School Library Association of Victoria: Recent Episodes
School Library Association of Victoria
The School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV) is the Professional Body for School Libraries in Victoria. As such, it offers dynamic, inspiring opportunities for teacher-librarians, librarians and library teams to build their essential role in engaging and developing lifelong learners.
In collaboration with SLAV, library professional Rachel Nixon chats with library and industry professionals talking all things school libraries.In the third episode Rachel chats with Paul Byrne, previous Head of Library from Suzanne Cory High School. Together the pair discuss his decade of experience working in school libraries and how the industry has transformed and evolved throughout his career.
In collaboration with SLAV, library professional Rachel Nixon chats with library and industry professionals talking all things school libraries.In the fourth episode Rachel interviews three guests speakers who attended the 2024 SLAV Conference. Sit back and relax as Rachel chats with Australian author Danielle Binks, Head of Australia Reads Anna Burkey and Head of Library at St Paul's School in Brisbane Madison Dearnaley. Together they discuss all things digital literacy, the importance of promoting Australian authors and stories and how to improve reading culture in our schools.
In collaboration with SLAV, library professional Rachel Nixon chats with library and industry professionals talking all things school libraries.In the second episode Rachel chats with Robbie Egan from Book People, discussing all things to do with book supplying, local and independent bookstores and how the industry has evolved throughout his career.
In collaboration with SLAV, library professional Rachel Nixon chats with library and industry professionals talking all things school libraries.In the first episode of the series, Rachel sits down with Library Technician Helen Farch of Forest Hill Secondary College, diving into the success she has experienced with her school Instagram account and the role of social media in promoting school libraries.
Recording of - Publisher ShowcaseThursday February 29 2024Special Guest – Aaron BlabeyIn this first event of our 2024 series, we are excited to again hold our very popular Publisher Showcase. We are thrilled that this year we will hold the event in partnership with Public Libraries Victoria.We are back at the Abbotsford Convent and will be using two rooms to run both our short and sharp presentations from all publishers and a publishers’ exhibition that attendees may browse both before and after the publisher presentations while enjoying afternoon tea and the bookshop display. We will be exploring books for primary and secondary age students. This event is a must for anyone promoting a reading culture in their school or public library. It is also a great opportunity to chat with colleagues from both sectors.The following publishers will be presenting:oAllen & UnwinoUQPoHardie GrantoWalker BooksoAffirm PressoBerbay BooksoFord Street PublishingoWild Dog BooksoMagabala BooksoThe Text Publishing CompanyoWindy Hollow BooksoStorybox LibraryOur colleagues from Overdrive will also be in attendance, and The Sun and Young Sun Bookshops will have a display of new and varied items.
At our term four session in the Reading Forum series for 2023 we will be considering book clubs. There are many ways one can approach a book club and this session will aim to share a range of possibilities to inspire you to give something a go or give you new ideas for your current club.ProgramPublic Libraries Victoria - Big Summer ReadChristine Vandor, Maribyrnong Public LibrariesPrimary and Parent Book ClubsSusan O’MalleySLAV Online Book Club Tye Cattanach and Susan La MarcaThe CBCA Shadowing Project for Book Club Barbara CousensBanned Books ClubKelsy Petersonand creator - Shivaun Plozza
This session in the HILO Series for 2023 explored using Canva in the school library for posters, displays, working with students and texts and annual reports. The session began with an overview if getting started with Canva.
This Reading forum will engage with the tantalising medium of the picture book for older readers. Australia has an amazing catalogue of powerful, insightful, and beautiful works in this space. This event with consider this depth, how it can be used in the school library, and share the works of three creators. The NCACL Picture Books for Older Readers Database Belle Alderman, Ruth Nitschke and Rowan Simpkin How to promote picture books to Older Readers Ngaire Brown Creators - Erica Wagner, Zeno Sworder and Tohby Riddle
Readers, Stories, LiteracyA forum for learning and discussionSession Two: Fantasy FictionAF SteadmanAmie Kaufman and Lilli Wilkinson in Conversation
Reading Forum Series 2023First SessionPublisher ShowcaseThe following publishers presented -The following publishers will be presenting:oAllen & UnwinoAffirm PressoBerbay BooksoFord Street PublishingoPan Macmillan AustraliaoWild Dog BooksoHachette AustraliaoPenguin Random HouseoText Publishing Company
Shelftalkers – Student Voice
Tye Cattanch, Lynn Swannell & Chloe Powell
What is Shelftalkers? How can you be involved? How can Shelftalkers be used to engage students and promote student voice in your library? Tye Cattanach will be discussing the benefits of using Shelftalkers as a tool in your school library, available teacher resources and writing tips for students, with practitioners who have successfully used Shelftalkers with their own students. Tye will be joined by two school guests - Lynn Swannell and Chloe Powell both school library practitioners.
