The document discusses the declining number of qualified teacher librarians in Australia, attributing this to factors such as budget constraints and the absence of mandatory staffing policies, with only New South Wales ensuring trained librarians in schools. It emphasizes the crucial role school libraries play in enhancing student achievement and outlines key findings on the importance of well-staffed libraries for literacy and learning outcomes. An inquiry initiated in 2010 revealed systemic issues related to staffing, funding, and the overall value of school libraries, raising concerns about the future of educational resources in the country.

1. Image from lifespa.com

2. This is the golden age of librarianship...
Librarians are in the sweet spot of education.
(Joyce Valenza)

3. A profession at the tipping point:
time to change the game plan. (Karen Bonano)

4. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
...it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...
(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)

5. Unfortunately, in Australia, over the past 15 years, principal autonomy in staffing
along with inadequate budgets have led to the decline of qualified teacher librarians
(TLs) in Victoria, Tasmania, and the ACT.
• 50% of Tasmanian schools and ACT primary schools now have no TLs.
• In Victoria this could now be as high as 87% of metropolitan primary schools.
• TLs are not required in WA primary schools.
• In Queensland TLs may not be placed in the library. Seven state high school
libraries on the Gold Coast now do not have TLs.
• In South Australia 28% of primary libraries have no TLs.
• In the NT only 5% of schools have qualified teacher librarians.
• NSW is the only state still staffing trained teacher librarians in every school, but in
primary schools they are generally used for teacher relief time, diminishing their
leadership and teaching potential. (http://myschoollibrary.wordpress.com)
More examples
http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/no-books-no-libraries

6. Key Finding #1: “A school library program that is adequately staffed, resourced, and funded can lead to higher
student achievement regardless of the socioeconomic or educational levels of the community.”School Libraries
Work!, 2008.
Key Finding #2: "Children who attend schools with school libraries with better collections and superior staffing
do better on tests of reading." S. Krashen. “What do we know about libraries and reading achievement?” Book
Report, 2002
Key Finding #3: "Students learn more and produce better research products following planned, integrated
information skills instruction by the teacher and teacher librarian together." K. Haycock. “What works:
Integrated information skills instruction: Teacher Librarian 25, no. 2:39, 1997
Key Finding #4: “Free voluntary reading is the best predictor of comprehension, vocabulary growth, spelling
and grammatical ability and writing style.” M.Lonsdale, Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement.
ACER, 2003.
Key Finding #5: Australian research has shown that the school library plays a critical role in supporting student
learning. L. Hay. “Student learning through Australian school libraries” Synergy, Part 12005, and Part 2, 2006.
http://myschoollibrary.wordpress.com

7. In March 2010, Julia Gillard initiated a House Inquiry into School
Libraries and Teacher Librarians. The committee’s report has now been
published. After 382 submissions and hearings in every state and
territory, the cross party House Committee on Education and
Training has come to grips with the complex issue of declining
numbers of qualified teacher librarians in our state schools.
The loss of tertiary training programs, inadequate staffing budgets, lack
of national standards, ignorance of international research linking well-
staffed and well-supported school libraries with student literacy and
learning and the loss of state school advisory services and their
corporate knowledge are just some of the causes identified in the
hearings.
http://myschoollibrary.wordpress.com

8. The Hub: Campaign for Quality School Libraries in Australia
http://hubinfo.wordpress.com
Initial Inquiry:
Both the Government and the Opposition agreed that school libraries are an important and
valuable inclusion for every school.
2 years on:
“In the Federal Government’s new literacy plan there is no mention of resourcing or the inclusion
of the library and the benefits afforded to schools by having a well stocked fiction section run by
a professional TL, despite a Government Inquiry 2 years ago into school libraries which
essentially agreed that this was a good idea. Of the states, only NSW mandates a TL in every
school. Other states are well down the path of ‘independent public schools’ which means
inequity across the public sector when it comes down to staffing and resourcing.”
(Barbara Combes, Progress or Politics?)

