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To celebrate International School Libraries Day on Monday 25 October, the School Library Association of Victoria invites you to join in an Elluminate session at 11.00am (AEDST) where we will launch the 2012 National Year of Reading.

You are able to find this year's theme for book week and all the necessary merchandise and many ideas that you may implement into this years theme. You can also find the short listed books for this year (eventually)

'The Wrong Book' by Nick Bland NIck Bland is a wonderful author and illustrator. This year, National Simultaneous Storytime is on Wednesday 22nd of May at 11am. NSS is an inspirational event.

This is a performing group for children. Recommended age group of 3 to 7. All of our year preps, ones and twos have found this performance very entertaining and enjoyable. Focus on healthy eating, healthy choices.

In the first post of new regular series about advocating for the importance of the school library and library staff, Catherine Hainstock takes a look at the value of writing a library mission statement.

"This year, I am not worried, I am not stressed, I am not anxious. I know that I have plenty of time to get my reports completed because I already have so much information already typed, personalised and ready to go about my students. I have Evernote."

By developing this wiki with reading lists, information on texts, study guides, rubrics, book trailers, book reviews, directions and general requirements, students in years 9-12 (and their parents) have a head start on the year's required reading for English classes. Well done to Joyce Valenza for supporting her students in this manner.

Some of our students will be doing a unit on Steampunk later this year so I need to know more about the genre. This site may be useful for anyone else who may be developing a unit about this genre.

This article was written by Will Richardson a couple of years ago but will still be revealing reading for anyone still coming to grips with the value of social bookmarking.

Cool! I remember working on history curriculum within my school, beholden to the 'pet' topics of my peers. With this kind of access to class work, it broadens the peer group hugely! Not to mention the multitude of variations within topics...

Ping is a social networking site that makes learning music fun, simple and accessible, and provides creative musical opportunities for middle year school students in Australia.

Whitefriars College teacher librarian Karen Kearney has developed some interesting resources to support learning and teaching.

Thanks to Rhondda Powling, Head of Library at Whitefriars College and School Library Association of Victoria President for allowing a parallel post from her blog about the success of their Book Week activities this year.

Heather Stapleton, the Library Technician at St Joseph's College Geelong has created an excellent Prezi. She explains why she developed the Prezi: "The Prezi has been created to support the Year 9 English unit on Science Fiction."

I found this a great site to help set up my grade this year and to look at what others are doing in their classroom.

"Why good teachers leave teaching"

Interesting article. I have over thirty-five years' continuous experience as a teacher and librarian and am unemployable - I am simply "too expensive" to hire. Why spend $80,000+ on me when you can hire a graduate for tens of thousands less? I have knowledge, experience and skills that would be needed and valued by any school, but the Almighty Dollar rules nowadays. So this "good teacher" has left teaching, even though I still think I have much to offer. I am now studying in a field well away from education and planning a career in my new field. It's a shame that I have left education in this negative fashion, but I'm moving on, hopefully to bigger and better things.