Empowering Youth with Sustainable Literature Dr Kasey Garrison (Charles Sturt University) Environmental Sustainability is a cause our students strongly support as evidenced through their active participation in federal election protests earlier this year and the School Strike for Climate Change. In the school library, we can empower youth by integrating titles with sustainability topics into our teaching. This presentation shares some recent and relevant books that align well with the curriculum and also makes connections to key ideas within the Sustainability Cross-Curriculum Priority.
Dr Kasey Garrison is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt, supporting students as the Children’s Librarianship Specialisation Coordinator and instructor in the Master of Education-Teacher Librarianship. Her research focuses on social justice in the school library including how issues like gender, race, sustainability, and mental health are developed and portrayed in youth literature. Before becoming an academic, Kasey was a primary school educator and teacher librarian in the United States.
The HILO series – High Impact Libraries Online - will showcase and explore the various ways school libraries operate to support learning and teaching through online systems and programs and online strategies and tools. Each session will explore a different area of the online school library offering examples of practice from experienced speakers.
This session will explore –
Free Online Tools This session will consider free online tools. Specifically, tools that aid, support, or enrich any aspect of school library programming or operations. They must be free and openly available. We will hear from two speakers, one from a primary perspective - Raffaela Grasso, and the other secondary - Camilla Elliott.
Diversity and Representation In this, our last forum of our 2022 series, we are excited to be coming together at the Abbotsford Convent for a celebration or diversity and representation in fiction for young people.
Speakers Diversity and Representation - Alida Galati Meet Mr Beaky! - Cassie Leatham and Sue Lawson The Readings YA Prize - Julia Jackson Creating Pathways - Annabel Barker New from Readings! - Tye Cattanach
In our third event of our 2022 series, we will explore how practitioners encourage, promote and guide student reflection and response with specific activities and programs and how we structure and scaffold response approaches to make them meaningful and supportive. We will also be joined by some wonderful creators who will share their views and their work. Speakers The BIG Summer Read- Christine Vandor Creating Authentic Reading Responses - Madison Dearnaley Shelftalkers - Tye Cattanach and Carmel Byrne Writing Responses -Reina Phung Creators Carla Fitzgerald Emily Gale
In this second event of our 2022 Reading Forum series, we will be exploring the wonderful world of verse novels for all ages. Special Guests Ruth Nitschke Kelsy Peterson Zana Fraillon Sally Murphy Kat Apel
The HILO series – High Impact Libraries Online - will showcase and explore the various ways school libraries operate to support learning and teaching through online systems and programs and online strategies and tools. Each session will explore a different area of the online school library offering examples of practice from experienced speakers.
This session will explore Marketing Tools
Speakers
Canva – Rebecca Nettleton & Kaitlyn Woods Canva provides educators with the ability to make attractive promotional material with a low time investment. Join us to discover how Canva can be used as a marketing and advocacy tool in school libraries.
Brightsign – Luke Guy This session will feature the digital signage media player BrightSign and demonstrate how they can be used by libraries to promote services, resources and events.
URL shorting and link management – Monica Williams In this session we will explore the benefits of tools such as Bitly and Tinyurl to assist in your ongoing marketing and advocacy efforts. These tools are essential for generating, sharing and tracking links for any form of communication. With the analytics provided, you will be able to engage with your patrons and promote your library service more effectively.
Lettering – Lynn Swannell This session will explore the ‘alphabet lettering sets’ from Instant Display. These include free printable teaching resources for Literacy, Reading, Writing, English as well as themed Alphabet Lettering Sets.
