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KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd sponsorship – IASL School Library Technology Innovation Award 2010

The IASL School Library Technology Innovation Award was established in 2007 and sponsored by KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd, Australia to recognizes school library programs or projects that effectively utilized current and emerging technologies for school libraries and information service delivery.  Awardees were selected by the IASL Awards Committee only on occasions when the merits of a nominee clearly recommend recognition…read more →

23 Feb, 2010

Working cooperatively within a fixed timetable

Do you struggle to find planning time with your teachers? Do you work within a fixed timetable that limits opportunities to work with students and teachers in cooperative information literacy tasks? The following approach provides alternatives that support cooperative planning, teaching and learning within the confines of a restrictive timetable. Read More …

23 Jan, 2010

How to write a novel

Have you every wanted to write a book and get it published? Well, it makes sense to me to check out what processes published authors use. Andrea Rains Waggener has generously shared her tips through her Novel Writing Made Easy System. You will get access to her step-by-step process for how to identify and develop your plot, characters, setting, scene…read more →

23 Jun, 2009

World Internet Summit 2008 DVDs

If you look closely at this photo, I am in the audience. For 4 life-changing days I was glued to my seat, madly writing down one information marketing idea after another. By the end of it I had a success blueprint to my own internet information marketing business. Wouldn’t you like the same?  If so, here’s how (in fact you…read more →

23 Apr, 2009

Inspirational texts for reinventing yourself

Recently someone posed the question, “How can you find the silver lining if the sky’s so dark you can’t even see the clouds?” This got me thinking about my own silver lining in these rather gloomy times and the startling thought was a need to reinvent myself. Interestingly, I have revisited some past motivational readings to help kick start my…read more →

23 Mar, 2009

KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd sponsorship – IASL School Library Technology Innovation Award 2008

The IASL School Library Technology Innovation Award was established in 2007 and sponsored by KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd, Australia to recognizes school library programs or projects that effectively utilized current and emerging technologies for school libraries and information service delivery.  Awardees were selected by the IASL Awards Committee only on occasions when the merits of a nominee clearly recommend recognition…read more →

23 Sep, 2008

KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd sponsorship – IASL School Library Technology Innovation Award 2007

The IASL School Library Technology Innovation Award was established in 2007 and sponsored by KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd, Australia to recognizes school library programs or projects that effectively utilized current and emerging technologies for school libraries and information service delivery.  Awardees were selected by the IASL Awards Committee only on occasions when the merits of a nominee clearly recommend recognition…read more →

23 Sep, 2007

IASL’s Reviews of Professional Materials

Henri, James and Asselin, Marlene (eds). Leadership issues in the information literate school community. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited. 2005. 242 pp. ISBN 1-59158-184-2 (pbk.). The opening chapter of this book indicates the position of leadership of teacher librarians, as presented in The information literate school community: best practice1999, is still remaining unrealised. This sequel endeavours to present the issues teacher librarians need to…read more →

31 Aug, 2006

Advocacy for school libraries – everyone’s responsibility

What is advocacy? The Canadian Association of Public Libraries has developed a definition that is well worth considering. “Advocacy is a planned, deliberate, sustained effort to raise awareness of an issue. It’s an ongoing process in which support and understanding are built incrementally over an extended period of time and using a wide variety of marketing and public relations tools”…read more →

31 Aug, 2005

Succession planning for the information professional

It is estimated that more than 70 percent of Australian businesses are family-owned. A succession plan is usually prepared and implemented to transfer the ownership of a business as smoothly as possible so the business can continue to grow and prosper. The selection and grooming of a successor, or successors, is built into the plan to allow for the preparation…read more →

31 Aug, 2005
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