9. School libraries at and beyond the
tipping point

10. The Lilley Centre

11. Average of 1100 visits per day to the Library

35. Forum

37. http://libguides.brisbanegrammar.com

38. • Positive attitudes and perceptions about learning
• Acquiring and integrating knowledge
• Extending and refining knowledge
• Using knowledge meaningfully
• Productive habits of mind

39. Principals’
constant
dilemma:
the paradox
of knowing you
have to change
when you seem
to be ahead.
Image from photodune.com

40.  Virtual assimilation classrooms
 Smart drugs
 A human hard-driv e for memory
 Haptic technol ogy
 Death of the schoolbook
 Kids will learn codin g with the Raspberr y Pi
device
 Robots as teach ers
 Virtual lessons
 Moveabl e and modifiabl e schools
 The use of gestural interfaces
 The increasing presence of big multi -nationals
in education
 Personal is e d technolog y
 Institution a l technolog y
(Futurist expert Neil Selwyn
Faculty of Education, Monash University)
(http://www.childup.com/blog/childup-bestof-how-will-the-way-kids-
learn-change-over-the-next-10-years-as-new-technology-takes-over-in-
schools)

41. • Our attention spans will become even shorter
• Turnover in some industries will become greater, and time to mastery shorter
• Just-in-time learning will become the norm as organisations demand more agile
people performance improvement
• Employees will become ‘masters of none’
• We will become increasingly dependent on our devices as our ‘memory’ of core
content
• Mobile devices will be a workplace tool ‘norm’
• The internet will become faster and available everywhere
• Technology will become cheaper & more personalised
• Employees as content producers will become the ‘norm‘
(Alison Bickford http://www.youtube.com/user/elearningacademy)

42. We are at a point in history where we can decide to
education or simply improve it.
(Christopher Dede)
• t is doing things better
• is doing things differently to make things better
• The ideal for schools is innovation with improvement
Blend with to
amplify the creativity rather than destroy it.
(Jim Collins Great by Choice)

43. Right now, we should be asking ourselves
not just how to do school better, but how
to do it decidedly differently.
Technological change is not additive:
it is ecological, which means
(Neil Postman)
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-
leadership/mar13/vol70/num06/Students-First,-Not-Stuff.aspx
http://www.onlytoptens.com/all/top-10-technologies-that-might-change-the-world/

44. Research
Reading

45. QCS
OP Results
Information
fluency Research
Literacy Reading
NAPLAN
MySchool
website

46. Critical
thinking
Information
fluency
School
Goals
Literacy
Digital
Citizenship

47. Reframing learning = reframing literacy
US National Council of Teachers of English - literacy is much more
than simply reading and writing texts.
21st Century literacies include:
• proficiency with the tools of technology,
• an ability to manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams
of simultaneous information
• an ability to design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of purposes
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar13/vol70/num06/Students-First,-Not-Stuff.aspx

48. The Australian Curriculum includes literacy and critical and creative thinking
as two of the seven general capabilities, along with ICT capability and
ethical behaviour. Libraries teach all of these things already.
General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum January 2012 p 3

49. Information and
Communication Technologies
(ICT)
K–10 Cross Curricular
Framework and Support
Materials plus
Skills Checklists
http://www.education.tas.gov.au/curriculum/standards/ict/syll-ict-all.pdf

51. • 1994-2004 Study – Sothern and East African Consortium for Monitoring
Education Quality (SACMEQ) – 49.9% of Grade 6 learners were not able to
understand the meaning of basic written information (Equal Edn 2010a, p.5)
• SAS - Grade 8 learners achieved lowest average test scores in 1999 (out of
41 countries) and 2003 (out of 50 countries) – Trends in International Maths
and Science Studies (South Africa, DBE, 2008)
• 2006 - Progress in International Reading Literacy Study – Grade 4 & 5
learners achieved the lowest scores out of 45 countries tested (South Africa,
DBE, 2008)
• 2007 study by SACMEQ – some, but minimal, change for Grade 6 learners.
Out-performed by less affluent countries such as Botswana, Swaziland,
Kenya and Tanzania (South Africa DBE, 2010, p.47)
(Research by Margie Paton-Ash)

52. • Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS)
‘The CAPS will provide clear guidelines on what teachers
ought to teach and assess on a grade-by-grade and
subject basis.’
• Annual National Assessment (ANA)
- Become familiar with your curriculum documents
- Show teachers how you could support and value to their units, based
on your curriculum documents.
It would be ideal if teachers were taught at university
what TLs can do for them. In the meantime, you need
to tell them!

53. that your stakeholders
automatically will know what you
contribute to your school or your
community’s culture.
(Joyce Valenza)
Develop a
to let people know what you do
as a teacher librarian.
(Karen Bonano)
Image from photodune.com

54. • Put up in staffrooms
• Hand out as
‘postcards’
• Add to your website
• Sizes available in
Flickr
http://gordonslibrarylinks.blogspot.com.au/
2011/06/what-do-tls-teach-poster.html

56. http://monarchlibrary.wikispaces.com/librarian
http://www.linkedin.com/in/keisawilliams

58. We are only an endangered species if we allow ourselves
to be! This is our tipping point. (Karen Bonano)
Teacher Librarians, Luddites in musty book museums
(ADHD Librarian)
“The Los Angeles school district has targeted 85 TL's and are NOT allowing
them to return to teaching positions if they haven't taught in a traditional
classroom within the last 5 years. Currently, TL's are on the witness stand
testifying to their teaching within the library.”

