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International forum for people interested in promoting effective school library programs as viable instruments in the educational process. IASL also provides guidance and advice for the development of school library programs and the school library profession. IASL works in cooperation with other professional associations and agencies.

Library 2.016 : Privacy in the Digital Age Free online conference March 16/17

2014 NMC Horizon Report, Library Edition. Top tech trends for our industry.

"It took four years to hit 21 billion tweets. Now Twitter users generate nearly half a billion a day, and the Library of Congress will be archiving and indexing all of them."

The new challenge for school libraries: building a space for shared and collaborated learning.

"When we are active online we are creating our own digital footprints. This area of the website will help you understand what that means and will link you to tools and resources for the ethical use of online media." This Library Learning Commons provides good information on Digital Conduct, Copyright and more

NSW Ed policy library has some good guidance on policy development for schools, particularly - https://policies.education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/associated-documents/digital-devices-guide.pdf

What is transliteracy and what does it have to do with libraries?

Bright Ideas is a blog from the School Library Association of Victoria featuring posts on a wide variety of topics including digital citizenship. Help support and develop your DLE with this valuable blog.

"Edmodo provides consistency in teaching subjects from year to year. We don't have have books for my classes, so everything is teacher created or scavenged off the internet. As a result, things "disappear," including saved documents. The solution was to save and organize my documents are always in my Edmodo Library. I am finding that my classes are MUCH more consistent and I don't lose documents."

Issues with ebooks and publishers.

This is one of a group of YouTube videos explaining transliteracy and the role of teacher librarians in teaching transliteracy skills. You may also like to view the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk4Cw8vrDuM

"That was the question I asked my students this fall and the answer I got surprised me. Students increasingly aren't going to the premium information services we've set up for them through our school library. They might not even be inclined to go elsewhere on the Web. Instead they often turn to Apps for their information. From The Elements to NASA, from National Geographic to the National Science Foundation there is a wealth of credible content in the App Store, but if students are using this information in an academic setting how do we help them correctly document and cite these sources? "This is a case of technology being ahead of the Modern Language Association," said my colleague Stephen Freeborn, longtime English teacher, but together with our school librarian we found a work-around hack that gets the job done."

"A friend request shows up on your Facebook page from a student in your library club. Do you confirm or ignore it? When a student is involved, this ordinarily straightforward decision can be trickier than you think depending on your school district's board policy. "

This is a general library resource and most may have seen it on the OZTL_Net but I'm sharing it just in case.