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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Flexibility, interoperability, reusability and efficiency are the benefits identified by MCEETYA (2003, p. 6) in developing a learning architecture that ensures investments in technology deliver standards, systems, and a learning workspace to provide educational support structures in response to learning demands. Professional associations for teachers and teacher librarians cannot ignore the articulation of ‘national priorities for action by schools and associated…read more →
Within any organisation it is essential to have sound operational policy and procedures in place to manage internal and external content and knowledge objects to achieve the objectives and aims. Professional associations are not immune to this thinking. Policy statements, together with guidelines for adoption and application, guide and protect the associations’ operations. In addition, the information and knowledge objects…read more →