight: St Joseph’s College, Geelong
By Joy Whiteside
Issue 114, Term 3 2020
The library’s role in the school community is to be connected, multifaceted, flexible and relevant … the library has to be everything to everyone in the school community. What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I am the Library Manager at St Joseph’s College (SJC), Geelong, a Catholi
School library spotlight: Toowoomba State High School
By Lorraine Petersen
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I’m the Textbook Hire Library Coordinator at Toowoomba State High School. I am studying a Diploma of Library and Information Services, and work as a teacher aide four mornings a week in the Textbook Hire division of our library. My work there f
Using the Medium blogging platform to teach critical and digital literacies in art
By Tania Sheko
Issue 110, Term 3 2019
The teacher librarian role is elastic What I love the most about the teacher librarian role is its elasticity; it can assume so many different shapes and play out in a variety of stories. In many cases, teacher librarians have come from classroom teaching and therefore bring their expertise and expe
School library spotlight: Trinity Grammar School, Sydney
By Courtney Nolan, Stefanie Gaspari
Issue 116, Term 1 2021
What is your job title, and what does your role entail? Courtney: Library Services Manager for Trinity Grammar School, Sydney. In my role I take on many of the responsibilities that come with managing the administrative side of our library services. I managed our team of library support staff, and d
School Library Spotlight: Forest Hill College
By Helen Farch
Issue 117, Term 2 2021
The school library: more than just the physical space. What is your job title, and what does your job entail? Forest Hill College (FHC) is a co-educational government secondary school of approximately 580 students based in Burwood East in Melbourne’s east. Our school library is run by two library te
Fathers reading week: a case study for the Great School Libraries campaign
By Lucy Chambers, BAHons; DipLib; MSc; MCLIP
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
Summary The UK Great School Libraries Campaign1 invites school librarians to submit case studies, to demonstrate how their library contributes to teaching and learning in the school. I take you through the process of writing a new case study based on Fathers Reading Week. Note: the word ‘Fathers’ in
School library spotlight: One Arm Point Remote Community School
By Mel Rowsell
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I am Mel, Library Officer at One Arm Point Remote Community School (OAP RCS). This small school of around 130 students is on the tip of the Dampier Peninsula in WA. When I first started working at the school, the library consisted of a few half
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 94, Term 3 2015
usion is a social enterprise that aims to promote 'cultural harmony and well-being for a more cohesive and richer society'. They provide a variety of programs and services for schools and communities in all states and territories to encourage intercultural dialogue.SCIS 1716837 Deaf Society of NSW w
School library spotlight: University High School, Melbourne
By Stephanie Ward
Issue 123, Term 4 2022
1. What is your role and what does your job entail? My job is Head of Library and Research, so most of my work is library management and overseeing the events, programs, services and work of the team. We’re really lucky at Uni High, we’ve got a staff of five; two library technicians and three teache