59. “Many of us are to blame for
the attitudes Principals have
towards us – those who have
created a ‘Queendom’ and
operated outside of the needs
of staff and students!
We are in a service industry
and, as Karen Bonanno
reminded us at the Future
Libraries Conference, ‘Libraries
are about connections NOT
collections’.”
(OZTL_Net)

60. Image from flickrcc.net

61. Image from flickrcc.net

62. Image from flickrcc.net

63. Three key lessons:
1. Librarians need to actively promote their role as CIO and influence
the leadership of the school.
2. School libraries need to evolve into iCentres, which house the
knowledge-based resources essential to modern learning and
schooling.
3. The iCentre will need to provide students and staff with a ‘one-stop
shop’ for all resourcing of technology and learning needs on a daily
basis.
(Dr Michael Hough, SLAQ/IASL Keynote, 2010)

64. Specialist staff, allocation of
furniture and spaces, the
purchase of new technologies
and a culture that embraces
change helped to create the
Mt Alvernia iCentre, a place
that connects learners with the
skills, tools and information
they need for success.
Website: http://www.mta-icentre.mta.qld.edu.au
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mtalverniaicentre
Animoto: http://animoto.com/play/N4L2lCPllvfImj0RAe9rMA

65.  Take an active role in such  Re tech: Research a n d T echnol ogy
resources and practices that  E ve r y Y e a r 8 st ude n t h a s o n e 5 0
are relevant for education in m i n ut e R e t e c h l e sso n i n t h e i r
the 21 st century. w e e k ly t i m e t a b le .
 T h i s c l a ss i s de si g n ed t o sup p o r t
t h e c ur r icul um b y p r o vidin g
st ude n t s w i t h f o un da t io n sk i l l s i n
r e se a rc h a n d t e c h n o l og y .
 T h e C o l l e g e se e s t h e se a s
e sse n t i al 2 1 st c e n t ur y sk i l l s f o r
l i f e l o n g l e a r n ing. T h e c o n t e n t
f o r t h i s c l a ss i s de si g ned b y
i C e nt re st a f f i n c o n sul t a t i on w i t h
t h e e L e a rning c o - o r dina t or a n d
He a ds o f C ur r i cul um.

66. Implement the Australian  Support the implementation
Curriculum Phase 1 subjects of the College curriculum
in Prep to Year 9 within the through the provision of
context of the Dimensions of resources, ICLT, programs
Learning Framework. and services
 Implement a program to
develop, master and extend
research and study skills and
encourage competency in
users of information so that
they become independent
life-long learners
 Circulate Term 1 2013
Maureen Twomey – School Library Ass’n award for DoL

67. Toorak College Information Fluency
Program for Years 5-9
http://jennyluca.wikispaces.com/Toorak+College+Informatio
n+Fluency+Program
Jenny Luca

68. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/printissuecurrentissue/888448-427/fully_loaded_outfitting_a_teacher.html.csp

69. A school library’s Annual Operating Plan should include
analyses and broad discussions under these key
components. Align everything to your school’s mission.
 Curriculum and your teaching contribution
 ICT integration
 Resources
 Administration
 Human Resources
 Long-term initiatives
 Financial requests from budget
(Jenni King, BBC)

70. Lead innovation in Enhance our people,
Contemporary
curriculum and performance and
facilities
curriculum delivery culture
Library staff
Curriculum,
monitoring, Library environment
information skills
mentoring and and facilities
and ICT integration
development
Quality resources to
Library
support the
management and
curriculum and
administration
encourage literacy

73. Principals
want to see a
transformation
in learning
Image from photodune.com

74. Aim - to utilise outdoor education and the environment
to extend literacy and language skills.
Malanda SHS Teacher Librarian
and Tinaroo Environmental Centre

75. http://www.historypin.com

76. http://www.scribd.com/collections/3620544/Reading-Olympics

78. http://pinterest.com/bgslibrary1/books2devour-edible-books

79. http://www.scribd.com/doc/111346118/Collaborative-Writing-Edited1

80. Blog post - http://cathryno.global2.vic.edu.au/2012/10/12/spring-hill-young-writers-workshop-2011-2012/

81. All things about book trailers including instructions http://booktrailersforall.com/
Livebinder of appropriate sites with instructions &examples http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=31329