Term 4 event - Dr Hilary Greenebaum

One more chance for a get together in Term 4 and to be inspired by a guest speaker...

We have invited Dr Hilary Greenebaum from Softlink to give us her presentation "Do you swim with sharks or dolphins ?!" which she gave at the SLANZA conference in Auckland in July.

This presentation will explore how traditional senior management often thinks about libraries, and will offer concrete, action-oriented steps school library teams can make to change that thinking.

Considering finite resources such as time, energy, information and money, Hilary will explore ways to successfully collaborate, advocate and communicate with school staff and leaders about the library and student learning.

Hilary’s abiding interest is learning, and then supporting student and staff learning in schools - especially in a Web 2.0 context. During her 20+ years in the field of education, Hilary has been a primary school teacher, a Literacy Resource Teacher, a Teacher Librarian, an Intermediate School Principal, University Lecturer, and Technology Consultant. Hilary joined the Softlink team as an Educational Sales and Training Consultant and is excited to be able to support student and staff learning using their robust web based product.

Hilary has kindly agreed to do two meetings for us to make the event as accessible as possible.

Wednesday 16th November at Taipa Area School Library
and
Thursday 17th November at Whangarei Boys' High School Library

3.45 for afternoon tea, and Hilary's presentation from 4.00- 5.00pm.

The intended audience is school library teams - TLRs and library staff.

It will be a free meeting for SLANZA members though a donation towards afternoon tea would be welcome, and if you are not a member here is the link to join with a downloadable PDF http://www.slanza.org.nz/join.html which will be for 2012 too.
We are charging for a meeting for the first time this year for non-members - though only $5 - as a way to try to cover costs but mainly to encourage membership!

It would be helpful to have an idea of numbers, so please RSVP to jeannie.skinner@dia.govt.nz

There are no school library network meetings this term, so this could be our last get together for the year. There is some talk of going out for a bite to eat after the Taipa meeting - maybe a pizza at the Waterfront Cafe in Mangonui ? Anyone interested ? and Whangarei ?

Look forward to seeing you at Taipa or Whangarei.