This document discusses the concept of resilience and provides examples of how school libraries can promote resilience. It contains a quiz about resilience with questions and answers that test the reader's understanding. Examples are given of initiatives at school libraries in the US and New Zealand to promote resilience through programs, events, services and spaces. The importance of positive thinking, gratitude, strengths and optimism are discussed as ways to build resilience. The document encourages libraries to continue adapting and changing to meet students' needs as the world changes.

1. Resilience is as resilience does
Phillippa Ashbey
Teacher Librarian
Christ’s College Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand
Diversity Challenge Resilience: School Libraries in Action - The 12th
Biennial School Library Association of Queensland, the 39th International
Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference, incorporating the
14th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship,
Brisbane, QLD Australia, 27 September – 1 October 2010.
Kia Ora

2. Christ’s College
Multimedia learning resource centre

4. Resilience
A quiz designed by clinical psychologists
to test what we know about resilience
http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/resilience-quiz
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5. What is resilience?
A. The ability to block out bad thoughts
B. A focus on the bright side of life
C. The process of overcoming adversity
D. All of the above
A
Answer: The process of overcoming adversity

6. Who is resilient?
A. Everyone
B. Only people born with innate resilience
C. Trained professionals, such as emergency
response personnel or Special Forces soldiers
D. Only those who've proven they can deal with
disasters
A
Answer: Everyone

7. Who tends to be more resilient?
A. Children
B. Adults
C. Men
D. Women
A A
Answer: Children

8. Who tends to be least resilient?
A. People who are insecure
B. People who are happy
C. People who are sad
D. People who are self-focused
A
D
Answer: People who are self-focused

9. Which of these attributes are
associated with resilience?
A. Independence and a reliance on relationships
B. Morality and a sense of humor
C. Recognizing one's inner wounds and taking charge
of them
D. All of the above A
D
Answer: All of the above

10. Resilient people
A. Don't get stressed when times are bad
B. Are trained in stress-management techniques
C. Seek help from reliable people in times of
stress
D. Make concrete plans for handling traumatic
events A
C
Answer:Seek help from reliable people
in times of stress

11. Are there some experiences for
which resilience is more crucial?
A. Events involving physical or emotional abuse
B. Extraordinary ordeals, such as internment in a
prisoner-of-war camp
C. World-shattering traumas, such as the loss of
a child
D. Any event traumatic to us, no matter how
A
trivial it may appear to others
Answer:Any event traumatic D
to us, no matter how trivial
it may appear to others

12. We are robbed of our resilience
by?
Events caused by a natural disaster outside
our control
Events that are random and meaningless
Events that result in physical injury
Events connected to an older trauma we were
A
not able to handle at the time
Events connected to
Answer:
D
an older trauma we were
not able to handle at the time

13. With painful memories, resilient
people:
A. Nurse the pain as motivation to keep on going
B. Recognize that life is painful, and accept that
they must live with their pain
C. Shift from seeing themselves as victims to
seeing themselves as survivors
A
D. Think happier thoughts
Shift from seeing
Answer: C
themselves as victims to
seeing themselves as survivors

15. America’s Great Loop

18. Naples, Florida, Children’s
Library holiday programme
The Reptile Man
Book talks
Displays

19. Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Teen Book Club
Book discussion goups
Film evenings
Pizza & Coke

20. Library of Congress
Digital delivery
Concerts, films, lectures, poetry
and more.

22. Library Services

24. Kentucky Halloween

25. Chicago Public Library
Mentoring
Security
Web II
Publishing
Partnerships

26. Resilience on Lake Michigan
Factors
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27. Resilience
What initiative are you most proud of
this year?
Staff
Display
Comp promoti
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etition ons
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Library Local Class
Websit Liaison Program
e mes
Research Buildin Budget
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plans

28. Earthquake - Sept 2010

29. Resilience is as resilience does
Positive thinking vs positive psychology
Savouring
Gratitiude
Strengths
Optimism
Alison Ogier-Price
Hope
New Zealand Association
Meaning of Positive Psychology

30. Fiction promotion
Author visits
Elizabeth Knox
Bob Docherty
Michael Grant
Video Conferencing
Author - Kate De Goldi,
Te Papa Museum of NZ
Wide Reading booklets
Speed Date an Author
Accelerated Reader
Bookmarks
Staff holiday reading promotions

31. iPods, iPads, Other initiatives
New OPAC
Careers Kiosk
New lending periods, library rules
Physical spaces: aquarium, easy chairs,
student work displayed, digital signage

32. Other initiatives
Committees / Responsibilities
Staff sessions on the Intranet, Graphic Organizers
Parent News, Community News and College Magazines
Parent evenings on student Social Networking

33. Resilience
What is the best thing that could
happen in your library in the next
six months?
Staff
Environ
promot
ment ions
Publicit
y
Planning/ New
Docume Liaison technolo
nation g
ies
Increase Communi
d issues Partn cations
er
ships

34. We must change because the world is changing

35. Resilience is as resilience does
Phillippa Ashbey
Teacher Librarian
Christ’s College Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand
pashbey@christscollege.com