Diversity and Representation
In this, our last forum of our 2022 series, we are excited to be coming together at the Abbotsford Convent for a celebration or diversity and representation in fiction for young people.

Speakers
Diversity and Representation - Alida Galati
Meet Mr Beaky! -  Cassie Leatham and Sue Lawson
The Readings YA Prize - Julia Jackson
Creating Pathways - Annabel Barker
New from Readings! - Tye Cattanach

SLAV Reading Forum - October 27 - Diversity And Representation

The HILO series – High Impact Libraries Online - will showcase and explore the various ways school libraries operate to support learning and teaching through online systems and programs and online strategies and tools. Each session will explore a different area of the online school library offering examples of practice from experienced speakers.

This session will explore – 

Free Online Tools
This session will consider free online tools.  Specifically, tools that aid, support, or enrich any aspect of school library programming or operations. They must be free and openly available. 
We will hear from two speakers, one from a primary perspective - Raffaela Grasso, and the other secondary - Camilla Elliott.

SLAV HILO Series - Free Online Tools

Empowering Youth with Sustainable Literature
Dr Kasey Garrison (Charles Sturt University)
Environmental Sustainability is a cause our students strongly support as evidenced through their active participation in federal election protests earlier this year and the School Strike for Climate Change. In the school library, we can empower youth by integrating titles with sustainability topics into our teaching. This presentation shares some recent and relevant books that align well with the curriculum and also makes connections to key ideas within the Sustainability Cross-Curriculum Priority.

Dr Kasey Garrison is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt, supporting students as the Children’s Librarianship Specialisation Coordinator and instructor in the Master of Education-Teacher Librarianship. Her research focuses on social justice in the school library including how issues like gender, race, sustainability, and mental health are developed and portrayed in youth literature. Before becoming an academic, Kasey was a primary school educator and teacher librarian in the United States.

Empowering Youth with Sustainable Literature - Dr K. Garrison

Shelftalkers – Student Voice

Tye Cattanch, Lynn Swannell & Chloe Powell


What is Shelftalkers? How can you be involved? How can Shelftalkers be used to engage students and promote student voice in your library? 
Tye Cattanach will be discussing the benefits of using Shelftalkers as a tool in your school library, available teacher resources and writing tips for students, with practitioners who have successfully used Shelftalkers with their own students. Tye will be joined by two school guests - Lynn Swannell and Chloe Powell both school library practitioners.

Shelftalkers - Student Voice

Reading Forum Series 2023
First Session
Publisher Showcase
The following publishers presented -
The following publishers will be presenting:


o	Allen & Unwin
o	Affirm Press
o	Berbay Books
o	Ford Street Publishing
o	Pan Macmillan Australia
o	Wild Dog Books
o	Hachette Australia
o	Penguin Random House
o	Text Publishing Company

Reading Forum Series 2023 - Publishers Showcase

Readers, Stories, Literacy
A forum for learning and discussion

Session Two: Fantasy Fiction

AF Steadman
Amie Kaufman and Lilli Wilkinson in Conversation

SLAV Reading Forum 2 2023 -  Fantasy

This Reading forum will engage with the tantalising medium of the picture book for older readers.  Australia has an amazing catalogue of powerful, insightful, and beautiful works in this space.  This event with consider this depth, how it can be used in the school library, and share the works of three creators.
The NCACL Picture Books for Older Readers Database
Belle Alderman, Ruth Nitschke and Rowan Simpkin
How to promote picture books to Older Readers
Ngaire Brown
Creators - Erica Wagner, Zeno Sworder and Tohby Riddle

SLAV Reading Forum Series 2023 - Picture Books For Older Readers - Audio

This session in the HILO Series for 2023 explored using Canva in the school library for posters, displays, working with students and texts and annual reports. The session began with an overview if getting started with Canva.

SLAV HILO Series 2023 - Canva - Audio

At our term four session in the Reading Forum series for 2023 we will be considering book clubs.  There are many ways one can approach a book club and this session will aim to share a range of possibilities to inspire you to give something a go or give you new ideas for your current club.


Program
Public Libraries Victoria - Big Summer Read
Christine Vandor, Maribyrnong Public Libraries

Primary and Parent Book Clubs
Susan O’Malley

SLAV Online Book Club 
Tye Cattanach and Susan La Marca

The CBCA Shadowing Project for Book Club 
Barbara Cousens

Banned Books Club
Kelsy Peterson

and creator - Shivaun Plozza

SLAV Reading Forum Series 2023 - Book Clubs - October 26

Recording of - 
Publisher Showcase

Thursday February 29 2024

Special Guest – Aaron Blabey

In this first event of our 2024 series, we are excited to again hold our very popular Publisher Showcase. 

We are thrilled that this year we will hold the event in partnership with Public Libraries Victoria.

We are back at the Abbotsford Convent and will be using two rooms to run both our short and sharp presentations from all publishers and a publishers’ exhibition that attendees may browse both before and after the publisher presentations while enjoying afternoon tea and the bookshop display.
   
We will be exploring books for primary and secondary age students.  

This event is a must for anyone promoting a reading culture in their school or public library. It is also a great opportunity to chat with colleagues from both sectors.


The following publishers will be presenting:

o	Allen & Unwin
o	UQP
o	Hardie Grant
o	Walker Books
o	Affirm Press
o	Berbay Books
o	Ford Street Publishing
o	Wild Dog Books
o	Magabala Books
o	The Text Publishing Company
o	Windy Hollow Books
o	Storybox Library

Our colleagues from Overdrive will also be in attendance, and The Sun and Young Sun Bookshops will have a display of new and varied items.

Reading Forum Series 2024 -Publisher Showcase

Keynote address: Dr Margaret Kristin Merga
Supporting Reading Engagement: Myths, Strategies and Plans

Dr. Margaret Kristin Merga is a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Her research explores
the social and environmental influences on literacy
acquisition and the position of reading and books in the
contemporary world. Her research findings in literacy
explore the role that teachers, librarians and parents
can play in supporting children, teenagers and adults to
become life-long readers. She has written a substantial
body of peer-reviewed research papers in this area,
and she has led a range of mixed-methods research
projects exploring these issues in local, national and
international contexts. She is the author of the upcoming
book Reading Engagement for Teens and Tweens: What
Would Make Them Read More? for Libraries Unlimited in
the USA.

SLAV Reading conference - November 23rd 2018 - Dr Margaret Kristin Merga

The School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV) is the Professional Body for School Libraries in Victoria. As such, it offers dynamic, inspiring opportunities for teacher-librarians, librarians and library teams to build their essential role in engaging and developing lifelong learners.

SLAV Reading conference - November 23rd 2018 - Dr Margaret Kristin Merga

School Library Association of Victoria

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