ALIA Schools

ALIA SIG Committee Meeting
2025-11-03 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-16 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney)

Webinar: Your AI conversation is overdue
2025-11-08 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
Your AI conversation is overdue

Education and Artificial Intelligence consultant will discuss the school librarianship landscape through an AI lens.
This talk will explore the current landscape of AI in education (and beyond) and the potential for teacher librarians to be the vanguard of responsible use by staff and students alike. Critical thinking? We’ve been talking about it for ages. Information literacy? Welcome to the party. Much of what the general public (and some academics) say we need to do has already been done in libraries for years.
Let’s explore how AI can help us do that even better.

Promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Through Diverse Collections
2026-03-21 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
Dr Lilly Brown, a proud Gumbaynggirr woman and CEO of Magabala Books, together with Rachael Cosentino, Teacher Librarian at St Andrew’s Cathedral School / Gawura School, will explore best practice in developing collections that genuinely reflect the diverse knowledges, cultures, and perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Their presentation will emphasise cultural safety and racial literacy, offering practical guidance and real examples to help schools align everyday library practice with core professional values.
This webinar will address the following AITSL teaching standard:
Standard 6 – Engage in professional learning with the specific focus on 6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice.
This webinar will support the following ALIA Code of Ethics for the Australian School Libraries clause:
Clause 2 – Human rights, equality, diversity & identity.
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ALIA SIG Committee Meeting
2026-04-27 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-08-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom

Tristan Bancks: captivating young readers, inspiring young writers
2026-05-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
Tristan Bancks saved my life – I read Cop and Robber to disengaged Yr 10 students in a class when they had finished the work the teacher left for them (on narrative writing). They voted not to listen to me read a book and were on the cusp of mutiny, but I read it any way! You could hear a pin drop!
In this session, bestselling author Tristan Bancks shares the tools he uses in the writing process, and in touring his books, to engage both keen and reluctant readers. Tristan’s book Scar Town won both the CBCA award for Younger Readers and the Shadow Judging Prize, voted for by kids. He actively focuses on writing fast-paced, engaging novels that are also personal, layered and peopled with characters that readers can relate to. He has been on the road, visiting schools, libraries and festivals for twenty years and, in this session, he shows the methods that have been most useful in inspiring upper primary and early high school readers to pick up a book. He also takes us behind the scenes on his much-anticipated new novel RAISED BY WOLVES, out 5 May, a standalone follow-up to CBCA Honour Book, Two Wolves.
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Note: The recording of this session will only be available to registered participants for a period of two weeks from the date of provision. It will not be available to download from the ALIA Shop.

Let's get ethical: adapting the ALIA Code of Ethics for your school library
2026-07-25 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
Are you ready to turn ethical theory into library practice? Join us for Let’s Get Ethical, the new ALIA Schools Code of Ethics development series! Spread over six weeks, you will participate in three interactive online sessions, a fortnight apart.
During these sessions, we will dive deep into the ALIA Code of Ethics to help you translate it for your unique school context. Rather than just discussing concepts, you will learn how to curate relevant resources, navigate challenging censorship and collection decisions, and embed sustainable practices into your library. Participants will leave this series with a completed, editable Code of Ethics document that is tailored and ready to use in their school library! Let’s build our solid ground together.
These sessions are not being recorded and a commitment to attend all three sessions is preferred.
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Dynamic Partnerships: Citizen Science and School Libraries
2026-08-01 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
School libraries have great potential to transform learning environments and create real change by empowering young people in their actions for sustainable development. Citizen Science Corners are innovative, interdisciplinary integrations of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) into school libraries. This session explains how the implementation of a Citizen Science Corner has the potential to revolutionise your library space and create significant benefits for students. Participants will be given insight into how engaging and collaborating with science colleagues in your school might be some of the best collaborations they will ever experience.
The session will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
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