Advocacy
You are your library's best advocate, so make your school community aware of all the strategies you use to engage students, promote reading and support colleagues.
Use your school's social network sites, newsletter, communications to your P&C, signage, staff room displays and your enthusiastic interactions with your students!
Canberra, 28 March 2023
The Queensland School Library Association (QSLA) is partnering with other Australian school library associations to advocate for school libraries. The associations are working on the School Libraries Matter! campaign to engage parents with the goal of informing them about school libraries and sparking them into action to advocate at their child’s school.
WASLA is a member of the School Library Coalition, a cooperative working group of the school library associations in Australia including two national library organisations and five state library organisations. WASLA supports the Students need School Libraries Campaign and additional information regarding this campaign can be found at https://studentsneedschoollibraries.org.au/
17 minute recording of ABC Life Matters Hilary Harper interviewing Dr Margaret Merga and Holly Godfree: How to make reading as fun as watching TV
With TV on demand, social media and so many other distractions, who's got time to read a book these days? We ask an education expert how parents can make reading a fun past-time for children. We also discuss the role of teacher librarians and the school library in engaging students.
Hi. My name is Madison. Welcome to my library. Madison's Library is where I share my thoughts about books I've read and my experiences as a librarian.
I am a teacher librarian who loves reading. I am fortunate to have worked in many school libraries as a teacher librarian. I am currently the Information Services Teacher Librarian at a secondary library in a P-12 school. I believe that reading is vital for learning and expanding worldviews, but I believe that, most importantly, reading is for enjoyment. Promoting books, face-to-face, through displays or via online marketing, is one of my favourite parts of librarianship - though hanging out with all those books is pretty cool, too.
8 Ways is featured on Madison's blog