The editorial team is calling for submissions or Collected 18 The theme for this issue is " What SLANZA Means to You ". We will have articles on the various services and advantages SLANZA has for members. But we would also like to hear from you about your experiences with SLANZA and our profession. We also need articles on other matters that may be of interest to your fellow SLANZA members. This could include book reviews, articles about awesome PD you’ve attended or provided or anything you may think will be appropriate Our deadline is* May 15. *Details about submissions, images and the magazine in general can be found at slanza.org.nz under the Resources tab under Collected. We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at [email protected] Greig Daniels
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We are pleased to announce that Registrations for module #6 (Digital Citizenship) of the Connected Librarians course are now open. Digital Citizenship covers a very large range of topics - for this module we will be concentrating on the ethical use of information and its attribution - otherwise known as Referencing and Citation.
Applications close on Thursday 5th May, and the course will be starting on Monday 16th May. This course is designed by New Zealand school librarians, for school librarians - those just starting out with online tools, who are ready and willing to try new things. The course is free for SLANZA members. More information is available in the course flyer and outline documents, and you can register here. Sandi Faulconbridge Professional Development team leader I do hope you’ve been able to have a restful break over the summer, and are now looking forward to the day-to-day business of working with students and staff in your school in what I am sure will be a busy and interesting year.
First some good news: Karen Clarke has been elected unopposed (no other nominations were received) to the position of President Elect. Karen was nominated by the National Executive, and brings to the role a great deal of experience and passion for working on behalf of all school library staff. Karen has served many years on the National Executive, including most recently acting as SLANZA’s treasurer. We know she has the best interests of you all, and our organisation, at heart and will do a fabulous job of leading SLANZA when she takes on the role of President from July of this year. In other news:
Wishing you all the best for this term, Miriam Tuohy President Fifteen years ago, SLANZA was established as an independent national body, representing school library staff throughout the country. Since the beginning, our goal has been “to strengthen and promote the role of school libraries, to enable all school communities to become information literate”.
The National Executive work to develop relationships and a wide range of resources that will help us achieve this. Regional committees in turn provide grass-roots support to the National Executive, volunteering their time and other resources to support the work we do, by offering networking and professional development opportunities for members. The National Executive’s ongoing programme of work is made possible by your payment of SLANZA’s annual membership fee, and a huge amount of primarily volunteer input. Currently, this allows the National Executive to:
Your membership fee also enables SLANZA to provide financial support to members each year in the form of study grants, and in alternate years through conference grants. We have plans to provide further resources and professional development opportunities that will support our members to provide excellent library services and programmes for their school communities. In the past year, the National Executive has been able to reduce its costs by replacing face-to-face meetings with online meetings, but this is not sustainable in the long run. In order to be able to continue to provide this range of services and resources, it is necessary for SLANZA to make a small increase in its annual membership fee - the first in 7 years - from $50 to $60 effective 1 January 2016. This will enable us to be more responsive to members’ needs, sourcing more professional development speakers, creating new resources, making better use of the affordances that changing technology allows, and appropriately managing the workload involved with all of these things. At the same time, the National Executive will be investigating a range of funding options which we hope will help to provide a sustainable income stream for our organisation, alongside that generated by membership fees. We must also acknowledge the support of Book Protection Products, who have very generously sponsored SLANZA’s professional development for many years. We consider that the $60 annual fee represents real value for our members. We appreciate your continued support of the work we do to advocate for the role of the school library and the professional standing of library staff, and to provide resources that support your work and continuing professional development. If you wish to raise any questions or comments regarding this change, please address them to either [email protected] or [email protected] Regards Miriam Tuohy President Hello Everybody
Collected has arrived, just in time for a relaxing holiday read. The new Collected is now available to members (and members only) using the link shared with members this morning. This issue focuses on Conference 2015 and the great experience that it was for all who attended. Read about some of the great experiences that people had. There are also informative articles by workshop convenors and presenters. All in all it it’s a great record of From the Ground Up 2015. I hope our readers have a great break, a happy Christmas and a good start to 2016 Regards Greig and the Collected Team As you may be aware, when I assumed the role of SLANZA President in July my decision was to serve in this position for a term of one year only. Now that we are almost halfway through my term as President, it is time to begin the process of deciding who will take up that position from July 2016. Accordingly, nominations are now sought for the position of President Elect. This position requires an in-depth understanding of the workings of SLANZA and its stakeholders so it is preferable that this person should be either a current member of the National Executive or someone with previous National Executive experience.
Miriam Tuohy President ![]()
The time has come to take part in our annual reading survey!
So if you could take the time to share your top books and authors with us we would really appreciate it. The results will be shared with all school librarians, and will go onto the SLANZA Reading website for future use. Click the link below to go to the survey now: http://goo.gl/forms/MF9XSFNQNq Trish Webster There has been much going on in the couple of weeks since my last update. It’s a busy time of year for all of us, with most school library staff doing their annual stock-take, and senior sign-out for high schools. I’ve enjoyed seeing so many invitations to SLANZA end-of-year celebrations going out recently too, I wish I could go to all of them! Here’s the latest news from National Exec: Conference proceedings updatedA final large batch of presentations from our Conference has gone up on the SLANZA website. Alongside these, we also have some additional material - a document prepared by Steph Ellis with follow-up readings, links and information about the apps and ideas presented by each of our keynote speakers. Many thanks to Steph for creating and sharing this document. All these files are available now from the conference proceedings page. Collected magazineThe next issue of Collected magazine is starting to come together with many submissions already received. Thank you to those who have written articles for this conference themed issue, and also to our team of proof-readers who assist Greig (our Editor) with getting the magazine ready for publication. You can still submit content for this issue, too. The final date for articles or book reviews to reach us is this coming Thursday, November 19th. Information about writing for the magazine is available on our website, and you can email articles, photos, or book reviews directly to [email protected] Professional Development discussionThis week Sandi (PD Team Leader) has kicked off the first of our regular PD discussions in SLANZA’s Google+ community. Our chosen text for the inaugural discussion is R David Lankes’ free eBook “Expect More”. David presented a keynote session at LIANZA’s conference last week, and you can watch the video of that presentation (and others) online. To take part in our discussion group, you’ll need to join the G+ community first - over 100 of our members have joined so far. There has been some really interesting sharing and commenting already, relating to the first couple of chapters of Expect More. It’s not too late to join us, if you’d like to be part of this stimulating and thought-provoking conversation! Ongoing workMembers of the National Executive are continuing to participate in various fora:
We are also working on our strategic plan and the resulting work plan, our budget for the coming year, and preparing to open nominations for our next SLANZA President - I will have more info to share about these next week. Contacting National ExecutivePlease do get in touch with me ([email protected]), or with your local representative on the National Executive if there is anything mentioned here that you'd like to discuss, or if there are any other matters you'd like our help or input with. We'd love to hear from you!
Miriam Tuohy Hi Everybody
A reminder to you all, that the deadline for Collected Submissions is the 19th of November. Please send any submissions to me at [email protected]. Please note that this address is different from the one in my first email, but it is the correct one. The theme for this issue is Conference 2015. The submission guidelines can be found at slanza.org.nz under Resources. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at the above address, or if you wish, you can call me on 03417 8620. Looking forward to hearing from you. Greig Daniels Editor, Collected I have just been made aware that there was incorrect e mail address for Collected in my call for submissions. The correct Collected address is [email protected]. My apologies to any of you who have had difficulties contacting me Thanks to Sheila, Corrine and Trish for pointing this out to me. Regards Greig Daniels Editor Collected |
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