This series will showcase and explore the various ways school libraries operate to support learning and teaching through online systems and programs and online strategies and tools. Each session will explore a different area of the online school library offering examples of practice from experienced speakers.
This session explored a range of Databases
Speakers Experienced and knowledgeable practitioners will share their insights:
Hope Do, Caroline Chisholm Catholic College Sue Lowe, Ivanhoe Grammar School Angela Mare, Alphington Grammar School Julie Pagliaro, St Kevin’s College Joy Whiteside, St Joseph’s College, Geelong
March 3 2022
The International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) Oceania Region and the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Special Interest Group are proud to partner with the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV), the School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) and the Charles Sturt University’s Children’s Librarianship Specialisation to share and celebrate youth literature from the area.
Join experts from Australia, New Zealand, and Pasifika for titles, resources, and ideas to develop a stronger collection representing the rich variety of people and perspectives in Oceania. Speakers include:
Dr Belle Alderman, AM, Emeritus Professor of Children's Literature and Director of the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature will discuss their Cultural Diversity database and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Resource to help teacher librarians build authentic collections representative of Australia.
Dr Nicola Daly is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Division of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand where she teaches children’s literature. Nicola has been researching dual language picturebooks for the last 15 years, exploring their linguistic landscape and how they can be used to support or disrupt existing language hierarchies. In this presentation, entitled, E toru ngā reo: Multiligual picturebooks in Aotearoa, she will give an overview of the different ways that English, Māori and NZSL are present in picturebooks in Aotearoa, and discuss the potential of picturebooks as a source for encouraging critical discussions around language beliefs and attitudes.
The Reading Warrior, David Riley, will share how he works with Pasifika communities to create books for young people in English and in their home languages
For our first SLAV Reading Forum of 2022 we were joined by ten different publishers who presented the wonderful books they have coming out in 2022.
This is an audio recording of our most recent Reading Forum on the topic of Picture Books for Senior Students. It included the following guest speakers. ‘In an important sense, all picture books are puzzles. The details of pictures invite attention to their implications. The unmoving pictures require viewers to solve the puzzle of what actions and motions they represent.…..the words and pictures together tell different stories that require readers to solve the puzzle of how to connect them. The pleasure of picture books is not just in the stories they tell but also in the game of figuring out what those stories are.’ Nodelman and Reimer, The Pleasures of Children’s Literature, p. 298
Guest Speakers:
Pierre-Jacques Ober and Jules Ober
Dr Janette Poulton
Bern Emmerichs
Jo Panckridge
Boori Pryor
There were some connection issues and Boori Pryor was recorded after the event.
This Reading Forum was held online - we welcomed a range of special guests to consider the role of social media. How can we use it effectively to inform, engage and encourage students? How is social media being used by allied professions? And how is it appearing in books for your young people?
SLAV Conference School Libraries: Powering Primary Presentation: Information Literacy in Primary Schools: What is it and should we bother? Kim Hauser, Library Curriculum Leader, Loreto Mandeville Hall
SLAV Conference - School Libraries: Powering Primary Keynote Address: Literacy Communities Empowering Each Other Heather Fehring, Emerita Professor in the School of Education, in the Design & Social Context College, RMIT University
An Online SLAV Reading Forum engaging with issues and ideas surrounding building inclusive and representative school library collections. Speakers: Tobias Madden, Author and Commentator Carmel Byrne, Head of Library, Berwick Campus, Beaconhills College Kresta Davis, Librarian, Geelong Grammar School’s Fisher Library Maggie Hutchings , Author Rhiannon Wilde, Author Anna Whateley, Author Erin Wamala, The Kids Bookshop
In this first event of our 2021 series, we were joined by nine publishers who each had five minutes to share with us their releases for 2021. The publishers were: o Allen & Unwin o Affirm Press o Berbay Books o Ford Street Publishing o Magabala Books o Penguin Random House o Text Publishing o University of Queensland Press o Wild Dog Books
SPECIAL GUEST Sonya Hartnett, in conversation, on her new picture book Blue Flower.
