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Pru Mitchell eT@lking Learning @ your library

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What can your library do to enhance teaching and learning? Facing challenges of digital literacy, digital content, e-books and equitable access to information, libraries are at the forefront of addressing key educational and social issues of ICT and change.

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The big questions

1. What’s the role of the library in learning?

2. How well are libraries delivering?

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Library core values

1. Promotion of the free flow of information and ideas through open access to recorded knowledge, information, and creative works

2. Connection of people to ideas

3. Commitment to literacy, information literacy and learning

alia.org.au/policies/core.values.html

Australian Library and Information Association 2002

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4. Respect for the diversity and individuality of all people.

5. Preservation of the human record.

6. Excellence in professional service to our communities.

7. Partnerships to advance these values.

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School library inquiry

Chapter 3

Research proving link between school librarians and scholastic achievement

Literacy research

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Literacy

Australians 15 - 74 years assessed as having the skills needed to meet the complex demands of everyday life and work. • 54% prose literacy skills • 53% document literacy • 47% numeracy

Australian Bureau of Statistics, media release, Australia’s literacy and life skills, 28 November 2007.

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Poll: How do you take your recreational reading?

A. E-book

B. Newspaper/magazine

C. P-book

D. Social media

Mrs Mac’s library : BookWeek 2011

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General capabilities

POLL: What is the most important literacy for all Australians?

A. Critical and creative thinking

B. Digital literacy

C. Information literacy

D. Information and communication technology (ICT) literacy

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Multiliteracies

ALIA Statement on information literacy for all Australians

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New curriculum

www.scootle.edu.au/ec/curriculum?learningarea=%22English

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Library as place, as network

Cheryl Hoskin 2011 Barr Smith Library

• standards • sharing • service

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LibraryThing authors

www.librarything.com/about_authors.php

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www.library20.com/page/2011-conference

Get involved

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Questions?