ALIA is the national organisation for the Australian library and information services sector. They provide high-quality PL courses and webinars that are useful for school library people.
Libraries Tasmania is providing free access for DECYP and non-DECYP schools.
Online short courses
On demand and always available: https://www.alia.org.au/events-and-training
- Copyright 101
- Ethics 101
- Respect and Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Cultures and Country in Australian Libraries
Email your request to the School Libraries Team School.libraries@libraries.tas.gov.au – They will register cross-sector school staff for free.
Webinars
ALIA regularly offer webinars that are useful for all school library staff. They are listed on the ALIA website.
They provide on demand webinars are available from the online shop. Filter the list using the word ‘schools’ to find examples like this:
- Maximising your school library budget: doing more with less
- Embracing student wellbeing
- Copyright in schools
- Beyond Information Literacy
- Information Literacy
- Curation for your community
- Teams: the hard conversations
- Engaging readers a novel approach
- Equipping students as information seekers
- Get ‘the knack’ on reading
- How does data tell your story?
- School library annual report
- Skilling up, up, up!
- Switch on to reading
Email your request for free access to a specific recording to the School Libraries Team School.libraries@libraries.tas.gov.au
Further information
- ALIA Schools provide webinars, a podcast, newsletter, research news and more.
- ALIA Children’s and Youth Services provide a newsletter and newsletter archive.
- ALIA Graphic focuses on comics and graphic novels. They have a podcast and useful resources.