Sonya Hartnett's work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year (Of A Boy), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Thursday's Child), the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost's Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for Golden Boys, Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal (The Midnight Zoo). Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
SLAV Launch We also launched two new SLAV initiatives. Our ebook Building a Library Reading Culture: A Selection of Articles from FYI and Synergy This collection brings together over 40 articles from SLAVs journals FYI and Synergy. It is divided into three sections: o Research and Reflections o Practice o Organisations The book supports the creation of a reading culture in schools showcasing examples of best practice and offering ideas, inspiration and support.
We will also launch our new website Shelftalkers, a home for student reviews and interviews offering a voice to young people on their reading experiences. Facilitated by school libraries. We hope Shelftalkers will become an exciting engagement tool to facilitate discussion of both established and forthcoming titles and encourage reading and writing in schools.
This session was part of the Masterclass - Powering Learning: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives. Inclusive collection development – Examples from New Zealand – Ruth Woolven The National Library of New Zealand provides a comprehensive service to schools, supporting the curriculum and advising on the diversity of school library collections. What lessons can be learnt to inform the work of school libraries in Victoria to support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum? Ruth has recently commenced a Research Project interviewing library staff in New Zealand to identify their best practice.
This Reading Forum focused on the skill of Book Talking - how we talk to young people about books and encourage talk. We were joined by guest creators Ian Trevaskas, Trace Balla and Suzy Zail to hear about their work. The Kids Bookshop also share their top ten books in ten minutes.
Join us for three teacher librarians discussing programs and ideas that encourage collaboration and involvement in the school library. This forum also included Julianne Negri on her new book The Secret Library of Hummingbird House, Cath Moore on her new book Metal Fish, Falling Snow and Gus Gordon in conversation with publisher Kristin Gill on his new picture book Finding Francoise. The event was concluded with the Kids Bookshop sharing their top ten new books,
Our first Reading Forum for 2020 featured nine publishers sharing with us their upcoming titles for readers from prep to year eight. This was followed by our special guest creators - Lucinda Gifford and Felice Arena.
Judging The Reading’s Young Adult Book Prize
The Readings Young Adult Book Prize was established in 2016 and recognises exciting emerging voices in Australian young adult literature. First and second published works of young adult fiction and memoir are eligible. Cath Crowley was one of this year’s judges—in this session she’ll discuss the exciting range of fiction nominated, along with the joys and challenges of choosing a winner.
Cath Crowley’s young adult fiction novels include The Gracie Faltrain trilogy, Chasing Charlie Duskin, Graffiti Moon, Words in Deep Blue and Take Three Girls, cowritten by Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell. In 2011, Graffiti Moon won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction and the Ethel Turner Award for Young People’s Literature. Words in Deep Blue was awarded the Gold Inky for 2017, the QLD Literary Award for a Young Adult Book and The Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. Take Three Girls won the CBCA Book of the Year for older readers in 2018.
Keynote Address: Creating Readers: Building a Reading Culture - Megan Daley
We live in an age where the competing pressures of home, study and social life means our tweens and teens are conflicted with choices more than ever before. Educators know that reading should be prioritised in order for students to become, and remain, readers. Academic research indicates that reading and academic and social success co-exist. But how can school library teams ensure the reading culture of their school is inspiring to students? And, how can we ensure we are engaging our audience and responding to emerging reading trends?
Megan Daley is the author of Raising Readers, aimed at parents and educators. She is passionate about children’s literature and sharing it with young and old alike. In daylight hours, Megan is a Teacher-Librarian at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School in Queensland and was recently awarded the Queensland Teacher- Librarian of the Year by the School Library Association of Queensland, as well as the national Dromkeen Librarians Award, presented by the State Library of Victoria. A former national vice-president of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, she is currently on the Queensland chapter of the board of the Australian Children’s Laureate and on the Publications Committee of the National Library of Australia. She blogs about all things literary, library and tech at childrensbooksdaily.com.
Our last forum for 2019 focused on the topic of Graphic Novels. We had two practitioners, one primary, one secondary sharing their views and hints on working with graphic novels. We also welcomed Bernard Caleo from Cardigan Comics to explore the genre. This was followed by The Kids Bookshop with then best books in ten minutes.
How academics can help us stay informed The media is in a state of upheaval. Trust is in decline, jobs are disappearing, and the digital platforms that control audiences encourage publishers to attract attention at any cost. The result is more opinion and outrage and less sober explanation of what is really going on in the world. This is where The Conversation aims to make a difference. By working only with academics who have real expertise, The Conversation exists to explain and inform, with no other agenda. This makes it a valuable resource for citizens and students and anyone who wants to be better informed.
