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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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Pru Mitchell
eT@lking
Learning @ your library
Introductions
theother66, traditional library CC-by-nc-sa
Tell us about your library
Where are you?
Who are you?
The big questions
1. What’s the role of the library in learning?
2. How well are libraries delivering?
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
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.
School library inquiry
Chapter 3
Research proving link between school librarians and scholastic achievement
Literacy research
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.
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
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
Multiliteracies
ALIA Statement on information literacy for all Australians
New collections
New curriculum
www.scootle.edu.au/ec/curriculum?learningarea=%22English
Library as place, as network
Cheryl Hoskin 2011 Barr Smith Library
• standards • sharing • service
Trove @National Library
trove.nla.gov.au/people
LibraryThing authors
www.librarything.com/about_authors.php
Questions?