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School library spotlight: Northcote High School
By Richard Smallcombe
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
What is your job title and what does your role entail? I’m the library coordinator at Northcote High School. It is structured in two parts. There’s helping students find books, checking books out, general day-to-day, and then there’s also looking after the library budget, collection developmen
What the School Library Survey has taught me
By Jen Sheridan
Issue 117, Term 2 2021
for school libraries. • Australia: Students Need School Libraries ( studentsneedschoollibraries.org.au , Twitter: @NeedSchoolLibs ) • New Zealand: School Libraries Transform ( schoollibrariestransform.org.nz ) • United Kingdom: Great School Libraries ( greatschoollibraries.org.uk , Twitter: @Grea
Connecting through couch co-op: the important role of school libraries for social gaming groups
By Matthew Harrison, Jess Rowlings
Issue 123, Term 4 2022
Looking back at our childhoods, we often talk about the important role played by gaming and gamer culture in our social and personal development. Long before mainstream online play revolutionised the ways people play together, local couch co-op on a PlayStation 2, or sharing a single keyboard on a
Empowering school library staff to navigate the AI frontier
By Dr Kay Oddone
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has received unprecedented attention throughout the world in the past year, instigated by the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. While research on how AI might be used in education has been conducted since the 1970s (Bozkurt et al., 2021), there has been a sha
Students Need School Libraries (and teacher librarians)
By Cherie Bell
Issue 128, Term 1 2024
Students Need School Libraries is a volunteer-run campaign with the purpose of enabling and enthusing relevant stakeholders to advocate for higher quality, well-staffed school libraries in their communities. The committee – which is small in number but mighty in experience – is dedicated to educati