Misha Ketchell is Editor of The Conversation. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and in previous roles he was founding editor of The Big Issue Australia and editor of Crikey, The Reader and The Melbourne Weekly. He worked for The Age as a reporter and feature writer and spent several years at the ABC where he was a TV producer on Media Watch and The 7:30 Report and an editor on The Drum.
Libraries curating evidence Pru Mitchell will provide a brief overview of the services of the Cunningham Library, and its role in curating educational research. The session will consider the role of school library staff in promoting research literacy in schools.
Pru Mitchell is Manager of Information Services at the Australian Council for Educational Research and Adjunct Lecturer, School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University. Her professional and research interests include information literacy, digital education research and professional learning. After working as a teacher librarian across K-12 independent schools, Pru spent twelve years managing national online education projects before joining ACER’s Cunningham Library.
Ideas for Summer Reading Program, Literary Tours and Jeopardy Quizzes were shared. We also welcomed Jess McGeachin to introduce his new picture book 'Fly' and Susan White to share her novel, 'Take The Shot'. We also heard The Kids Bookshop top ten best books in ten minutes and a little about LoveOZYA from Alice Boer.
Building connections between librarians, teachers, students, texts and the real world: Relationships and conversations that empower and inspire - Dr Sue Wilson
This keynote presentation shares insights into developing relationships that value the everyday literacies and experiences of individuals within library and school contexts. Connections that are empowering and inspiring can form between librarians, teachers, students, texts and the real world when we have effective conversations around a range of texts. The various research projects that this presentation draws upon have shown that relationships with and between students, when they discuss texts that are interesting and relevant to them and their day-to-day lives, are powerful. This kind of talk is all-important for understanding not only the texts and how they work, but also our own identities and our place in the real world. This includes, but is not limited to, the literacy learning outcomes that are expected of students at school.
This presentation will share ideas around how library staff can develop connections that foster mutually rewarding relationships with teachers and students that inspire each stakeholder and allow links to grow between: one another; the texts we engage with; and, the ways in which we experience life within the diverse communities that we each operate within, at and beyond school.
Dr Sue Wilson was a primary teacher and ICT Coordinator before teaching and researching literacy education at Monash University. Her knowledge base centres upon the use of quality literature and the development of literate identities. Sue is interested in the ways that collegiate literacy discussions support connectedness, critical thinking, problem solving, and understandings of the world and one’s place in it for learners of all ages. Sue values the engagement opportunities that she is able to foster through her work at Monash University, such as in her work with schools and community partners and in her research across international contexts.
Part Two of the SLAV Reading Forum Series for 2019. Hosted by the lovely ladies at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School on May 9th.
In an information era of fake news, banishing truth, the suppression of ideas, and a constantly changing information and technical landscape, what lies ahead?
This address will bring together some key threads of the day and provide insights and challenges into some of the unknown waters ahead. One thing is certain: we have to have professional, intellectual and social courage to live our values, ethics and practices, and engage in leadership that is sustaining, encouraging and nourishing. The future is ours to create.
Dr Ross J Todd is both Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science and the Director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Highly regarded internationally, Dr Todd has a longstanding, recognised track record of research and publications in the field of school librarianship.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/toddross-j
Seven publishers shared their publishing lineup for primary school students for 2019. Anna Walker shared details of her new book Lottie and Walter. This was the first session in SLAVs reading forum series for 2019
Tackling the Tough Questions - Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson
November Reading conference 2018 | Concurrent Session
Many educators fear ‘getting it wrong’ when working on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island-related topics with students. What is the best way to lead students to a stronger understanding of and respect for Australia’s indigenous people and culture?
Join Boon Wurrung Elder, Aunty Fay Muir and author Sue Lawson in this open and honest conversation about where to find relevant, respectful and accurate resources and how to use them in your library and school. There will be opportunities for questions, so bring along your greatest concerns and issues to discuss with Aunty Fay.
