School libraries

This Statement provides guidance on the development of effective policy and practice in relation to school libraries supporting digitally literate school communities.

Replaces: ALIA ASLA Statement on School Libraries and ICT (2016)

This Statement provides guidance on the role of information literacy in a school’s teaching and learning program.

Revised: August 2024 (previously ALIA ASLA Statement on Information Literacy)

This Statement provides guidance on the provision of school library funding and resources incorporating staff expertise, facilities, programs and services for the delivery of a quality education.

Replaces: ALIA ASLA Statement on School Library Resource Provision (2016) and ALIA ASLA Statement on School Library Resource Centre Funding (2016)

This Statement provides guidance on the formal qualifications required to lead, manage, and work in a school library and to describe and promote the roles of school library staff.

Replaces: ALIA ASLA Statement on Teacher Librarian Qualifications (2016) and ALIA ASLA Statement on Teacher Librarians in Australia (2016)

Funded by the Charlotte Henry Study Grant 2023, this zine contains key insights and information as part of Jade Smith's research into graphic novel collections in NSW libraries. The aims of the reflective research, undertaken during her Master of Information Studies (Applied Research) project, were to investigate the value of graphic novel collections in libraries and how these can be leveraged and understood in the context of a collection that can sometimes be challenged, maligned or misappropriated.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) recently surveyed school library assistant, library technician, librarian, and teacher librarian members working in school libraries to find out what they would like to see from the ALIA Schools Group and how they might like to engage.

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sometimes called the Global Goals, or the United Nations 2030 Agenda, are a shared vision for peace, prosperity, and the protection of the planet. At the heart of the SDGs are 17 goals, each of which is an urgent call to action for the realisation of a better world.

As part of the Professional Pathways Initiative, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) commissioned research in November 2021 to address the specialised needs of school libraries within the context of ALIA’s vision for developing a professional pathways framework.

It certainly is a devil of a time in libraries! Over the last three decades the rapid advancement of Internet Communication Technologies (ICT) has radically transformed the way we live, work, play, communicate, think and learn. These changes have impacted greatly on libraries, threatening the traditional concept of the library. Libraries face a myriad of challenges in an ongoing quest to meet the incessantly changing learning and social needs of their communities.

ALIA Information Online 2017 Conference, 13-17 February 2017 Sydney: Data Information Knowledge

This poster presentation discusses use of augmented reality through mobile applications to facilitate learning experiences in the library.