Term 2 event - Building a Quality Collection

This term’s event will be a friendly and useful discussion around all aspects of developing a great collection for your school library, everything from selecting books to promoting them. The more people who come and contribute to the discussion, the healthier that will be and the more we will all learn.

Please RSVP to me by Friday 17 June.

Term 3 Event - Empowering Library Support Staff

Northland’s Term 3 SLANZA event focuses on Library support staff and volunteers. The idea is to provide professional development for those library folks who may be working in primary schools particularly, without support, skills or confidence to make the most of their library hours. Empowering Support Staff in the School Library will be jointly run by Jeannie Skinner (National Library), Liz Christensen (Ohaiaewai Primary), and Jenny Puckey (Kaitaia Primary) and will be held Week 6, Friday 29 August at Kaikohe Primary School. It will cover meeting other support staff, talking about roles and responsibilities, ideas for creating the right environment to entice students in, displays, labels and signage, processing books, book covering and repairs, National Library support, and building connections with other Library workers. 

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Northern Wairoa Has It Covered

Braving wind, hail and rain twenty one librarians converged on Dargaville Intermediate School Thursday 7 July to have a look at ways to cover books.

After a masterful display from Linda and Allison, so kindly lent to us by Kaipara District Council Dargaville Library for the afternoon, we all rolled up our sleeves and had a go. Also presenting was Fleur Simpkin from Ruawai Primary who shared her proficiency with the sticky stuff (cover seal / duraseal) and made it look easy (which we found it was with her fool-proof methods).

Warwick from Book Protection Products was in attendance and keenly showed us all how to save and preserve books with his drill and stitch method. Dargaville High School Library was the lucky winner of Book Protection's Library Find-it Index.

Even those who have been covering books for years learned a few new tricks, and if the decibel level is any indication of the value of the workshop then it was uproariously successful!

Thank you to Kim and Diane from Dargaville Intermediate School for hosting us all in their very warm and welcoming Library.

Covering and collegiality

A series of book covering workshops took place, from small to large, over the past few weeks, and it was an opportunity for some capable and generous people to share their expertise with colleagues from local school libraries.

Rachel Rahui hosted a dozen or so at Hurupaki School - she reported that they were all actually very proficient book coverers so they shared some tips and techniques and suppliers and had an enjoyable catch up. There was a draw for a Book Protection Ltd Library Index and the very happy winner was Leeann at Hora Hora School.

Liz Christensen had a session at Kerikeri Primary School with people coming from Matauri Bay and Okaihau as well as a few locals and it was a useful opportunity for some newbie librarians to practice covering, as well as ask about other aspects in the great library that Liz developed. Jenny Puckey had a good meeting at the lovely Kaitaia Primary library with Linda from Mangonui which was appreciated.

Lisa Salter from Ruawai College organised a great workshop in Dargaville with full involvement and support from Kaipara District Libraries too, and she is going to do a post about it here too so I'll let her tell about it.

Many thanks to all involved - for providing /attending /hosting - creating opportunities for networking and information sharing.

School library gathering at Hurupaki School

Book processing workshops

These free, informal sessions are being offered around the region. They are open to anyone who is interested in learning about some good techniques, resources and materials for processing school library books. Parent helpers, teacher aides, teachers with library responsibility – all welcome.

Lisa Salter at Ruawai College (SLANZA National Exec Rep) is organising the event in Dargaville – RSVP to Lisa with expressions of interest and she will get in touch with you to confirm date / time / venue etc lsalter@ruawaicollege.school.nz

For all other book processing workshops please RSVP to jeannie.skinner@dia.govt.nz by this Friday 17^th June please !

	Dargaville	Kerikeri	Whangarei	Kaitaia	Wellsford
Host / Workshop presenter	Lisa Salter (& presenter to be confirmed)	Liz Christensen and Kris Robertson	Rachel Rahui	Jenny Puckey	Rosalie Kippenberger
Venue	Dargaville Intermediate School Library	Kerikeri Primary School Library	Hurupaki School Library	Kaitaia Primary School Library	Wellsford Primary School Library
Date	Thursday 7th July	this Monday! 20th June (week 8 term 2)	Wed 29th June (week 9 term 2)	Wed 29th June (week 9 term 2)	Wed 29th June (week 9 term 2) TBC
Time	3.30 - 5.00	1.30 - 2.30pm	1.30 - 2.30pm	1.30 - 2.30pm	1.30 - 2.30pm TBC