Aunty Fay Stewart-Muir is an Elder and Traditional Owner of Boon Wurrung Country. She is the senior linguist at the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages in Melbourne. Fay is working with her own Boon Wurrung language, recording and putting language into the database for future and present generations. She presents language-related workshops to community members who are reclaiming their languages, as well as universities and TAFEs that are interested in understanding the many and challenging aspects of language reclamation. She also goes out to schools to educate the students about language and culture and to teach language. Nganga is her first children’s book.
Sue Lawson writes books for children and young adults. She has won the Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature and was short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
Windows and Mirrors: LGBTQIA+ Visibility and Representation in Contemporary Australian YA - Nell Day in conversation with Alison Evans, Jordi Kerr and Jessica Walton
November Reading conference 2018 | Concurrent Session
Librarians working with young people understand the power of fiction to both foster empathy with the perspectives of others and catalyse reflection on their own identities and experiences as they find their place in the world. This holds particularly true for stories that represent diverse sexualities and gender identities. Authors Alison Evans, Jordi Kerr and Jessica Walton talk with teacher librarian Nell Day about LGBTQIA+ stories in the current Australian young adult fiction landscape.
Keynote address: Dr Margaret Kristin Merga Supporting Reading Engagement: Myths, Strategies and Plans
Dr. Margaret Kristin Merga is a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Her research explores the social and environmental influences on literacy acquisition and the position of reading and books in the contemporary world. Her research findings in literacy explore the role that teachers, librarians and parents can play in supporting children, teenagers and adults to become life-long readers. She has written a substantial body of peer-reviewed research papers in this area, and she has led a range of mixed-methods research projects exploring these issues in local, national and international contexts. She is the author of the upcoming book Reading Engagement for Teens and Tweens: What Would Make Them Read More? for Libraries Unlimited in the USA.
The last session in SLAVs Reading Forum series for 2018. This event featured a discussion of recent reading reading research, guest appearances by authors Shivaun Plozza and Katrina Lehman and the kids bookshop presenting 10 best books in 10 minutes.
This podcast is of the third reading forum in our 2018 series. It features a panel discussing genrefication of library collections. Special guest authors are David Metznethen and Michael Wagner and The Kids Bookshop go through their usual ten books in ten minutes.
Dr Pam Macintyre
This session will explore the challenges and the rewards for us as promoters of reading in the school environment to provide for such encounters with literary texts including picture books, and to reflect on our own reading beliefs about reading, and personal reading experiences. These issues will be discussed in relation to examples of books that provide rich and exciting reading for young readers.
Dr Pam Macintyre worked as a senior lecturer in the Portfolio of Design and Social Context in the School of Education at RMIT. Before that she was a lecturer in Language, Literacy and Arts Education at the University of Melbourne. She is co author of the Oxford Companion to Australian Children’s Literature and Knowing Readers: Unlocking the Pleasures of Reading and the editor of the long running YA review journal Viewpoint: on books for young adults. Pam is all the co-editor of the short story collections Things a Map Wont Show You and Where the Shoreline Used to Be for Penguin Random House. A recipient of the SLV Dromkeen Medal Pam has always been a champion of literary texts, engagement and pleasure.
Featured Address
Jacqueline Harvey, Author
Jacqueline Harvey’s journey from primary class teacher to full time writer (via Deputy Head and Director of Development) also took her on a path through the library for five years where she worked with class teachers across the school bringing literature to life and developing a variety of exciting programs. Since becoming a full-time writer she has visited more than 1000 schools in Australia, the UK, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and New Zealand, relishing these opportunities to work with children, teachers and librarians while gaining insights into the state of play in school libraries around the world. In this session she will share her experiences about the transition from teacher to writer and the integral role she believes primary libraries should have in the life of any school.
The second event in our reading forum series featured a panel of three teacher librarians sharing their inspirational ideas and strategies on reading promotion, a presentation on the new, upcoming Inky website from the SLV, an in conversation with Simon Barnard and his editor from Text publishing and the wonderful Kids Bookshop team doing 10 great new books in 10 minutes.
This podcast is a recording of the first event in the SLAV Reading Forum series held on March 1st. This event included six publishers sharing with the audience their new primary publications coming out across the beginning of 2018. The afternoon also included the special guests Anna Walker and Jane Godwin introducing their new picture book Go Go and the Silvershoes.