Teacher-librarians

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)

These guidelines are intended to assist principals, school administrators and teacher librarians in the appropriate allocation of time enables teacher librarians to effectively deliver of school library services and programmes.

This advocacy document [poster] illustrates the ways that Australian school libraries power high performance government, Catholic and independent schools through providing modern learning environments, digital hubs, developing student research skills, promoting reading for pleasure, providing curriculum support and cybersafety education, celebrating diversity, enabling participation and access, coordinating special programs, and building communities.

Well-resourced school libraries staffed by qualified library professionals are essential to rebuild the literacy levels of Australian students and achieve an appropriate level of reading competency. School libraries are necessary to create safe, confident users of online content and ensure that young people are media literate.

Page excerpt from Australian Teacher Magazine, November 2015, No. 120. Page features banner advertisement for Great School Libraries campaign nominations in 2015.

In October 2015, FAIR (Freedom of Access to Information and Resources) joined with the Australian Library and Information Association, ALIA Schools, Australian School Library Association, Queensland School Library Association, School Library Association of NSW, School Library Association of South Australia, School Library Association of Victoria and the Western Australian School Library Association to seek nominations of Great School Libraries across the nation.

This document provides a timeline that covers the milestones in the history of school libraries which became a separate section of the Library Association of Australia, now the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), in 1967. It also highlights significant events in the education and/or government sectors. Data from many of the reports commissioned by ALIA was used for lobbying federal government bodies which resulted in funding for school library buildings and resources.