ALIA Children's and Youth Services (Qld)
January-June 2002
Six-monthly report to the ALIA Board of Directors
Anne Spelman - convenor
Loris Phair - Secretary
Margaret Kittson - treasurer
- New treasurer
Margaret Kittson, teacher-librarian at Kuraby State School took on the role of CYS QLD treasurer in 2001
- Queensland mailing list for Children's and Youth Services (QLD)
A statewide mailing list - cysalia - was set up in March 2002 to enable the dissemination of information about services for young people. It has currently has 103 members.
- Committee Meetings
18 December 2001, 27 March 2002, 2 May 2002, 30 May 2002
- Event
Essential Connections: Connecting School and Public Library Professionals - One-day seminar run jointly by State Library of Queensland and ALIA Children's and Youth Services Qld, 5 July 2002. The main aim of the seminar, Essential Connections was to explore ways in which public and teacher-librarians can work together to provide a comprehensive information service for young people in their communities. The seminar, which brought together 54 teacher and public librarians from around South East Queensland comprised a keynote address by Dr Alan Bundy, a session where librarians workshopped ways to develop networking opportunities and collaboration between the school and public sectors, and a booktalking demonstration by teacher and public librarians. Each participant also completed a 'Self-Evaluation Inventory' providing Alan Bundy with the opportunity to further research connections between teacher and public librarians.
Evaluation of Seminar
Feedback from the seminar and suggestions for future sessions also provided further insight into the importance of networking between public and teacher-librarians:
- An excellent opportunity to meet with library professionals from the public sector. The workshop was great - our group generated lots of ideas - on task, off task.
- Thought-provoking and has inspired me to create better partnerships/relationships with all the teacher-librarians who are near me.
- As a teacher it was very interesting to hear the concerns, issues and developments of public and teacher-librarians.
- The only way we can grow is to talk with each other.
- Will return to the isolation of my library, with lots of new ideas, revived enthusiasm and a commitment to better communication with teacher-librarians.
- Please have more days like this - I love the chance to meet people and get new ideas/challenges etc. I don't get enough professional development opportunities now and crave more as a teacher-librarian.
- We must lobby pollies from the three levels for more funding to put all ideas and plans into practice. Resources must be put to more practical use - pursue the 'Smart State' motto eg, throw it back into the state government's court.
Suggestions for future seminars
- There does not seem to be anyone from the university sector. It would be really interesting to hear the perspective of university librarians and also staff from teacher training or librarian training bodies. Perhaps they could be encouraged to attend next year.
- Liaison officers should be considered to help facilitate co-operation between school and public libraries but also perhaps TAFE and special libraries.
- Would love to have a session by a teacher-librarian on curriculum and other stuff public librarians don't understand. Perhaps a concurrent session on a topic that teacher-librarians would like to know more about.
Notes from the seminar have been disseminated widely - yplib (Queensland's Public Librarian discussion list); cysalia (Queensland's Teacher and Public Librarian discussion list); aliaCYSS; Newslib (Queensland Public Library Journal); inCite (to be included in next edition) and Young Peoples Services State Library of Queensland web pages.
- Treasurers Report
Expected expenditure (as per our ALIA Group application form)
Seminar speaker Alan Bundy - airfare and accommodation - $1200.00
Seminar gifts - $40.00
Seminar promotion - $60.00
Total $1300.00
Current Status
ALIA-Groups
Job Enquiry 1 January 2002 to 31 July 2002
JOb 073
ID# ALIA CYSS QLD Group 1173
Src CD
DATE 5 July 2002
Memo University of South Australia
Account# 6-1430
Debit $604.62
Beginning Balance -$20.00
Net Activity: -$604.62
Ending Balance: -$624.62
Anne Spelman
ALIA Children's and Youth Services (QLD)
a.spelman@slq.qld.gov.au
ph 07 3214 3214
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