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Article in the Australian Teacher Magazine with Dr Jill Abelln who talks about the practicalities and benefits of setting up a digital school library at The Hutchins School, Hobart.

What interests me is not just the explosion of the printed word but the inspirational library spaces created to curate them.

"In order to make this program grow, students will have to take a role in terms of creating and managing their badges. Of course, we will be there to guide the students, but it will require students to be a little more creative with their time in the library. We feel this will be a positive program to help student learn time management skills, as well as increase their reading throughout the school year."

This is a research model for teaching information literacy through research projects at school.  We need to consider adopting a research model for our school and implementing across 7-13.

Mindset for School Library Innovators: Characteristics of a Transformative Leader - Joyce Valenza

Softlink's 2016 Report

"People no longer have to come to a library to get information ...so the library has to get people coming in for different reasons. Students need somewhere to socialize, create things and collaborate."

ALIA Schools promotes the interests of school libraries and teacher librarians, provides opportunities for professional development, lobbies for school libraries with state and local groups, liaises with other groups, identifies and analyses current trends in teacher librarianship, and maintains the profile of teacher librarianship within ALIA.

Cathy, thanks for bookmarking this. The SLANZ journal is great reading and the issuu format is very cool. The articles on 'Content Curation' are all interesting to me, esp Judy Connell's. I'm not sure that content curation is the new black, rather a rebranding of what librarians and TLs have traditionally done. A paper based 'pathfinder' may seem anachronistic but they still have a place as tool to conmunicate / market/ educate. Of course, I also support Judy's position on the opportunity to for Web 2.0., apps and a range of digitals tools to curate content to communicate / market/ educate our students in developing 21st century skills. I'm not sure that 'content curation' the new black but it most definitely has synergy!

Awesome wiki of resources for advocacy and frugal tips for school libraries.

This wiki showcases practical ways that librarians can incorporate the ever expanding world of Web 2.0 technology into library related lessons and activities.

Jennifer LaGarde's library collaboration page and planner.

Library IWB resources

Excellent annual report aligned with Iowa library standards.