Congratulations 

Nareeda Tillman!

 
Nareeda has been named the Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year 2009.

Nareeda teaches at Mindarie Senior College and is the first Western Australian Teacher to win this award.

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The twitter stream from the ASLA 2009 conference continues.

Many conference attendees tweeted highlights from presentations and workshops. Pru Mitchell [@pru on twitter] set up a twapperkeeper to collect and archive all the tweets using the hashtag #asla2009.

The tweets [clipped below] give links to Mark Treadwell’s and Dr Michael Stephens notes to support their presentations and concurrent presentations.

ASLA_National Mark Treadwell’s notes for keynote #asla2009 Paradigm shift for learning http://www.i-learnt.com/

ASLA_National Concurrent session Dr Michael Stephens #asla2009 http://bit.ly/18n29l Tech trends for school librarians

ASLA_National Dr Michael Stephens keynote #asla2009 Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Address = The Hyperlinked School Library http://bit.ly/3dLGLn

ASLA_National Check images #asla2009 http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=asla2009 If any delegates have pics then upload to Flickr with asla2009 tag

Use the twapperkeeper link above to read all of the 1000+ tweets from the conference.

Thanks to Niels Damgaard (twitter.com/NielsD) for tweeting news from the IASL Conference and providing access to podcasts from the conference.

Embedded here, courtesy of Neils and MediaFire, are links to podcasts of Carol Kuhlthau’s (Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, Brunswick New Jersey – USA) keynote address [5.6MB download]

More podcasts, including keynote addresses by  Laura_Kaspari , Gino_Rocaglia and Misako_Ito and Niels_Damgaard’s_Session -_Education_in_Norway, as well as other workshop sessions, are available  from nielsdamgaard’s Shared Files / Podcasts from IASL2009

Tuesday Sept 15th: Please note changed url – see Niels Damgaard’s comment below.

Those of you who have followed our Book Week Safari offerings will be aquainted with Geraldine.

Thanks to Marian Birtwistle  (Applecross SHS library) for creating Gertie – and for sharing photos of their displays.

Please send photos of your display to add to the gallery.

Geraldine Giraffe on a “Book Safari”

To help celebrate Children’s Book Week this year the team here at CMIS Evaluation- (really it was clever Jean),  decided to decorate a book trolley so we can enter a competition in the USA held through Unshelved, the Library Comic Strip website. We plan to take our trolley – “Geraldine Giraffe” on Safari through our building to promote Book Week.

Why don’t you “Dress up Your Book Trolley” and let us know about it – a great T&E exercise and book promotion at the same time. With the help of a post tube, some sponge packaging and some animal print material – Geraldine was created. We have thought about an elephant too – it may yet eventuate.

We’ve uploaded Geraldine onto the CMIS Eval Flickr page where there are other photos available to view and use.

On the CMIS Evaluation page there’s information about how you can really make an impact during Book Week.

This is a slidecast created by Kathryn Greenhill of her presentation at Educause Australasia 2009

Educause Australasia 2009, [Perth Western Australia 5 May 2009] session papers are available online from this conference webpage.

The CMIS School Library Support pages provide library staff with information about normal school library operating processes as well as background information relevant to the purpose of the school library.

International Children’s Book Day – April 2nd

The International Board on Books for Young People initiated Children’s International Book day in 1967 and chose the date of the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen – one of the world’s best loved classic children’s authors. Each year an international section is chosen to sponsor the event and for 2009 it is Egypt.

For information about the poster and this years’ message from Hani D. El-Masri, follow this link
EBBY(Egypt)

This year’s poster (above) is available from the section office.  email: s.magoud@gmail.com

Teachers can access the CMIS Resource Bank to discover books suitable for young students.

Image used with permission

Pete the Sheep is this year’s story.

It’s time now for your school to register this year’s storytime event.

Put the date in your diary – May 27th @ 11am. At the ALIA website you will find ideas for fun activities in the lead up to the day.

Written by popular childrens’ author,  Jackie French, Pete the sheep was first published in 2004. Bruce Whatley’s expressive illustrations give the book a larrikin flavour which appeals to younger readers.

The book tells the story of Sean the shearer who instead of a sheepdog to help him, he has a ’sheep sheep’ called Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town and sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style.

Teachers can utilise this book as part of a farming topic. The CMIS database has other books to add to the topic.

The book was a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Picture Book in 2005.

There are often queries re weeding the school library, especially at the end of the year, at which time many school libraries engage in this activity. Some library staff members operate on the principle of weeding a section at a time over the course of the whole year. You could establish your own schedule or use one ready-made such as the Heinemann Raintree (USA) Weed of the Month. Each month a section is designated for weeding, along with criteria to be considered to assist in the weeding. Replacement titles are suggested, and though these are biased towards Heinemann-Raintree Library titles, other publishers do get a small look-in. You can join the emailing list if you wish to be notified as each new weed comes around. It’s worth considering.

CMIS Cataloguing and CMIS Evaluation have a page about Weeding on their School Library Support website.

This year the State Library is creating two areas for students in year 11 and 12 studying for exams. A large selection of past T.E.E papers and study guides will be made freely available for students to use in the library.

photo by dcJohn

Who: Year 11 and 12 students What: Two study areas. « Quiet Study Space, 3rd Floor, Past TEE papers only « Group study space, 2nd Floor, Extensive range of Study Guides When: September and October Where: Only a 5 minute walk from the Perth Central Train Station, next to the Museum and Art Gallery. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am to 8.00pm Fridays 9.00am to 5.30pm Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 5.30pm

Reminders for students…

« Free wireless internet access is now available, students may bring laptops or other portable devices and access the internet for free

« All resources need to be used in the State Library. If students would like to borrow any items they should access their local Public Library or school library

« If students want to photocopy anything they will need money and a card with a metallic strip on the back (Medicare, bank card etc)

« Backpacks and bags need to be stored in lockers (costs $1, refundable) at the entrance

« Ask! Ask! Ask! A librarian for help if they need it!!!!!

Please email Emily.Patterson@slwa.wa.gov.au[no spam] - remove no spam before sending – if you would like copies of flyers posted or emailed to your school. Include your name, department if required, school address and the number of flyers you would like.

This is a great opportunity to promote the State Library as a learning space for now and in the future!