ALIA Schools

Advocacy + School Libraries = Influence
2024-08-03 09:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Sydney)
In today’s educational climate school libraries are still advocating for their relevancy. So how does the school library ascertain its relevancy? Some key ways are by providing successful services and programs, ensuring positive learning experiences for students, knowing client needs, communicating with key stakeholders and supporting the school’s curriculum.
Join us for an engaging half-day seminar hosted by ALIA Schools SIG, where we delve into the ways in which school libraries are actively contributing to advocacy efforts, ensuring their influence is felt throughout educational institutions.
This seminar is for primary and secondary teacher librarians and others involved in or supporting learning and teaching programs within a school library context.
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ALIA Schools SIG Committee Meeting - Exec
2024-07-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom

ALIA Schools SIG Committee Meeting
2024-06-15 09:30 - 23:30, 2024-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom

Webinar - Fostering a passion for reading
2024-05-25 09:30 - 22:30 | Zoom
Reading is an essential focus area for all school libraries. Join ALIA Schools’ second webinar for 2024 to explore how three practitioners are utilising social media, collection development strategies and wider reading programs to support the development of reading skills and foster a lifelong love of reading in their schools.
Our speakers include:

Helen Farch, Library Technician at Forest Hill College, VIC
Rosie Maher, Librarian at Wenona School, NSW
Karen Eyre, Teacher Librarian at Brisbane Boys’ College, QLD

This webinar is for all primary and secondary school library staff.

ALIA National Conference; Adelaide
2024-05-06 | Adelaide Convention Centre North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia, Adelaide Convention Centre North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
The ALIA National conference is just a few days away and the program looks fantastic. For those who are attending, we have identified some fantastic panels and presentations relating to schools:

Forging future libraries: Creative collaborations for the sustainability of school libraries;
Transforming Schools Engagement Through Partnerships; Generated AI in the School Library Context;
Citizen Science Corner: Involving your Library Community in Solving Big Questions Using Science, and Ideas, Innovations, and
Initiatives for your School Library. (Otherwise known as the best of the best for you to take and adapt).

For those who are not attending, even reading the overview is of each session is inspirational and thought provoking!
Note there is also a schools meet up on the Tuesday – Morning Tea 7th May. and an opportunity to visit Endeavour College’s Innovation Centre on Thursday afternoon.
Monday May 6 – Thursday May 9, 2024
Adelaide Convention Centre, SA
Full program here

Webinar : Censorship in a Changing World
2024-03-16 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom
Libraries are increasingly having to address issues regarding censorship and challenged to justify some of the materials in their collections. School libraries are not immune and need to be prepared to respond should the need arise. ALIA Schools’ first webinar for 2024 will delve into this important topic.
Catherine Barnes, Teacher Librarian at Endeavour College in SA, will explore how censorship is impacting school libraries and the ways that staff can be proactive in managing potential challenges.
Trish Hepworth, Director of Policy and Education at ALIA, will provide an overview of the issues that libraries are facing concerning censorship and highlight some of the resources that ALIA has available to assist.
This webinar is for all primary and secondary school library staff.

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ALIA SIG Committee Executive meeting
2024-03-07 19:00 - 21:00

ALIA SIG Committee meeting
2024-02-10 09:00 - 23:30

ALIA Schools SIG meeting
2023-11-18 09:30 - 11:30

ALIA Schools Committee Meeting
2023-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
